Wärtsilä iSailor Reviews

Perfect Nav Solution!

Captain Dave C

The best navigation software available for portable devises. Profession Yacht Captain here and go nowhere without ISailor and my Dual XGPS.

I’ve been using iSailor for a few years now on both my iPhone and iPad. I’ve had literally no issues! I admit that I often don’t read documentation as I should, but that’s precisely why I chose to write a review. It is a very easy app to learn and to use, which allowed effective use from the very start. So rather than studying the documentation to begin using the app, one turns to the documentation only to bring in more of the advanced navigational features as desired. Highly recommended!

Terrific value, overall, but with a caveat for the tides plug-in

Travis_McGee

I have used this app everywhere, from Biscayne Bay, to the Adriatic, to the middle of the Caribbean. It can get a bit cluttered, but overall it’s great for basic route planning and tracking, and generally pretty intuitive to use. When sailing a thousand-mile passage in the Caribbean, it was great to be able to pull my iPhone out of my pocket at any time, day or night, and see our heading, COG, speed, and distance to waypoint. But... I recently bought the tides and tidal currents plug-in, in order to plan a voyage in the Pacific Northwest. The currents really rip, up there, so it’s critical to have down-to-the-minute accuracy on tides. To ensure accuracy, I compared times in the app with times on the Canadian government’s official tide tables, and found that the times were waaaay off. They weren’t event close. I soon realized that I needed to set the time zone in the iPad (I’m on the East Coast) to the time zone where I was planning my voyage (British Columbia). After doing that, and adjusting the Canadian tide tables for daylight savings time, the times were much closer. But close won’t count when crossing Seymour Narrows.

All saved trips gone since “upgrade”

Avid Camper 2

Have used this program for years...works great. Actually love it and rely on it. However, after the automatic update ALL my saved trip plots are gone. I now need to re-plot everything. If you knew this would happen why would you first not offer us to save our routs somehow? Very disappointed....

Beware!

Jbaffoh

If you purchase charts, they will unilaterally shrink coverage and try to sell you more. My purchase of “Pacific Coast” recently became California only, and I lost the rest of the coast. To regain the rest of the coast will be very expensive. DO NOT BUY!!!

Lost all my electronics

woodycsogi

Lost all GPS and electronics on my last fishing trip 55 miles offshore in the gulf. No worries ,opened my isailor program and got out the old fashioned compass. Found my heading and got home safe . Thanks Guys and girls. William Csogi. On the phone with Garmin now for a new unit grrrr.

New charts updates?

Alireza Saraei

Tnx for your great app. After 3 months didn't receive new charts updates. Pls inform Best Regards

Not Impressed so far

Sting63

We purchased this application since it suppose to work well with our Vesper 8000 AIS we just purchased before we head to the Bahamas for the winter. We purchased the maps for the Bahamas also with the apps and there are areas that we cruise in the Exumas that are blank...no data just note (Dredging 2 meters)....these are area we sail through and use the Garmin Blue Water and Explorer Chartbooks to navigate...so seeing this blank area on the apps made me wonder if there were anymore out there. I contacted the APP maker and they validated the omission and said it would be corrected in the next release but no specific date when that would be. So overall....I guess it's a decent apps but recommend you have backup valid charts or applications.

Expensive

SDracer

This looks like an in interesting program. Unfortunately, one could spend well over $100 on 'in app purchases' just getting started. To bad.

Mr SDracer wrong!!

Capt. Bingowings

Check out other apps etc. !! The price is right and great support. Charts are reasonable priced and updates FREE ! Howbout that? I have been using this app for more then 4 years and very happy cruising in the caribbean and med. Actually using it! Thanks iSailor

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