Marine Navigation - Lake Depth Maps - USA - Offline Gps Nautical Charts for Fishing, Sailing and Boating App Reviews

Great app. Using it right now on my travel down the Chesapeake. Has speed, depth and I can download tons of noaa charts without additional charge that are accessible offline. Also one thing I like is to place a waypoint when I anchor. In the night if I am worried I am drifting I check this app to see where my gps is versus the anchor. That is super useful in my book.

I was able to transfer all my existing routes from my PC route planning software to this. I am glad it did not loose the names of points i had so meticulously entered. Looking forward to using it this summer.

I like how easy it is to plot precise routes using this app. Finally an app that gets it right.

Perfect app with perfect precision.. Now I dont have to use those clunky devices this summer. Love it..

Astoundingly bad - fraudulent would be a better description. This is a beta version, and a very early one at that. The screenshots show a simulator - the actual app does not have the functionality shown or advertised. The instructions do not even exist - site says "coming soon". The existing reviews are bogus, clearly posted by the developer (look at the names). I cant believe this made it into the App Store.

I hold a 50 ton inland Masters license and am a professional mariner in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have used many professional GPS based electronic navigation applications both on dedicated hardware devices and PC based applications such as Navtrek from Nobeltec Software. I recently downloaded GPS Nautical Charts on my iPhone while on vacation in Maui, Hawaii. I was very impressed with how easy it was for me to download the charts for the regions I wanted as well as the ease of use for all the functions, i.e. location indication based on the iPhones GPS, route planning, track, way points etc. I liked this program so much that tomorrow Im buying an iPad with 3G/LTE connectivity that has the built in GPS sensor. I plan to install this software on my new iPad and use it on the bay where I crew on the local charter sailboat NEHEMIAH. Also the customer support has been outstanding. All my questions asked via email were answered immediately and provided complete solutions to any issues I had. Anyone who has experience with any of the existing dedicated hardware or PC based electronic navigation software will be very impressed with US Nautical Charts-NOAA-Marine Carts app for sailing boating kayaking and fishing - USA! I just purchased the iPad and installed US Nautical Charts-NOAA-Marine Charts app for sailing boating kayaking and fishing - USA on the iPad as well and am very happy with the details of the chart images, the functions and the user support. While this app. for the iPad is identical to the iPhone app., the larger platform makes it quite a bit easier to operate. One additional note: Ive read some of the negative reviews of this app and am quite baffled by the negativity. While I cant compare it to other iPad or iPhone apps., I think this app performs quite well especially when I remember that just a few years ago I needed a PC, Garmin or other brand GPS along with the software like Nobeltek to do the same tasks. Also, connecting the GPS to the PC required a special interface. Unless one is a power user who needs distance off, radar & weather overlays etc. this is a great app.

I tried almost every lake app out there. This is the only one I found that offered comprehensive coverage for inland Texas lake maps. I have been using it for quite some time now. It has worked flawlessly for me. The maps are quite detailed, and I like the way app shows the route I am taking - much better than my garmin. I was even able to hear the sound guidance on my portable Bluetooth device.

I spent $15 for this app and I am terribly disappointed. It is very cheaply presented, with coloring-book-level colors. I live on and fish Table Rock Lake in Missouri and I thought this app would be a "breath of fresh air" and show detailed lake contours, stream beds, and accurate elevations. In reality it fails all these requirements. The lake contours are large numbers and show only very rough approximations of the lake depth (even some of the fully exposed islands are shown with water elevations)! There are NO STREAM BEDS shown to follow to keep from running aground in shallow water. This app needs a lot of detailed work. Dont waste your money.

I have been trying the nav tools all this morning. Very impressed with how accurate the next point alerts are. It even correctly alerted me for wrong course during my testing. Thanks for listening and adding support for real time track overlay in this update. It makes it very easy to follow what path I have taken.

I had this app on my Sony Xperia before I got an iPhone. Setting up on iPhone was a lot easier since I didnt have to plot routes again. I was able to transfer all my routes from Xperia to this one. They are very responsive to feedback. I had asked them to add lake Sammamish over a month back. And today I was able to get a bathy chart for this lake and I can see they have added almost every popular lake around my area. I am very pleased with this level of app support.

Hard to figure out at first. Once you figure it out it is very useful.

I got the impression from the app description that you could see a map that simultaneously provides all of the data thats provided by the app -- location, depth, current tide and tide forecast. Unfortunately, its not the case. However, it does have the info you need -- it just takes a little bit of navigating through the app and head-math to get to it.

Not worth the data to download it. Mississippi River charts are horrible looking. Header line is to big. You have to open the chart where you are at. I dont know if it will automatically open the next one or not because I cant stand to look at it for that long. Youd be better off using a paper chart from 1992 and Google maps.

This app is full featured and remarkably well documented. The only thing I couldnt figure out was explained well and promptly by support. I think this app is great! I would benefit from availability of even more maps.

I just wasted 15 bucks on this! No key to map symbols and no response from support. Map quality lacking.

Very clean, nice features, easy. Good job!

I like the accuracy of my GPS location on the map.

This is the most useful app I have ever used for navigation. Waypoints, distance, and record and auto follow work great! Then go back and see exactly where youve been and your speed throughout! Highly accurate charts and charts for all you needs. I have it both on my iPhone and iPad. Handheld GPS for those foggy days cant be beat anywhere for the price! Highly recommended!

Great app for boaters and sailors. I use it on the phone and on my IPad.

I was down in West Coast Florida on a vacation and decided to rent a boat for a few days. Didnt really know my way around so I took a chance on this app and it turned out to be much better than expected. I was able to plot a course the night before to a likely looking redfish hole and really got into them the next day. Love the auto track feature. It shows an arrow on the screen that shows where you are headed. I used it on my phone that day but since then I have installed on my iPad.