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.
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27 Nov 2024
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Used to have old maps for life. They have now changed the TOS after the fact and now you no longer have access to maps previously purchased after the subscription ends. STAY AWAY! Completely unacceptable behavior. I'll be sure to steer clear of all Garmin products (smart watches, etc.) in the future as a contract is no longer a contract.
30 people found this review helpful
Garmin
8 October 2024
The Boating app has offered yearly subscriptions to charts, updates, and advanced features since 2014. Old chart information downloaded in your app for discontinued products or non-auto renewable expired subscriptions remain available to you unless you login with a different account, uninstall the app, or install the app on a different/new device.
Ramsey Island Resort
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7 November 2024
Can't they much that hasn't already been said by other customers. I had boat trouble a couple of nights ago and really needed see the depths (no additional features). I have used this app for years with and without a subscription (funny.. because at one point back in the day, I'm pretty sure I paid a one flat rate to own it) It had always given me the depths. This time it decided to do an update. Logged me out and would not help unless I paid. Which doesn't matter because I didn't have my card
12 people found this review helpful
Garmin
7 November 2024
We are sorry to learn that the app is not meeting your expectations. The app has been subscription based since 2014. One -time purchase Boating apps were discontinued in 2018 and no longer supported and removed from the app stores as of 2020. As of October 25, 2023, the current app requires an active subscription. https://tinyurl.com/23w2cm33
Jared
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21 August 2024
*Edit for Nav's response- You're shooting yourselves in the foot. The app is COMPLETELY useless now without a subscription. You're going to lose new customers that don't know what the app CAN do, you'll lose old customers like me that will not pay $50. I used to upgrade just for satellite view. At least give the Government contours in the free version. Been using Nav for close to 15 years but I don't need it in the boat. I have a graph. DNR website has lake depth maps to replace what yours does.
25 people found this review helpful
Garmin
20 August 2024
With the Boating app release 20.0, new changes have been introduced to the app and now only active subscriptions have the right to download updated chart details and use advanced features. New changes were introduced to the app and now only active subscriptions have the right to download updated chart details and use advanced features.