Navionics® Boating

*Edit for Nav's response- You're shooting yourselves in the foot. The app is COMPLETELY useless now without a subscription. You're going to lose new customers that don't know what the app CAN do, you'll lose old customers like me that will not pay $50. I used to upgrade just for satellite view. At least give the Government contours in the free version. Been using Nav for close to 15 years but I don't need it in the boat. I have a graph. DNR website has lake depth maps to replace what yours does.

The app quit working after 7 months (paid for 1 year), couldnt get any help getting it working, then it auto-charged me again for another year. still doesnt work after talking to 2 different customer support - and being promised it would be resolved quickly. For what its worth, it worked good while it worked. I would not purchase this product again.

contempt for the customer it used to be, that when you subscribed to a set of charts, you could keep them past your subscription as long as you didnt delete them now, navionics is trying go squeeze more money from their loyal customers by making the charts disappear after your subscription ends. shame on you. your app sucks and there are soo many more features you could implement. ill be looking for an alternate now

Absolutely terrible! I downloaded the app. subscribed to US and Canada maps. Received a receipt for my purchase and my confirmed my card was charged. I never got access to any maps. it kept saying "subscribe now". I would hit the button and it would tell me i'm already subscribed. and a round and around I went. I uninstall the app and reinstalled it. Same situation as before. I Never got access to what I spent $53. I will be contesting the charge with my credit card company and contacting Garmin

EDIT: The latest update worked so far. If it continues to work without shutting down, I'll bump it to 5 stars. 9/5: Please fix. This is a great app when it works, but it has a major issue during route tracking where the app shuts down and you lose all of your track information. This happens even when all battery optimizations are turned off and background app is allowed. I can no longer rely on the app.

sorry naviotics you lose I just deleted the app after having it for many years not going to pay what you're asking. I'll just use my handheld or my portable depth finder with charting on it. for you people out there you can buy a handheld for the price of two years subscription and then it's yours. I used it for the convenience of not having a drag another thing along but it isn't that much work.

They constantly say that their app is a cutting edge navigation tool. But you can't manually enter a waypoint by coordinates, or (unlike Marks) sort the lists of Tracks and Routes by Name, only by such useful things as Distance and Date Created. Cutting Edge? Not so much. Any suggestions made to the app devs seem to go nowhere. There have not been any significant changes in the app in the 3 years I've been using it. Pay more $$$s but get nothing in return. Sadly the alternatives are no better...

I've had Navionics for the last year. It's a great app. However, this year the price doubled from $25 to $50 for an annual subscription. That's a ridiculous increase, and given that I go sailing about 3-4 times a year, simply not worth it. In checking out the alternatives, I found i-boating - better reviews, and the US map is a one-time payment that is less than half Garmin's yearly price.

Coming up on 1 full year and this bug has still not been fixed - but good news - I found its replacement! For several years now I have been overlooking Navionics irritating and potentially dangerous behavior in which every time you zoom in, out or over, the view changes from my preferred "course up" to "north up", requiring an irritating series of menu drill-downs and button selections. Now that the subscription price has increased 100%, how about fixing that bug? (And no, it is NOT a feature!)

From a few days ago the app always crashes when network changes. And at sea it surely changes a lot! But the stars are even lower because it always changes when you get to your destination and to the cell towers that comes with it. Exactly when you most need it!! Not acceptable in this kind of app. I traced down the issue to the internet AIS connection. Turned it off and the issue stopped. Still not many stars as the internet AIS app is trusted and indicated inside the navionics app.

Used the app in Montana last winter. Every place we checked depth with app, it said we were in around 50ft deeper water than we actually were. (Ex: app said 60ft, actual depth 6ft). Doubling price in one year doesn't help. Why should I pay twice the price for something off by that much in accuracy. Lowered quality and increased price doesn't work well for me.

Overall the app is great! However is could be better. For example, when you place a pin it will only go to your current location. You should be able to add a pin where ever you'd like, even enter a lot and long for it, and then be able to name it. I'd find this extremely useful as I'm constantly having to figure out where a set of coordinates is.

Garbage app stopped working after a couple hours. Says it's tracking but no map displayed. Glad I didn't pay for a subscription. Back to navigating by eye. At least my eyes are reliable. UPDATE: Why do I have keep selecting "course up" and why can't the app remember that I want my depths in feet and not meters. App has no clue where I am or where I'm going. Says I'm going in circles when traveling a straight line. Now that I have paid for a subscription, it's even worse and more frustrating.

So apparently, the needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few (paid customers). I paid more for this (old) app than I've ever paid for any other app. Now, that app is being discontinued in favor of a new app that requires an annual subscription. I live on the coast and have no need for marine maps of any lakes. The depths and rocks near me haven't changed in a few thousand years so updates or not, I'll continue to use the old USA Boating app that I purchased as a backup to my chartplotter.

Horrible. Downloaded 5 times. Uninstalled it 4. Always showing error that prevents creating an account. And, SURPRISE, you can't use it without an account. Be looking for something else. And yes, I've enabled cookies and 3rd party, tried it all. Would purchase it but can't dload the free so doesn't make much sense to pay for it just to see error.

Good job integrating Active Captain in to Navionics. This is what I hoped would happen when Garmin acquired both brands. The only improvement I could suggest would be to make the Active Captain icons show up at lower zoom levels. As it is you have to zoom in quite a bit for the icons to appear. The mobile app should mimic the behavior of the Garmin PC app as much as possible. If clutter is a concern, combine icons and put a number in the icon like the PC app does, or make the icons relatively smaller at lower zoom levels. Otherwise, great start.

I like Navionics a lot better than the marine gps unit on my boat. One thing I would like for Navionics to add is a way to put an on off icon that puts a shaded circle around your boat. I boat in an area that has a lot of Navy ships that we are suppose to keep 500 Yards away, some even more. So to be able to select the distant and units (feet, yards, miles) would help. It would be great if the navy vessels would have the circle round them but sometimes they don't display on AIS.

I have been using navionics for like 10 years on and off. This last time I downloaded it and used their 15 day trial for a trip from St Pete to marathon and everything was fine. So a month later I opened it back up on a trip out to sombrero reef. I had a buddy with me and I was giving my usual speal about how great the app is and how it's the best and for some reason it wouldn't show me depth soundings. Come to find out that, that's no longer free. What is the point if you can't even show depth?

Wow, I could justify $25 for the limited amount I use it, but not $50. I really like the software, but will not be renewing my subscription. Thank you for your response. I understand that the app has evolved, but those of us with kayaks and pond boats with nothing but trolling motors need an app too. A less expensive, stripped down version would be nice. It shouldn't be difficult to lock the premium features for those of us who want bare bones nautical charts at a reasonable subscription.

Tablet memory is already full because Navionics removed the ability to save offline maps to an external SD card?? Also, the app does not show the vessel's (or the cursor's) active lat/long position at all times. If something happens, you need to be able to call out your lat/long position, IMMEDIATELY. You can't be fumbling about pressing a question mark and then reading tiny print to find the vessel's current position!