What is the Navionics Boating App?

The Navionics® Boating app is an application optimized to fit all screen sizes for both Apple and Android smartphones and tablets. The app can be downloaded to devices updated with:

• Apple iOS 16.0 or higher
• Android OS 10.0 or higher

The Boating app provides the charting details (depths, buoys, channels, obstructions, etc.) for the freshwater lakes and saltwater coverage throughout the world with a limited free trial. Simply download the free app from your app store - Navionics Boating - and enjoy charts and features for a limited time. After the trial ends, a subscription can be purchased. If you choose not to purchase a region, you will still have access to basic app features and functions.

Options and features of the Boating app are:

• Limited Free Trial of Charts & Features 
• Map Download function
• Receive Navionics award-winning navigational charts
• Access Navionics SonarChart high-definition bathymetric layer reflecting ever-changing conditions
• Community Edits – Add, edit and delete chart objects
• ActiveCaptain® Community Layer
• Route Planning – Offering advanced routing options and features 
• Advanced Map Options – Allowing you to customize your map display with Chart layers and overlays and highlight important map features: Learn more
• Connections - Stay in touch with friends and fellow boaters on and off the water, sharing your profile, tracks, routes, markers and live location with your boating community
• Auto Guidance+ Technology¹ - Easily plan your trip with a suggested dock-to-dock path based on chart data and navigation aids. Get ETA, distance to arrival, heading to waypoint, fuel consumption and more
• AIS integration on screen ( view compatibility information)
• Import and Export routes, markers and tracks as GPX files
• FishFinder - View a fish finder directly in your app (requires a Raymarine Dragonfly 4, 5 or 7 PRO or Wi-Fish units)
• SonarChart™ Live - Create real-time depth contours on your map ()
• Weather and Tides - View wind, tides, currents and other information for a selected area
• Sync My Data - Synchronizes saved items data across all devices, if you are using the app on multiple devices
• Plotter Sync with Raymarine, Lowrance, Simrad, B&G and Humminbird plotters - Sync routes and markers, upload sonar logs for SonarChart and update your charts directly through the app
• Panoramic Photos

¹ Auto Guidance+ is for planning purposes only and does not replace safe navigation operations.