Best AyeTides XL alternatives: apps like AyeTides XL

AyeTides XL is great, but it's not the only option. Explore 8+ similar apps for iPhone and iPad, each reviewed and rated by real users. Find free alternatives, premium upgrades, and hidden gems.

Top Alternatives to AyeTides XL

SEAiq Pilot by Sakhalin

#1 App for Pro Marine Pilots

Editor's Choice

4.9😊(453 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

This navigation app provides advanced charting and real-time vessel data for professional marine pilots. It supports various chart formats and external NMEA/AIS devices, offering features like predicted vessel display and docking aids. A free trial is available, with an in-app purchase for permanent access.

What We Love

👍 User-friendly and intuitive
🚀 Fast and efficient performance
🌟 Comprehensive functionalities
💡 Innovative features
✅ Reliable and dependable
💰 Excellent value for money
🛠️ Highly customizable
🤝 Outstanding customer support
📈 Continuous improvement and updates
🗺️ Supports various chart formats (ENCs, S63, Raster)
⚓ Excellent for pilotage and docking
🌐 Works with various hardware configurations
🎯 Accurate and precise navigation
🧰 Loads of useful features
💯 Professional grade navigation

Room to Improve

📉 Increasing cost
❓ Chart loading can be tedious
⚠️ Waypoints can be accidentally deleted
🤔 Difficulty in purchasing subscriptions
🎨 Graphics could be improved
❓ Chartworld integration issues
📱 Performance issues on older devices

Boat Beacon by Pocket Mariner Ltd.

AIS Marine Navigation

Strong Contender

4.6😐(868 ratings)

$14.99In-App Purchases

#54in Navigation

This marine navigation app provides real-time AIS data for collision avoidance and position sharing. It offers over-the-horizon warnings, background operation, and a user-friendly interface for boaters.

What We Love

👍 Works great
🚀 Excellent app
🔒 Fantastic app
💡 Useful navigation aid
👍 Handy app
👍 Superb app
👍 Great app
👍 Awesome app
👍 Excellent AIS tool
👍 Best alternative to AIS

Room to Improve

🐛 Crashes constantly
🐛 Unreliable
🐛 Doesn't work
🐛 Useless
🐛 Clunky UI
🐛 Inaccurate data
🐛 Limited coverage
💰 Expensive for features
🔋 High battery consumption

SEAiq by Sakhalin

Worth Considering

Cruise planning and navigation

4.7😐(194 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

This marine navigation app offers comprehensive charting capabilities, allowing users to load various standard chart formats and download NOAA charts. It includes essential navigation tools like waypoints, routes, and an anchor alarm, along with weather overlays and NMEA/AIS integration.

What We Love

👍 Highly reliable navigation app
💡 Tons of features
✨ Clean and sensical interface
🚀 Versatile for plotting routes/waypoints
📊 Estimating AIS target crossing range
💻 Visualizing vessel data
⚙️ NMEA data smoothing
🌙 Dark mode option
🚨 Alarm customization
🗺️ Custom satellite charts (.kap files)
🆓 Free NOAA charts (US)
📂 Easily accessible chart files/tracks
🚫 Never crashed
💬 Responsive developer support
🌟 Professional-grade tools
⚓ Chart tool functionality (EBLs, VRMs)
🧭 AIS functionality (course vectors, rate of turn)
✅ Official ENCs display
🛠️ Supports S-63 charts
💯 Good for marine pilots
🌐 Works with official maps (Hong Kong)
🚀 NMEA/AIS features
📊 Data bar on map
✅ Reliable app
🔌 Integrates with Active Captain
🔋 Offline use with Aye Tides
💨 Fast NOAA chart downloads (US)
💻 Planning/plotting on laptop
📈 NOAA Raster and ENC charts
⚙️ Tides integrated nicely
🇭🇰 Works in Hong Kong waters
🚀 VMG feature (missing)
🌍 Free world charts (CM93)
💡 Ability to use own charts
💯 Best nav software by far
✅ Coded by experienced users
🚀 Fast chart updater
⭐ First rate app
🌐 Offline functionality (99%)
💨 Download gribs via SSB
💯 Serious navigator app
💰 Upgrade worth the price
🛰️ GPS data from TCP/IP source (request)
🔄 NMEA data TCP/IP support (request)
🗺️ Display CM93 CMap charts
✅ Try-before-you-buy capability
🚀 Excellent software
💯 Miles ahead of the fleet
🌍 Sailing around the world
💡 Comprehensive app
🔄 Exporting routes easily
✨ AIS functionality excellent
⭐ Actual size feature (AIS)
✅ Solid feature set
🚀 AIS repeater from laptop
💰 Chart plotters for a tenth the cost
🚀 Works well now
💯 Outstanding bit of kit

Room to Improve

😩 Tedious to plot a course
🔧 Complicated chart setup initially
🤔 Not user friendly
📚 Instructions not very helpful
⏳ Time wasted on simple things
🐌 Chart downloader excruciatingly slow
📱 App needs to be on screen for downloads
⚠️ Switching away causes download failures
🔄 Retrying updates needed
📉 Lazy software design
👎 Poor user experience
🤔 Chart suppliers issue with cross-device use
🐌 App speed could be improved
😕 Creating routes/waypoints clunky
🔍 Options hard to find
📈 Learning curve steep
🇺🇸 US charts take priority
📉 CM93 charts no longer supported
❌ No option to load older version
🗑️ Useless waste of money (charts)
💸 Expensive charts
🤷‍♂️ Gave up trying to get it to work
❓ ActiveCaptain feature not working
😭 Screwed by updates
💸 Waste of money
👎 Dropped support for CM93
💰 Hundreds of charts stopped working
📉 Update happened mid-trip
⚠️ Company willing to do this to customers
💸 Hundreds of dollars worth of charts useless
📉 Not unique feature set anymore
💰 Lost considerable money
🚫 App with no use
📉 Developer withdraws support
😭 Unhappy about lost money
👎 CM93 no longer supported
😩 Wasted money
❓ CM93 NOT SUPPORTED???
📉 Lost support for CM93
💸 Expensive app
📉 Bait and Switch
📉 Developers stopped supporting CM93
🗑️ App now worthless
👎 Dropped CM93 support
📉 Turned useful app into worthless app
💰 Full paid version, no refund
😔 Very un happy
🐌 Rendering can be slow
🐌 Full CM93 set is huge
😕 App doesn't allow selection of discreet areas
🤔 Confusing variations of same app
💰 Upgrade asks for more money
❓ Not explaining what you get
👎 Download yet another app for upgrade
🔄 Need to reinstall charts
🛠️ Needs a lot of work to be user friendly
💥 Crashes
🥶 Freezes iPad
💸 40 dollars to create waypoints is brutally expensive
💰 10 dollars would have been better
💸 Cost of charts on top of application
❓ Icons for vessels are basic
😔 It does nothing free
❓ Not intuitive on chart loading
💰 Everything is an upgrade
🗑️ Useless as a free app
⭐ Less than one star

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