Boating US&Canada App Reviews

Running 4s with iOS 5.1. App constantly crashes.

I bought this app because the 33 foot egg harbor I bought had no electronics on it since the seller wanted to keep them. It has literally taken me from Sandusky Ohio on lake erie, to Kemah south of Houston Texas where I am from. This app alone Did that. Incredibly detailed and accurate if you actually know how to read a chart. I cruised 15 miles offshore sometimes and held perfect gps location. Brought me through almost all of the icw and lots of terrible waters in fog and pitch black. Probably has saved my life literally! Worth every penny. iOS 5.1.1 and flawless.

I like this as a back up chart, when it works... Which is not very often... I have had to delete it and re install it each time I want to use it... Too bad. Good idea, poorly executed...

Works great. Can pull up info when And where I need it and very accurate and detailed perfect for new fishing spots

Great product. I use it every week to navigate the St. Lawrence Seaway / Thousand Island region of New York. I have recommended this app to countless other boaters. The GPS works outstanding. The biggest thing that needs to be improved is a night time screen. Navigating at night the screen is way to bright without substantial dimming. The other thing that would be nice to have (so that I dont need to keep changing between apps) is an AIS locater. This would also help at night so that I can easily locate shipping vessels in the channel. Hopefully Navionics reads reviews and adds these features, but even if they dont I would still highly recommend this product to anyone boating in a large body of water.

Read the 1st review. It says pretty much everything about the GPS side of this app., including suggestions I would also make to Navionics to enhance this product). But there is also much more… wind and tide data for wherever you go, access to pilot guides (under "Magazines) and much,much more…making this a must-have for any serious boater

Because you cant specify what charts to download and cache ahead of time (and STAY cached), youre stuck sailing only in areas with cell coverage so you can constantly download the charts you need. We specifically sail in areas that dont have coverage so this app is worthless to us.

I started runnng the saltwater flats in Jacksonville Fl. I like to fish. I just bought a new iPhone 3GS I just purchased this Navionics app so I could see where I am while fishing. I had little knowledge of the program and with all new things I had not spent much time learning it. To set a number on it about 0 to 1. Yesterday I went fishing up the ICW, hung a right and ran to the mouth of Simpsons Creek. The time is 2:50pm. I started fishing, winds picked up, lightning starts. at what appears to be way out there. It wasnt. I cranked up the boat and started heading back to the dock. The rain came up with so much speed I couldnt believed it. Then the lightning started. The rain was so blinding I couldnt even see in front of me. I now arrive at the ICW and turn left to head back to the ramp.I have never seen a rain or storm like this one. I tried to get the boat on plain to beat the storm. That didnt happen. I am trying to run marker to marker to get back to the ramp. That didnt happen. When I hit the ICW I still couldnt see a thing in the storm. I followed what I thought was the ICW (intercoastal waterway). That didnt happen. I kept going at a slow speed, blinding rain. the waterway kept getting narrower. Odd I thought.. You guessed it! I was lost. I was down at the end of some creek or offshoot. I notice the backend weight on the boat. I pull up the hatch and its full of water. Of course from the storm. I hit the bilge pump. That didnt happen. Its not working. I hit the live well to see if it recycles. That didnt happen. I now have boat filled with water from the storm and no way to get rid of it. The rain lets up. Lightning everwhere. I wander around for an hour trying to get out of this creek. No way! I took a 44oz drink cup and bailed all the water out from the backend of the boat. I didnt pull the iPhone out for fear of getting it wet, it was in the dry storage locker. I get hung up on an oyster bar. That too another 20 minutes to get of it. Pushing with an oar paddle. I break free of the oyster bar, i get out the iPhone. I hit the Navionics app. I hit tracking and everyother button trying to figure where am I at????. I keep pushing the in and out buttons on the map to try and figure it out. Then the red line indicator started blinking and the arrow moving. Huh? Ok. A body of water is to my right. In out , in out. ITS THE CREEK! I slide up and down the map and realize I am at the end of what is called Garden creek. I am not only in the creek, but at the extreme end of it with little or no indications of size. Also shallow water, this is not good. I start heading to the bigger water, following the red indicator line and arrow. It dosent look to me as if I can make it there. Land or flats cover would prevent it. I just kept following the indicators. The indicator took me everyway that I had circled for hours. But then the large end of the creek and deeper water came up. In out, in out. It looks like I am in the right course. I was. The creek widened, the indicator kept directing me, I followed it right up the creek. Slowly and came to the mouth and ran into some fishermen. They said your in the right directiion just around the corner. I went through the Navionics "shallow water" notes, with the boat slowly. I hit the ICW and ran back to the ramp. Safe and sound. Wet cloths, chilled and all, but safe. To the brethren at Navionics. YOU SAVED MY BACON. I am 70 years old, fish by myself and I dont need getting lost up in creeks i am not familar with. To Navionics "God bless us everyone Tiny Tim". Its a great progam for your iPhone, and may save your BACON! Thanks Guys great job, great program. ontheflats and from the iPhone ontheflatsnow.

In the vicinity of Reedville - Smith Pt, VA, as you zoom in the navaids disappear completely. Come on, Navionics, surely you can fix that. Problem fixed, thanks to a very helpful and competent person at Navionics whom I wont risk embarrassing by mentioning her name.

I had this app on my iPhone version 4.3 and it worked wonderful. When I updated my iPhone to OS 5, I had to download a new version of Navionics to run on OS 5. This new version is not accurate and good details of the lakes and bottom contours dont exist for most of the lakes. When will it get fixed? FIXED Ive downloaded the Lakes of US & Canada to my new iPhone 5 and the accuracy is fixed and it works great. Daryl

Navionics Support is horrible. They will update the app to a new name and then not support the old app. THEN make you repurchase!!

This paired with a LifeProof waterproof case is fantastic. Its a great value for a backup nav tool and I love it for navigating while fishing in the back of the boat with a trolling motor. Ive used it all over the puget sound and even offshore off the coast of Washington. Works good. Older versions would crash every once in a while but it only took a second to bring it back up again.

Good depth maps but I phone 5 have to re download it ever time I use it.

App was absolutely useless when finding depth and structure. I mean it was 20 feet off in a 30 foot lake. Didnt show sunken islands or ANYTHING like that. It did tell me where I was on the lake and the accesses but DO NOT by this app for the sole purpose of finding structure on lakes to fish.

Ive been on the water my whole life and this app is simply amazing. Totally works in the tightest of Chanels and scary rocks. Ignore the negative comments as clearly they are written by land lubbers who should not be anywhere near a boat. I use the app in an obscure area in the Great Lakes and the accuracy is phenomenal.

Use it all the time when planing fishing trips. Its almost like having my chart plotter in my hands at all times

Turns your phone into a fully functional chart plotter and the charts are outstanding. Highly recommended!!!

I have been using this app. on my phone for 3 years or more, Ive never had a major problem I fish tourny fish all over 4 states Ar. La. Ok. Tx. Its always spot on. I have fish over 100 tourneys at night. Never had a problem ever. I use it 3 or 4 times a week at night in the summer and its never let me down.

Very good cheaper than the GPS version well worth it.

This is super solid accurate navigation app for iOS. When chartering its not uncommon to use the GPS version of this software.(moorings in BVI) I really like the auto routing upgrade. I have tried to trick it and it is spot on. Navionics is doing a great job.