MarineTraffic Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience49.4% of reviews
Neutral5.4% of reviews
Negative experience45.3% of reviews

~ Based on 3,117 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about MarineTraffic

Is MarineTraffic Safe?

MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for MarineTraffic is 95/100.

This assessment is based on 65,019 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

94.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 64,997 App Store ratings for MarineTraffic.

Is MarineTraffic Legit?

MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for MarineTraffic is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Where is it going?

I’m tired of clicking on boats in the Great Lakes that tell you where they are coming from but this app keeps it secret as to where they are going. Or it glitches and the destination is the exact same as where it says it came from.

Many, many times, the destination is blank. This never happened before the big ol’ update.

Definitely not a fan of this app anymore and I’ve already deleted all the other marine apps on my phone because this WAS THE BEST. WAS being the keyword here.
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Fun, educational. Track your ships!

I used to love this app. Now that was bought by Kpler it totally sucks. For starters, the map is different and now every useful feature requires a subscription.
I paid for an annual subscription and it’s still not working properly. Garbage!

Hugely disappointing changes to the Marine Traffic App

I used to enjoy using this app but the changes that have been made have been awful. The colours are insipid and trying to access the information is difficult.
I hope the developer improves the appearance and functionality of the app. As it is now it is not worth using. Frustrating!

You destroyed this app

As a marine pro who uses this on a daily basis u have destroyed this app, the old version was far better. Go back to the old version….

Ruined

App in free version is just about useless now.

Disappointing now.

I have had this app for many years. Everything has suddenly changed since the update and I can’t see things that I could before. I can’t even find more than one photo of a vessel - I assume we need to pay more to see this now? I’ll be paying less in future if things don’t improve, and then I’ll be finding another tracking app.
UPDATE - annoyingly since the major update I now realise I can’t even see the past track of a ship, which is something that I wanted and was paying the required amount to see this. Why has this been removed?

Thank you for your response to my update. I’m sorry you are disheartened, however I’m getting the distinct impression that you want me to pay more money now to be able to see the past and predicted track? I used to have the app for free but I then chose to pay the annual sum required at the time to be able to get that function, but now you’ve taken the function away. How do you get away with doing that when I’m paying for it?
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Even worse than it was

New update is worse yet! Ready to give up on this app.

Love the app, hate having to login every time

Seriously, why do they log me out more frequently than my bank? No I don't want to pay for your app again, please stop showing me ads, I already subscribe.

Less information than previously

This app used to be really good but more and more information is being pay walled. Disappointing

Awesome!

It has all the features you could ever need for free, and yes some information is behind a paywall, but that is expected. Great work!

Not Even Close

Searched for a specific vessel and it was found on Lake Michigan. MTST reported it was heading to Charlevoix but showed the vessel heading South off Kewaunee, Wi in the opposite direction. So I'm unclear if the destination was reported wrong or perhaps the captain redirected.

Terrible

Do Not Waste Your Money or Time !!! Nothing is Working !!!SCAM Site

Pro plan doesn’t work

I used the app for a long time before they updated to this new version and it was way better before. Now I pay for the subscription and it still won’t work. Waste of money

Don't update

The new version is a shambles to the way it worked previously. Hopefully there will be more of these apps in the future so we have a choice which to use.

Go elsewhere.

I’m a marine professional and part d to use this app gladly for 15+ years. Now, since the awful update I’ve tried to keep faith, hoping against hope that incremental updates would restore the app to even half its functionality.
Given how reliant on the old app I was i would pay decent money to get the functionality it had before.
Ships now routinely don’t appear which is completely useless. The vector arrow is totally unusable by people that know what they are doing.
Developers, resign. You’ve created a mockery. After 9 months all subscriptions cancelled. Will the last one out please turn out the light.
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PoS app

No reference to LANDmarks. No reference to anything.

Rubbish

Used to be quite good. Now use Vessel finder.

Not as good

Used to be the go-to ship tracker app. It’s latest versions take longer to load and fail to show any traffic when changing zoom levels. It’s got worse which is a disappointment.

Range & bearing

Missing the range & bearing feature like the old version.
A simple range & bearing from A to B.
Also the option to have wind barbs on the weather chart.

Trash

This is such a simple concept for an app and they somehow have managed to royally screw it up. This app used to be great—easy to use, full of useful information. Now, absolute trash. Hard to use, nothing works as it should. Makes me think that it’s being run by AI with no human involvement because there is no way a real person could develop this garbage and think that it’s good.
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