Boating HD Marine & Lakes for Pc

Mostly I like it. I found a few things confusing though: - why no option to display magnetic headings? Boats have magnetic compasses, so would be nice on a route to be able to display a magnetic heading. Airplane apps like ForeFlight have this because planes also have magnetic compasses. Sure, I could calculate manually, but if I wanted to do that I’d just use a paper chart and a gps unit. Help us out here, it’s not hard to implement. - saving a route you just made to your route list is not obvious, there’s no “save to archives” button or anything. I looked there and my route didn’t show up. Later it did. Please try to follow the principle of least surprise for ui development. - would be nice if you could click on map icons and find out what they meant. The little fish icon with a circle and line through it is obvious, some others are not. That said, this is a nice app. Thoroughly enjoyed playing with it on a recent short trip!

I have a Lowrance chart plotter and purchased a Navonics map for about $100 which works great. I downloaded this as a companion app for my iPad to plan fishing trips. But at $55 a year, it's just not worth it! What a joke! The app is worthless without paying a subscription fee every year, because the "government chart" shows no depth at all. I have better luck downloading a real "Government chart" in PDF format from the MN DNR website. I am removing this app and will never buy another Navonics map as long as I live. They have got way to greedy.

I have tried to rename a route by following the instructions in the help section for my iPad. When I get to route list, no icon symbol is showing. Help section is useless. Needs updating.

Starting one month before your chart subscription expires, this app will nag you to renew — every time you open the app. If you renew, your new end date will be one year from your renewal date. Therefore, if you renew 30 days before your subscription expires, you will effectively lose one month of your subscription. In other words, Navionics’ aggressive rip-off marketing, cheats you out of one month of your subscription. EDIT: Developer claims a renewal adds 365 days to your previous expiration date. This is not true. When I renewed, my new expiration date became 1 year exactly from the date I renewed. Therefore, I lost one month of subscription because I renewed a month before my original expiration date. EDIT2: Developer keeps nagging me to update my review again, so here it is. Yes, I contacted Navionics customer support, and yes I had to waste my time sending Navionics a screenshot of my expiration date and a copy of the App Store receipt — to prove that my in-app renewal had truly resulted in the loss of one month. Once I jumped through those hoops, Navionics added the missing month to my subscription. I’m adding 2 stars to my review — for customer support reps that speak perfect English and are responsive. Subtracting 1 star — for having to spend my valuable time proving to them that my situation was real, and for the many messages that they sent me asking me to update this review. Once my subscription expires, I will be moving on to another marine navigation app.