WaterNav User Reviews

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River Canal Rescue Ltd

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Horrendous UX

As a user experience designer I find myself so frustrated on so many journeys inside this app. The most frustrating is the ‘forgotten password’ workflow. You enter your email and there’s no button to submit it so it’s an impossible task to complete, leaving me permanently unable to use this as a logged in user. The select region button doesn’t work, the login pages don’t scroll, so when a keyboard overlays the UI it’s impossible to input data below the visible fields. I could go on, or if you have any UX jobs going I’d happily help you to solve these for you.
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Crashes every time

Great app when it works but soon as you try to make an account the app crashes ever time.
Ive reached out to the devs but no email back.
Gutted to be honest.

Less useful now

'Major rewrite' is much less usable. Cannot focus on things that matter, its ugly, slow to load, paints slow. For example i want to turn off places on interest and only focus on canal stuff - water points, locks, services- but it never saves that preference. RCR part works well thus two stars. Map is zero stars
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Great app but….

This is a great app but still needs much work. Some of the times and distances for journeys are way way out.

Good keep at it but crashes

Cannot login to RCR on iPad. Crashes back to Home Screen.
Keep working on the search screen make results more eeditable and no need to tell it to search or cancel twice.
Apart from that, good stuff keep it going.

It’s an ok app

The app itself is good and has great functionality. However something that I find frustrating about it is that you cannot say you want to do a circular route I.E Cheshire ring or 4 counties ring without having to force a via point in several places

Good, when it works

Gives great info re journey planning, but often freezes on home screen of app and won’t load; this bugginess makes it a very frustrating choice compared to others available.

Good but frustrating

I like the App but every time I come back to it I have to delete because it won’t load no matter how long you leave it
Just very frustrating
Delete than reinstall and login again

Great in principle

A really useful app and one that has the potential to be so powerful for those navigating inland waterways. However, it often fails to get past the loading stage and crashes at this point. The live journey tracking is also inadequate and fails to keep up with boat movements, leading to missed turns and stops on unfamiliar waterways. Please sort these simple issues as when it’s working it is a genuinely great app!
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Great for short trips

Great update & good for short trip planning like a lot of the features. But some tout planing needs work as often does not take the correct route atherstone to hawkesbury is only 7 hours ish 40 miles but kept going round Birmingham Warwick & rugby rather than the few locks .. kept up the work . Maybe add a via option
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