About this app

ISF Watchkeeper 4 mobile app enables seafarers to record their work and rest hours on smartphone and tablet. Timesheets are automatically tested against STCW, MLC 2006 and other international and local regulations for compliance purposes.

The predictive calculation engine helps manage work and rest hours compliance for you, keeping you notified of up-coming non-conformities and helping you remain compliant.

Cloud-based and totally cross platform, ISF Watchkeeper 4 provides seafarers with an efficient yet simple mobile solution that is full of great innovations, showing live compliance status, allowing real time tracking and testing, whilst making it easy to log hours of work and rest, and plan-ahead to avoid regulatory breaches.

- Available for iOS and Android
- Works on or offline
- Syncs to ISF Watchkeeper 4 Web App for real-time collaboration across teams
- Realtime alerts and notifications of up-coming non-conformance
- Monitor your live Compliance Status
- Electronic timesheet signing and verification
- Manage your work schedules
- Automatically log hours by your work schedule
- Manage vessel joining and leaving
- Copy logged hours across multiple days
- Reporting Dashboard
- Cloud based, no vessel installation required
- Simple, intuitive User Interfaces

A truly global brand, accepted by Port State Control and recognised as the gold standard work and rest hour solution, ISF Watchkeeper is developed in partnership with the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), whose members include over 80 percent of the global merchant fleet and who have represented the industry at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and International Labour Organization (ILO) for more than 50 years.

Your data is synced to the cloud and accessible via the ISF Watchkeeper 4 web app, offering seamless team collaboration and powerful management and reporting functionality from the shore.

No more printing: you can electronically sign and lock timesheets and have them available on your mobile or online for inspection as per IMO guidelines for the signing, tracking and verification of electronic certificates

Furthermore, our dedicated support team are on hand to assist at every turn, getting you up and running and ensuring your software operation runs smoothly.

The app is packed full of innovative features, benefitting from constant development and evolution by working alongside the International Chamber of Shipping and other professionals in the industry, harnessing the decades of experience working extensively in the shipping industry.

ISF Watchkeeper 4 is the smart way to help operators comply with the requirements of the ILO (MLC, 2006) and IMO International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW).

New features

ISF Watchkeeper 4 - Live Compliance and Prediction Engine for Seafarers

App Permissions

Marker permission for applications that wish to access notification policy.
Must be required by an NotificationListenerService, to ensure that only the system can bind to it.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
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