Navionics for iphone

[turtle]

I'm a new "smart" phone user and looking to put Navionics on my iphone.   I mostly fish Simcoe and Haliburton lakes and looking for good contour lines.  Is the Boating USA & Canada app the one I should put on the phone?  Thanks. 

[bobowski]

Its the one I use and it works great

[Shloim]

21 minutes ago, bobowski said:

Its the one I use and it works great

x2

 

[LeXXington]

great App

[GBW]

For those android users out there I too use it and it's very good.  They even added some smaller lakes recently like my folks lake that was never on it in the recent past

[Joeytier]

Yep, I remember it being 17 bucks when I bought it.  Money well spent.  Very detailed depth charts.

[buckhorn250]

It is a great app and worth the money...dont forget its an annual subscription.  

[turtle]

Thanks for the input.  Now I have to recruit a 10 year old child to help me set up my phone.  Never really embraced technology apart from relying on my flasher for catching perch.

 

[ROOK]

How do you go about renewing ????

thanks

[GBW]

4 hours ago, ROOK said:

How do you go about renewing ????

thanks

On my android I've never paid again and it's updated 

[buckhorn250]

the app will notify you on an annual basis. It can be a bit misleading...ask you for the update...you may not notice that its charging your account the 17 bucks. 

I copied this from their app page....   Navionics+ is a one-year subscription. Download detailed maps by zooming in or from Menu>Download Map: 

Once mine expired I could see the maps but none of the contour details 

 

 

[AKRISONER]

remember to download yoru maps ahead of time...then you can turn your phone onto airplane mode and save some battery while its running...unless youve got a charger in the boat?

[ROOK]

I had downloaded the maps to my phone last year....did not get any notification to re-new though ....tried it this weekend and the maps are still on but it does NOT locate me on the maps...it also had  "Navionics + Expired " at the top of my map...still don't know how to re-new ??????????

 

ROOK

[GBW]

Check you settings, This is a first I've seen this that I have 300+ days left.  

[KawarthaAngler]

It's a cool App.  I recently purchased it for $21 for my iPhone.  I loaded it with the lakes in the central Ontario area where I live/fish and it only took approx 100meg of space on the phone (not much).  It looks like just the Navionics on my Helix 7 and I think there may be a way to share info between the phone and Helix or Navionics SD card in the Helix ... but I'm not sure on that.

[captpierre]

Does anybody know how accurate the GPS is on an iPhone with the app?  Would it be as good as a sonar/GPS unit?

[Gregoire]

I checked my iPhone app, and it seems as though mine does not expire. I bought it years ago, so maybe I am grandfathered in to the non subscription option?

[porkpie]

Yes, my particular phone is an iPhone 6, and I have in the past run with my humminbird mounted to the bars on my bike.  I've looked at the phone for consistency and it's pretty close.  A lot would have to do with how accurate the GPS is in your phone and or sonar.  I can say on Simcoe at least, it's pretty accurate as far as depth and location goes, But I've found a few areas that it's off. I'll say the phone app is certainly more detailed than the old hotmaps chip in my portable sonar!! I also have had the navionics app for a long time, never been charged for it.  Maybe I won't do another update?

[AKRISONER]

16 hours ago, captpierre said:

Does anybody know how accurate the GPS is on an iPhone with the app?  Would it be as good as a sonar/GPS unit?

havent personally had too much of an issue...I have had problems with it knowing my bearing at times, I also have had a couple of experiences where i tracked off of course...but it quickly corrected...if you are driving new water that fast that a quick correction wont save you...The person driving like that probably deserves to lose the leg of their boat anyways.