SEAiq

I have been using SeaIQ for 2 years now. It was used to sail from fort Pierce to the Bahamas loading all Explorer charts (Raster). Then later loading all my vectors charts used on OpenCPN we sailed from the Bahamas to Cayman, Guatemala. Just had some issue with some S-63 charts - but I have the same issue with OpenCPN. The app is very intuitive and easy to learn. We are using it more now than our laptop and as a substitute to our Navionics chartplotter where some charts are unreliable. So far it is the best app for navigation. they could get all stars if I could use better Pacific Charts or my old CM-93 charts that are better than what their charts suppliers are selling!

Great navigation app. Uses NOAA Raster and ENC charts. All the extras like tides and are integrated nicely.

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Downloads, at least from the NOAA site, are excruciatingly slow in comparison to direct downloads from the site. Plus the app needs to be on screen with the iPad awake for downloads to complete. Any switching away can cause one or more chart downloads to fail, and you, rather than the app have to retry the update to pick up the missed charts. Lazy software design yields a poor user experience. The premium features would be worth the money but presumably the quality of the free version matches that of the paid version so no thanks.

I downloaded this app to use in the tender on iPad and iPhone and when not within range of our furuno tz touch. The 20 bucks to upgrade is well worth the price considering you can use it with already purchased or cm93 charts or with free us downloadable charts. If you want a chart plotter for a tenth the cost of a marine version I suggest this app, an iPad and a lifeproof cover. i honestly would be happy sailing around the world with one(and a few paper charts for spare;) I will mention that with the entire world downloaded the system runs a bit slower but if you only have the area you are using installed it seems to run faster. Also after installing it on your iPad and when you go to use it on your iPhone you just have to click purchase again and it will update although you don't get charged twice as long as your apple ID is the same. Happy sailing and thanks seaiq for putting chart plotters within reach of the common people. I wonder how long it is before everyone is using iPad as there main chart plotters?

Nice. Now I can use the same charts on my iDevice as I can on OpenCpn, cm93. I installed the entire world on a iPod Touch 4. Rendering can be a bit slow/choppy when starting out, but seems to cache some information as it gets a bit better when viewing areas already viewed previously. Would be nice to get GPS data from a TCP/IP source instead of only built in GPS (since mine does not have one). Will also conserve battery life if the internal GPS can be disabled. I could see this product be a great companion to OpenCpn as new features are added to the product. If the developer could provide a good integration/complement to OpenCpn I think there would be lots of interest. Add some pages to repeat NMEA data and you could easily have a repeater for your Nav system as well (assuming they offer TCP/IP support for nmea data). Well done so far, and looking forward to updates.