SeaDrive vs Pathr Navigation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SeaDrive
This marine navigation app offers offline charting, route planning, and tide/current predictions. It provides free US charts and integrates weather forecasts and points of interest like marinas. Share your live track with others for enhanced safety and communication on the water.
- Offline charting and navigation
- Route building and navigation
- Tide and current predictions
- 5-day weather forecasts
- Live track sharing
- Points of Interest (marinas, boat ramps)
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* What is Sea Drive? Sea Drive is a marine and boating navigation application focused on charting, navigation, route building, track recording, tides, currents, and more! Our goal is to provide the best user experience for boaters on and off the water. Sea Drive provides FREE US charts! We believe that everyone should have the tools on the water to feel safe and know how to find their way home (or pull up to a restaurant). * Who is it for? Sea Drive is for all of you who love the water! If you spend time on sailboats, fishing boats, bowriders, wakeboard boats, kayaks, or canoes this app will quickly become your go to co-captain * What are the features? **Offline Use Sea Drive is meant to be used on the water and in the real world, that means cell service won't always be available. Charting, tides, currents, routing, tracks, GPS, compass, and more are all available without internet! ** Free Chart Data (US) Currently only US charts are available (and will always remain free thanks to NOAA and your tax dollars). As Sea Drive improves we will be adding other chart regions for free or as low cost as possible. ** Tides and Currents Tap a tides or currents icons on the chart to view offline predictions (for years into the future) at over 3000 locations. ** Build and Navigate Routes Build routes with easy to add waypoints, drag waypoints, delete waypoints, and give waypoints custom names. Export and share your routes with other boaters. Activate a route to see bearing (magnetic or true) to waypoints, estimated time to waypoints, and ETA at destination among other metrics. ** Record Tracks Review and playback previously recorded tracks. ** Create and Share Markers Add notes and measure distances to markers. ** Basic Features Location (GPS & Compass). Caliper tool. Display settings for custom chart options. Vessel details for hazard avoidance and route planning. Satellite and road map chart overlays. ** POI We've integrated with marinas.com so we can show points interest directly on the chart for features like marinas, boat ramps, anchorage areas, inlets, locks, harbors and more. ** Weather View weather forecasts for up to five days in the future including marine related weather like wind, gusts, swells, and wave information. ** Live Track Sharing Create a live track share and send the link to friends. When imported, followers will see your current location and previous track directly on the Sea Drive app or website. * We love feedback! Sea Drive is built by boaters for boaters. This is just the start of our journey and we would like you all to be a part of it with us! Please provide any and all feedback!
Pathr Navigation
This marine navigation app simplifies boating with smart routing tailored to your vessel's specifications. It offers detailed marine charts, weather and AIS overlays for enhanced awareness, and tools for discovering and sharing points of interest with a community of boaters.
- Smart routing based on vessel profile
- High-resolution marine charts
- Weather and AIS overlays
- Harbor and point of interest discovery
- Social sharing and trip tracking
- Manual route planning
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PATHR is modern marine navigation built to make boating simpler, safer, and more fun. Plan your day on the water with smart routing, real marine chart features, weather overlays, AIS awareness, harbor discovery, social sharing, trip tracking, and tools built around how boaters actually move. Whether you are planning a quick cruise, exploring a new harbor, checking conditions, or building a route around your vessel’s limits, PATHR helps bring the whole boating experience into one simple app. Smart Routing Built Around Your Boat PATHR supports both automatic and manual route planning, with routing that considers your vessel profile, including key specs like draft and operating limits. Instead of treating every boat the same, PATHR helps you plan routes that make sense for your vessel, your conditions, and your trip. Our routing experience is designed to help boaters move with more confidence by considering depth, hazards, navigable water, and practical route behavior, not just drawing a straight line from point A to point B. A Better Marine Map Experience PATHR combines high-resolution marine depth data, NOAA chart features, depth contours, aids to navigation, buoys, beacons, lights, wrecks, soundings, bridge clearance data, shoreline detail, and seabed overlays to help with anchoring decisions. The result is a map that feels intuitive, useful, and purpose-built for the water. Important marine information stays front and center without overwhelming the screen. Weather and AIS Awareness View weather overlays while planning and navigating so you can better understand what is happening around you. PATHR also supports AIS overlays, helping you maintain better awareness of nearby vessel traffic. With premium collision-awareness features, PATHR can help identify potential traffic conflicts and give boaters an added layer of situational awareness while underway. Manual Route Planning When You Want Control Prefer to build your own route? PATHR gives you manual routing tools so you can plan exactly where you want to go. Drop points, shape your route, and build a trip that matches your knowledge, comfort level, and local conditions. Explore Harbors and Share What You Find Discover new harbors, anchorages, marinas, and points of interest. Leave reviews, share helpful notes, and learn from other boaters who have been there before. Found a tricky entrance, a great dock-and-dine spot, a quiet anchorage, or something other boaters should know about? Add a map report and help improve the experience for everyone on the water. Social Boating, Built In Boating is better with your people. Add friends, see their location when they choose to share it, send routes, compare adventures, and stay connected on the water. Track your trips automatically and build your own boating logbook over time. Save your routes, review your history, and yes — brag a little. You earned it. The more you sail, cruise, explore, and contribute, the more you can unlock through badges, achievements, and community features. Track Every Trip PATHR records your boating history so you can look back at where you went, how far you traveled, and what you discovered along the way. Whether you are keeping a personal logbook or sharing highlights with friends, your time on the water becomes part of your story. Prop Test Tool Running an adjustable propeller or dialing in your boat’s setup? PATHR includes a prop test feature to help you capture performance data and better understand how your vessel behaves. Built for Real Boaters PATHR is designed for boaters who want powerful tools without the clunky, outdated experience marine software has had for too long. We are building a smarter, cleaner, more connected way to plan, route, explore, and share time on the water. From trip planning to route building, from harbor discovery to social sharing, from weather awareness to vessel-specific routing, PATHR brings the boating experience together in one app. Boating, simplified.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pathr Navigation at 5.0 against SeaDrive's 4.5. Pathr Navigation also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 89%) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.1). SeaDrive's advantage is ratings volume (248 vs 5). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. SeaDrive sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Pathr Navigation sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pathr Navigation holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SeaDrive has 248 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of SeaDrive's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pathr Navigation's.
SeaDrive ships an update fortnightly, Pathr Navigation every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SeaDrive | Pathr Navigation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (248 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 248 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.1 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SeaDrive LLC | Smart Sail Inc |
Customer experience
SeaDrive
Pathr Navigation
Bugs and requests
SeaDrive
Reported bugs
3 issues- Waypoints are deleted by the app
- Vessel location disappears
- App crashes during chart download on older devices
Requested features
2 requests- Consider adding more advanced charting options
- Further refine waypoint saving reliability
Pathr Navigation
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SeaDrive
- Sea Drive Pro2 Months trial$2.991 Month
- Sea Drive Pro1 Month trial$34.991 Year
- US ChartsFree
Pathr Navigation
- Pathr Premium · Monthly$14.991 Month
- Pathr Premium · Annual$99.991 Year







