Great overall app. Makes pre-fishing and trip planning incredibly easy. It's nice to have a plan and not go to the lake/river blind, or having to sit in my garage in my boat and plan on the graphs. I'm not impressed with the syncing with my head units. Updates and data transfer can be slow and buggy.
awful, I was hoping to move the map from my gps to my phone so I could look at it when ever and I guess you can not, it just wants you to spend 250 a year for a subscription, so you can add the data to the subscription?
Really disappointing. Flaky connection to plotter + extremely unreliable sync. No auto guidance with regular charts (send us more money and you can have upgraded charts that will allow auto guidance in the app). Turns out buying a plotter and charts with a 1-year-old boat doesn't mean you can register the charts to your account and use all features. Again, send us more money and you can buy new charts (that you already bought once). It's a racket to get people to pay for the same product twice.
Hopeless, all I want to do is download waypoints from my GPS. Appears to connect, then states not connected, completely flakey and non-functional. (I wouldn't be quite so pissed off if the microSD card slots worked, but they don't).
it's rubbish. takes hours to actually do anything. connection unstable. often can't even download the software updates. you need to do better garmin.... Lowrance are way ahead.
This apps integration into garmin Chart plotters is unbelievably unnecessarily Complicated, it is hardly user friendly and not even remotely intuitive. bluetooth won't connect. I have decided to delete it and update my unit via sd card moving forward. what a collasal waste of time
Since buying Navionics - which was a life purchase, Garmin have milked the navigation software they now have - despite using users to contribute to the updating of Navionics charts for free. I have already moved most of our boats to Onwa Products, which have active AISB and all FREE worldwide charts. Very Sad dealing with Garmin these days and it will affect all future purchase decisions.
I have used the app for many years. It was working fine but after I upgraded my phone to Google Pixel 8 Pro and the latest version of the app, downloading maps became a nightmare. The area I wanted to download requires selecting multiple times. However, latter downloads would make the previous areas disappear. If I delete the visible map, then the missing map would show up. Regardless which order I use to download, I couldn't finish the whole thing. Very frustrated.
The whole garmin experience is new to me.. my whole garmin setup is working great. I am really happy with it . It took a while to figure it out, but the trouble shooting guidance for garmin got me all set up & I was able to have a great fishing experience. My captain has been the key factor for me. I'm still learning it , but so far, its has been very useful .
I am having some of the same frustrating problems that others have mentioned. The app won't sync with my striker plus 7sv and it will not pair for smart notifications. I find it really frustrating that this app works on an old apple device of mine but not my new android device. After spending an hour and a half on the phone with support, an email to check the status of the problem, and another email to see if Garmin has been able to replicate the problem (which I have still not heard back) I am still not able to pair or sync with my new android device. GARMIN if you fix this issue I would be more than willing to edit my review. Until then I will just be an unhappy customer. Edit: 3/27/19 With yesterdays update smart notifications have been fixed but I am still unable to import/export waypoints to/from my unit.
