Walk into your next inspection already knowing you're ready.Walk into your next inspection already knowing you're ready.Walk into your next inspection already knowing you're ready.

Your PMS manages the maintenance work: equipment registers, jobs due by date or running hours, defects, job history and, depending on the package, spares and purchasing. SeaReady helps the Master and crew prepare for an inspection: ship-type checklists, what to demonstrate and which evidence to find, zone walks, dated readiness checks, findings, reports and mock interviews. Saved preparation works offline; AI needs a connection. There is overlap: wider fleet suites such as ShipManager and BASSnet also offer inspection, audit and compliance modules. SeaReady is useful if your existing system leaves a gap in practical crew preparation, portable access or interview practice. If it already meets those needs, another app may add little value. SeaReady complements your company systems; it is not a replacement PMS or a guarantee of passing an inspection.

Yes. The free plan is free for ever with no card: every checklist question to read (answer a free sample in each chapter), your own rest hours, your own certificates, drills, calculators, crew tools, a sample of the oral exam questions and a limited number of printed reports a month (your own rest-hour record always prints free). Paid plans (Crew from $39.99 a month + 5% sales tax) let you answer every checklist question and add the AI features.

Yes. SeaReady keeps your data on the phone, so checklists, rest hours, certificates, drills, calculators and saved training videos all work without a signal. Only the AI features, the weather forecast, signing in, keeping your devices in sync and sharing the ship file between phones need a connection; they catch up the next time you are online. Each phone keeps the inspection content that can apply to its ship: OVID only on offshore vessels, and the Flag, Class, US-flag and yacht preparation packs once a Flag or Class inspection, a US-flag USCG inspection or a commercial yacht inspection is planned. USCG port State control for ships calling at the US is always kept. Settings → Backup & offline shows what is kept and has a “Keep everything offline” switch. Your plan works at sea too: a paid plan keeps going offline for 7 days past its paid-until date, a trial ends on its end date, and a phone needs to connect at least once every 30 days to keep its paid features. When you are back online the app checks your plan straight away.

Yes. Every new account gets a 14-day free trial, with no card: try the AI features, the officer tools and ship-file sharing. It starts when you confirm your e-mail address with the 6-digit code we send you, and it is one per phone and per e-mail address (a second account on the same phone goes straight to the free plan). Every new ship also gets one 14-day ship trial when its Master adds it; each IMO number gets one ship trial, ever.

Numbers and dates: the readiness score, open critical items, certificate expiry dates, how many rest-hour breach days there were, open findings, the planned inspections, inspections done in the last 90 days (type, date, port and outcome) and the ship health counts, including the expiry dates (not the documents) of crew certificates such as passport or medical certificate, by rank. It also sees the names and ranks of the people aboard, the Master’s name, and the name and rank of whoever last synced the ship’s figures. The office screens never show checklist answers, notes, photos, e-mail addresses, pay, identity documents, diaries, anyone’s individual rest hours or medical records. One exception, only for a company whose company licence covers the ship (the company holds the ship’s records through that licence): it can download the ship’s whole history. That download holds the ship’s present state in full (Ship particulars and the checklist answers with their notes), the dated records (findings, certificates, drills, permits and the other ship records) and the change history from the time the ship has been linked to that company, and photo references (file names, not the pictures); medical lines, ID and document numbers, personal notes, pay and individual rest hours are taken out. Every download is written in the ship’s export log, which the Master sees. A company without that licence cannot download it.

No. SeaReady writes its own preparation questions and guidance in plain English and is not affiliated with OCIMF, RightShip, CDI, any MoU or the USCG. Always check against the current official documents.