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Passagebook is a logbook and trip report app for Mac, iPad and iPhone. Record a passage on iPhone, keep a live Log with your boat’s Signal K instruments, or import GPX tracks, then turn the route, stops and photos into a report. Export it as PDF, publish it on passagebook.app or share it through iCloud. Sailing, Boating, Road and Hike trips each get their own maps, wording and statistics.

No. Passagebook is a logbook, not a navigation app: it does not plan routes or replace your charts. Use it alongside your plotter or chart app to keep the record of each passage, with its track, instruments, Log entries and photos.

Passagebook requires macOS 13.7 or later, or iPadOS/iOS 16.4 or later. Mac, iPad and iPhone can all create and edit trips, keep the Log, and publish reports. iPhone adds passage recording with the screen locked. Manual track drawing, Retrace from photos and Online Logbook website export need Mac or iPad; HTML report export needs Mac.

No. Passagebook runs on Mac, iPad and iPhone. Published reports and the Online Logbook open in any web browser, including on Android and Windows.

Yes. Record a passage with iPhone, import GPX files from any plotter, app or tracker, or draw a missing route on Mac or iPad. Without Signal K, the Log uses this device’s location for position, speed and course over ground. Wind, heading, depth and speed-through-water gauges need Signal K.

1. Create a trip with the + button and choose Sailing, Boating, Road, or Hike. On iPhone, the new-trip guide takes you through the next steps.
2. In Setup, import a GPX track, Signal K logbook data, or supported photos.
3. Refresh the Tracks card to build stops and legs.
4. Import and curate photos, then open Report to review the result.
5. Publish a Sailing report on passagebook.app, export HTML or PDF on Mac, or export and share a PDF on iPad and iPhone.

Sailing, Boating, Road, and Hike profiles adapt labels, icons, default units, analytics, and report wording. Changing the type does not replace or rewrite the trip's underlying data.

Passagebook is free to download. Viewing existing trips, exporting reports, sharing and the Online Logbook remain free, as does keeping the Log of an existing trip you can edit. One permanent Creation Unlock enables creation and editing on Mac, iPad and iPhone, including new trips and track and photo import. New users get a free seven-day trial.

Publishing full Sailing reports on passagebook.app needs hosted access. Creation Unlock includes one 30-day hosted trial, which starts with your first successful publication. Monthly and annual auto-renewing subscriptions continue hosting; they do not unlock local editing. After hosted access ends, existing report links stay readable for 30 days. Your local trips, exports and the free Online Logbook remain available.

On iPhone, tap Start Passage in the trip list, name the trip and choose Sailing or Boating, or tap + and choose Ongoing in the guide. On Mac or iPad, create a Sailing or Boating trip and turn on Ongoing Trip in Setup. Open Log to follow the vessel and instruments. Creating the trip requires Creation Unlock; owners and crew with write access can keep an existing trip’s Log for free.

Tap Start Passage. Passagebook records the route in the background and with the screen locked, sampling a position about every two minutes; reception and iOS scheduling can delay fixes. The Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show distance, elapsed time and speed. Tap End Passage to save it as a leg with its arrival stop and review its map, distance and duration. GPS stays off between passages. If iOS closes the app, reopen it to resume; the interruption appears as a gap in the track.

Yes. Wind, heading, depth and speed-through-water instruments use the data available from your boat’s Signal K server. Without that data, this device’s location supplies position, speed and course over ground. On iPhone and iPad, recording continues in the background and with the screen locked; on Mac, Passagebook must stay in the foreground. Missing or stale instruments are not shown as zero.

Yes. iPhone records passages from GPS without a mobile signal, Log entries save offline and sync through iCloud when a network is available, and Passagebook reaches your Signal K server over the boat’s own network. Publishing, iCloud sync and the interactive map in a published report need an internet connection.

Choose Log Now to save the time, position and current instruments, then add a remark. Entries save offline and sync through iCloud when a network is available. After ending the trip, select an entry in Log to see its position on the saved track. Live gauges are not shown during playback.

Import standard GPX files on Mac, iPad or iPhone, or record a passage with iPhone. Sailing and Boating trips can also import Signal K logs or use a track drawn manually on Mac or iPad. Road trips can retrace a route from geotagged photos when no GPX track is available.

After importing a track, use the refresh button in the Tracks card. Passagebook segments the timeline into travel legs and stops using the rules for the selected trip type. You can then rename stops, adjust assignments, and review each segment on the map.

Passagebook matches each photo's EXIF capture time to the GPS timeline, then groups it with the relevant stop or leg. Photos can be imported from files, the Photos library, an album, or automatically from the trip time window. You can manually reassign any photo that needs correction.

Mac exports self-contained HTML bundles and paginated A4 PDFs. iPhone and iPad can preview, export and share PDF reports. Every device can also publish a Sailing report on passagebook.app or create Post and Story images.

Structured trip data syncs through your private iCloud account, while imported project files use iCloud Drive where applicable. Only what you choose to publish appears on passagebook.app: the privacy-filtered Online Logbook, and the photos, captions and notes you select for a published report.

Sign in to the same Apple Account on each device, enable iCloud Drive for Passagebook, and leave Cloud Sync enabled for the active library. Sync can continue in the background after the trip list first appears.

Your trips stay yours. Your library lives on your devices and in your private iCloud; Passagebook has no account to create and keeps no copy of it. Only what you choose to publish leaves iCloud: your Online Logbook is served from Apple’s public iCloud database, and a published report’s selected photos, captions and notes are hosted on passagebook.app until you withdraw them.

• On Mac, back up the whole library with Library > Export Library Backup… and save individual legs with Export GPX.
• Export reports as PDF on any device, or as self-contained HTML on Mac.
• Export the Online Logbook website on Mac or iPad.
• With Signal K, the plugin also keeps its daily YAML log files on your server.

• Publish a Sailing report on passagebook.app and send its link.
• Publish your free Online Logbook, one page for all your Sailing trips. See an example logbook.
• Create Post and Story images with your route, a key photo and the trip’s statistics.
• Choose Collaborate… on iPhone, or Invite… on Mac and iPad, to create a read-only iCloud link. Recipients can view the report, map, photos, stops and legs in Passagebook, but cannot edit the trip.

A free public page on passagebook.app for all your owned Sailing trips, with routes, stops, dates, wind and summary statistics, and links to your published reports. Photos, notes, crew details, raw log text and trips received from others stay private. Visitors can switch between English and French. Publish, update or unpublish it from the globe in the trip list on Mac, iPad or iPhone. To use your own domain, export the website on Mac or iPad and add a free CARTO map key.

A Signal K server on your boat’s network. Signal K Server is free, open-source software that often runs on a small computer such as a Raspberry Pi. On a Victron Cerbo GX, install the Venus OS Large image, which includes Signal K Server; the normal Venus OS image does not. The in-app Setup Guide covers the Cerbo GX steps.

Passagebook reads its trips from signalk-cruisereport, a fork of the open-source Signal K Logbook plugin, with @meri-imperiumi/signalk-autostate detecting when the boat is sailing, motoring or anchored. Install both as described below. If you used the original Signal K Logbook plugin, import the GPX files it exports; their wind and log entries come in with the track.

• Open http://SERVER-IP:3000 from the same Mac, iPad or iPhone to confirm network access.
• Use the server's LAN hostname or IP address, not localhost, when Signal K runs on another device.
• Confirm that the Cruise Report plugin is enabled, then restart Signal K.
• Check firewalls, guest Wi-Fi isolation, and VLAN rules between the Apple device and Signal K server.

Open the Cruise Report plugin in Signal K and confirm that it contains logbook days. Check that position data is present and that navigation.state is being produced by signalk-autostate. A day is listed only after at least one entry has been written.

Set the Signal K host clock and the Cruise Report plugin's log timezone correctly, then restart the plugin. Daily files and trip grouping use that configured timezone.