Aqua Map Boating

Updating tiles is a major PITA App doesn’t recognize selection of tiles to be deleted and not updated

I’ve been Aquamaps user for a year. Been using it while doing Great Loop. Good thing about the app is it allows you to overlay other mapping sources like Army Corps of Engineers survey data on chart. Bad thing is that Route Planner is buggy and sometimes just won’t work. This is my second time reaching out to support. Hopefully it will get fixed one day and be able to complete with the other nautical chart apps.

App freezes from time to time. Not very easy to use

Not intuitive for new users. …still trying to log in. …I think!

Can’t find place to cancel free trial

Hard to operate.

What was one of, if not, the best nav app, has decayed into one of, if not, the worst apps for marine navigation. I’ve used this app on multiple devices for many years. In just the last year the app has declined. It seems like every button click adds more cost. Then the glitches, with the new features, that just are not ready for prime time. Stop, the new features are not working. Stop, nickel and dimeing u to death.

Unsatisfactory! After downloading the satellite images, we lost some level of zoom. When offline. We did not have that issue last year. We are now paying more for that option and getting less. We were in the middle of coral heads and luckily we had good satellite imagery on Iboating/Navionics. You can’t expect boaters to be online all the time when navigating.

I’ve more than adequate storage & network throughput, low latency, YET ERROR AFTER ERROR trying to download map tiles! Unacceptable! Get rid of the whole Tile method if it’s too complicated for you!

Purposely awful UI and design that’s only fixed when you pay for a subscription. They were even sneaky enough to make the map go completely black the closer you zoomed in, effectively making the app useless.

Continually says it can’t properly down load maps. No response from developer

Route Planner in this app is outright dangerous - it plotted a route that would cross a traffic separation scheme at a long diagonal, instead of a right angle, as legally required by COLREGs Rule 10c. The features are otherwise very basic or of questionable quality. I noticed that in some spots map rendering is buggy - depth contours are broken and shifted. I had high hopes for this app originally, especially for an inexpensive access to the US and Canada maps. But after seeing those issues I don’t feel I can rely on it for navigating safely and cancelled my subscription. The app needs serious improvements in functionality and quality control.

I’m from the Maldives and the Maldivian map was just trash for me. Maybe due to lack of people here using the app. I had to pay $15 to try the map and it gives 14 day free trial but the free trial starts 1 year after you paid for the app. Like if I pay 2025 Jan, the free trial really starts Jan 2026 because it doesn’t refund even if I didn’t like the app. It’s false advertising on that part. Maybe can say “Buy 1 year and get 2 weeks free” that would be more accurate. Hopefully the devs would care enough to update the maps. Thanks

tracks and data in a single account are not synchronized in different devices… sharing data is painful…

Even with the tutorial, which is not comprehensive, I am unable to figure out how to chart a trip. I reached out to their help desk and waiting for a reply☹️

This looks just like navionics

Created an account and first the email verification page link would result in a page not found. Finally confirmed the account and the app won’t allow me to log in.

This does me no good

It’s not practical, I couldn’t setup a router.

They charge too much and are too money hungry.

I absolutely loathe being nickel and dimed, and I hate this modern paradigm of “subscription“ every goddamned thing. I may not sail for two years, but when I go out I want the CHARTS and MAPS to still be charts and maps, not some scrambled data that’s unusable until I throw more money at a company that may not even exist at that point. AAARGH! I love the companies that give us the option to just BUY something, and OWN it. This program does not appear to be one of those. If I’m wrong, and the option to BUY this exists somewhere, I will come back and re-review.

Don’t update it!! Now stuck in a endless crash loop after entering in a lat/long in the search bar. Unfortunately Apple won’t let me downgrade to the old version so I would have access to charts so I can get home.

I spent $249 using a Discount Code from The Boat Galley and got an App that retails for $14. Even though I thought a handful of Maps were included, they appear to not be. So, i could have paid $14 or $249, for the same thing.

Clitchy looping garbage

This app is only supported by Macs that have an M1, which is the minority of Macbooks in current usage.