Reviews for Navionics® Boating

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.

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.

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.

Pay attention to the routes! It will route you outside of a marked channel, or refuse to create a route in a marked channel. You need to have basic boating experience and common sense when using this app. Also they have doubled the subscription price in the last couple years, while recently removing the ability to create routes on the web chart viewer even for subscribers. So now you pay more, for less features. I teach boating and am looking for a new app, and no longer reccomend this one.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Heard about your app. Looked it up. Says it contains ads but, OK, you are allowed to do that. Downloaded app and registered. at the end, it turns into a subscription. Another subscription. Another app that drains your bank account. AND you have ads. Nope. Please put on your info screen that there is a charge for this app. It appears as free with ads. Full-on bait and switch. And from Garmin, one product name I've trusted for decades. Shame on you.

very unhappy with the new two device limit. this means a husband and wife can't have navionics on their phones AND a tablet. that is a very normal setup and triple redundancy is a standard for any process control. most use navionics on the tablet but when there's a problem the phone use can be a real life saver. at a minimum Garmin should be allowing 3 devices.

I've had this app for years. I've always paid for the upgraded version. It was an all in one app. I could mark spots on the lakes and rivers, I could also mark spots on land or In creeks for hunting or arrowhead hunting. They took away the satellite imagery on land so now all my waypoints on land is just a brown screen. That's what $50 a year gets ya? It will be my last year. time to find a different gps app

*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.

Poor quality of product. I used this app when it was a standalone product and now that Garmin has purchased it the app is not user-friendly and has a large pink line preventing you from seeing the Chanel lines. When I called customer support to request a refund was refused help and told that I would need to go through the Play Store. All this was after 3 grounding

It is terrible since they merged with Garmin. I have had the updated version for 6 months and continuously get the circular error that tells me I need to subscribe, then I hit subscribe and it tells me I've already subscribed and sends me back to the screen that tells me I need to subscribe. On top of that their customer service is only available on weekdays when I'm busy working. It would be nice if they would get their cr@p together. I am very patient to give negative reviews but longenoug

this is a great app and could be 5 stars, but can you please provide an option to move the cursor to the bottom of the screen like it is in driving map applications? I use this for boating on rivers and need to zoom in to see the water level. when the curor is in the middle of the page it makes it really dificult to anticipate what is coming up. for this purpose I could care less to see what's behind me and need more real-estate on the screen....especially when using a phone. please update!! 🙏

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...

Used to have old maps for life. They have now changed the TOS after the fact and now you no longer have access to maps previously purchased after the subscription ends. STAY AWAY! Completely unacceptable behavior. I'll be sure to steer clear of all Garmin products (smart watches, etc.) in the future as a contract is no longer a contract.