NV Charts GPS Navigation AIS

NV CHARTS

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About this app

Enhance your navigation experience with a seamless navigation solution that provides up-to-date digital nautical charts, comprehensive harbour information, and a full suite of navigation features.

The charts can be downloaded for offline use and offer exceptional compatibility with the NV Charts paper charts with a similar chart design.

All currently valid editions of the NV Verlag / NV Charts nautical charts or inland charts | North Sea | Baltic Sea | Netherlands | Wadden Sea | Ijsselmeer | Sweden | Denmark | Germany | Norway | France | USA | Caribbean | Bahamas areas are compatible with the NV Charts App.

Enjoy the best of both worlds - paper and digital: A perfect match is our popular combination package of high-quality digital charts and cleverly designed paper charts. Alternatively, you can also purchase digital nautical charts directly via the app with a convenient annual subscription that renews automatically. The integrated update service keeps the charts up to date.

If it is not yet clear where the journey should go or no offline charts are activated, free online charts can be displayed for all NV Charts chart areas, even without a currently valid chart licence.

Detailed and relevant information is essential for navigating safely on the water. With the NV Charts App, you are part of the BoatView community yourself. You can mark harbours, anchorages and navigation warnings on the digital nautical chart and also add pictures of interesting places that go beyond navigation, such as restaurants or popular attractions, and share them with the community. Others can respond directly with comments. The continuously edited content can be downloaded directly to be available offline. To make all the information easily accessible, the app offers a search function. You can explore the surroundings and search directly for place names as well as anchorages, harbours, ramps, waypoints, cranes, fuel stations or tide stations. The app also offers fast and flexible auto-routing, allowing you to navigate directly to your destination and edit a route manually.

Navigation on board is even more fun together! You can share your tracks with friends or use the data outside the app and export it as a GPX file. You can easily share your favourite harbours and anchorages from the app via a link and coordinate your trip planning even better with everyone.

The AIS function in the NV Charts App allows you to keep an eye on AIS signals in real time. A WiFi AIS receiver can be connected to the NV Charts App for this purpose. The AIS Class A and B targets and aids to navigation (ATON), as well as MOB AIS SART transponder emergency transmitters, are displayed, and the traffic situation can be better assessed.

The NV Charts App can be installed and synchronized on multiple devices.

NV Charts App - Features:
+ Search function
+ Autorouting (Europe + other regions following soon)
+ Velocity Made Good (VMG)
+ Community Layer / Points of Interest(POI)
+ Free online boating charts preview for planning
+ In App Purchases of digital offline charts
+ Community Layer / Points of Interest(POI)
+ Reads all NV Chart chart areas
+ Easy download of the maps
+ Always the latest data
+ Seamless zoom and panning functions
+ Tide Forecast
+ Online weather
+ AIS Wifi Support
+ AIS Sart Beacon
+ AIS CPA function
+ Night mode
+ Anchor alarm
+ Position with GPS
+ Intuitive route planning
+ Course markings, markings, bearing ruler
+ Port information
+ Display of instruments
+ Synchronizing devices
+ Live Position Sharing
+ Social sharing of routes, tracks, positions

Note:
Continued use of GPS in the background can significantly reduce battery life.
For hardware compatibility see FAQs on our website.

Ratings and reviews

The charts are accurate and useful, but the account setting and payment options need significant improvement. I created an account on my mobile 3 years ago and downloaded a chart that since then was updated every year, at nearly 50 EUR. I got charged a day early, and when trying to access the map could not even see it because it was "expired". I also had great difficulties activating the account on a second device. Also, the left-side menu in the app is nonintuitive, and the app generally slow.

At best, the app shows the charts you have purchased (one by one). Syncing of routes and markers between various devices (iOS, Android and MacOS), a rather basic function, does not work... Hilarious that now the app has augmentic reality: they are trying to run before they can walk.... Question is of course if it is even feasible for NVCharts to make a decent digital app: the charts can only be displayed one by one in the app. Basic architecture seems wrong...

Fantastic chart app. Easy to use and responsive

What's new

# POI download improvement
# BoatView share download improvement
# Online and offline detection improvement
# Minor improvements
# Improved app speed and stability
# Enhanced NV Charts Vector Chart Engine V4
# Improved AIS CPA and anchor alarm
# Improved search for coordinates
# New offline availability of wind and current data
# Improvement empty COG values NMEA
# Help texts in the menu
And much more. See all changes at nvcharts.com > NV Charts App > FAQ