Plans & pricing

Three plans. One free month, at full access.

Name: AFTWISE
Brand: AFTWISE
Price: 9.99 USD

Each plan is a superset of the one before it. The free month gives you every feature AFTWISE™ has, whichever plan you choose — so try the whole thing, then settle where your boating actually is. You can move up later without re-entering anything.

Aftwise Owner

The boat, kept properly

The complete core ownership record for one boat.

$9.99/month

or $79.99/year — saves $39.89

First month free, then $9.99/month

1 customer vessel · demo boat doesn’t count

Vessel record, trips, tasks, alerts and readiness
Equipment and maintenance, inventory, documents, expenses, receipts, people and contacts
Fuel and fresh-water tanks, the fuel burn curve, and range rings on the route map
Trailer record
iCloud sync, backup, restore, archive, and CSV import and export
The User Guide, Quick Start and Troubleshooting manuals, readable offline
Every emergency and safety checklist, plus an essential operating set for one boat
Up to 5 checklists of your own; copying and editing a shipped one is free
Checked and Fail checklist steps
QR labels made one at a time, and scanning

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Aftwise Cruiser

Away from the home dock

Passage, underway and planning tools for active cruisers and Loopers.

$17.99/month

or $149.99/year — saves $65.89

First month free, then $17.99/month

Up to 3 customer vessels · demo boat doesn’t count

Everything in Aftwise Owner, plus:
Passage and cruising checklists, including the Great Loop set, plus shore power, systems, sailing rig, seasonal and shore-excursion checks
Up to 20 checklists of your own
Number and Text readings
Batch QR label sheets and Epson label files
Vessel Map — your boat drawn deck by deck, with equipment and stock shown where they live
Locks & Bridges planning and transit records
Hourly Checks and the Captain Log
Calendar of marina stays, service, fuel and provisioning stops
Spares, Provisions and Schematics
Holding-tank level and the pump-out record
Media & Vlogs — planning, release forms, and project CSV and JSON in the archive

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Aftwise Captain

The professional record

The fullest record of the boat, and the reports that hold up when somebody else is reading them.

$34.99/month

or $299.99/year — saves $119.89

First month free, then $34.99/month

Up to 5 customer vessels · demo boat doesn’t count

Everything in Aftwise Cruiser, plus:
Crew, passenger, charter, delivery and handover, inspection-readiness, watch handover, border arrival and record-review checklists
Unlimited checklists of your own
Per checklist step: an acceptable range for a reading, a photo as evidence, and a High-priority task when the step fails
Lock and bridge ETA Window Check, reminder tasks, and PDF and CSV passage packages
Controlled ownership handoff package, and import on the receiving boat
Sea Service records for a captain’s license application
Cost Analysis by week, month or year
Insurance & Reports — total-loss inventory and PDF or CSV reports

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How the free month actually works

Your free month runs at full access — every module AFTWISE™ has, at the Aftwise Captain level — on whichever plan you choose when you start it. The number of boats follows the plan you pick, though: one on Owner, three on Cruiser, five on Captain, and the demonstration boats do not count.

Choose the plan you want to keep. Aftwise Cruiser and Aftwise Owner cost less and include fewer features, and the month runs at full access whichever you pick.

When the month ends you pay for the plan you picked; nothing moves you to a higher one. If you picked Owner or Cruiser, the sections above your plan close at that point, and everything you entered in them stays in your record, your backups and your archive.

The free month is offered on the monthly plans, once per Apple ID. Cancel or change plan any time in your Apple account settings; canceling at least 24 hours before the month ends costs nothing.

Billing, renewal, cancellation, and trial eligibility are handled by the App Store. A free trial is offered once — it is one trial per person, not one per plan.

Where this sits against what a boat already costs

You know your own numbers better than we do, which is most of the point of the app. Put a year of AFTWISE™ beside the ones you already pay: a haul-out and a bottom job. A season in a slip. An impeller, a set of zincs, and the yard time to fit them. One fill on a boat with two tanks.

Against any of those, the subscription is not where your money goes. It is the part that tells you where the rest of it went.

The step up costs less than the step looks. Aftwise Owner to Aftwise Cruiser is $8 a month, or $70 a year on the annual plans. That is the difference between a record of the boat and a record of the boating — Locks & Bridges, Hourly Checks, the Captain Log, the Vessel Map, schematics, spares and provisions.

And the emergency drills sit in the entry plan. The Mayday call, person overboard, fire, taking-on-water and immediate-actions drills, the monthly safety-equipment check and the guest briefing are all Aftwise Owner. Higher plans add more templates and more that a step can record; what they do not do is move a drill you might need on the worst day of your boating life up a tier.

These checklists are examples to start from, not official or approved procedures. You decide what is right for your boat, your crew and your waters: change any step, add your own, or delete what does not apply. Follow your manufacturer’s instructions, the law, and your own judgment.

Boats and yards differ too much for us to put a figure on yours; those are categories of spending, not a claim about your yard’s rates.

A motor yacht alongside a fuel dock with the nozzle in its deck fill and the hose running back to the pump, seen from the aft quarter on a clear morning

The bill nobody argues about.

Prices are in US dollars and billed through your Apple ID, like any other App Store subscription. Your plan renews automatically at the price shown, each month or each year as chosen, until you cancel. Payment is charged to your Apple Account; cancel at least 24 hours before a period ends to stop the next charge. Cancel any time in your Apple account settings; canceling at least 24 hours before the free month ends costs nothing, moving up starts at once, and moving down takes effect at your next renewal date. Moving between plans keeps every record you have entered — nothing is deleted when you change plan.

Side by side

What changes between the plans

Only what differs between the plans. Each plan includes everything in the plan before it.

AFTWISE™ plan access as shipped, read from the app’s own tier map. Owner features are included in Cruiser and Captain; Cruiser features are included in Captain.
Capability	Owner $9.99/mo	Cruiser $17.99/mo	Captain $34.99/mo
Customer vessels	1	Up to 3	Up to 5
Checklist library	Every emergency and safety checklist, plus an essential operating set for one boat	Adds passage and cruising, Great Loop and trawler, shore power, systems, sailing rig, seasonal and shore-excursion checklists	Adds crew, passenger, charter, delivery and handover, inspection-readiness, watch handover, border arrival and record-review checklists
Checklists you make from scratch	Up to 5	Up to 20	Unlimited
What a checklist step records	Checked and Fail steps	Adds Number and Text readings	Adds, per step, an acceptable range for a reading, a photo as evidence, and a High-priority task when the step fails
QR labels	One label at a time, and scanning	Batch label sheets and Epson label files	Batch label sheets and Epson label files
Vessel Map	—	✓	✓
Locks & Bridges	—	Directory, passage order, timing entries and text sharing	Adds ETA Window Check, reminder tasks, and PDF and CSV passage packages
Hourly Checks and Captain Log	—	✓	✓
Calendar	—	✓	✓
Spares, Provisions and Schematics	—	✓	✓
Holding tank and pump-out	—	✓	✓
Media & Vlogs	—	✓	✓
Ownership handoff	—	—	✓
Sea Service	—	—	✓
Cost Analysis	—	—	✓
Insurance & Reports	—	—	✓

Included in every plan: vessel record, trips, tasks, alerts and readiness; equipment and maintenance, inventory, documents, expenses, receipts, people and contacts; fuel and fresh-water tanks, the fuel burn curve, and range rings on the route map; trailer record; iCloud sync, backup, restore, archive, and CSV import and export; the User Guide, Quick Start and Troubleshooting manuals, readable offline.

Before you choose

Questions worth answering first

Which plan should I actually start on?

If the boat mostly runs day trips and weekends from a home dock, Aftwise Owner is the honest answer — it is the complete ownership record, not a stripped-down teaser. If you are away for several days at a time, run the ICW, transit locks, or take on the Great Loop, Aftwise Cruiser adds the underway side of it: passage planning, Hourly Checks, the Captain Log and the Vessel Map.

Aftwise Captain goes deeper again, and it is not a job title. Sea Service, Cost Analysis, the insurance and total-loss packet, photo evidence on checklist steps, and a controlled handoff when the boat changes hands. Some owners want those because an insurer, a licensing body or a buyer will be reading. Others want them because they would like to know what the boat actually costs and what it is actually worth. Both are good reasons, and the second needs no justifying.

Each plan is a superset of the one before it, so moving up later adds abilities rather than moving you into a different category of person. Nothing is re-entered.

What does “1 customer vessel” mean?

It is the number of your own boats you can keep records for. AFTWISE also installs a fully populated demonstration boat, your choice of a 54-foot cruising trawler or a 23-foot center console, so you can see a finished record before building your own — that one never counts against your limit, on any plan.

What happens to my records if I move down a plan, or stop?

Nothing is deleted. Higher-plan features stop being available, but the data behind them is still yours and still on your device. Vessel Map is a good example, and it works in both directions: placing something on the map writes the location onto the record itself, so a Cruiser user who has spent a season arranging the boat keeps every one of those locations on their equipment and stock if they move down — and an Owner-plan user who never opens the map has lost nothing either, because on upgrade it offers to import everything already recorded. Backup and export are on every plan precisely so this stays true.

Is there a discount for paying annually?

Yes — between roughly 29% and 33% depending on plan. Owner saves $39.89 a year, Cruiser $65.89, Captain $119.89.

Do I need an account?

No. There is no AFTWISE account, no password and no sign-in. The subscription is handled by your Apple ID like any other App Store purchase, and your vessel records live on your own devices and in your own iCloud account.

Which devices does it run on?

Mac (macOS 14 or later), iPad and iPhone (iOS/iPadOS 17 or later). The Apple Watch companion needs watchOS 11 or later and a paired iPhone running AFTWISE — it is a companion to the phone, not a separate copy of the app, and it is included on every plan. One subscription covers all of them.

One month free

Try it on your own boat, with your own gear in it

A month is long enough to enter the real equipment, run a real checklist and take a real trip — which is the only way to know whether this fits how you actually boat.

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