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.