Navionics® Boating

Navionics® Boating

Garmin · 2.9 ★ · FREE

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Description

Get up-to-date, detailed charts you can use offline plus a boatload of features on your mobile device, so they’re on hand wherever you go. The Boating app is a must-have for cruising, fishing, sailing, diving and all your activities on the water. Try it free for a limited time. To continue using charts and advanced features, you can purchase a yearly auto-renewable subscription*.

A COMPLETE PACKAGE
• INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED NAVIONICS® CHARTS: Use them offline along with multiple overlays, so you can be more aware of what’s above and below the water.
- NAUTICAL CHART: Use this premier marine reference to study port plans, anchorages and safety depth contours, locate navaids, marine services and more.
- SONARCHART™ HD BATHYMETRY MAPS: Extraordinary 1’ (0.5 meter) HD bottom contour detail is the ideal tool for locating new fishing areas.
- U.S. GOVERNMENT CHARTS (NOAA): These are available within the following coverages: U.S. and Canada, Mexico, Caribbean to Brazil.
- OVERLAYS: The relief shading overlay allows you to have a better understanding of bottom topography for improved fishing and diving. Sonar imagery reveals bottom hardness clearly and in vivid color on select lakes. Want more? Display satellite imagery on land and water.
- MAP OPTIONS: Change chart-overlay combinations to customize chart views, activate night mode, highlight shallow areas, target multiple fishing ranges and more.
- DAILY UPDATES: Benefit of thousands of daily updates worldwide.

  • TOOLS FOR PLANNING AND ENJOYING YOUR DAY
  • AUTO GUIDANCE+TM TECHNOLOGY**: 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.
  • WEATHER AND TIDES: Knowing conditions before heading out is crucial. Access real-time weather data, daily and hourly forecasts as well as wind, weather buoys, tides and currents.
  • MARKERS, TRACKS, DISTANCE: Place a marker on a good anchorage spot or where you reeled in a big fish. Record your track, take photos and videos within the app, and look back at your day anytime. Easily check distance among two points.
  • AN ACTIVE AND HELPFUL COMMUNITY
  • COMMUNITY EDITS and the ACTIVECAPTAIN® COMMUNITY: Obtain and contribute useful local knowledge along with thousands of fellow boaters, such as points of interest, navigation aids and valuable recommendations from people with firsthand experience of the local environment.
  • CONNECTIONS: Stay in touch with your friends and fellow boaters by sharing your live location, tracks, routes and markers to easily meet on the water or let them check out your adventures.
  • GPX IMPORT/EXPORT: Share your saved data outside the app or transfer it to your chartplotter.
  • SHARE MAP OBJECTS: Share a marina, repair shop or any other location outside the app.
  • EXTERNAL DEVICE-FRIENDLY FOR MORE FEATURES
  • PLOTTER SYNC: If you own a compatible chartplotter, sync it with the app to transfer routes and markers, activate, update or renew your Navionics chartplotter card subscription.
  • SONARCHART LIVE MAPPING FEATURE***: Connect with a compatible sonar/plotter, and create your own maps in real time while navigating.
  • AIS: Connect to a compatible AIS receiver with Wi-Fi® connectivity to see nearby marine traffic. Set a safe range, and receive visual and aural alerts to signal potential collisions.

NOTES:
*You can manage your subscription anytime, and you can turn auto-renewal off.
**Auto Guidance+ is for planning purposes only and does not replace safe navigation operations
***Free features
Updates are available with iOS 16.0 or higher. A tablet device with Wi-Fi connectivity locates your approximate position if it is connected to Wi-Fi. A tablet Wi-Fi + 3G model operates similarly to a phone device with GPS.
Wi-Fi is a registered trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. iOS is a trademark licensed to Apple, Inc.

Developer

Garmin

Developer ID: 411046952

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What's New

Version 24.2 · Apr 27, 2026

Bug fixing and optimization.

Ratings & Reviews

App Store

2.9

2,260 ratings

N/A downloads

Google Play

2.8

47,865 ratings

5,000,000+ downloads

5★
37%
4★
6%
3★
4%
2★
8%
1★
45%

Recent Reviews

Don Layton

Google Play

won't let me open. Stuck on free trial screen. when I pick cover, says I already have that map and am paid until December.

May 31, 2026

Christian Tulloch

Google Play

I'm a fisherman and I use this as a redundant navigation tool. The fact that's its on my phone is super handy as I can reference it on land when explaining area to friends. I've never has amy issues The GPS is accurate enough to navigate at night even. Awesome little app. Great for storing sweet spots. I've got my maps peppered with marks. Don't listen to the 1 stars. It's awesome.

May 30, 2026

BroDoo

App Store

Bait consumer

Deceptive advertising by not disclosing the true cost of program prior to downloading and setting up an account. The collection of data/emails is deceptively based-as such information is demanded prior to disclosure of what the actual cost of the program is.

May 30, 2026

Awoodson90

App Store

App doesn’t work

I subscribed for$50 a year and the app just keeps looping me back to choosing my subscription. I have gotten my confirmation from Apple, saying I’ve successfully subscribed and my free 7 day trial has started. The app will not let me do anything. It just keeps popping up to shop subscriptions. Very frustrating

May 30, 2026

k w

Google Play

how does a lifetime subscription expire? I purchased a lifetime subscription many years ago and my app just tells me that my subscription type is no longer available and has expired. Even before my lifetime subscription expired, the app was mediocre at best.

May 29, 2026

Tophergott

App Store

Horribly Greedy

I got this app years ago and paid a set price that was supposed to be forever. Garin bought the company and said I had to update it and now wants $50 a year. They even hide the price. I just went to see if the subscription price has changed in it says that the price is temporarily unavailable. The price is the price although extremely expensive but I had the app in payday set price years ago and they flipped it on me.

May 29, 2026

Kim Barker

Google Play

5 stars until last update removed bing satellite overlay. Disappointing. Please fix overlays. Lowered to one star. removal of Garmin access to roads ruined this app for me. Satellite view spotty and not effective

May 29, 2026

Defender9

App Store

Great Navigation App.

I am a fisherman and pleasure boater on KY & Barkley Lake. Garmin is what I use on the fishing boat and I bow loaded it for my phone for my pleasure boat. It is 10X better than the Lowrance for its contours and bottom mapping. I wanted a good app for my phone so I didn’t have to mount a graph onto my pleasure boat. I would definitely buy this app any day of the week for spending time on the water.

May 28, 2026

Lance Phung

Google Play

too expensive

May 28, 2026

Jfish566

App Store

Overpriced

I bought this app for an upfront cost to access all of my spots and maps but now they want to charge $50 a year. Overpriced and ridiculous. If it isn’t illegal, it is highly unethical. I hope a competitor can undercut their prices and stop Garmin from raising prices even more. I won’t be buying any Garmin devices in the future.

May 23, 2026

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