Get up-to-date, detailed charts you can use offline plus a boatload of features on your mobile device, so they’re on hand wherever you go. The Boating app is a must-have for cruising, fishing, sailing, diving and all your activities on the water. Try it free for a limited time. To continue using charts and advanced features, you can purchase a yearly auto-renewable subscription*.
A COMPLETE PACKAGE • INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED NAVIONICS® CHARTS: Use them offline along with multiple overlays, so you can be more aware of what’s above and below the water. - NAUTICAL CHART: Use this premier marine reference to study port plans, anchorages and safety depth contours, locate navaids, marine services and more. - SONARCHART™ HD BATHYMETRY MAPS: Extraordinary 1’ (0.5 meter) HD bottom contour detail is the ideal tool for locating new fishing areas. - U.S. GOVERNMENT CHARTS (NOAA): These are available within the following coverages: U.S. and Canada, Mexico, Caribbean to Brazil. - OVERLAYS: The relief shading overlay allows you to have a better understanding of bottom topography for improved fishing and diving. Sonar imagery reveals bottom hardness clearly and in vivid color on select lakes. Want more? Display satellite imagery on land and water. - MAP OPTIONS: Change chart-overlay combinations to customize chart views, activate night mode, highlight shallow areas, target multiple fishing ranges and more. - DAILY UPDATES: Benefit of thousands of daily updates worldwide.
• TOOLS FOR PLANNING AND ENJOYING YOUR DAY - AUTO GUIDANCE+TM TECHNOLOGY**: Easily plan your trip with a suggested dock-to-dock path based on chart data and navigation aids. Get ETA, distance to arrival, heading to waypoint, fuel consumption and more. - WEATHER AND TIDES: Knowing conditions before heading out is crucial. Access real-time weather data, daily and hourly forecasts as well as wind, weather buoys, tides and currents. - MARKERS, TRACKS, DISTANCE: Place a marker on a good anchorage spot or where you reeled in a big fish. Record your track, take photos and videos within the app, and look back at your day anytime. Easily check distance among two points.
• AN ACTIVE AND HELPFUL COMMUNITY - COMMUNITY EDITS and the ACTIVECAPTAIN® COMMUNITY: Obtain and contribute useful local knowledge along with thousands of fellow boaters, such as points of interest, navigation aids and valuable recommendations from people with firsthand experience of the local environment. - CONNECTIONS: Stay in touch with your friends and fellow boaters by sharing your live location, tracks, routes and markers to easily meet on the water or let them check out your adventures. - GPX IMPORT/EXPORT: Share your saved data outside the app or transfer it to your chartplotter. - SHARE MAP OBJECTS: Share a marina, repair shop or any other location outside the app.
• EXTERNAL DEVICE-FRIENDLY FOR MORE FEATURES - PLOTTER SYNC: If you own a compatible chartplotter, sync it with the app to transfer routes and markers, activate, update or renew your Navionics chartplotter card subscription. - SONARCHART LIVE MAPPING FEATURE***: Connect with a compatible sonar/plotter, and create your own maps in real time while navigating. - AIS: Connect to a compatible AIS receiver with Wi-Fi® connectivity to see nearby marine traffic. Set a safe range, and receive visual and aural alerts to signal potential collisions.
NOTES: *You can manage your subscription anytime, and you can turn auto-renewal off. **Auto Guidance+ is for planning purposes only and does not replace safe navigation operations ***Free features A tablet device with Wi-Fi connectivity locates your approximate position if it is connected to Wi-Fi. A tablet Wi-Fi + 3G model operates similarly to a phone device with GPS. Wi-Fi is a registered trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance.
Detailed nautical charts and a boatload of useful features.
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I've given the app a few stars now. Use it a lot but it's missing an anchor alarm which would be real useful. It would also be great if AIS info was available to Internet users so you can see what's going on like Marine Traffic app. At present it's only available if you connect to your boat AIS system. Not everybody has AIS but when coastal sailing, in range of mobile Internet, it would be great to receive that data. Can those 2 features be added? 5 stars if you can...
15 people found this review helpful
Garmin
29 October 2021
Mark- We appreciate your input about the anchor alarm and the AIS feature, as we continuously strive to improve our products. Your suggestions have already been forwarded to our Product Management Team for consideration for future App enhancements. Info regarding updates & new product releases can be found on our website or Facebook/Twitter. Thanks
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21 December 2019
This is a great app. Some suggestions for improvement though: - there is an absence of a GPS alarm for when anchoring. It would be really good to have this, instead of a separate app - when setting up a route, having a "my location" option in the drop-down menu - the speed and time display only seems to show when you're tracking. If you turn on the automatic routes, I lose the speed, time, time of arrival etc. Further feedback: There needs to be an option to change the map button sizes.
36 people found this review helpful
Garmin
25 February 2019
Thank you for your feedback. Your suggestion for an anchor alarm will be forwarded to our developers for consideration in a future update. When route planning, there is a Navigation Module that expands from the side of the screen which will show real time navigation stats as part of an active subscription. Learn more here: https://sforce.co/2NpUnJV
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25 July 2019
I have purchased this very useful app for over four years. I have just renewed again and would be very interested to read the rationale for the 67% price hike in one year since Garmin have taken over. A number of my boating friends have purchased this app on my recommendation. I will find it difficult to make further recommendations without a very good explanation for this excessive price increase, and will not be renewing automatically anymore.
32 people found this review helpful
Garmin
26 July 2019
Hello Richard. Based on customer feedback, we've consolidated our apps into a single title to better serve our customers' needs. The new design eliminates the requisite for purchasing different app versions (standard for phones, versus HD for tablets), which resulted in the necessity for price adjustments.