So for European sailors wanting to navigate on your iPhone this is the one to get. However they don't have data covering Europe. For the time being if you are in the US the iNavX app looks a better choice and includes all the US charts. I'm hoping that like most iPhone applications it will be updated and all these good things come. You can't use it to work out tide triangles and course to steer: it is a static this is where you are and this is what is out there application. It doesn't have an instruments view like the iNavX application. You can't put in any waypoints or use it to work out course over ground. Its certainly a lot of chart data for your money and its all vector not raster data so zooming in and out and panning from side to side is quick and icons such as buoys are scaled right.īut there are some things missing that makes it a "chart viewer" rather than navigation piece of software. With all ports, all passages, all charts stored internally on the iPhone.Īnd this from an iPhone that is also doing email, web, browser, spreadsheets, games, photos, music, and of course the odd phone call. It links in with the iPhone's GPS so you could use it to navigate from my apartment in London, travel down the Thames, across to France, potter along the coast, into the ports of Jersey and Alderney, back across to Cornwall, across to the Fastnet Rock, up the Irish Sea, and then on up to Scotland.
The screenshot above shows just the top level charts and you can see they cover not just a single folder such as the Solent, and not just the UK, but Ireland and the Channel from Brittany to Denmark.
So what do you get for £ 37.99? Well for a start you get a LOT of charts.
INAVX VS NAVIONICS ANDROID
Download the iOS or Android versions of the Navionics app.Wasn't 100% sure could justify buying those Navionics charts but in then end was just too intrigued as to what would get to resist. So your "free" app may actually end up costing you a lot more than the one you paid for a few years ago.
INAVX VS NAVIONICS FREE
This move is also evidence of a shift that is happening more broadly with navigation apps: moving from stand-alone fee-based products to free apps that require add-ons to integrate with chartplotters and other electronics. Navionics is likely also counting on us buying the add-on modules, such as the advanced navigation or chart updates that you are still required to pay for. We all like free, right? This will help develop a whole new user base, including casual boaters and people that have been hesitant about using mobile apps on the water.
What this means for the expense-conscious boater (aka cheapskates like me) is that you can download this app, get a really easy to use navigation tool with straightforward chart data, and immediately use it to navigate around your local waters.
INAVX VS NAVIONICS FOR FREE
In a move that I for one appreciate, they released a new version of their boating app for free including all the Government S57 charts, and also free trials of their add on Nav module. But when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) stopped printing charts in October last year, they began offering free vector and raster chart downloads, which led to the introduction of quite a few new mobile apps that provide free or low-cost charting and navigation. Navionics is introducing a free version of its popular smartphone and tablet navigation app.
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