i-Boating: Marine Charts & Gps 4+
Lake Maps & Fishing Spots
Bist LLC
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Marine Chartplotter for your iPhone/iPad. Detailed Marine Charts & Fishing Maps for US, Canada, Europe, and Australasia. Depth contour maps with Aids to Navigation.
This App offers access to Marine Charts for USA,Canada,UK/Ireland,Germany,Netherlands/Holland &
Europe Rivers (Danube,Drava,Rhein etc). Coverage includes NOAA marine vector
charts,freshwater lake maps,USACE inland river maps (HD/1ft/3ft bathymetry
included where available),charts derived from UKHO & CHS data. First marine GPS app to have route assistance with Voice Prompts for marine navigation. You can create new boating routes or import existing GPX/KML routes. It supports Nautical Charts course up orientation. Includes Tide & Currents prediction.
►FEATURES
√ Beautiful & detailed Hardware/GPU accelerated vector charts (text stays upright on rotation)
√ Long press to query the details of Marine object (Buoy,Lights,Obstruction etc).
√ Customizable depth(Ft/Fathom/Meter) & distance units(km/mi/NM)
√ Customizable Shallow Depth.
√ Record tracks,Autofollow with real-time track overlay & predicted path vector.
√ Voice Prompts for marine navigation (requires GPS )
√ 1ft / 3ft depth contour maps for anglers for selected lake maps.
√ Supports GPX/KML for boating route editing/import.
√ Tide & Currents prediction.
√ Seamless chart quilting of marine charts
√ Enter or import Waypoints.
► MAPS
It includes unlimited updates for 1 year.
√USA: The maps include coverage of all NOAA marine vector charts (ENC),USACE inland river maps,freshwater lake maps for more than 7K lakes. The charts include HD/1ft/3ft bathymetry where available.Incl. NOAA raster where ENC not available.
√Canada:Incl. CHS data(incl. major Lakes).
√UK/Ireland: Derived from UKHO charts.
√Australia
√Germany: derived from BSH data
√Europe Inland Rivers:Donau/Dunaja,Rhine,Garonne,Moselle,Drava,Sava,etc
√Norway
√Finland
√Sweden
√Croatia
√Ukraine(Black Sea)
√Caribbean
√New Zealand
√Spain
√Brazil
√Argentina
√Cyprus
√Falklands
√Seychelles& Mauritius
√Denmark
√Malta,Cyprus & S. Mediterranean
√S. China&Malaysia
√South Africa
►ROUTE MANAGEMENT / TRIP PLANNING
√ Create New Route/Edit Existing Routes
√ Move Points
√ Add points to an existing route leg
√ Delete / Rename points
√ Import GPX,KML & KMZ files
√ Plot/Edit Routes
√ Enter Waypoints
√ Share/Export Routes,Tracks&Markers
√ Reverse Routes
►SLIP TO SLIP AUTO ROUTING
►GPS FEATURES
√ Auto Follow
* Real Time Track Overlay
* Predicted Path Vector
* Course Up(Text stays upright)
* Speed & Heading
√ Route Assistance With Voice Prompts
* Prompts when approaching a boating route marker
* Continous distance & ETA updates
* Alerts when sailing/boating off route
* Alerts when boating in wrong direction
√ Record Tracks
►TIDE & CURRENTS
* For US,Canada,UK,Germany & New Zealand
* High/Low Tides
* Tidal Current Prediction
* Active Current Stations
►Instrumentation
√ Marine AIS & (NMEA AIS and GPS over TCP/UDP)
√ Wind direction & Speed,Marine Sonar depth,Water temperature
√ Auto Pilot
► SHARING
* Share tracks/routes/markers on Facebook & Twitter
* Export tracks/routes/markers as GPX files.
SUGARLOAF KEY-KEY WEST
PORT RICHEY TAMPA BAY - CLEARWATER HBR
EAST BAY-WEST BAY FLORIDA
INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY MATECUMBE-GRASSY KEY
CHESAPEAKE BAY CAPE CHARLES-NORFOLK HARBOR
ANCLOTE KEYS-CRYSTAL RIVER
ST JOSEPH SOUND
MIAMI HARBOR
Minnesota lakes - Kabetogama,Minnetonka,Waconia,Leech,Mille Lacs
Lake Keowee,Jocassee,Hartwell,Greenwood,Lake Murray
Mark Twain,Ozarks,Table Rock
Lake St.Clair
Lake Kentucky
KEY WEST-THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
SAN PEDRO CHANNEL
LAKE MICHIGAN STONY LAKE-POINT BETSIE
APALACHICOLA BAY-CAPE SAN BLAS
EAST CAPE-MORMON KEY
CAPE HENLOPEN-INDIAN RIVER
CHESAPEAKE BAY CAPE HENRY-THIMBLE SHOAL
DULUTH-SUPERIOR
MONHEGAN ISLAND-CAPE ELIZABETH
ONTARIO - CLAYTON-FALSE DUCKS
Winnipesaukee
MIAMI-MARATHON,FLORIDA
CAPE MAY-FENWICK ISLAND
MISSISSIPPI RIVER-GALVESTON
CAPE CANAVERAL-KEY
DELAWARE RIVER WILMINGTON-PHILADELPHIA
FLORIDA KEYS SOMBRERO KEY-SAND KEY
SAN PABLO BAY
RAINY LAKE BIG ISLAND MINN-OAKPOINT
INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY-BISCAYNE BAY
EVERGLADES NTL PARK
HURON
TAHOE
CHESAPEAKE DELAWARE CANAL
BACKGROUND GPS CAN DECREASE BATTERY LIFE
What’s New
Version 145.0.0
Major update for Marine Weather Forecasts:
- ECMWF marine weather forecasts are also now available.
- All marine weather forecasts are now completely free. No purchase or account creation is required to access marine weather forecasts.
Ratings and Reviews
Great
Have used this app for years now. Have used it to travel from Texas City Texas to New Bedford Mass. and In Between. I’m a commercial fisherman and I’m all the time traveling, fishing different areas, and it’s my go to app at all times. 99.5% of the time it is dead accurate and I have had to navigate solely using this in dead of night with no other means to see navigational aids or water depths after my electronics were knocked out by a storm. I came in just using the app and a compass, nothing more. Did so accurately and safely. Week later after repairs I retraced the track I had taken based on the app information and it was exact on time, course, and marker position of all aids, and water depth was within 1.0ft average of the area. Very impressed and highly recommend as a backup system or even a primary navigation aid for experienced mariners who need a compact application. I will say not all movable cans will be 100% accurate at all times. That’s why I say it’s 99.5% accurate overall but the recommended channel and route has always been marked accurately or well enough I haven’t been grounded. But, as usual, always use precautions and read addendums regularly in any new area. I can also add that I have been in 4 hurricanes since I’ve had this app and after each hurricane it marked locations of potential hazards such as sunk vessels, logs, debris, navigational hazards, etc. within hours of the storm. Good luck and safe boating.
Marine and lake GPS
I’ve used this marine charting program a few times on both the coast as well as inland lakes. It’s one of the few apps on my phone that includes excellent ENC charts for both offshore and inland navigation. Works very well with phones GPS even when outside of cellular coverage. Clearly shows where my boat is, how it got there and where it’s headed. I used to have this app as a backup to our onboard plotter. But I keep coming back to it since maps are more detailed and I am able to pull all the data from our boats NMEA network onto the app. Will post more updates as I investigate it’s more advanced toolset. Update: after 100s of miles and an year I find this app pretty reliable and useful. It keeps getting regular updates. Tide and currents plus wind overlay have been very useful. One thing I would recommend adding is support for auto routing. Aug21: Got an email from their tech support today to try out automatic routing in the application. Have been playing with it and it seems to work okay. I had to adjust the min depth to get the route I wanted. Definitely a good route planning aid. Edit: The latest update is very useful if you cruise the Tombigbee waterway. More detailed depths and more accurate.
Tried hooking up this app today with our boats Ais transceiver over Wi-Fi. It worked well and showed all AIS targets around us.
Best Nav App I’ve Tried
I have a Garmin UHD Fish Finder / Chartplotter, but prefer to dedicate that to the sonar & use an iPad for navigation. I downloaded quite a few different apps to test their functionality and ease of use. I-Boating won easily. I’m fishing the lower Chesapeake Bay & coastal VA, and this app gives me all I need and then some. Very intuitive & simple to use, but highly detailed for navigation, routing, contours etc. That being said, there are a couple tweaks that would make it even better. First, the icons to identify waypoints or destinations are severely limited. I fish a lot of wrecks, but there’s no icon for wrecks or obstructions so I have to use the Fishing Reef icon for everything. Second, I sometimes use a different iPad or iPhone, and the data saved to one doesn’t transfer to the others. I thought maybe when I bought the US Maps it would remedy that but no luck. Last, in a perfect world you could draw/outline & identify a custom area. For instance I have a particular area of the York River that I like to drift over for flounder when the wind & tides are ideal. I wish I could circle that area & label it. But all in all still the best nav app I’ve seen.
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Information
- Seller
- Bist LLC
- Size
- 50.7 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian Bokmål, Russian, Swedish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2013 Bist LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Poland - Marine Charts $19.99
- Iceland - Marine Charts $34.99
- Fiji / Vanuatu Islands $24.99
- Argentina - Marine Charts $29.99
- Malta,Cyprus, Mediterranean $34.99
- Peru - Marine Charts $19.99
- Lithuania - Marine Charts $19.99
- South China Sea & Malaysia $24.99
- Faroe Islands - Marine Charts $34.99
- Scotia Sea- Marine Charts $24.99