PIMS

Pilotage Information and Management Systems
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Mac

Two versions — pick the one that matches your Mac's chip.

Not sure which chip your Mac has?
  1. Click the Apple menu (top-left corner of your screen) → About This Mac.
  2. A small window opens. Look for the line labelled Chip (newer Macs) or Processor (older Macs).
  3. If it says Apple M1, M2, M3, or M4 — you have Apple Silicon.
    If it says anything with Intel in it — you have an Intel Mac.

Every Mac sold since late 2020 is Apple Silicon. Every Mac sold before mid-2020 is Intel. Machines from the 2020–2022 crossover could be either.

About This Mac window on a MacBook Air, showing Chip: Apple M4.
Apple Silicon — Chip: Apple M4 (or M1 / M2 / M3)
About This Mac window on an iMac 2020, showing Processor: 3.3 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5, with an arrow drawn at the Processor line.
Intel — Processor: … Intel …
Newer Macs show a Chip line; older Macs show Processor instead. Read whichever your window has, then pick the matching download below.
Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4) Intel Mac
  1. Double-click the downloaded .zip. PIMS.app appears next to it.
  2. Drag PIMS.app into your Applications folder.
  3. Open PIMS from Applications and sign in with your Auriga email.
If macOS refuses to open it: right-click (or Control-click) PIMS.app → Open → Open. macOS asks once per install; after that it opens like any other app.
Picked the wrong version? No harm done — an Intel build won't open on an Apple Silicon Mac (and vice versa) but nothing else breaks. Just come back here and grab the other one.

Windows

PIMS for Windows is on hold. Newer Windows 11 computers block programs that have not been through Microsoft's paid publisher certification, and PIMS has not. On those computers PIMS cannot be installed or updated, and no setting inside PIMS can change that.
  • If PIMS already works on your Windows computer, keep using it — your data is safe and it keeps syncing.
  • If Windows refuses to install or update it, please use PIMS on a Mac or iPad instead. Sign in with your Auriga email and your data downloads to the new device.
Download Windows installer
  1. Run the installer.
  2. If Windows SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC", click More info → Run anyway.
  3. Open PIMS from the Start menu and sign in with your Auriga email.
Two side-by-side screenshots of the Windows Defender SmartScreen 'Windows protected your PC' dialog. Left panel shows the initial dialog with the 'More info' link circled. Right panel shows the dialog after clicking More info, with the 'Run anyway' button now visible and circled.
Left: click More info. Right: the Run anyway button appears — click it. You only see this on the very first install; auto-updates never trigger the SmartScreen prompt.

iPad

Get PIMS on the App Store
  1. Open this page on your iPad and tap the button, or search the App Store for PIMS.
  2. Tap Get to install. After that, PIMS tells you itself when a new version is ready — a banner appears in the app with an Update now button.
  3. Open PIMS and sign in with your Auriga email.

First sign-in on any device

The very first time you sign in on a new install (Mac or Windows), PIMS pulls your entire dataset — pilotages, ships, swings, library, contacts — down to the device so you can work offline afterwards. Expect it to take 20–30 minutes on a typical connection. You'll see this screen while it runs:

PIMS 'Welcome — downloading your data' screen mid-progress: 6,535 of 9,296 documents pulled (70%), progress bar around two-thirds full, with copy explaining that a first sync pulls one document at a time and takes 20-30 minutes.
Do it from an office or hotel with wi-fi, not from sea. Leave the window open until it finishes.

When the download finishes, the same window flips to the done state. Click Continue to PIMS and you're in. Every launch after this one opens instantly and works offline.

PIMS 'Download complete' screen: 'Your data is fully downloaded and safe to use offline. 9,216 documents downloaded.' with a dark navy 'Continue to PIMS' button.
Click Continue to PIMS to open the app.

Recent updates

What's changed and why, most recent first.