Boat vs mKart Marine Navigation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Boat
Access free nautical charts for Finnish waters, featuring live vessel tracking. Connect with agent software to display your boat's routes on the map. Utilizes official navigational data for accuracy.
- Free nautical charts
- Finnish waters coverage
- Live vessel tracking
- Vessel information display
- Route display with agent software
- Official navigational data
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Free nautical charts for Finnish waters. Includes live tracking of vessels in Finnish waters. Tap on a vessel icon to view further information. When used together with the Boat-Tracker agent software installed in a boat, routes driven with the boat are shown on the chart. Uses navigational markers from Finnish Transport Agency and public vessel identification data.
mKart Marine Navigation
This app provides advanced marine navigation with 3D charts, automatic routing, and safety alerts. It offers features like fleet management, weather forecasts, and docking assistance for safe and efficient seafaring.
- 3D marine and OSM charts
- Automatic routing and NO-GO Area display
- Fleet management
- Docking path guidance
- Marine traffic alerts
- Weather forecasts
- Apple Watch support
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mKart 3D marine App is for safe and comfortable navigation. Product Highlights: WEB CONSOLE: E-shop; ENCs and cartographic products Catalogue; Portfolio optimization; Fleet management; Roots and tracks; Data exchange; Accounting; SAFETY IS IN FOCUS: Automatic routing and NO-GO Area display; Dangerous depths and objects automatic control. Safe sailing alternative and recommendations; Meeting points and hazardous traverses calculations. Background monitoring: dangers’ and ships’ alerts, all along the route. Apple watch support. DOCKING: Click on the chart, select the location and follow the docking path. 3D MARINE AND OSM CHARTS: 3D marine and OSM charts are uploaded and displayed automatically. 3D sea floor, land’s relief, 3D buildings, ships and infrastructure models contribute to better seafarers orientation and awareness. FREE NOAA ENCs: Online NOAA nautical charts are being installed automatically via Internet by customer’s position or while browsing and stored for off-line use. Updating is performed in the same way. PRIMAR ENCs: You can buy PRIMAR electronic charts for the whole world directly in the app. SMART PANELS: Swipe from below and from side to side. Profiles of seabed relief, safety path simulator, docking. MARINE ROUTE PLANNER: Save time with integrated sea and river auto routes functionality. Safety checks is implemented along with route monitoring functionality and warning system. NO GO ZONE: Display safety area is filled up graphically on the sea map by only safe depth. Safety zone is calculated trough 3D sea bottom model. MARINE TRAFFIC: Marine traffic data can be obtained from open AIS streams over Internet to display and identify dangerous targets. COMPASS MODE: Get a quick look around while boat navigation with advanced VR option for better orientation and using visual aids for navigation effectively. SEARCH: Search all objects and information on ENC S-57 charts trough SW and data via universal search function. MARINE WEATHER: mKart online services allows to deliver highly detailed weather information and forecast. TRACKS AND WAYPOINTS: PLT and GPX import and export, recording and displaying on the chart.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: mKart Marine Navigation at 100% against Boat's 0%. mKart Marine Navigation also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.6). Boat's advantage is rating (3.0 vs 2.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. mKart Marine Navigation sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per year. Boat asks for nothing beyond the download.
Boat holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Boat's written reviews are positive against 100% of mKart Marine Navigation's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Boat ships an update every 5 weeks, mKart Marine Navigation every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Boat | mKart Marine Navigation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | 2.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Skogberg | GEOPHONE GROUP INTERNATIONAL Oy |
Customer experience
Boat
mKart Marine Navigation
In-app purchases
Boat
No in-app purchases
mKart Marine Navigation
- Estonian Marine Charts$11.991 Year
- NMA$22.491 Year
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