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.
Live AIS ships-in-port tracking
Every port.
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.
✦ 3-day free trial ✦ $4.99 USD one-time unlock ✦ No ads, ever
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
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.
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.
Booking powered by Viator
See shore excursions for the port you're docked at, read the full details and real cruisers' reviews, and book right from the app in a few taps — powered by Viator, with 800+ cruise ports covered.
Every booking lands on the exact port-day it's for in your saved cruise, nudges you an hour before it starts, and stays filed under that sailing when it moves into your past cruises.
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
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
Real screens
A look around the app
Straight from the shipping build — no mockups.
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
One-time unlock
Port Pal Pro
$4.99 USD 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
Your next port is waiting
Download Port Pal Pro, add your sailing, and turn up ashore knowing exactly what you're walking into.