Boating US&Canada App Reviews

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Easential

I could not navigate the california delta without it. Essential for boating and most useful for fishing.

Da Best!

I have used this app for more than a year exclusively. It has helped me successfully navigate the Pacific Ocean from SanFrancisco to Hawaii and almost every hawaiian island. It is the best alternative to chart plotters with real time GPS. For $14.99! I couldnt ask for a better navigation aid. I have the app on my iPhone and iPad for one flat rate. Without this app, I may have run aground or got lost many times. Well worth the cost.

No option to navigate with magnetic compass bearings

...must convert your boats magnetic compass bearing to true bearing and back and forth between app and physical compass on boat, which can get confusing, especially in difficult seas with your hands full. Have mentioned this oversight to company many times to no avail. They dont get it as well as other issues with app theyve been unresponsive about multiple times. Wonder if they are mariners. Would not recommend. Would not have purchased if had known basic flaws of app...

Navionic

No coverage for all lakes like it leads you to think. Call them to check before you buy, expensive mistake For me!

Cant trust it

Way too many errors to be able to trust it. For instance in Puget Sound off West Point it shows depths of over 2400 feet in the middle of an area surrounded by 700 foot depths. NO other chart thinks there are depths that extreme there (there arent). A little farther north it shows a depth of 5 feet in another area that is 600-700 deep. Trust and credibility are out the window.

Liked it

Much superior to the Navimatics app, which I returned due to NO tide information in Canada. Used this up in Desolation Sound and it really helped us.

Ok at best

Over priced for as little lake info you get in Canada. Lake contours are crappy for Lake of the Woods. Noticed that other lakes in Canada have the same problem. Overall I would only recommend this app, for Canada, if a chip is out of your price range. Keep your fingers crossed that the lake you plan on fishing in Canada is even has lake contours.

FAILING TO DOWNLOAD VARIOUS CHARTS

The current version is failing to download charts for and adjacent to Canada--at least for me. Also made an in-app purchase for charts associated with the Caribbean and South America, and those areas failed to download for me as well.

Amazing GPS software

I purchased this app for my ipad and iphone, it is one of the best apps Ive ever seen. It is capable of downloading your map area to use offline with GPS while boating. Updates very often. This is a lot better than any GPS Ive ever owned.

Best Ive found

Love this app. Full offline downloaded maps. Ive used this app a bunch of times and it works every time. Love making routes waypoints on the Chesapeake where there is close to zero cell service most of the time.

these guys remove features to make you subscribe

The app itself is fundimentally solid. The bean counters at Navionics have decided that having tides built into your chart plotter is a premium feature, and now want you to pay $8 a year for a feature that has been part of the app for years. Nice Upgrade guys! I wonder what they will remove from the core app next. Not Impressed.

Wasted $15

The lake I plan on fishing in Canada is not included.

Take out the ads

Great little App. It was far from cheap. Please remove the third party advertising from the latest release.

Works well - looking forward to more data

This app seems pretty nice. The last version had issues that made my position jump every few seconds. Its more stable now. My only gripe is that I would like to see more data in less traveled areas. Hopefully this fills in as people use it and upload their sonar data. Of course, once I get my fishfinder/gps, this will be redundant. Not a big expense for the security of a backup charting solution.

Pop up ads

Im throughly disappointed that I now have to deal with pop up ads every time I use this app that I paid for. Put it back the way it was without ads.

App crashes

I have an iPhone 6 Plus and I am having an issue with the app crashing after a few mins of use. It crashes when I try and scroll up or down the map looking at areas of concern for navigation. After about a min of doing that the app just crashes and closes and takes me back to my iPhone home screen. This didnt happen on the previous version only the new updated version.

How much did you pay?

This is actually a very good app....but the App Store said the price was $14.99....I thought. I was billed $34.95. Thats messed up.

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