ShipAtlas - Ship Tracker
October 05, 2025
More About ShipAtlas - Ship Tracker
Whether you're a shipping enthusiast or a professional, have family at sea, or are just curious about the ships sailing nearby you, ShipAtlas gives you the tools you need to explore and track vessels. See live vessel positions around the world, search for ships, explore ports, and get insights of vessels movements and port traffic with raw AIS data from more than 700 satellites, terrestrial sources, and dynamic AIS data. More than 125,000 vessels. Any type of vessel. Global coverage.
Key Features:
- Worldwide live AIS ship tracking for any type of vessel: containers, car carriers, cruise ships, tankers, dry cargo, LPG, LNG, oil service etc. Search by name, IMO, or MMSI.
- View a ship’s last and next port to see where it has been and where it’s headed (includes historical data for the last 3 port calls).
- See ships nearby (within a 10 km radius) by sharing your mobile location.
- Get notifications when ships arrive or depart from ports, or when they set or change their destination.
- Create sea routes from any AIS position to any port and estimate arrival times based on various speeds.
- Access daily updated maritime weather forecasts, including wind, waves, ocean currents, sea ice, and precipitation.
Explore maritime activity worldwide. From your phone, tablet or laptop, you can view global shipping activity, locate vessels, and check ship statuses at sea.
Why ShipAtlas?
- High quality AIS and maritime data for ports and any type of vessels.
- Clean and easy-to-use interface.
- Sync your data across mobile, desktop, and tablet.
- Be notified about real-time events for vessels and ports.
- Friendly in-app chat support to assist you any time you need help.
- Freemium – get started for free, upgrade anytime you want.
- No ads.
- Trusted by casual ship trackers and maritime professionals around the world.
Find a plan for your needs
Free
- Ship positions in regions and ports.
- Ship nearby you, view all ships within a 10km radius to you.
- Arrival notifications.
- Create sea routes from any AIS position to any port and estimate arrival times based on various speeds.
- Daily updated marine weather in ports.
Standard – from €10/month
Unlock for 5 ships:
- Live ship positions from satellite, terrestrial and dynamic AIS.
- Find which port the ships sailed from and the next port with ETA.
- Notification types
- Arrivals
- Departures
- Destination changes
- Create sea routes from any AIS position to any port and estimate arrival times based on various speeds.
Daily updated marine weather in ports.
Premium – from €65/month
Unlock for all ships in the database:
- Live ship positions from satellite, terrestrial and dynamic AIS
- Find which port the ships sailed from and the next port with ETA
- Notification types
- Arrivals
- Departures
- Destination changes
- Create sea routes from any AIS position to any port and estimate arrival times based on various speeds.
- Historical AIS (last 3 port calls).
Vessel lists (5 lists).
Find which vessels are inside ports.
Daily updated marine weather in ports.
Latest Version
8.0.1
October 05, 2025
Maritime Optima AS
IT Tools
Android
650,195
Free
com.maritimeoptima.production
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User Reviews
Shajan Williams
3 years ago
Tutorial would have been better. Because even though could find the locations up to time. Navigation within app need to have a skipable tutorial so that new users at emergency would where is what. Thank you for making this app. All the best team. ----------- Sure will follow support chat make our app even better. Will look for more updates too.
C Waterstrat
2 years ago
I live on Lake Huron and and am always excited to see freighters and ships of all types passing by. This app is great for identifying them by name and pictures. I can see where they came from and where they are going along with a lot of other details.
Paul Bowers
1 year ago
Good for following cruise ship would be worth 5 star if it had a lower cost option for upgrade. Some features but at a price for small none commercial users. In my case. I only really view local coast and even then for cruise ships
Joe Lea
2 years ago
Excellent app. Very easy to set up and use. I use this app daily for work, this app is vital in my business, scheduling my days off or when I will be working. I can schedule days off in advance. I recommend this app for anyone in shipping or receiving materials . I work 3rd party for Oil & Gas companies (pipe for pipelines) and receive pipe from Italy. So I have to know when and where the Vessels are , when their expected to arrive. Time is Money! 💯 % recommend this app! -Joe Lea, Vidor Tx
Abhishek Yadav
2 years ago
I like this app because it is very helpful in maritime shipping line. There is no any bug in the app. It works very properly and it helps to find any vessels at any time with free of cost. It refresh again & again for finding the exact and current location of vessels 🛳️🚢⛴️. I have not any type of complain for this app, so I can suggest you to install and use this app. Thanks you, Abhishek yadav
Joseph R LEDUC
11 months ago
Had some issues with the subscription, but ended up being from my own stupidity. App works great and does what it is meant to do! Their customer service is very quick at responding to customer's concerns!
Theyre
1 year ago
Maritime Optima ShipAtlas has turned out to be a bait-and-click operation. I signed up and paid for 12-month Standard plan. It expires March 2025. Recently they limited the access already paid for and offered a revised plan at many times the cost. They acknowledge that I paid for a year but refuse to provide the agreed service and refer me to the small print whereby they claim to be able to change the plan at their whim. AVOID Maritime Optima! They will suck you in then demand an increase!
Chris Bebek
2 years ago
I found the app to be easy to set up to track an auto delivery from Germany to California with stops at 4 intermediate ports. The information about the ships speed and location was also current -- usually much less than 30 minutes old.
Jitendra Dalwani
1 year ago
Very Reliable. Thank You Maritime Optima Extremely unfortunate that you all have restricted your free service to such an extent. I was hoping to be able to use all the features without any sort of restrictions. I doubt any of users gain monetary benefits by using your service. Would have been great if you had found some other means of revenue generation, for e.g. Running Ads .
Amit Priyadarshi
2 years ago
This is one of the most genuine real time ship location app i have used as of now, it shows you the correct location of ship at that time for free, also all the features of the app are accessible for upto 20 searches of ships, 20 searches about port activity and 10 free searches about particular vessel's voyage history. After you exhaust all the free searches you can only get the real time location of ships on the map and nothing else. The premium is expensive as far as i believe.
Timothy Rodkey (Tim)
2 years ago
Nice interface, though weather overlay on the map would be nice. Unfortunately, after using it for a day, there is a notification that ship tracks are limited to twenty before $$$$. Bummer.
Martin Collins
2 years ago
Impossible to sign in using a password manager using auto fill. So far it only shows ships near to me. If I look at other ports there's nothing. Very limiting and not intuitive so far. Reply: Guess I'm lying or an idiot then. If you don't listen you'll never improve. Now one star.
Steve Thomas
3 years ago
Useful app and website for all those interested in the movement characteristics of the world's merchant fleet. I like the ability to filter ships according to size as used by the shipping market. It's good to see open hatch vessels being classed as dry bulk instead of the 'cargo ship' nonsense used elsewhere.
P Mil
1 year ago
You're unable to get beyond the login screen without an account. As someone else mentioned, a poor design. The developer mentioned in that response that you're not forced to create an account which is true... but this limits you to installing and looking at a login screen. Considering the competition is "MarineTraffic", which allows you to fully test with limited options, there's no viable reason.
T M (Erik Roede)
2 years ago
Well some people are right. After hitting the button "create account" , everything from the fields is cleared (sign up form is cleared and nothing happens), no redirection or whatsoever. You check your email, voilà, the EMail confirmation link is there, hit once...freezes with their logo on a blank page, ok, hit again, already confirmed. Login: write email, write password (tried many times)., ta daaa a red text block appear saying that you're connected on another device. Really?
Jeremy Culberth
1 year ago
This is a very easy app to set up and very useful for what it is. However it does not meet my needs. I am a short tankerman. I tank barges. So my need is to track the motor vessels (tugs) that push my barges. If it had that I it would be everything I've been looking for. After moving around through this app I can't see anything that someone looking to track ships wouldn't love. Once again great app! I do hope it includes tugboats some day.
FKNANGRYSCOT
3 months ago
Severely lacking!!!!! Good idea although the amount of ships shown is by far SEVERELY INACCURATE. I know right at this moment there are at minimal 100 ships, boats and other vessels from France and the UK along with many vessels from other nations on route or at anker in the English Channel and North Sea. this app shows none of those at all. If I used this can you imagine the possibility of potentially life threatening issues at sea. Far from Useful guys
Nicholas Thibault
1 year ago
This app slowly stops working. I don't know if it's be ause I won't upgrade but, flight radar I can track aircraft all say long. Can't imagine the tech is that much different for shippjng, but at first I could see any ship. Then it started to take forever to load, now I can't see any ships despite trying to refresh. I've had this app for less than 3 weeks.
Mr Rob Da GOD
1 year ago
I thought that app was great at first but then I realized but then after a few minutes of looking at a ship I noticed that you disable the actual path and you can no longer see paths of other ships so why even waste my time perching purchasing this when I can't even test it out for a few days just to see if this is something that I want to buy. I probably will never waste my time on this
Marvin Lashley
2 years ago
Trying to get 5 stars when they limit you upon the already very limited data you are able to find. Tries to force you to buy the "upgraded" version.... Like most other "tracking" apps, the accuracy is not even close, yet they want you to buy an upgraded version to see more data. Nope! Deleting just as I do when I find any app is trying to force me to buy because they think they have me "reeled in"...
