PRO CHARTS - Marine Navigation App Reviews

No instructions on use, difficult to navigate, no option to plot a course. Pretty useless, save your $.

Dont waste you money or time with this app. Just get the Skipper App and save your money.

You cant even try it with all this buying plans options.

This app is terrible! I could never log into my account to use the features of the subscription! Every time I put in my user/password it would just keep "thinking" and never log in. And the little status bar would keep spinning, trying to log in, when I went back to the chart screen. And for some reason I could not cancel the subscription either for a while. The auto renew button would not move. It kept charging me monthly but I was not able to use any features. Finally turned off auto renew and deleted the app.

I am new to boating and this app worked as expected. Waypoints worked, maps are detailed, depths, and extras.

Love it. Only criticism I have is the refresh rate when scrolling in. Gets a little wonky. I use it on my 4s and iPad thats from 2010 and operates with io5.1.1

The program runs ok, but few improvements may make it much better. Instead a ball as a boat position it should be an arrow pointing int direction the boat is heading. Also tides should be a help. For some reason, one cannot enlarge the chart, instead the sat picture comes instead. ( if I want to navigate on water, I do not need a sat picture, but precise charts- ie one that is enlarged) Over all it is all right for the money spent, but definitively could be improved

The charts wont update on the screen sometimes.

Very impressed with the app. We have taken it along on a handful of trips down the ICW from southern VA to Key Largo. The instruments panel including location, speed, distance, etc has matched my garmin installed onboard in every instance that they were side by side. Love the detail in the raster charts rather than the electronic charts on the garmin much more appealing to look at. My wife and I really enjoyed the course export functionality that allowed us to share our course with friends which has come in handy. Really like the app and have already gotten more than $10 worth of enjoyment out of it. Hopefully the developers will continue to add new features. We requested several features which we would find useful and think others on the water would as well. They stated that they would be adding these features to a list of enhancements they have planned so time will tell if they get added.

I highly recommend buying this app. It is a great way to get a quick fix with GPS on your phone. I have two requests though. 1. If I try to save a track it stops when my phone goes to sleep and then you lose a portion of your trip. I wonder if there is a way to keep recording. 2. --This one is Apples fault-- When we still had Google maps the satellite image overlay was from low tide(around Hilton Head, SC). Unfortunately Apples satellite images are at or near high tide. It was nice when you could actually see sandbars in addition to the depth markings since they do shift. I wrote Apple, but maybe if more people complain it will get fixed.

Used this app to find my way to a duck blind on the Currituck Sound, in the middle of the marsh, in the dark. Even with poor cell service this chart updated well enough to be very accurate. I agree with other reviews, that the location dot should be an arrow showing heading but otherwise a great app. I would recommend to friends.

These charts show land on the South Louisiana coast that have been gone now for over 20 years!!! This app was a waste of money FOR ME.....

It wont upload the stuff I put in it! And put its own longitude and latitude!

Good usable app to study before heading out with paper charts/chart plotter

Over the past few months I have tinkered with several charting apps available ranging from free to upwards of $30 and I have come to the conclusion that simple charts is by far the easiest to use and most complete app available. The app is the perfect compliment to my onboard system and functions smoothly as I go in and out of cellular or Internet service. As the name indicates is fairly easy to operate and the learning curve is low as I compare it to most of the others. The feature set is much more than I anticipated and caters very well to my needs. The documentation is on the light side but I found the FAQ section useful, the support email allowed me to contact the developers and get the remaining questions I had answered. I was pleasantly surprise at the quick turnaround on the email and the tone and level of detail provided led me to believe they actually cared. highly recommended.

I used this app to go from Cape Cod to Naples,Fl. And it worked out great. Highly recommended!

This app is a complete wast of money.

The map is amazing but it doesnt show where crab ledge is. Put crab ledge on the map please!

Pretty good app with some nice features. Lost all my waypoints when app crashes. Sometimes need reinstalling. Highly recommend exporting waypoints often.