Charts&Tides+ (US East Coast)

This is a terrific app and it would be a bargain at twice the cost I have and use both the iPad and iPhone versions The charts are accurate and the GPS feature means you always know where you are Integrated with Active Captain you have a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips about anchorages marinas shoaling etc Drop waypoints and navigate to them simple The speed over ground feature is more accurate than the Raymarine instrument I just installed Measure distances accurately and easily with two taps this is invaluable I have used this app to go to an anchorage that I have never been to in the dark Have used this to navigate to many places and it has never let me down I never go out on the water without this app                 Well worth it

Great app combo for boaters The hazards icon with comments has been a lifesaver for keeping us from running aground It is really a navigation and cruising guide combined which is constantly being updated Simple to use if you spend a little time reading the instructions                 Active Captain Charts Tides

I bought this 20 dollar app for its bathemetric capabilities I saw some ad for navionics new super bathycharts All This app had was a watered down color coded chart from noaa A standard noaa chart would be much better And some 3 d version the ad boasted was absolutely useless The detail is terrible        Chuck123

Hats off to this app Works real well Id love to see ability to build routes and see wind info Thanks for latest update too Very good value                 Well done

Lousy app Not very intuitive cannot perform simple route planning eg calculating course and distance between waypoints Could not create an active captain account I just wasted an hour and 20 on something that doesnt work Save your money     ChartsTides

The Active Captain application is a great PC tool and integrates into NOAA charts This ap falls way short of that While the Active Captain data is there it is placed over really poor charts Hold off and DO NOT BUY THIS GARBAGE Maybe Active Captain will partner with someone better Bill     Active Captain Sold out

Get it Nuff said                 Most useful App on the water PERIOD

This app is terrible Dont waste your money     Jennifer

Very poor appsave your time money Buy the Garmin mobile app which is useful for navigation planning     US East Navimatics

Great app I rely on it when ever we leave the slip                 Most used app on my iPhone

Why is there no chart for the upper St Johns River The waterway between Jacksonville and Sanford is an active cruising area           St Johns River

It didnt come with any charts at all Total crap     Total junk

even with itouch extremely versatile and matches very well with gps values navigated from Newburyport to boothbay having forgotten my charts but not my compass with active captain updates should only improve one problem I did find in navigating although I set magnetic direction the rose continued to show true urgent update after latest update 10 June the app no longer recognizes waypoints and has slowed considerably hope navimatics fixes or provides path back to pre update too bad as I have come to like it very much              excellent tool excellent value

The app runs great on the IPad allowing Active Captain to be very portable Excellent tool for the ICW Well worth the small investment However there is a section of the ICW between Jacksonville Beach and the St Johns river that does not show up                 IPad version

This a great apps so helpful to cruisers going south or north on the ICW the reviews are from the members or user so the informations are boaters to boaters not by advertisers Michel                 Active Captain

Good all around back up system potential for even better if I can figure out how to activate all functions If Active Captain Integration words as advertised it would rate 5 Stars I will review again after I figure out how to get it all working              Well Done

Ive used this app for the last three years in passages from NY to Key West on the ICW Ive bought every navigation app on the market this one is the best Pros Best display of Active Captain data of any app and you can make AC changes within the app AC data is stored within the app no internet needed The new charts for 2015 are excellent good detail without clutter With the 2015 update there are no longer any missing areas NOAA finally updated all their ENC Charts Routes can be imported and exported in GPX format Labels are now shown on the charts for buoys hazards markers marina names islands cities etc Very convenient for quickly locating nearby points of interest Best distance calculator Just tap the screen to start and then tap out your route with turns etc The total distance is then shown Most apps just have point A to point B calculators Best search function of any app and Ive used them all and it works offline Tides and currents icons with the present tide height or current are shown on the charts and can be accessed with a tap for any date Boat speed to tenth of a knot is shown along with heading Cons Some current stations are missing Buy this app you cannot go wrong                 Best marine app now updated with 64 bit support much faster

This app is totally useless and not as advertised Complete waste of money DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT     Terrible App Not as advertised

Fantastic best thing on the boat after Rocna and Watermaker Active Captain makes this an amazing tool                 Makes great chart plotter with a built in guide

wonderful for Maine great back up for a lightening event and perfect for bed time planning for the next day                 great back up

By and large a very useful app that could stand a little improvement Recently made a 4 day cruise from Maine to Connecticut with 3 very experienced skippers aboard and all thought it well worth the money This was in a power boat with pilothouse so visibility on the iPad screen was not an issue Suggested improvements In course up mode the vessel location should be 23 or 34 of the way towards the bottom of the screen instead of in the middle for greater visibility of the chart ahead Vessel speed is only given in full knots and even then I suspect they are always rounded down to the lower full knot Speed should be given to the tenth of a knot The info and page buttons on the lower right corner of the screen are too close together On a rolling vessel it is too easy to hit the wrong one The horizontal situation indicator could be smaller on the iPad screen It would be nice if there were a temporary waypoint feature so that you wouldnt have to record these as full fledged waypoints and then delete them later By far the most frustrating feature may be due to the chart source and nothing that Navimatics can do anything about When zoomed well out absolutely no detail is given even New York City is not labeled A couple of zooms in and sometimes you get quite a lot of useless information for instance at Westport Harbor Mass a medium zoom level will label every rock in the harbor but not name the harbor itself Sometimes the only way you can find the harbor name is to go to a nearby tide station or Active Captain marker Active Captain is great              East Coast Charts Tides

Charts not very good but having active captain is nice That is really all I use this app for Ive found the charts on iSailor to be better and the app much more intuitive        Needs improvement

I use this as backup to my Garmin 5212 chartplotter The Active Captain integration is great to have while underway The app also stores all chart and active captain data on the iPad so an active network connection is not needed I have a WiFi only iPad To get GPS position data I use the Dual Electronics XGPS150 Universal Bluetooth GPS Receiver which works great Be sure to update the Active Captain data periodically this is an easy menu selection in the app              Active Captain integration is great nice backup chartplotter

It is pretty but not very useful Apps that provide raster versions of standard navigational charts plus simple vessel position data are readily available This app makes simple position plotting as complex as possible An update is sorely needed     Very nonintuitive

If I could give it 10 stars I would Better than a 1000 chart plotter Thank you guys Youve made my voyage a success                 Fantastic

The charts are very poor quality charts that are not even close to the quality of the NOAA ENC charts For navigation it is not only useless but also dangerous due to the lack of detail What I mean by lack of detail is that this app does not show all the data and most particularly soundings The Active Captain data is less than you find online with many marinas and data missing Even after an update This app is not even close to what u get on active captain online Very disappointed in the lack of value or quality        Charts are horrible Active Captain just ok

The app does what it promised I use it mainly for Active Captain support which is great Charts are right on and very easy to follow                 Great app for cruising

As a charter captain who uses different boats it is refreshing to have an app that is my navigation chart plotter tide and weather station that I can take boat to boat Great app well worth the money started with the app on my phone for kayaking and now use it all the time to mark fishing hot spots and drifts Also a good back up to on board navis The only thing this app lacks is an AIS system Which is only needed in minor instances                 Out standing navigation app

This app is not anywhere close to what you think you are going to get for 20 bucks     This is a 99 app

This was probably the most money I spent on the worst app I have Worthless If I could find a way to get my money back I would     Dont do it

I have this app on iPhone 5it will not track medoes not show where I am on the map The round button on the left bottom keeps going out What am I doing wrong It looks a really neat app but wont track my boat        Not worth it

Very useful easy to use accurate and versatile Must have at least as backup But you will end up using as primary nav                 Get it

Very useful easy to use                 Great ap

I got the app because of its offline integration of ActiveCaptain since we only use Apple products and wanted to use the iPad aboard The app does not show us our vessel location at the moment Dont whats wrong We use a DualGPS Bluetooth receiver Under the same conditions of use iNavX works fine This app is still very helpful via ActieCaptain cruising information UPDATE Just talked to Bill at Navimatics and he gave me the directions to get the vessel location working On IOS 6 Location Services are on tier down from the main level in settings Navimatics must be activated for DualGPS signals to be employed Thanks Bill Ill add the final star when I try out the features Recommendation permit increasing the size of the icon so that it is easily recognizable from other marks when the chart size is either busy with them or scale is such that the icon is hard to locate              Boat owner

A very useful apt for the Chesapeake when used with Active Captain              US East

Unusable garbagewhat a wasteand no way to get support     RenRut

I use this app frequently and find it to be very helpful and accurate Who better than boaters to provide feedback for boaters As long as the reviewers remain honest it will continue to be a valuable tool for mariners                 Very helpful app for us boaters

This app works great for me in the lower Chesapeake bay The tide and moon phases are easy to navigate and very useful 5 stars                 Great app

Emailed back and forth a few times and they gave up on me and no longer answer Thank     Puts me 60 miles away

I just delivered a sailboat from Long Island NY to North Carolina I referred to this app many times daily for tidecurrent info for latest updates on harbor depthshoaling for Marinas and anchorage info and much more This is a GREAT app                 Very useful program

Could be Better Tracks dont seem to work Market depiction on screen awkward to see and cumbersome to determine identification Active Captain links are very useful           Nice Idea

This app has no buoys marking the ICW on the West coast of Florida I asked for a refund and they basically said tough luck     Worthless

Poor not intuitive     Useless not user friendly no support or help

In some ways its better than the expensive chart plotter integrated on our vessel Get it youll love it                 Great

Been using this for a few years and have never had a problem The tides and currents are excellent and the position is perfect The only thing better would be AIS integration but I have MarineTraffic app for that                 Great app

We love the app Great information provided by the application as well as the reviews We sail with our dogs so the pet friendly info is great to know This app will keep getting better and better as folks contribute information                 Great App

Simple accurate with ok features Could be more in the help data              Very good app

I have yet to figure this program out It certainly is not user friendly Where are the instructions I paid for this crap and could not contact any one for help guidance Y folks should look at the aviation Foreflight program and the support they give users Make me happy Refund my money     What a waste

Use this often to plan trips Not so much to set route waypoints but for anchorages marinas etc Would be the best of the best if could get to all the features on my iPad2 Please work out something that can be used since Flash is not allowed by Apple Maybe the app by Garmin plan2nav will be used with this to get around the no Adobe Flash problem I just do noy know ANYWAY Ill use AC all the time for anchorages marinas etc great for that              Great

Its a handy interface to Active Captain but I would like to see a mechanism to update the AC Data by adding a review BJO              Would like to input Active Captain Data