Boat Story
Track service hours and cost
Track every boat service, engine hour, and cost in one private, offline-first place. Engine-hour reminders, cost insights, and PDF reports. No account, no subscription.
On the App Store this is listed as Boat Maintenance Planner & Log.
The Challenge
A boat has many systems: engine, drive, fuel, electrical, hull, rigging, safety, trailer, and seasonal jobs. They wear on engine hours and the calendar, not on convenient dates. Receipts pile up in a shoebox, services quietly fall overdue, and it is hard to know what it actually costs to keep the boat running.
Our Approach
Boat Story tracks every system with a built-in schedule, logs each job with cost, vendor, photos, and notes, and fires engine-hour and seasonal reminders so service stays ahead of failure. It is offline-first with no account, no login, no tracking, no ads, and no server. Your records live on your device and sync only through your own iCloud.
Key Features
- Every system aboard, tracked. Engine, drive and steering, fuel, electrical, hull, rigging, safety, onboard systems, trailer, and seasonal jobs, each with a built-in schedule, so nothing quietly falls overdue.
- A complete service history. Log every job, DIY or pro, with the cost, vendor, photos, and notes. The shoebox of receipts becomes one clear record you actually trust.
- Engine-hour and seasonal reminders. Service intervals track engine hours the way boats actually wear, and seasonal jobs like winterizing fire ahead of time, not the week after the impeller fails.
- See where the money goes. Cost insights break your spending down by system and by shop, with a simple forecast of the year ahead. Know what it actually costs to keep.
- Reports you can hand over. Generate a clean PDF service report for a buyer, an insurer, or a shop: proof of everything that has been done.
- Private. No account, no login, no tracking, no ads, no server. Boat Story is offline-first; your records live on your device and sync only through your own iCloud.
Results
Boat Story turns a shoebox of receipts into one trusted maintenance record that keeps service ahead of failure and resale honest.
Common questions
Boat Story, listed on the App Store as Boat Maintenance Planner & Log, is a free English-language iPhone and iPad app for logging boat maintenance, engine hours, fuel and costs. The owner picks an outboard, sterndrive, inboard, sailboat, PWC or pontoon and starts from a built-in plan of 54 tasks across ten systems, from engine and fuel to hull, trailer and seasonal jobs, due by calendar date or engine hours, with snoozable local reminders when notifications are enabled. Service entries hold date, hours, cost, shop or DIY work, photos and notes, and 99 step-by-step maintenance and troubleshooting guides are bundled for offline use. Free covers one boat with history, fuel and cost logs, JSON export and import, and backup and restore. Pro is a one-time $9.99 purchase in the US, not a subscription, and adds unlimited boats, deeper insights and cost forecasts, and shareable PDF service reports. Its built-in schedules and costs are estimates to verify, not professional advice, and hour-based due dates are estimated from the engine hours entered. No account is required, there are no ads, and records stay on the device and in backups the owner controls.