Doyle Guides vs Navathome.com
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Doyle Guides
This app offers comprehensive sailing guides for the southern Caribbean, featuring nautical charts, service details, and points of interest. Users can search a large database, view results on an interactive map, and contribute comments or corrections.
- Comprehensive sailing guides
- Nautical charts and navigational info
- 3000+ points of interest database
- Interactive satellite map
- User comments and corrections
- Island-specific content bundles
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Doyle Guides produces the southern Caribbean's most comprehensive and up-to-date sailing guides, complete with nautical charts and navigational information, details on regulations, customs and immigration, general and technical yacht services, marinas, restaurants, provisioning, shore-based attractions, and more. The Doyle Guides mobile app allows users to search our comprehensive 3000+ point of interest database with results shown based on distance from the user and displayed on an interactive satellite map where users can leave public comments as well as suggest corrections and new points of interest, all free of charge. Subscriptions to guide book content is available on both long and short term basis, as well as bundled by island.
Navathome.com
Enhance your maritime knowledge with this app, offering comprehensive training on collision regulations, safety at sea, and essential navigational skills. Access local tidal information to aid your on-water planning and preparedness.
- RYA navigation training
- Collision regulations
- Maritime safety
- On-water knowledge
- Local tidal information
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Navathome.com are the leading provider of online RYA navigation training, and now have provided an app that anyone can use to enhance their on-water knowledge of collision regulations, safety, and anything else that will be useful at sea. Access local tidal information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Doyle Guides at 60% against Navathome.com's 0%. Doyle Guides also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months). Navathome.com's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Doyle Guides sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Navathome.com asks for nothing beyond the download.
Doyle Guides ships an update every 5 weeks, Navathome.com every 5 months. Both last shipped on November 4, 2026.
| Parameter | Doyle Guides | Navathome.com |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (51 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 51 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chris Doyle Publishing Limited | Jhavtech Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Doyle Guides
Navathome.com
In-app purchases
Doyle Guides
- St. Vincent Sailing Guide3 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Trinidad Tobago Sailing Guide7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Southern Leeward Sailing Guide3 Days trial$24.991 Month
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- Northern Leeward Sailing Guide3 Days trial$24.991 Month
- Windward Islands Guide3 Days trial$29.991 Month
- The Caribbean Pet - 1 month3 Days trial$29.991 Month
- Windward Islands Guide7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Virgin Islands Cruising Guide3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Leeward Islands Sailing Guide3 Days trial$39.991 Month
- Leeward Islands Sailing Guide7 Days trial$59.991 Year
Navathome.com
No in-app purchases
Questions
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