Live AIS  ships-in-port tracking

Every port.
Every ship.
One app.

Port Pal Pro is the cruiser's pocket harbourmaster — 2,600+ ports worldwide, live vessel positions, official deck plans, real schedules and a community of cruisers who've already been there. Built by a cruiser, not a corporation.

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✦ 3-day free trial ✦ $4.99 one-time unlock ✦ No ads, ever

Port Pal Pro home screen with universal search
2,600+ Ports worldwide, from megaports to tender-only anchorages
330 Ships with official deck plans built in
52 Cruise lines profiled — ocean, expedition and river
2010 → +24mo Real sailings — historic archive to two years ahead
What's on board

Built for the twelve hours
you actually have ashore

No banners. No pop-ups. No twelve browser tabs on ship wi-fi. Just the answers a cruiser needs, in the order they need them.

2,600+ ports, one library

Browse by continent, country and region, or just search. Every port gets its own page: local port time, weather, photos, directions back to the ship, and real port-authority contacts for 650+ ports.

Who else is in port today

Live AIS shows which ships are alongside, when they arrive and when they sail. Know before you go whether it's a quiet morning or five ships and a two-hour tender line.

Official deck plans

Deck-by-deck plans for 330 ships across 26 cruise lines — Royal Caribbean, Carnival, TUI, Lindblad and more. Zoomable, portrait-rendered, and ready before you board.

Check-in reminders

Every line opens online check-in on its own schedule. Port Pal Pro knows the windows and nudges you the day it opens — so you get the boarding group you wanted.

Track Ship, live

Follow any vessel's real position at sea — handy for the family back home watching the dot cross the Atlantic, and for you the night before an early arrival.

Community forum →

A thread for every port, ship and cruise line. Real first-hand notes from cruisers who docked last week: where the good taxi rank is, which beach is worth it, what to skip.

Works offline at sea

Save a cruise and the whole itinerary — ports, times, plans, port info — lives on your phone. No signal, no roaming bill, no problem in the middle of the Drake Passage.

Find your sailing in seconds

Search future cruises up to two years out, or auto-fill a past sailing from the archive back to 2010 — your cruise history rebuilt without typing a single port name.

Six languages

English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese — the whole app, not just the menus. Hand your phone to anyone in the group.

Port intelligence

Walk off the gangway already knowing the place

Tap any port and you get the whole picture on one screen — not a search results page. Local time so you don't miss all-aboard, today's weather so you pack the right shoes, photos so you recognise the terminal, and the port authority's actual phone number for the day something goes sideways.

  • Local time, sunrise and sunset at a glance
  • Current conditions and forecast for your port day
  • Port authority contact and terminal details
  • Real photos of the port and surrounds
Port detail page for Kotor, Montenegro with photos and local information
Your cruises

One tap from boarding pass to last port

Add a sailing and Port Pal Pro builds the itinerary for you from real schedule data — day by day, port by port, arrival and departure times included. Save it and it works with the wi-fi switched off. Add the whole family's cruise history while you're at it.

  • Verified against live schedules — no invented ports
  • Auto-fill past sailings from a 2010-onward archive
  • Saved cruises stored on-device for offline use
  • Cruise line profiles and fleet-wide ship pages
Saved cruise itinerary for a Norway sailing showing each port day
I've stood in those tender lines, watched five ships crowd into one port, and searched a dozen websites for a simple answer — which is exactly why I built Port Pal Pro.

Rob — cruiser, 30+ sailings, and the whole development team

Honest pricing

Buy it once. That's the whole model.

No subscription, no ads, no data sold on the side. One in-app purchase covers the databases, the hosting and the work of keeping it accurate.

Free trial

$0

3 days, full access

  • Every feature unlocked
  • All 2,600+ ports
  • Live ships-in-port & tracking
  • No card required up front
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One-time unlock

Port Pal Pro

$4.99 once

No subscription. No renewals.

  • Everything in the trial, forever
  • Official deck plans, 330 ships
  • Offline saved cruises
  • Community forum access
  • Check-in reminders
  • All future updates included
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Your next port is waiting

Download Port Pal Pro, add your sailing, and turn up ashore knowing exactly what you're walking into.

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