ActiveCaptain® User Reviews
Customer Experience
~ Based on 890 written reviews from the US App Store.
What users say
Summarized from real user reviews of ActiveCaptain®. Based on 5K reviews and a 4.0/5 average, it highlights the 5 positives and 5 negatives reviewers mention most about this Navigation app.
Positive things
- 👍Easy to use
- 🚀Seamless integration with Garmin devices
- 💡Useful for planning trips and managing waypoints
- 🚀Convenient for updating software and charts
- 👍Great app for Garmin users
Negative things
- 🐛Frequent crashes and connection issues
- 🔍Limited chart and mapping functionality compared to competitors
- 🤔Difficult to transfer data between devices
- 🤔Confusing and not very intuitive user interface
- 💰Expensive for the features provided
Is ActiveCaptain® Safe?
ActiveCaptain® appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for ActiveCaptain® is 80/100.
This assessment is based on 5,011 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4/5.
Safety Analysis
~ Based on 5,011 App Store ratings for ActiveCaptain®.
Is ActiveCaptain® Legit?
ActiveCaptain® appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for ActiveCaptain® is 90/100.
Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.
Top reviews
Very user friendly!
The UHD chartplotter with Active Captain is the bomb!! easy update straight from cell to the unit!
Works seamlessly with our GPSMAP 923xsv with Ondeck system - keep up the good work and enhancements please!!!
Great companion with my Livescope. Allows preplanning on unfamiliar lakes, and perfect to uploaded fish attractant ares to boat database
So far it’s all very easy to understand, easy to use and I’m sure going to be great on the water.
It is very easy to use and the data and track or exact and help find fish and your way to the fish
It refuses to stay connected to each other at the boat. Routes dont transfer. The whole idea of the app i assumed was to NOT have to spend time at the screen console once your on the boat. Its not intuitive and no robust sync connection. I hate ot frankly. Lol. The app Its garbage.
Not as good as the boat app . Clunky needs much improvements
Activated my Echomap in conjunction with the app and this works wonders. I can use it by itself to which I’ve done and works as advertised.
Really the worst app and interface to devices I have ever dealt with.
Easy to understand , very friendly and powerful
Spent 200 bucks on a chart to download on my sd card…but the files won’t copy to sd card so I got this app per instructions and now my download is on my phone and not a sd card and I can’t connect to my Garmin plotter to upload because it is older….scam…should have just order the disk and had it mailed
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Muy útil
No sign off option
This is ridiculously confusing. It’s not intuitive in any way shape or form. It’s an all day affair to update maps after paying hundreds of dollars for various optional Maps. It’s the most frustrating experience ever.
This display is magnificent. I’m glad I switched from my 21-yr-old FURUNO display. I also like having a radar overlay option on foggy days. My AIS transponder syncs nicely with the output as well. Best choice I’ve made in a while. I learned it’s not necessary to have two identical GPS 8616xsv. A better option would have been one cab and one without transducer interfacing. Active Captan app works very well.
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Spent hours trying to update software on my chartplotter and radar through this app only to finally use sd card instead. Unreliable, useless, flaky, and poor user experience — same feedback for any other garmin product I tried. Raymarine and B&G are a million times better.
Pour travailler, comme planifier ses routes, mettre les waypoints, suivre sur une tablette quand quelqu’un d’autre conduit votre bateau, c’est merveilleux. C’est beaucoup plus facile de travailler sur une tablette dans ActiveCaptain que sur le traceur Garmin directement et on peut faire ça à distance et/ou l’hiver. Ce qui manque, c’est de ne pas être capable de l’utiliser sur mon ordinateur portable. Et sur mon cellulaire c’est trop petit. Je dois donc emprunter l’iPad de mon conjoint, ce qui le prive de son iPad.
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I love how everythingGarmin interfaces so nicely together and works so well together and is user friendly
Hard to use and no help from Garmin


