SEAiq vs EZ Celestial Navigation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SEAiq
This marine navigation app offers comprehensive charting capabilities, allowing users to load various standard chart formats and download NOAA charts. It includes essential navigation tools like waypoints, routes, and an anchor alarm, along with weather overlays and NMEA/AIS integration.
- Load custom S-57, S-63, iENC, BSB, KAP charts
- Automatic NOAA chart downloads
- Waypoints, routes, and tracks
- Anchor alarm
- Automatic weather downloads
- NMEA and AIS integration
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SEAiq is a full-featured marine navigation app. It lets you load your own charts in standard formats, including S-57, S-63, iENC, BSB, and KAP. It also automatically downloads charts from NOAA for the United States. Features include: * Waypoints * Routes * Tracks * Night color modes * Anchor alarm * Automatic download and display of weather (wind & isobar) * Chart measuring tools (EBL/VRM) * Wi-Fi-based NMEA and AIS No purchase is required to view charts. Premium navigation features are enabled during a 7-day evaluation period. After that, an annual subscription is required. Existing one-time purchases retain the features they unlocked. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
EZ Celestial Navigation
This app simplifies celestial navigation using a sextant, providing tools to calculate your position at sea. It offers automated calculations or manual table access, with features for observation archiving and compass checks. Ideal for learning and practicing traditional navigation methods.
- Automated sight reduction and LOP plotting
- Manual Nautical Almanac and Pub. 229 table access
- Observation archiving and restoration
- Compass check functionality
- Printable Nautical Almanac pages and reports
- Universal app for iOS and macOS
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Celestial navigation has never been easier! With ezAlmanacOne and a sextant you will be finding your fix like a pro in no time! ezAlmanacOne is an evolution of the iPad version of ezAlmanac with the modern user interface used in the Windows 10 version of ezAlmanac. All of the features of ezAlmanac plus new features including: - Universal app runs on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and the new MacBook with M1 processor. - Supports all device orientations. All screens support zoom and pan. - Make bearing observations to perform compass checks. - Archive saved observations and restore observation data from an archive. - Includes quick start guide, usage examples, and other documentation to learn celestial navigation. - Print/Output Nautical Almanac pages, observation reports, and other app documentation. ezAlmanacOne will help you perform celestial navigation exactly as it has been done for hundreds of years. It produces all Nautical Almanac (1960-2059) and Pub. 229 tables exactly as you are used to seeing them in the printed form. All tables can be accessed directly for manual usage if you choose to do so. Since they are produced by the software they support zooming and panning, and you can highlight in the tables to easily find the correct value to use. Most users, however, will prefer to let ezAlmanacOne do all of the work. Simply enter the basic sight parameters, make and enter your observations, and ezAlmanacOne will do the rest. It performs all of the steps to correct your observation, find GP of the object, do the sight reduction, and plot the LOP. No steps are skipped and all details are shown. Click where the LOPs cross in the plot and you have found your fix! Besides finding your fix, ezAlmanacOne is one of the best tools available to perform compass checks from a bearing observation of one of the navigational bodies. The compass check function supports checking up to 5 devices from a single bearing observation. ezAlmanacOne will also create a report of your compass check that can be saved as a PDF file or printed for the ships records. Celestial navigation instructors love ezAlmanacOne because it does celestial navigation exactly as they teach it. Values obtained from the Nautical Almanac and Pub. 229 are clearly identified with an icon of the book. When you press the book icon you are taken to the page that has that value with the row, column and value highlighted. Even when ezAlmanacOne is doing all the work, it can teach you how to do it manually using the books. For manual celestial navigation you can generate and print Nautical Almanac pages to use as a backup on a passage. You can even print the sight reduction forms and plotting sheets you will need. ezAlmanacOne performs all astronomical calculations using the NOVAS 3.1 software from the US Naval Observatory (USNO) and a JPL ephemeris that covers the years 1960 through 2059. It also implements WMM-2020, the latest World Magnetic Model software available from NOAA, to compute magnetic declination. Since all calculations are performed in the software, ezAlmanacOne is fully functional with no dependency on the internet.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SEAiq at Free against EZ Celestial Navigation's $29.99. SEAiq also leads on ratings volume (193 vs 26). EZ Celestial Navigation's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 61%) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On 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
SEAiq is free to download; EZ Celestial Navigation costs $29.99 up front. SEAiq sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $15.00 per year. EZ Celestial Navigation asks for nothing beyond the download.
EZ Celestial Navigation holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SEAiq has 193 ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of SEAiq's written reviews are positive against 100% of EZ Celestial Navigation's.
SEAiq ships an update every 3 weeks, EZ Celestial Navigation monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SEAiq | EZ Celestial Navigation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $29.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (193 ratings) | 4.9 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 193 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #54 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 153 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sakhalin | EZ Celestial LLC |
Customer experience
SEAiq
EZ Celestial Navigation
Bugs and requests
SEAiq
Reported bugs
4 issues- No access to premium features after payment
- Chart downloads fail if app is not on screen
- App freezes when trying to delete
- App crashes
Requested features
13 requests- Simplify course plotting
- Add support for .MBTiles
- Add VMG feature
- Add support for .MBTiles
- Add support for .MBTiles
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- Allow selection of discreet chart areas
- Add GPS data from TCP/IP source
- Allow disabling internal GPS
- Provide good integration/complement to OpenCpn
- Provide TCP/IP support for NMEA data
- Broadcast waypoint and NMEA data to external systems
- Lower price for waypoints creation
- Allow using purchased charts across devices
EZ Celestial Navigation
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SEAiq
- Premium Annual$15.001 Year
- Upgrade for Premium Features$49.99
EZ Celestial Navigation
No in-app purchases
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