Navionics?

[seafox owner]

Has anyone heard if an app called Navionics? It has some great reviews, but is it wort th money. It's around $20.


"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day"-Ghandi

[WestEndAngler]

Heard of it also heard of the company called Navionics. I use there charting software for my Raymarine....

[Primer]

I had it on my android and it wasn't worth it. Half of the time it would tell me I was in friendswood. I would have to delete and reinstall multiple times and reset my phone to get it to work. If you have an iPhone, try fly to maps. I think it's less than 3$ and works really well. Of course it doesn't have wind and tide like navionics does (as far as I know, I haven't tinkered with it that much). But it works very well at telling me where I am and tracking my paths. I don't have any complaints about it so far.

[seafox owner]

I bought the coastal water and lakes for my iPhone. Works better than my Garmin 541s


"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day"-Ghandi

[WestEndAngler]

I bought the coastal water and lakes for my iPhone. Works better than my Garmin 541s


"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day"-Ghandi

How far does it cover? Do you need to have internet (3G) connectivity etc?

[seafox owner]

You need data service to download a map. When you download a map it downloads from the Internet: markers, depths etc.. Once u download a map in the app it stays that way. The app will always give your GPS location even without service.

[kenny]

It's a good app. I think it's odd that the phone app is $10-$20. and almost identical Navionics map system for my Lowrance was $190. WTF??

[Jerkyourcroaker]

I have it in my iPad and it's a decent app. It would only be a great app if I took my iPad in the boat with me and could record my tracks or if I figured out how to overlay my tracks on it fom google earth or the like (may not be possible).

A couple of screen shots to show general level of detail.






You can also overlay google earth to show shoreline landmarks. I don't know if you can overlay tracks or information from your own google earth file.




You can get tide charts from the closest tide monitor. I don't know if these are location adjusted to the specific spot or if they are the tide time at the tide monitor.




I don't know if it was worth the money but it beats playing angry birds when I have an itching to go coastal and can't leave my desk.



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