What Free includes, what needs Pro, and how the three unlocked trips work.
Manta records everything on every trip, on Free and on Pro. Buying Pro, the free month and restoring are covered in Purchases and restoring.
Comparison
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Recording, with no limit on trips or boats | Yes | Yes |
| Instruments live on screen, Lock Screen quick actions | Yes | Yes |
| Manual log entries, crew, tours, your own stories | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic entries for departure, arrival, engine and anchoring | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic entries for tacks, gybes and sail changes | One summary row | Yes |
| “Weather” and “Nav log” tabs | Yes | Yes |
| Trip charts, also in the replay | Speed only | All |
| Instrument values in the replay | Yes | Yes |
| Wind and performance cards on a tour | No | Yes |
| Your boat's “Polar chart” | No | Yes |
| Fuel and engine-hour logs, tank levels and consumption | Yes | Yes |
| Maintenance log for repairs, services and other work | No | Yes |
| Maintenance reminders | No | Yes |
| AI trip stories | No | Yes |
| Licence goal progress | Yes | Yes |
| Creating mileage certificates | No | Yes |
| iCloud sync, trip files, GPX, logbook export and import | Yes | Yes |
| Web profile and web sharing | Yes | Yes |
| Live tracking | No | Yes |
| Joining another device's recording | Yes | Yes |
| Hosting a recording for other devices | No | Yes |
Unlocked trips
Your first three qualifying trips stay unlocked for good. They show all their charts, instruments and entries.
A trip qualifies when:
- You recorded it in Manta, or imported it.
- It has data from your instruments, such as wind or depth.
- It covers more than one nautical mile.
A trip with phone GPS only, or a test in harbour, does not use a place. Trips recorded or imported while you have Pro count too.
Deleting an unlocked trip does not free its place. Import it again and it is unlocked again, without using another place. If you split one, both parts stay unlocked.
While places are free, a running recording shows everything and carries a “Pro preview” banner. If it does not qualify when it ends, it becomes a trip on Free.
Unlocking covers the trip's own data. The polar chart, AI stories, new certificates, live tracking and hosting a recording still need Pro.
Imported trips count like recorded ones, including trips another sailor sent you. An import that qualifies takes a free place if one is left; after that it shows like any trip on Free. When you restore a logbook, its earliest qualifying trips fill the free places.
The demo trip always shows everything and does not use a place.
A trip on Free
- “Stats”: the Speed chart from GPS.
- Replay: every instrument tile with its value at the moment you scrub to.
- “Logs”: your own entries, plus departure, arrival, engine and anchoring. Tacks, gybes and sail changes fold into one row, such as “12 more automatic entries”.
When Pro ends
If a yearly plan ends or a purchase is refunded, trips return to the view above. Nothing is deleted. Your unlocked trips stay unlocked, and stories and certificates you already made stay available.
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