🏷️ About: Boat Beacon is an internet AIS receiver and transmitter for your iPhone and iPad. It is the only AIS ship tracking app to provide Collision Warnings, share your boat’s position & use real-time AIS data.
My Boat Beacon app will not open. It crashes EVERY TIME I try to open it. Please help, or provide an update patch for it. Thank you!
Paid for app to use AIS Share functionality with Navionics. After installing, was disappointed to discover AIS Share required a monthly/annual subscription. This was not clear in app info pre purchase. Also, not clear why a subscription would be needed to share data already available in app with Navionics. This was a big (only) selling point. Very disappointing.
Left a 2 star review a week ago... text editing your boat details are still broken. I have the latest iphone max and the edit page only accepts 1 letter for things like the boat name. Please fix BoatBeacon.
When I first purchased BoatBeacon, it included charts. The charts were later removed and the company wants to sell the NOAA charts to me again for me to have access. I emailed them to ask if it was a mistake and they didn’t respond. I don’t trust these guys and there are plenty of other good apps available.
Got BoatBeacon . Set up my boat info while sitting in an anchorage with two boats with AIS on. We do have AIS on our boat but we don’t see the names of boats with newer AIS boxes. Neither boat have BoatBeacon but they do have AIS. And neither boat showed up. Have yet to see ANY boats show up on BoatBeacon . And, yes, I have good wifi. Also, I upgraded (obviously too soon) to “live view” on my iPad but BoatBeacon on my iPhone is asking me to pay for it again. I’ve contacted the company. I’ll update the review when/if I hear from them.
…it takes several tries before it comes back on. There is a bug with BoatBeacon .
Can’t get it to work on second IPad nor won’t let me pay for a second app and yearly service. I’m using IPads to navigate the Great Loop. Any ideas?
I contacted the supplier with a problem. Response was within a day. Problem was fixed!!!!
Sailing in SF Bay or anywhere you’re going to want BoatBeacon
I am always looking for freighters throwing huge wakes but now that I have boat beacon I have great visibility and information of them. Very happy for BoatBeacon!
We use Boat Beacon all the time to track boat traffic on the Chesapeake Bay, even for our our boat sometimes! The visuals are easy to read and the site easy to navigate. It’s wonderful being able to easily see where other boats are on the water. Also, customer service was terrific....quick response and appropriate and easy fix the one time I ever had an issue. Highly recommended!
Navigation, plotting, MarineTraffic data, anchor alarms, man overboard alert, this unit does it all, love it on my iPhone and iPad, and very reasonably priced! I’m a believer!
I was not receiving any Ship information in the Eastport Me area, I connected Boat Beacon and they resolved the problem, I am retired Coast Guard and enjoy tracking Ships,
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Especially like the anchor alarm.
I like that it now feeds AIS info into my
Navionics Boating App
LOVE BoatBeacon. I use it while sailing so friends and family can track my activity. We also used it on a circumnavigation to track our fleet. So easy to use and very stable and reliable. Can’t recommend it enough.
Been using BoatBeacon for a while and it’s great for route planning and a back up chart plotter. Had an issue with the AIS transponder and the guys worked with me until the problem was resolved. Great value for the money and the addition of windy weather integration is pretty nice as well.
Boat Beacon can now overlay AIS data on top of Navionics Navigation app. That’s a game changer.
We are enjoying BoatBeacon as we cruise the Lessor Antilles. Recommend it to other Cruisers.
Great app ,it keep me aware , next I’ll upgrade
I am a commercial fisherman in California an have 40’ state of the art fiberglass troller/crabber. I have 10s of thousands of dollars of navigation equipment onboard - I pretty much use none of it - Boat Beacon pretty much makes all that stuff obsolete for an obscenely low price. I can see where the competition is fishing complete with their track lines any where any time. Customer service is outstanding - email them and they get right back to you. Boat Beacon simply is the best!
Yes. Boat Beacon is very safe to use. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 748 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.6/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for Boat Beacon Is 66.6/100.
Yes. Boat Beacon is a totally legit app. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 748 Boat Beacon User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for Boat Beacon Is 66.6/100..
Boat Beacon collected the following data from you:
**Pricing data is based on average subscription prices reported by Justuseapp.com users..
| Pricing Plans | Amount (USD) |
|---|---|
| AIS Share | $16.49 |
| Live View Upgrade | $7.99 |
| NOAA US Marine Charts | $9.99 |
| AIS Share | $5.99 |
| UK & IE Marine Charts | $12.99 |
| Anchor Watch and Man Overboard | $4.99 |
Shares your position with Internet AIS Systems & apps & other Boat Beacon users in real time.
Boat Beacon is designed for boaters & provides continuous Bearing, Range & Closest Point of Approach (CPA) calculations and alarms in addition to standard AIS information even when in the background.
Arm all the crews in a race with Boat Beacon and have real time updates on the race positions on the water and back in the club house.
Let Friends and Family see where you are and where you're headed to with our free Boat Watch app or on web-based AIS systems like MarineTraffic which have free web viewers available.
Boat Beacon should only be used for basic navigation reference and should not be solely relied upon to determine precise locations, proximity, distance, or direction.
