Reviews for Simrad: Companion for Boaters

Unable to log into the app. After first sett up. Won’t let me sign in tells me my password is wrong (it is not). Attempts to reset password fail, fail to connect to simrad network notification. Not happy I can’t use the app after switching my whole boat to Simrad. On top of all this […]

In Alaska we have 9″ 3in1 it is blast for fishing in Kenai River Great sideview for salmon Also for rockfish hiding in kelp beds around Homer Seward, it has amazing downview terrain for halibut hiding deep holes.

Fairly user-friendly but does have some bugs. Overall, it’s definitely useful

Don’t waste your time. It connects one to register the device and forevermore won’t connect again. Top job SIMRAD. Why even bother offering the features if they can’t be used? I have two units in seperate boats and like to sync my tracks and marks etc between the two. Can do it automatically, have to […]

This app has never worked properly for the last 3 years.. and now its dangerous with the latest 2025 update it deletes the old wavepoints from the head unit dusing synchonising.. almost lost 20 years of data if I did nt had done a backup.. Simrad need to get their act together and stop releasing […]

Very confusing. I subscribed to the app in order to get better maps for my new go9xsr. So far I can see no way of getting these maps into the device. When I connect to the device hotspot I lose Internet connectivity on my phone so I tried making my phone a hktspot and making […]

Very frustrating and not user friendly as it should be. Downloaded app to set up brand new unit on new boat. App was down for over a week for ‘updates’. Finally able to log into app and it won’t connect – have to connect manually, then it constantly crashes. Was able to mirror for 1.5 […]

Trash app won’t upload zero .gpx files. Constantly crashes extremely long load times. Don’t waste money on subscription.

Good app, useful functions. great connectivity with Simrad plotter on the boat. BUT unreliable autorouting, it often routes over land or outside of waterways i.e. from Izola to Grado City Harbour or to Lignano Sabiadore just as examples.

Last summer I used it and it all worked well. Just starting to do my planning for this summer and I try to do a new route, can put in start and end point, press create route and the app freezes. it isnt a complicated route either, pretty much straight line 20nm. Very disappointed. I […]

The Android version of the app constantly crashes. I have tried it now on 3 different devices and they all have the same problems. Click anywhere on the map to bring up a way point, then click the x to close that way point and the entire app crashes. I’m paying for premium and it […]

2 stars for the features, a lot here to use. -3 stars for the lack of optimization and stability. Navico, pay your software engineers better and get this app working more efficiently. I’d be ashamed if my app were this buggy and slow to respond. I’m on a flagship Samsung phone, so this app should […]

This app is garbage. All of my GPX Files that I saved from my old boats Garmin unit will not open in this app. The app says it imported them, but they are freaking not listed under waypoints. It used to work, WTH did you do this app CMap? Edit: for other users. I had […]

I pay for this and its horrible. I have a simrad and my phone. Making waypoints it duplicates them soany times. As soon as your able to delete a duplicate it pops up 3 more times and becomes unable to delete. When not at my boat i try planning routes with location off. The app […]

I can’t preview the app without creating an account or logging into Facebook. I boat on an inland lake where the biggest navigation issue is finding which cove to turn into for a particular lakefront business. I’d like to see if this app can handle navigation like that. Other apps require me to plot a […]

Downloaded the app to check it out. It was slow and lacked the detail and resolution I get with the Navionics app. I thought maybe I needed a paid version so I signed up for the free trial. After a few minutes of playing with it I had no doubt I didn’t want it. I […]

The check out nearby never updates with photos or information. Will not remote control my Simrad Go7 XSE. The banner is always at the bottom taking up limited screen real estate while navigating. The show satellite on land only doesn’t work. Should be able to turn off nearby items if it’s not important, use the […]

*#$%!!XX**@### I wasn’t able to get the subscription payment set up in Google play store. Tried to use the app during the free trial period, but the chart is not for me. Having zero experience reading nautical charts (I am extremely familiar with aeronautical navigational charts) it just never clicked. Disappointed with myself and with […]

I have a GO7 XSR and the Simrad app on my phones. I enabled the hotspot on the Go7 and can successfully connect to the chart plotter. However, syncing routes and waypoints always fails – frustrating! I can see a message on the chart plotter that says: syncing the device, but then a message comes […]

The SIMRAD Companion app keeps minimizing every few seconds and is not usable. It seems to crash and restart after that. Please fix it. This is happening on a new Android Phone. SIMRAD Tech support was no help at all. The Provide Feedback function in the app, resulted in “an error occurred” when attempting to […]