Comparison

SeaDrive vs Pathr Navigation

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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)
Features
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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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

SeaDrive4 screens
Pathr Navigation4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SeaDrive ships an update fortnightly, Pathr Navigation every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SeaDrive versus Pathr Navigation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSeaDrivePathr Navigation
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (248 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings248 — better5
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.115.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSeaDrive LLCSmart Sail Inc

Customer experience

SeaDrive

All ratings230 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral3.9%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive89.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.5%

Pathr Navigation

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

3 purchases

SeaDrive

Subscriptions2
  • Sea Drive Pro2 Months trial$2.991 Month
  • Sea Drive Pro1 Month trial$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • US ChartsFree
2 purchases

Pathr Navigation

Subscriptions2
  • Pathr Premium · Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Pathr Premium · Annual$99.991 Year

Questions

Is SeaDrive free?
SeaDrive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pathr Navigation free?
Pathr Navigation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SeaDrive or Pathr Navigation?
Pathr Navigation is rated higher. SeaDrive averages 4.5 out of 5 from 248 ratings, while Pathr Navigation averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do SeaDrive or Pathr Navigation have ads?
Neither SeaDrive nor Pathr Navigation shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SeaDrive or Pathr Navigation?
SeaDrive ships an update fortnightly, and Pathr Navigation every 2 weeks. Most recently, SeaDrive was updated on October 3, 2026 and Pathr Navigation on October 8, 2026.

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