All of the functions on this app are extensive and work fantastic. Ideal for scouting the best spot for fishing and knowing exact depth levels. Permitting you access to their HD bathymetry map, which provides a detailed rendering of the bottom of lakes and unshallow waters. Therefore, we love that you can edit and customize your own charts in a way that works for you-for example, sonar charts. Navionics offers multiple chart layers adapting your needs and personal preferences.
They have gathered this community through their elaborate functions and practicality with the user in mind. The app’s real power lies in their large community, which continuously updates and improves Navionics nautical charts and information. You can then export your route in a GPX format to share your accomplishments. Making it easier to share your live location with friends and family. In their new update, they have increased your connectivity on the water.
Update: also see my review of update to the software here.The Navionics app has been a beacon of trustworthiness for many sailors, one of the most popular navigation apps at sea to navigate your trip or sailing holiday. If nothing else you'll have a lot of fun as an armchair sailor remembering voyages of the past and planning future ones. So for European sailors wanting to navigate on your iPhone this is the one to get. However they don't have data covering Europe. For the time being if you are in the US the iNavX app looks a better choice and includes all the US charts. I'm hoping that like most iPhone applications it will be updated and all these good things come. You can't use it to work out tide triangles and course to steer: it is a static this is where you are and this is what is out there application. It doesn't have an instruments view like the iNavX application. You can't put in any waypoints or use it to work out course over ground. Its certainly a lot of chart data for your money and its all vector not raster data so zooming in and out and panning from side to side is quick and icons such as buoys are scaled right.īut there are some things missing that makes it a "chart viewer" rather than navigation piece of software. With all ports, all passages, all charts stored internally on the iPhone.Īnd this from an iPhone that is also doing email, web, browser, spreadsheets, games, photos, music, and of course the odd phone call. It links in with the iPhone's GPS so you could use it to navigate from my apartment in London, travel down the Thames, across to France, potter along the coast, into the ports of Jersey and Alderney, back across to Cornwall, across to the Fastnet Rock, up the Irish Sea, and then on up to Scotland. The screenshot above shows just the top level charts and you can see they cover not just a single folder such as the Solent, and not just the UK, but Ireland and the Channel from Brittany to Denmark. So what do you get for £ 37.99? Well for a start you get a LOT of charts. Wasn't 100% sure could justify buying those Navionics charts but in then end was just too intrigued as to what would get to resist.