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.

We’ve been cruising and living aboard for 6 years, and Aquamap has been indispensable. Big pluses are its ease of use, frequent updates, and integration with other data sources. Highly recommended.

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

This is probably the most usable app ever. Superb!

I have been looking for a Navionics replacement for years and Aqua maps now has everything with the new auto route.

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.

Now that you have added auto-route creation, I will not be renewing my other apps. Great work and well done!! It would be a great feature for those of us cruising with a limited bandwidth budget if data updates (charts, ActiveCaptain, USACE, etc)could be made peer-to-peer between devices on the same account. Not only would it be faster and cheaper for customers, it would likely halve your cloud computing costs!

When will you offer full autorouting like Navionics?

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

The biggest issue with electronic maps is the integration of USCG NOTAMS with chart data. Aqua maps accomplishes this seamlessly.