Link: Connect Your Boat

2.2
553 reviews
100K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

The Link app gives you remote control of Wi-Fi enabled Simrad, Lowrance, or B&G multifunction displays from your smartphone or tablet. Link lets you select any Wi-Fi enabled display on board, duplicates the screen in real-time on your mobile device, and puts control of most display functions at your fingertips.

Work with charts, sonar, and radar, control your on-board entertainment system, view data from connected engines and instruments, and much more. With Link, you’re constantly connected to your boat’s key systems from anywhere on board – making it easier to plan trips, fish, sail, handle maintenance, and otherwise make the best of your time on the water.

Link also gives you the ability to wirelessly back up and restore waypoints, routes, tracks, and display settings directly to your mobile device. This makes it easier than ever to protect your valuable boating data against loss or theft, and to keep your backups up-to-date with zero hassle.

The Link app is compatible with Simrad NSS evo3, NSS evo2, NSO evo2, and GO series displays; Lowrance HDS Carbon, HDS Gen3, HDS Gen2 Touch, and Elite Ti fishfinder/chartplotters; and B&G Zeus³, Zeus², and Vulcan sailing chartplotters. Displays without built-in Wi-Fi require an additional WiFi-1 module. To enable the Link app, a free software update may be required for your display.

Link is designed to work with Android devices running Android 4.4 or above.

Should you experience issues with the Link app, we would recommend that you download the Simrad, Lowrance, or B&G apps which benefit from the latest upgrades.
Updated on
Aug 23, 2020

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Ratings and reviews

2.5
409 reviews
Russell Gache
September 5, 2020
This app is deficient. Its essential purpose is to provide an importation link to allow a phone or tablet to transfer routs, tracks, and waypoints into a chart plotter like Simrad. Navico owns Simrad. They also own CMap. So, if you use Navoincs maps, your will be frustrated with this app. This app does not fully support Navionics because you cannot import tracks from a phone or tablet using Navionics. If you live in Norway, where Navico is based, CMap is fine. But we boat in the Florida keys, where Tracks are essential to finding key fishing spots and returning again. Tracks cannot be imported with this app. Even to import waypoints and routes is a complicated hassle requiring about 17 steps. Also, their tech support is almost useless. The only way to get tech support is to email them, and then it took over a month for them to respond. Their responses were essentially, we really do not care, go cry to someone else, why are you bothering us. But, at least I know why now. They sell CMap which competes with Navioncs. Navionics, are you listening? There is no way to get your tracks into a chart plotter. Hello! Is Garmin trying to put you out of business? You had better get this fixed.
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April Granato
June 23, 2020
Very handy. Duplicates my Lowrance HDS9 locator screen and I can change screens and navigate through menus, etc., right from my phone. Only complaint would be that it seems to take longer than it should to connect to the phone, even if it's a remembered device. Otherwise no problems or real issues. Love this app!!
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Ronnie Stacy
June 13, 2020
I'd like it a lot more if you guys could work out how to use it with my Google Pixel 2 XL. Does not work. It's a glitch in this phone's wifi system. A majorly popular phone, because otherwise one of the best. Google, Lowrance, somebody needs to fix. Works great on the iPad Pro. Just updated my review - no updates in 2 years!
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What's new

Added support for the NSO evo3S MPU and Zeus3S GH MPU devices.
Also improved auto discovery of devices on your vessel's network.