MarineTraffic Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience49.6% of reviews
Neutral5.4% of reviews
Negative experience45.0% of reviews

~ Based on 3,100 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 94/100.

This assessment is based on 64,997 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
2.9% 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

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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New update removed features

New update removed features that I paid for, basically all this is good for now is looking at a map nothing more

Not good anymore.

Used to work fine, now every time I click on a ship I am asked to upgrade to “pro”. Uninstalled.

Misleading

App lets you skip the subscription page and tells you what you have access to on the free tier, but it’s all a crock. If a vessel is more than about 10 metres away from you, it’s paywalled so in effect you can’t do anything without paying.

Отлично, НО!

Отличное приложение, но уже который раз после очередного обновления не хочет открываться с первого раза. На экране просто отображается логотип приложения, а само приложение не прогружается. Думал уже купить подписку, но после таких обновлений желание покупать подписку испаряется.

What a shame

It used to be a good free app - now it’s useless free, apparently the new colour scheme is grey - that’s it. Bring back the old free app!

Ruined app - the past 6 months of updates destroyed it

Ruined app - the past 6 months of updates destroyed it. What was a beautiful app destroyed in the name of progress.

WHY DOES IT RECENTER THE APP NOW EVERY TIME I CLICK ON A SHIP? WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD FEATURE? THE PHOTO CAROUSEL WAS GUTTED AND RUINED, AIS DATA THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY FREE MAGICAL PAYWALLED. EVIL GREEDY COMPANY.
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Paying for subscription that doesn’t work.

I am currently paying for the max subscription plan you can pay for annually and I still can’t seem to have updated charts save boats to my Fleet, etc. not working needs to be fixed

Be careful…

Love this app, however, literally had pornographic ads on the bottom of the screen in this app.

Can’t even sign up for Pro Plan

When I go to select the annual plan, the app stalls and says loading plans and does not allow me to click to select annual.

Paid for the Pro Plan

I paid for the pro plan on June 5, 2026. When I went to look at something today it says I need to purchase the Pro plan to see the information. I’m not paying twice. I cannot find any contact information for customer service. I want what I paid for.

Free part not free

Not sure what happened but it doesn’t seem to let you look at the past track anymore. Instead it takes you to a screen to sell you the pro plan. But when you compare the regular plan with pro plan it clearly states the past 24 track is free. Not so anymore, and false advertising. I liked this app otherwise but there’s others out there.
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Poor

0 star, used to be good, now it isn’t worth it, better off finding something else

I don’t understand

I have been using this app for years. Recently after an update I have been having problems. Today it is working fine on my iPad Pro. On my iPhone 16, iPad Mini and my wife’s iPad I can see the vessels but I click on a vessel and I get the message “Couldn’t retrieve vessel data”. The OS is 27.0.1 on all devices.
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App has connection issues

The app has no problem showing vessels on the map and they move, but when you press on one it says “Couldn’t retrieve vessels data”. Major issue.

Terrible update

Used MarineTraffic for years, they started ruining this app last year and each update has gotten worse and less functional. Now it no longer works properly even with a paid subscription. I’ll be finding an alternative. I would advise anyone else do the same.

Garbage

Had to take the time to review this app. 1 star for inability to face a literal map in a southbound orientation. Horrible.

2.0 IS TERRIBLE 😡😡😡

This app used to have great features but now this French company or whoever took over and ruined it! YOU CANT EVEN SEE THE NAMES OF VESSELS WITHOUT TAPPING ON THEM ANYMORE! Boom just this morning I kept out of bed and was awakened to the disgusting notification of “marine traffic has an update” I was excited. Then my worst nightmare happened. OLD ACCOUNT SIGNED OUT! FRIENDS BOAT I SAVED GONE! AND WORST OF ALL SEARCH BAR AT THE TOP GONE!!! The old app was amazing this new app is AI SLOP! They say they have added new features, man, the only new features they added was AI SLOP!! AND ANGRY USERS!😡😡😡.


It is sad that they ruined a perfectly good app.

Edit: as you can see marine traffic has made an ugly response.

Edit 2: September 27 2026, Marine traffic has banned me from the app.

Hey marine traffic, when you get this app together let me know…
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