Reviews for Argo - #1 Boat Navigation App

free version limited, but good for SOG, Position, distance. pretty good on depth profile too.

Tried the FREE version of this app and I must say I was impressed. It did warn me that depths were not available which wasn’t much of an issue where I was in northern Quebec. The navigation part REALLY helped us find our way back to home base! This is a newer app and they […]

Download at home, set it all up was working good, got on the water and app just keeps shutting down. Takes a few minutes to open then immediately shuts down.

Easy for first time users. We used it to explore the greater Destin Florida area. Kept us out of trouble all day.

I previously used Navionics for years but after Garmin purchased it the price skyrocketed. I have now been using Argo Navigation for about two months and I am extremely impressed. The Argo app is superior to Navionics in my opinion and the price is much more reasonable. A great little company that knows its business. […]

Works fine while on shore and with Internet. Once go to the open water and no connection, no tide info, useless.

we just got our first sailboat and used this to get from Toronto to Burlington, it was great! We had some serious fog so we really relied on this for keeping distance from shore. It kept up with us perfectly, gave a heads up for any shallow areas and any potential obstructions, and was amazing! […]

this is a great tool for when I’m at home or work and want to check out a body of water I plan on visiting. It doesn’t have total coverage of lakes but gives you an idea of what to expect. I’m sure that with time it will keep improving

I downloaded app, subscribed to “premium” and it worked great inside my house (mobile data). Spent a whole afternoon planning a river voyage. Looked like the perfect solution. As soon as I hit the water, the app went offline, rendering it completely useless. There’s supposedly some feature where maps can be downloaded offline, but app […]

Works as expected. Enjoying the intuitive interface and easy to find features. Seems more features are being added and seeing updates pretty regularly.

This app would be the perfect navigation app for casual boating if you could use it offline. If the maps could be preloaded or downloaded ahead of time I would pay for it. While most of my boating is within cell phone range, there are dead spots and losing signal at the wrong times makes […]

Nothing like following their roots. It may say is the safest last shortest way there. Just to find out their maps are so far off and out of date that you’re going to end up really screwed! Tried to tell me I was in 7 ft water just to find out I was in 8 […]

This app is terribly slow on wifi and basically useless with cell service. I have an android and used this on my sailboat. It is unable to refresh fast enough for depth changes and hazards. I gave it a few months to see if it would improve but it hasn’t. The lag isn’t just with […]

Argo was not “friendly” at first with regard to my Android device. The folks at Argo have worked tirelessly to fix my issues and, while it is still early, I believe they have. I have a Garmin Echomap and this app is incredibly easier to use than the Garmin. I cannot say enough about the […]

So far, not reliable. I have installed it twice on my android phone before I was able to get to the setup. I had problems from the start with it taking minutes to load. I then installed it on my android tablet and it sits there for longer on the blue Argo screen. I even […]

Another nice looking nav app. However – did some basic routing and it had me going on the wrong side of a lighthouse and had me going through a breakwater. Think it has potential, but need a little polishing to fix these issues. Also, while trying to define my home port in my profile, although […]

This app could be fantastic but at least on Android I’ve had a very bad experience with it. Performance got really bad while on the water, and the point that shows my location and direction was almost never accurate, showing me crab walking as though the compass stopped working. Using the track feature at about […]

Lifesaver! GPS function saved us! First time out on the boat, no cell service, no data, no roaming. I had read it won’t work without data. Not all true. We were over 10 miles from where we launched, I made a wrong turn then lost! My only hope was this app! It showed our location […]

Finally a decent usable free app for boat navigation! There are so many others out there that claim to be free but their functionality is extremely limited or not even usable. Years ago I paid for one that that was supposed to be free for lifetime and it wasn’t true. Now it costs over $100 […]

worse than useless. it gives you the impression that it might work, but doesn’t. clicking on objects sometimes never responds, sometimes comes up a long time later. frequently completely locks up, needs to be restarted. i paid the upgrade, thinking the issue was the data needed to be preloaded, by downloading maps. (paid only) if […]