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 of thousands of 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 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.
Detailed nautical charts and a boatload of useful features.
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I've given the app a few stars now. Use it a lot but it's missing an anchor alarm which would be real useful. It would also be great if AIS info was available to Internet users so you can see what's going on like Marine Traffic app. At present it's only available if you connect to your boat AIS system. Not everybody has AIS but when coastal sailing, in range of mobile Internet, it would be great to receive that data. Can those 2 features be added? 5 stars if you can...
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Garmin
October 29, 2021
Mark- We appreciate your input about the anchor alarm and the AIS feature, as we continuously strive to improve our products. Your suggestions have already been forwarded to our Product Management Team for consideration for future App enhancements. Info regarding updates & new product releases can be found on our website or Facebook/Twitter. Thanks
Robert Taylor
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September 16, 2025
They constantly say that their app is a cutting edge navigation tool. But you can't manually enter a waypoint by coordinates, or (unlike Marks) sort the lists of Tracks and Routes by Name, only by such useful things as Distance and Date Created. Cutting Edge? Not so much. Any suggestions made to the app devs seem to go nowhere. There have not been any significant changes in the app in the 3 years I've been using it. Pay more $$$s but get nothing in return. Sadly the alternatives are no better...
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Nick S
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May 11, 2023
A couple of issues I have with the app: Firstly, screen orientation. If your device is a 10" tablet you are good, but if you have a phone or in my case a 8" tablet mounted to my dash in landscape orientation, as soon as I click on a menu item, it changes to portrait orientation which then makes it unusable as I can't rotate the device. No reason it should change. I get why if it was a small screen phone, but in that case, I could just rotate it myself. 2nd issue is no AIS via internet.
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Garmin
May 12, 2023
Hi Nick, thank you for your suggestion. At the moment, AIS via Internet is not currently available. To forward your email to our developers for future app updates and to analyze your tablet's behavior in landscape mode, pls email us from the Boating app Menu>Submit Feedback, ref. SPK8546, indicating your device model. Thank you!