For marine surveyors
The report is finished when you step off the boat.
Freeboard turns the walk-through into the document. You photograph what you find; it arrives in the right section, numbered, under your own letterhead. No signal needed — not in an engine room, not in a bilge, not offshore.
iPhone, Android and desktop. Nothing to install from a store — you open a link and add it to the Home screen.
Why the fillable PDF never worked
A form you can type into looks like the answer, until you try to put a photograph in one from a phone. Image fields in a PDF only accept a picture in Acrobat, on a desktop — which is the one place you are not standing when you find the corrosion.
So the notes go on paper, the photographs stay in the camera roll, and the evening goes on putting the two back together in Word. That evening is the job Freeboard removes.
What it does
Three things, properly
01
Photograph as you go
Every shot lands in the zone you are standing in — numbered, captioned, tied to the item it belongs to. Crop and straighten on the spot, while you can still see what you meant.
02
Works with the radio off
Add it to the Home screen once. After that it opens, records and produces the report with no network at all. Nothing to upload, nothing to wait for, nothing to lose when the signal goes.
03
Your name on the document
Your logo, company and credentials at the head of every page, in one of three report styles. A finished PDF, made on the device, in seconds.
Where your work lives
What it never does
Your photographs and your notes stay on your phone. They are not uploaded, not kept on a server, and not seen by us — there is nowhere for them to go.
A licence checks itself against a key already on the device, so it needs no network either. And it can only ever affect whose name heads the report: a survey you have started always finishes, whatever the subscription says.
Where it is today
New, and honest about it
Freeboard works end to end — checklist, photographs, sea trial, report — and has been through a complete survey offline, on an installed phone, with the aircraft mode on.
What it has not had is a season in the hands of a working surveyor. That is exactly what these first access codes are for: a small number of surveyors, a direct line to the person who built it, and changes that come from real jobs rather than guesses.
If that sounds like a reasonable trade, write and say what kind of vessels you survey.