# SEAiq USA — user reviews > 48 indexed App Store user reviews of SEAiq USA by Sakhalin, rated 4.70/5 from 500 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/seaiq-usa/id519545162/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/seaiq-usa/id519545162.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 391 · 4★ 84 · 3★ 13 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 6 ## What do users think of SEAiq USA? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 📊 Accurate and detailed navigation charts - 💰 Excellent value for price - 🆓 Free NOAA chart downloads - 📱 Works offline after chart download - 🚢 AIS data integration - 📍 Easy waypoint and route creation - 🔄 Seamless chart quilting and management - ⚓ Anchor monitoring feature - 📚 Comprehensive in-app documentation - 🛠️ Responsive developer support - 🔗 Active Captain integration - 🌊 Tide and current data options - 📤 Easy GPX export/import functionality - 🎯 Intuitive user interface - 🔌 NMEA 0183 data integration - 🗺️ Both raster and vector chart support - 🌙 Night vision-friendly display **Cons** - 🐢 Slow performance on older devices - ❌ No way to delete imported tracks - ❌ Cannot rename imported tracks - ⚠️ Discontinued Active Captain data support - 🔐 Limited free version features - 📵 Requires current device for responsiveness - 🔗 Difficulty linking iPad to iPhone GPS - ⏱️ Slow chart display and panning - 🔄 Long Active Captain synchronization times **Commonly reported bugs** - Chart download failures with error messages - App incompatibility with iOS 8 updates causing loss of purchase - Performance degradation on iPad 3 and older devices - Slow zoom and pan responsiveness - Active Captain integration not fully functional in free version - Deceptive Active Captain marker display without content access **Most requested features** - Delete and rename imported tracks functionality - Track export as CSV spreadsheet with date, time, course, speed, location - International chart support in free version - Precipitation weather integration - More prominent waypoint highlighting when route not selected - Enhanced navigation marker visibility - Improved iPad-to-iPhone GPS sharing ## Newest reviews (19 of 48) ### 4/5 — No way to delete imported tracks *2021-10-15* Seems like there is no way to delete imported tracks. Also wish there was a way to rename them. ### 4/5 — Track feature *2020-08-11* Track should show date, time, course, speed and location and easily exported as .csv spreadsheet file. ### 5/5 — Among the best; with Active Captain *2017-05-24, version 4.4.7* Tried half a dozen nav apps, sticking with this one. Intuitive gestures, clear explanations of settings, relatively easy to export and import waypoints and routes. Still my favorite! ### 5/5 — Navigation *2017-03-16* I was sailing two weeks ago around Matagorda bay in Texas and use my iPad with SEAiq for navigation. Matagorda bay is very shallow and many sand bars it was taking my 35 ft sailboat with 6" draft between sand bars, and distance between sand bars very narrow. My opinion it very good software with accurate navigation map. I was born, raised and learn sailing on Baltic Sea for me it is very unusual shallowness of the Texas coast but on my Gouteron 35 I feel very comfortable while navigating with SEAiq. Thank you ### 5/5 — Great sail charts *2017-03-13, version 4.4.2* SEAiq free does a great job! Just need to down load the free charts and you are set to go. No purchases required and lots of extra features. The only down side is there is no way to get international charts. ### 5/5 — Pretty Good *2016-11-30, version 4.3.6* Decent app. Needs a current device to be responsive. Otherwise pretty good. ### 3/5 — Great app for everything. *2016-10-16, version 4.3.2* It has great details for depth, active captain built in, doesn't need data to work once all the maps are downloaded. We use it everyday. ### 5/5 — Good product *2016-08-30, version 4.2.6* SeaIQ is a useful product for the price. ### 5/5 — Awesome for free *2016-07-30, version 4.2.5* Remarkably accurate and functional navigation info for free. ### 5/5 — Very Useful *2016-07-28, version 4.2.6* This is a great app and highly useful when out on big waters. It does most of the functions that software costing 100s per year do. ### 5/5 — Excellent App *2016-03-27* I have been using this app now for about 2 years. Right now using it on an older gen 2 iPad that is a little slow but still works well. I use it beside my MFD while cruising as my main chart system. I find the charting and GPS to be really accurate! At this point I do not use the AIS function but do use with my Active Captain login. I had an issue after an update but sent an email through the app and it was quickly fixed. Overall I'd say it's a really great program. With the ability to download the latest charts form NOAA for free you just can't bet it. I would recommend it to anyone at this point who are costal cruisers. Since I've never really used it for off shore I cannot tell you anything about that. Thanks guys for a great app. ### 3/5 — Who knows! *2016-03-25, version 4.1.1* Their free and option to buy, open and commercial. I'm sure I paid for something, although not much, but can only use the "free" app. I'm missing something! ### 5/5 — Easy to use *2015-11-08, version 3.9.0* I was looking for a navigation app that could receive NMEA data, SEAiq does it beautiful. Now I have a powerful chart plus all my boats instruments in one easy to read display. AIS integration is great. ### 5/5 — Hands down the best boating nav app *2015-07-05* I've tried pretty much all of the available apps for nav. Even the more expensive ones I found cumbersome with difficult user interface. But for the past 2 seasons I've used this app exclusively. In fact, I now mount my iPad above my pedestal chart plotter and have found myself only using this app with the fixed chartplotter as backup! Very easy to use, intuitive, nice integration of activecaptain and tide graphs. Simple to send your saved waypoints and routes to your other devices. Incredible help/response from the developer. Lets you choose layout (I prefer the old raster layout which many newer apps don't support). I have nothing critical to say. Absolutely perfect app. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2015-04-04, version 3.8.0* Intuitive and excellent automated chart update process ### 5/5 — SEAiq Free *2015-02-22* This is an outstanding program! Love the integration of the winds and pressure data being displayed as well as the AIS data. Also the integration of Active Captain info and tide app data is awesome. I really did extensive trials on other well known sailing/boating navigation apps and SEAiq was by far the best in functionality needed for my husband and I for sailing. The flexibility and intuitive addition of way points to a route function is great and each leg direction/distance showing when a route is selected. The improvements I would like to see are integration of precipitation weather, waypoints standing out more when the route is not selected, and maybe navigation markers be a little more highlighted (although it's good enough). Overall, terrific program. ### 5/5 — So far so good! *2015-02-04* Not a flashy interface but it all works well and it works with my onboard wifi nmea interface for sailing data. I'll get more time on it next season but I'm really happy with the app, including the in app purchase for WAY less than the big names. ### 5/5 — Good chart viewer *2015-01-23, version 3.7.6* It's nice having both raster and vector charts available. I use this solely as an electronic chart viewer. Seems pretty limited as a backup chart plotter. ### 4/5 — Great *2013-12-23* Great app thus far. Since it's winter on East Coat I can't comment on it in use but I have set up routes and waypoints getting ready for summer. It's is very easy to use and to set up waypoints and the send those waypoint to routes. The chart display looks great and detailed. The customer service is exceptional. I sent an email with a question and had reply back within a couple hours on a Sunday. Looks and works great and sure beats spending $700 on a chart plotter. Can't give it 5 stars until spring and I get it out on the water. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Only works with ios8 *2015-05-29, version 3.8.3* If you purchase this with a prior iOS system you will lose your purchase app with the update. They don't care. ### 1/5 — Too ..... S... L....o.....w...... *2013-07-11, version 3.0.0* It takes forever to see the chart ! ### 1/5 — Worthless *2013-03-01, version 2.3.0* Worthless, forces you to buy update. Save your time, find another App. ### 1/5 — No help! *2012-11-17, version 2.2.0* This is the worst app I have downloaded. It consistently fails to download charts selected, and displays multiple error messages. The app developer has not responded to multiple requests for help in resolving these issues. If you decide to try this app, GOOD LUCK. It is not worth the price at this point. ### 1/5 — No active Captain in free version *2012-11-15, version 2.2.0* I use Active Captain a lot. Read in there newsletter about this app. It may be a good product, but will not allow AC interface in free version ### 1/5 — Why bother? *2012-10-10, version 2.0.0* Why bother creating a free version if it has zero features. No maps are available in the free version. Useless. ### 1/5 — PeteEpete *2012-10-09, version 2.0.0* P O S. Can't do anything unless u pay for the upgrade.... And I mean nothing all it does is show u a pic of the globe ### 2/5 — Poor active captain integration *2013-08-07, version 3.1.0* It does not integrate well with AC. It not only does not let you update anything but does not even show you the reviews on each marina. I will try the chartplotter part when I get back to the states from Canada. ### 2/5 — Painfully slow on iPad 3 *2013-06-23* I gave this a try for the Active Captain support (which works well but too a very long time to synchronize). Overall the app is painfully slow when zooming, panning, etc... on my iPad 3. It takes multiple seconds to update the display any time the chart is panned or zoomed and that makes it really hard to use for trip planning. It also takes forever to bring up additional info on selected points. The quality of the NOAA vector charts was otherwise very good. ### 2/5 — ActiveCaptain not really enabled... *2012-12-22, version 2.2.1* I was encouraged that this update "enabled" ActiveCaptain support, and sure enough, you can enter your login info and it will display the markers. However, you cannot get any of the info from the markers without paying for the upgrade. Deceptive... How is one to evaluate this software as an effective portal to ActiveCaptain just be seeing the markers, but not being able to see the contents? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love this app *2022-11-03* Have been using it for decades! Great support! ### 5/5 — GREAT APP FOR BACK UP NAVIGATION *2021-03-02* As a licensed captain this app has save me three different times in the past couple years. I was in some real hairy predicaments and having plotter trouble, the SEA IQ was a life saver giving me information I needed to navigate safely out of certain predicaments. I highly recommend every captain download the app on their smart phones if you want to feel secure in case your GPS plotter lets you down! ### 5/5 — Our main charting tool *2020-11-25* Although we have a full electronics suite in our trawler, when cruising , our primary charting tool is SEAiq on an iPad. The updated charts with the AIS target overlay are invaluable to us and we found this program to be one of the best bangs for the buck! ### 5/5 — Paper Charts *2020-10-22* I have SEAiq USA on two iPad Pro 12.9” devices, one primary one backup. I supplement them with a chartplotter. I do not carry paper charts, which are out-of-date the moment ink hits paper. I can hear the “gotta have paper” crowd howling, but for the last several years of a career flying a 400,000 pound jet all over the U.S., in the cockpit for charts were two off-the-shelf iPads, one for the captain, one for the first officer. We also had two moving maps that are roughly analogous to a chartplotter. So if you’re a paper purist, don’t get on a commercial jet. There will be no paper. ### 5/5 — Great tool *2020-02-10* Amazing g Ap! ### 5/5 — Ok, but no longer supports new Active Captain data. *2019-01-21* I have used Seaiq for several years as my iPad backup to the boats chartplotter. It does a good job at that and I like its raster chart capability. But they no longer support new Active Captain data and if you had not used Seaiq with the old AC then you cant download any AC data. So I am now mostly using Aqua Map. David ### 5/5 — OUTSTANDING APP!! *2018-05-07* Michael, Just downloaded the 7-day trial with Premium and absolutely amazed at how much great info it has even for us non boaters (currently). Keep up the GREAT app / updates / upgrades. Suggesting this app to my boating friends as we speak ;) Tom ### 5/5 — A LOT of function and value *2017-09-27* I've looked at various iOS charting apps to find one that leveraged the information available on my boat network - speed, heading, COG, depth, etc. I never found anything that really met my needs. I went back and found an app I had liked and rejected a year or so ago: SEAiq Pilot. There was a lot to like about the app but I'd be danged if I was going to spend $400 on an iOS app. However... I discovered I was confused by how they sell their apps. There are really 3 different versions available: * SEAiq Pilot is intended for use by professional pilots on big ships. It has a lot of features focused on that market such as showing separate course vectors for the bow and stern, showing the swept path of the vessel, showing a trial Rate of Turn, and tons of stuff I don't understand. $400 * SEAiq USA is the 'recreational' version of the program. It has 80%-90% of the functionality of Pilot. It can download and display NOAA and Army Corp of Engineer charts (vector and raster). $25 * SEAiq Open is the same as SEAiq USA but adds the ability to install S-63 as well as charts from PRIMAR and ChartWorld. $50 As a recreational boater my take on this is: $25 if you need the US Govt charts; $50 if you want to buy and load international charts. So what did I get for my $25? The things that are important to me: * Integrated, free downloads of NOAA charts * Management and quilting of both vector and raster charts * Decent WP and route creation (and no auto-route) * Very nice route export/import/backup via GPX files * Export of WPs to my MFDs via WPL sentences * Very nice import/export/backup of the app configuration via files * Excellent NMEA 0183 handling including diagnostic displays of sentences received, data, and errors * Excellent handling and display of AIS data. AIS data is much more useful to me in this app than on my MFDs. Nice to haves include: * Tide and current options (several options, free and paid) * Download and display of GRIB data * Active Captain integration * Various alarms * A very cool anchor monitor Also include with the app is the most detailed documentation I've seen in a product of this kind. The doc is available from within the app even when the app isn't connected to the internet. Maybe this is old-school but I view it s a huge positive. I've dealt with their support on a few questions and received some of the best answers--quick, complete and informative. I'll also note the apps are updated in the app store every few weeks. Again this appears to me to be a 'professional grade' offering with serious ongoing development. ### 5/5 — Great navigation App *2017-07-25, version 4.5.1* I've been using this chart plotter app for many years and and extremely pleased with it. Accurate, economical, easy to use, and many nice bonus features. AIS for example is a really nice touch and great in shipping lanes. ### 5/5 — Great system *2017-06-24, version 4.4.9* IPad is just the right size screen for me. Easy to plot and edit courses. Good update support. Nice links with ActiveCaptain and AyeTides. Easy to see at night without killing night vision. Great all around system. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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