Great with a few bugs – Navionics® Boating Review

July 2019 Edit (and warning!): The new import/export features are great. We like creating a route and airdropping it to our different iOS devices while at sea. The new “delete charts” feature has also been long awaited, but the first time we tried it on one of our iPhones, it seemed to get stuck deleting. The next time we opened the app it hung when opening and never opened again. We had to delete the app and reinstall (and we were lucky enough to discover the issue while in port in order to re-download it). I would recommend not updating the app to 14.1 (or at least not deleting charts) if you rely on this app until a future update with some better error checking/bug fixing comes our way. Thank you for the continued development in our favorite charting app! ————————————————— Original review March 2019 Wonderful app! You can’t beat the price and accuracy of the charts. We plan to use this app to circumnavigate over the next two years. East coast of USA, Bahamas, and Panama have all been wonderful and accurate so far. I am able to install the app on backup cellular data iPads in lifeproof cases. We use this app as our chart plotter. One of the bugs we have noticed seems to relate to low internet speed. If the app is launched when the device has *barely* one bar of cellular or WiFi internet connection, the app will hang. Force quitting and relaunching the app does not help, but turning off cell data for the app or disconnecting from WiFi does allow the app to launch. Please build in some error checking for low/unusable internet (example: when sailing out of harbor). Another feature we would like to have would be to delete downloaded maps (we would like to delete the US maps to free up space) -without having to delete and reinstall the app. Overall great app and a 5 star app if the bugs are fixed! Thank you!
Review by byronthegreat on Navionics® Boating.