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Buyer's guide

Best boat club & boat-sharing software in 2026

Seven tools compared on price, who they're actually built for, and what's included — with a source link for every claim.

Written by the EZ BoatShare team. We rank ourselves first for co-ownership groups and say plainly where someone else fits better.

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The short version

Tool	Best for	Published price
1. EZ BoatShare	Co-ownership groups — two to nine people sharing one to three boats	Solo $12/mo · Starter $25/mo · Crew $35/mo per boat + $5/member · Fleet by quote
2. myBoat (NauticEd)	Cost-sensitive partnerships that only need rotation scheduling	From about $4.44 per user per month
3. Nautical Monkey	Boaters still looking for partners, or running a sharing business site	Free Personal tier; Advanced $7.95/month per boat
4. ClubSoft	Established yacht clubs and private marinas with a board	Core plan $1,000/year published; higher tiers by club size
5. SpeedyDock	Commercial boat clubs and dry-stack marina operators	Not published — quote only
6. BoatCloud	Dry-stack marinas comfortable with an enterprise quote	Not published; buyer reports of roughly $1,800 per user per year
7. Wavve Boating	Any boater who wants charts and depth on a phone	Published on their own site

Prices and features are as published at the time of writing and change often. Check with each vendor before you buy. All product names are trademarks of their owners; we aren't affiliated with any of them.

Each one in detail

1. EZ BoatShare

Solo $12/mo · Starter $25/mo · Crew $35/mo per boat + $5/member · Fleet by quote

Best for: Co-ownership groups — two to nine people sharing one to three boats

Strengths

• Reservations weighted by each owner's percentage, with unclaimed time released 48 hours out
• Shared expense ledger with settle-up: who owes whom, to the cent
• Float plans sent to family, with automatic overdue check-in alerts
• Salty, an AI first mate trained on your boat's own manuals and documents
• Dues, capital calls and Stripe collection built in
• Self-serve signup — your club and first boat are created automatically

Limits

• No navigation or charting
• No partner-matching marketplace (deliberately out of scope)
• Dry-stack launch operations and berth inventory are Fleet-plan only

See our plans Source: EZ BoatShare pricing

2. myBoat (NauticEd)

From about $4.44 per user per month

Best for: Cost-sensitive partnerships that only need rotation scheduling

Strengths

• Share-unit scheduling with published rotation rules
• Check-on / check-off lists
• Expense splitting between partners
• Lowest per-head cost in this list

Limits

• No float plans or overdue check-in alerts
• No AI assistant
• No dues or capital-call tracking

EZ BoatShare vs. myBoat (NauticEd)Source: NauticEd myBoat

3. Nautical Monkey

Free Personal tier; Advanced $7.95/month per boat

Best for: Boaters still looking for partners, or running a sharing business site

Strengths

• Scheduling, check lists and messaging
• Expense tracking with partner allocation
• Find a Partner service and custom public sites
• Resource library including partnership-agreement material

Limits

• No ownership-percentage fairness enforcement
• No float plans or overdue alerts
• No AI manual assistant

EZ BoatShare vs. Nautical Monkey Source: Nautical Monkey pricing

4. ClubSoft

Core plan $1,000/year published; higher tiers by club size

Best for: Established yacht clubs and private marinas with a board

Strengths

• Member management and automated invoicing
• Moorage charges and household accounts
• Card and ACH payments with QuickBooks workflows
• Onboarding and implementation support

Limits

• Built for club operations, not a small jointly owned boat
• No co-owner fairness scheduling or settle-up ledger
• No float plans or AI assistant

EZ BoatShare vs. ClubSoft Source: ClubSoft pricing

5. SpeedyDock

Not published — quote only

Best for: Commercial boat clubs and dry-stack marina operators

Strengths

• Member reservations and recurring billing
• Launch and dry-stack request workflows
• Fleet management and maintenance tracking
• Automated member communications

Limits

• Sales-led: no published price, no instant start
• Overkill for a four-owner partnership
• No co-ownership fairness or expense settle-up

EZ BoatShare vs. SpeedyDock Source: SpeedyDock boat club software

6. BoatCloud

Not published; buyer reports of roughly $1,800 per user per year

Best for: Dry-stack marinas comfortable with an enterprise quote

Strengths

• Web and mobile apps for dry-stack and club scheduling
• Automated service and launch reservations
• Member communication tools

Limits

• Pricing not public; reported per-seat cost is the highest here
• Buyer reviews report gaps around billing and reservations
• No co-owner ledger, float plans or AI assistant

EZ BoatShare vs. BoatCloud Source: BoatCloud on Capterra

7. Wavve Boating

Published on their own site

Best for: Any boater who wants charts and depth on a phone

Strengths

• Marine charts, depth data and routing
• Replaces buying and installing chartplotter hardware
• Works on the phone you already carry

Limits

• It's a navigation app, not sharing or club software
• No calendar, expenses, dues, maintenance or documents

EZ BoatShare vs. Wavve Boating Source: Wavve Boating pricing explainer

How we judged these

We weighted four things: whether the pricing is published and fits a small group, whether the scheduling understands ownership shares rather than first-come-first-served, whether shared money actually reconciles down to who pays whom, and whether the tool does anything for safety and record-keeping — float plans, maintenance history, documents. Navigation quality, marina accounting depth and marketplace features are outside that lens, which is why tools that lead on those rank lower here even when they're excellent at their own job.

Common questions

What's the best software for a boat two or three people own together?

For co-ownership specifically, EZ BoatShare — it's the only option here that enforces ownership percentages on the calendar, keeps a shared expense ledger with settle-up, and files float plans with overdue alerts. myBoat is the cheapest per head if a rotation scheduler is all you need.

What's the best software for a commercial boat club or dry-stack marina?

SpeedyDock and BoatCloud are built for that, and ClubSoft covers club and marina accounting. EZ BoatShare's Fleet plan competes there with invoicing, berths and multi-club dashboards.

Which of these publish their pricing?

EZ BoatShare, ClubSoft, Nautical Monkey and myBoat publish prices. SpeedyDock and BoatCloud are quote-only. Wavve Boating explains its pricing on its own site.

Is this list independent?

No, and we won't pretend otherwise — we make EZ BoatShare and we've ranked it first for co-ownership groups. Every competitor fact here is sourced to that company's own published information or a public software directory, with links, so you can check us.

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