Guides to Manta, from your first trip to connecting your instruments.
Getting started
- Your first tripInstall Manta, allow location, and tap Record. That's all your first trip takes.
- Recording in the backgroundHow Manta keeps logging with the phone locked, and what helps on long days.
- Recording problemsCauses and fixes for track gaps, GPS, location permission, instruments, missing entries, distance and sync.
Logging
- Automatic log entriesWhat Manta detects on its own, and how to adjust it.
- Manual entries and photosLog weather, sails, sightings, notes and photos in one or two taps.
- Lock Screen and remote loggingThe Live Activity and its quick actions on the Lock Screen, and how other devices on board join a recording.
Trips
- Editing tripsRename places, split, crop or merge a trip, edit log entries and photos, and recover a deleted trip.
- Replay and chartsReplay a trip on the map, see which charts need instruments, and read your boat's polar chart.
- WeatherWhere a trip's weather values come from, when Manta fetches them, and how to correct them.
- ToursGroup trips into a tour, see its days, distance and weather, and follow your season's figures.
Boats and crew
Instruments
Stories and sharing
Your data
Manta Pro
- Free and ProWhat Free includes, what needs Pro, and how the three unlocked trips work.
- Purchases and restoringOne-time or yearly, restoring on a new device, and how to try Pro.
- Mileage certificatesCreate a mileage certificate from your trips, have it signed by the skipper, and follow your progress towards a licence.
Contact
Questions, feedback or trouble with manta? Write to us. We're happy to help.
Email supportIt helps if you mention your iPhone model, iOS version and manta version.
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