Navionics® Boating

Contains adsIn-app purchases
3.1
41.7K reviews
5M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

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 from up to 5,000 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
The app is specifically designed to load and operate on devices with an OS of 7.0 or higher. 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.
Updated on
Apr 18, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

2.9
37.6K reviews
Frank Coll
May 6, 2024
Just Ok As far as I can tell you can not sync with desktop website. I would like to use my large screen desktop computer to look for fishing areas on the map, pin them, then have it available on my mobile devices. Bigger problem is the constant popup ad to buy more maps. When out of my general area the popup ad covers 2/3 of my map screen and will not stay closed. That is completely unacceptable as a paying customer and if it continues will be the reason I do not renew my subscription.
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Garmin Italy Technologies srl
May 7, 2024
Frank: The Chart Viewer allows you to access your synced/saved routes. Automatic routes created in the app using Auto Guidance+™ will not display in the Chart Viewer. Automatic routes created in the Chart Viewer using Dock-to-dock Route Guidance will sync to your app and be converted to the Auto Guidance+ program. https://tinyurl.com/yptpps3t
Jimmie Richards
April 29, 2024
This company - navionics has destroyed the once lauded boating app. They have stripped away everything in order to get you to have to subscribe. Basic maps are no longer available unless you have a paid subscription. I have been using the app since 2012. Absolute trash now. Every update removed key features and now it's absolutely unusable without a paid subscription. Don't subscribe and definitely don't update.
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Garmin Italy Technologies srl
April 29, 2024
Jimmie: The single-purchase app, you purchased in 2012 were discontinued in 2018 and removed from the market in 2020.The Boating app has been subscription -based since 2014 with access to daily map updates and advanced features. Access to expired subscriptions is no longer supported by the new app. https://tinyurl.com/mj6vn3cs
Patrick Miller
May 7, 2024
I used this app happily for 10 years. Unfortunately I was forced to find a replacement. New 2 device limit and price increase make this expensive, unusable, and unsafe. Very disappointed in the new changes. Aqua Map supports 5 devices for sharing information and redundancy across enough phones that if you have equipment loss/failure you can have backups and not end up on a reef. --- I appreciate the response from Garmin, but devices fail, crash, batteries die etc... no way to log out.
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Garmin Italy Technologies srl
May 7, 2024
Patrick: We are sorry to read of your disappointment. The Boating app allows you to use your subscription on up to 5 devices. However, you can only be logged into 2 devices simultaneously. If you need to use the app on a 3rd device, you will need to log out of the app from one of your registered devices. https://tinyurl.com/36dhbtvx

What's new

Night mode is here. With this update, you’ll be able to switch to a low light-optimized color palette that’s easier to see while on your boating and fishing adventures at night. Also, the menu appearance can turn dark based on your phone settings.
See you on the dark side.

The dark version of the menu may not be available for users with Android™ 9 or lower.