Seafarer Docs
Made by a seafarer, for seafarers

Your certificates, sea time and rest hours – in your pocket.

Seafarer Docs keeps track of every certificate's expiry date, records your sea service and your hours of work and rest, and works offline – in the middle of the ocean as well as in port. No account, no cloud: everything stays on your phone.

Coming soon to Google Play Beta See what it does
Documents screen: certificates with days left, coloured by how soon they expire
  • Works offlineMade for ships with little or no internet.
  • No accountNo sign-up, no e-mail, no password to remember.
  • Stays on your phoneNothing is sent to the developer or a cloud.
  • 15 languagesEnglish, Polish, Filipino, Portuguese, Romanian and more.

What it does

Five sections at the bottom of the screen, plus tools for the engine room, the bridge and the paperwork.

List of certificates with days left
A document in detail, in the Light theme
Documents

Never miss an expiry date again

  • Days left for every certificate, in green, orange or red.
  • Reminders in time – general ones, or your own for a single document.
  • Photos and PDFs kept with each document, front and back.
  • Linked documents – e.g. a certificate and its endorsement.
  • Print or export the whole list for the crewing agency.
Sea service record with contracts
Courses in the sea service record, in the Light theme
Sea service

Your whole career in one record

  • Contracts, courses and travel days with vessel, rank and company.
  • Statistics – sea time by rank, vessel type and company.
  • Calendar showing every day of every year.
  • Printable record for a shipowner or a maritime authority.

Your own record – it does not replace your discharge book or sea service testimonials.

Visited places list
3D globe coloured by how often each place was visited
Places

Every port, anchorage and platform

  • Add the current place by GPS – the nearest of 12,000 ports is suggested.
  • Kinds of places: port, anchorage, oil terminal, SBM, platform, FPSO, STS, shipyard…
  • Offline maps in 2D and 3D, with your voyage traces.
  • Export to Google Earth (KML), chart plotters (GPX) or Excel (CSV).
Hours of work and rest week view
A week of work and rest with breaches in red, in the Light theme
Hours of work and rest

One tap: work or rest

  • Your own record, checked against the main STCW and MLC rest rules – for guidance.
  • Non-compliances shown in red, also for hours you plan ahead.
  • Home screen widget and a Wear OS watch tile to switch without opening the app.
  • Print a month or a whole contract.
Ship locker with items and kits
Packing list, in the Light theme
Items

Packing list and ship locker

  • Packing list – tick things off, untick all before the next contract.
  • Ship locker – what you leave on board and how many of each.
  • “Enough for 30 days” – worked out from how fast you use it.
  • Kits – take your morning pills with one tap, also from the widget or your watch.

And more

Tucked away in the menu, ready when you need them.

Tools

Fuel and bunker calculators, electrical (ETO) formulas, distance, squat, true wind, visibility, pipe sizes, flanges and threads.

CV in seven styles

Your maritime CV built from what is already in the app – print it or save it as a PDF.

I need help!

Emergency numbers, seafarer help lines, seafarers' centres and embassies – offline, by country.

My ships

Photos and notebooks for every vessel you have served on.

Wear OS watch

Rest hours and ship locker tiles that keep working with the phone left in the cabin.

Backup with password

One file you keep where you like, encrypted with AES-256 if you choose. PIN or fingerprint lock for the app.

Your data, your phone

No account and no cloud. Here is where everything is kept – and what protects it.

  1. On your phoneDocuments, photos, sea service and hours live in the app's private folder. Nothing is sent to the developer, and Android's cloud backup is switched off for the app.
  2. In a backup file you keepOne file, saved where you choose – a USB stick, your e-mail, your own cloud. Give it a password and the whole file is encrypted (AES-256); without one, anyone holding the file can read it.
  3. Behind your lockA PIN or fingerprint stops others from opening the app. It is a door lock, not encryption – the phone's own screen lock protects its storage.

The full text: privacy policy.

Four looks for every watch

Pick the one that suits the light around you – in Settings, any time.

Documents in the Light theme
LightFor the office and the day.
Documents in the Dark theme
DarkEasy on the eyes in the cabin.
Documents in the Night theme, red on black
NightRed on black – keeps your night vision on the bridge.
Documents in the High contrast theme, white and yellow on black
High contrastWhite and yellow on black – readable in bright sun on deck.

Video tours

Short films with our demo seafarer, John Smith, showing each part of the app.

Seafarer DocsComing soon
DocumentsComing soon
Sea serviceComing soon
Hours of work and restComing soon

Films play from YouTube (privacy-enhanced mode) only after you press play.

What's new and what's next

The app is being tested at sea right now, by its author and fellow crew members.

  1. First version, built on board: documents and sea service.

  2. Places and voyage traces, hours of work and rest, ship locker, tools, Wear OS tiles, 15 languages.

  3. Testing on board and polishing before release.

  4. Closed testing on Google Play, then the public release.

Contact

Questions, ideas or a bug to report? Write – every message is read.

seafarer.docs@sitek.mail.pl Facebook – coming soon