Everything Scirocco does
One app for going out on the boat: the marine forecast before you leave, route and compass while you navigate, your marks and trips, and the boat in order with engines, maintenance, insurance and deadlines.
Marine forecast
The forecast to decide whether and when to go out, where you are or where you want to go.
7-day forecast, hour by hourFree
Wind and direction, gusts, waves, rain, temperature and weather icon for every hour, grouped by day with maximum wind, gust and wave.
High-resolution Italian modelFree
Where available it uses ItaliaMeteo ICON-2I (2 km) and compares it with ICON-EU and ECMWF: you see the spread between models and a high, medium or low reliability label.
Sea, tide and currentFree
Tide curve for the next 24 hours with highs, lows and range, water temperature, swell (height, period, direction) and current in knots.
Thunderstorms and fogFree
The hourly view flags thunderstorm risk, and fog when visibility drops below one kilometre.
Any placeFree
Search a place by name and the forecast moves there; star it to make it your favourite.
Without a connectionFree
The last forecast stays saved for 7 days: at sea without coverage you still see the hours ahead, with an offline notice.
Official bulletin in one tapFree
Link to the Italian Air Force Meteomar marine bulletin, to read before you go.
Navigation and compass
Pick a destination and follow the compass or the map, without taking your eyes off the water.
Onboard compassFree
Compass rose with speed over ground (SOG) in knots, heading (HDG), bearing to the mark, distance, ETA and elapsed time.
Course correction in wordsFree
"Turn to starboard", "On course", and close to the mark "Move 20 m to port" down to "On the mark": no degrees to read.
Route around the coastFree
If land is in the way, Scirocco offers the sea route or the straight line. It works offline, with the coastline built into the app.
Approach vibrationFree
The phone vibrates at 200, 100, 50, 20, 10 and 5 metres from the mark, and harder on arrival.
Fuel while navigatingPro
Litres and cost to get there, with a warning when the trip needs 70% of the fuel on board and an alarm above 100%.
Satellite mapFree
The same navigation on a satellite map, with a ruler that follows the coast and your tracks drawn on it.
Live ActivityFree
On the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island: needle, correction, distance, speed, ETA and the Stop button.
Wind namesFree
Tramontana, Grecale, Levante, Scirocco and the other Mediterranean winds, in real time.
Waypoints
Your fishing spots, anchorages and dive sites, saved properly and found in seconds.
Precise captureFree up to 20 marks
Long-press the map or tap "Save position": Scirocco waits for a GPS fix within 3 metres before saving.
Coordinates in any formatFree up to 20 marks
Paste the text and it recognises them (degrees-minutes-seconds, degrees-minutes, thousandths of a minute, decimal, NMEA, Google Maps and Apple Maps links), or type them in DMS or decimal.
From photos and messagesFree up to 20 marks
Reads coordinates from a photo or screenshot, and receives them from WhatsApp, Messages and other apps through the Share button.
Folders, favourites, icons and depthFree up to 20 marks
Every mark has a name, notes, folder, favourite, depth and one of 18 icons.
Search by name, notes, year and monthFree up to 20 marks
"Reef", "May 2024" or "05/2024": it also searches notes and folders.
Most visited marksFree up to 20 marks
Counts visits from your trips (passing within 100 m) and sorts by most visited, date, name or distance.
Temporary marksFree
For a quick mark: they don't count toward the limit and delete themselves after 12 hours.
SiriFree
"Navigate to a waypoint" with Siri and Shortcuts.
Import and export
Bring the marks you already have, from any fishfinder or app.
From fishfinders and plottersFree up to 20 marks
Lowrance, Simrad and B&G (.usr), Humminbird (.hwr), Garmin and Raymarine (GPX), with a preview before saving.
From files and appsFree up to 20 marks
GPX, KML and KMZ (Google Earth, Navionics), OziExplorer, NMEA, Geocaching, TCX, GeoJSON, CSV and plain text: the format is detected from the content, even if the file arrives renamed.
GPX exportFree
A mark, a folder or a track as GPX, to open in any other app or plotter.
Tracks and trips
Every trip recorded, measured and ready to share.
Background recordingFree
Starts by itself when you navigate, with a 1-to-30-second interval, even with the screen off.
StatisticsFree
Duration, distance, average and top speed of every trip; measure any section of a track.
Share your tripFree
A vertical card with the track on a satellite photo or your own picture, ready for Instagram Stories.
Your seasonFree
Miles covered, number of trips and longest trip of the year.
No trip lostFree
If the app closes while navigating, on the next launch it asks whether to resume or save.
Boat and engines
The complete profile of your boat, even more than one.
Boat profilePro
Name, builder, model, type, length, registration, home port, flag and photo; choose your main boat.
105 preset enginesPro
Yamaha, Mercury, Suzuki, Honda, Volvo Penta, Nanni, Tohatsu, Yanmar, Selva and Mercruiser, or your own: outboard, inboard or sterndrive, petrol or diesel.
Fuel use and rangePro
Cruise consumption, speed, tank, level and fuel price: range, litres and cost of every route.
Engine hours and serial numberPro
The hour counter updates with every job.
Boat backupPro
The whole boat in a .scirocco file, to re-import on another iPhone.
Maintenance, insurance and documents
Your boat's deadlines and your own, with a reminder before they arrive.
Scheduled maintenancePro
23 preset jobs for boat and engine or your own, with date, engine hours, notes and reminders.
InsurancePro
Company, premium, expiry, phone and attachments, with reminders 7 days and 1 day before.
Boat documentsPro
13 types, from registration to the engine manual, as photos or PDFs.
Personal documentsFree
Italian boating licences (within 12 miles, unlimited, sail, D1), radio certificate, sea and inland fishing licences, diving card, medical certificate, ID card and passport. Scanning with automatic field reading and reminders at 60, 30, 7 and 1 day.
All deadlines on the HomeFree
The bell collects the expired ones and those due within 60 days: documents, policies and maintenance.
On iPhone
Made for the phone in your pocket on board.
"Today's sea" HomeFree
Wind, sea and gusts where you are, wind for the next hours, quick actions (navigate, record, save position, fuel prices), nearby marks, last trip and your boat.
iCloud syncPro
Waypoints, tracks and boats on all your Apple devices, in your private iCloud.
No ads, no accountFree
No sign-up, no banners.
7 languagesFree
Italian, English, Spanish, French, German, Croatian and Greek; distances in nautical miles, kilometres or statute miles.
Free or Pro
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Marine forecast, compass, navigation, route around the coast | Yes | Yes |
| Tracks, statistics, sharing and GPX export | Yes | Yes |
| Personal documents and licences with reminders | Yes | Yes |
| Waypoints | Up to 20 | Unlimited |
| Boats with engines, fuel use and range | — | Yes |
| Maintenance, insurance and boat documents | — | Yes |
| Automatic iCloud backup | — | Yes |
Scirocco Pro costs €3.99 per week with a 3-day free trial, or €29.99 per year with a 7-day free trial. The subscription is handled by Apple and can be cancelled anytime from iPhone Settings.
What Scirocco doesn't do
- No nautical charts with depth soundings: the map is Apple's satellite map.
- No offline map download: without a connection the compass, navigation, routing, tracks and the last forecast keep working.
- No AIS, no anchor alarm and no voice guidance.
- Tides cover the next 24 hours, not a tide calendar.
- iPhone only (iOS 17 or later); the Android version is coming.