Navionics Overview
What is Navionics? The Boating app is a comprehensive package that provides up-to-date, detailed charts that can be used offline, along with a range of features that are useful for cruising, fishing, sailing, diving, and other water activities. The app includes internationally renowned Navionics charts, SonarChart HD bathymetry maps, US government charts, overlays, and map options. It also offers tools for planning and enjoying your day, such as auto guidance+ technology, weather and tides, markers, tracks, and distance. The app has an active and helpful community, with community edits and the ActiveCaptain community, connections, GPX import/export, and share map objects. The app is external device-friendly and offers more features such as plotter sync, SonarChart live mapping feature, and AIS.
Features
- Internationally renowned Navionics charts
- SonarChart HD bathymetry maps
- US government charts (NOAA)
- Overlays: SonarChart shading and relief shading overlays, satellite images, and terrain information
- Map options: Change chart-overlay combinations to customize chart views, highlight shallow areas, target multiple fishing ranges, and more
- Daily updates: Benefit from up to 5,000 daily updates worldwide
- Tools for planning and enjoying your day: Auto guidance+ technology, weather and tides, markers, tracks, and distance
- Active and helpful community: Community edits and the ActiveCaptain community, connections, GPX import/export, and share map objects
- External device-friendly: Plotter sync, SonarChart live mapping feature, and AIS.
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Product Details and Description of
Get up-to-date, detailed charts you can use offline plus a boatload of features on your mobile device, so they’re on hand wherever you go. The Boating app is a must-have for cruising, fishing, sailing, diving and all your activities on the water. Try it free for a limited time. To continue using the charts and features, purchase a one-year renewable subscription. A COMPLETE PACKAGE • INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED this app® CHARTS: Use them offline along with multiple overlays, so you can be more aware of what’s above and below the water. - NAUTICAL CHART: Use this premier marine reference to study port plans, anchorages and safety depth contours, locate navaids, marine services and more. - SONARCHART™ HD BATHYMETRY MAPS: Extraordinary 1’ (0.5 meter) HD bottom contour detail is the ideal tool for locating new fishing areas. - U.S. GOVERNMENT CHARTS (NOAA): These are available within the following coverages: U.S. and Canada, Mexico, Caribbean to Brazil, Pacific Islands. - OVERLAYS: SonarChart™ Shading and relief shading overlays allow you to have a better understanding of bottom topography for improved fishing and diving. Sonar imagery reveals bottom hardness in contrasting color on select U.S. lakes. Want more? Satellite images or terrain information is also available. - MAP OPTIONS: Change chart-overlay combinations to customize chart views, highlight shallow areas, target multiple fishing ranges and more. - DAILY UPDATES: Benefit from up to 5,000 daily updates worldwide. • TOOLS FOR PLANNING AND ENJOYING YOUR DAY - AUTO GUIDANCE+TM TECHNOLOGY*: Easily plan your trip with a suggested dock-to-dock path based on chart data and navigation aids. Get ETA, distance to arrival, heading to waypoint, fuel consumption and more. - WEATHER AND TIDES: Knowing conditions before heading out is crucial. Access real-time weather data, daily and hourly forecasts as well as wind, weather buoys, tides and currents. - MARKERS, TRACKS, DISTANCE**: Place a marker on a good anchorage spot or where you reeled in a big fish. Record your track, take photos and videos within the app, and look back at your day anytime. Easily check distance among two points. • AN ACTIVE AND HELPFUL COMMUNITY - COMMUNITY EDITS and the ACTIVECAPTAIN® COMMUNITY: Obtain and contribute useful local knowledge along with thousands of fellow boaters, such as points of interest, navigation aids and valuable recommendations from people with firsthand experience of the local environment. - CONNECTIONS: Stay in touch with your friends and fellow boaters by sharing your live location, tracks, routes and markers to easily meet on the water or let them check out your adventures. - GPX IMPORT/EXPORT: Share your saved data outside the app or transfer it to your chartplotter. - SHARE MAP OBJECTS**: Share a marina, repair shop or any other location outside the app. • EXTERNAL DEVICE-FRIENDLY FOR MORE FEATURES - PLOTTER SYNC: If you own a compatible chartplotter, sync it with the app to transfer routes and markers, activate, update or renew your this app chartplotter card subscription. - SONARCHART LIVE MAPPING FEATURE**: Connect with a compatible sonar/plotter, and create your own maps in real time while navigating. - AIS: Connect to a compatible AIS receiver with Wi-Fi® connectivity to see nearby marine traffic. Set a safe range, and receive visual and aural alerts to signal potential collisions. NOTES: *Auto Guidance+ is for planning purposes only and does not replace safe navigation operations **Free features Updates are available with iOS 12.0 or higher. A tablet device with Wi-Fi connectivity locates your approximate position if it is connected to Wi-Fi. A tablet Wi-Fi + 3G model operates similarly to a phone device with GPS. Wi-Fi is a registered trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. iOS is a trademark licensed to Apple, Inc.
Top Reviews
By Johnsterman
Wanted: split screen and low speed heading
First of all, I really like this app. I have my iPad mini in a mount on my little Boston Whaler. I wish that this had split screen capability. I run Mercury Vessel view. This lets me get all sorts of engine parameters via a bluetooth module on my engine. I can use slide over, but I wish this app had split screen capability. I showed myself going down a canal sideways at 4kts. It would be great to use the gps track as opposed to the compass heading at a much lower speed. I’ll throw the request out there, but I have the feeling that this is not something the developers have control of.
By Cpt. Chaz C.
Love this app
Reading some of the other reviews, looks like the poor ratings correlate to user error. This app is awesome. At $9.99 a year, it does everything an over priced lowrance or humminbird would do, except with this I get over the air updates and don’t have to mess with fumbling around with memory cards. I’ve always found it extremely easy to use, I love being able to download maps offline, and it’s eerily accurate. That said, with a 5 star rating, I have some quick constructive input to offer the devs: 1. Make it easier / quicker to drop a pin on the map. A quick button on the main map screen would be great 2. Would like to see the new “fishing ranges” feature go all the way down to 0’ instead of 4’ for the minimum 3. Wish there was a way to text a route to others who use the app, instead of e-mailing. Minor stuff, but would put it over the top! Great job to this app and everyone involved on this app.
By JennR3
Very useful. Could be great with a few small changes.
Use the app daily working full time on a sailboat. Very useful for route planning in conjunction with boat’s MFD. Great customer service, will work with you to fix any bugs (or which there aren’t many). Wish they had the option to offset the boat on the screen as you can in a hard wired GPS so the boat icon isn’t in the middle of the screen, but instead gives you more view of where you’re going (maybe 1/4-1/3 of screen where you’ve been, 2/3-3/4 where you’re going). Makes user experience much better, less moving the screen around as you’re sailing and instead just leaving the boat centered. Been using our iPad a lot recently as our boat’s MFD is malfunctioning, and this change would be awesome.
