Name: Garmin ActiveCaptain
Rating: 3.94254 (1166 reviews)

Description

The free all-in-one ActiveCaptain™ app provides a powerful connection to your Garmin chartplotter, charts, maps and the ActiveCaptain community for the ultimate connected boating experience. Wherever you are, you’ll have unlimited access to your cartography, be able to purchase new maps and charts, and have access to the Garmin Quickdraw™ Contours Community. Connect to the ActiveCaptain community for up-to-date feedback on marinas and other points of interest. Smart notifications¹ on your chartplotter screen keep you connected with everyone else. Plan a trip or pre-fish a lake, and ActiveCaptain will automatically sync with your chartplotter. Even view and control your chartplotter from your smartphone or tablet while you’re on the water. This app is not recommended for non-Garmin chartplotter owners and is not intended to be a standalone navigational app. The included basemap is not useable without purchasing additional charts/maps. - OneChart™ lets you access all your Garmin unit pre-load and accessory card charts and maps from your mobile device and purchase new ones - Receive smart notifications¹, such as calls and texts, on your chartplotter display when paired with the app - Connect to fellow boaters with the ActiveCaptain community for up-to-date feedback on marinas and other points of interest - Make, save and transfer routes and waypoints between the app and chartplotter - Easily upload and download the latest Garmin Quickdraw Contours content from the community - Download software updates and notifications from the app to your Garmin devices - View and control your chartplotter from your smartphone or tablet ¹See compatibility matrix - https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/573254#devices

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Reviews

Review

The app has been great. The only thing that has been confusing is what is free and what is charged. Need to be separate.
By Lubric8

Updated Rating!

After I figured out it was just my stupidity causing problems with the chart functions of the app, it now works flawlessly! Thank you Kris with Garmin for reaching out. Next time I’ll make sure to learn the app before rating it again. My apologies Garmin!
By hunterman927

So for great

Happy
By cooper562

Takes some getting used to

Touchy, takes some getting used to
By johns562

Pretty Good

This app works great but the user interface could be better. It would be awesome if you could use a satellite image layer on the surrounding land. For the Salmon and Steelhead fishing in the PNW I see spots That look fishy but when I get home and try and find the spots in the app it’s difficult to distinguish the exact location without satellite imagery to identify land marks.
By R2kazuki

Terrible

I use this app many times and it has a constant issue updating my devices,loading new purchased maps or updating the maps. Garmin really has no support and there web site under FAQ HAS NOTHING listed on issues. Come on Garmin get it together ir the others will catch you with you pants down.
By Joneszdr

Great app, minor issues

This is a must have if you are running garmin chartplotters on your boat. It allow you to update maps, software, waypoints, etc. I had issues when connecting to my graphs by WiFi when out in the lake. Map update sync kept failing and my chartplotter maps were flashing, coming in and out. Made fishing and navigation impossible that day.
By t3e871

Clumsy

I picked up Navionics with no manual, just intuitive. Since Garmin owns Navionics I assumed this (Active Captain) would be as good. It may work fine once I figure it all out, but it is not intuitive. I wish Garmin would make Navionics compatible with Garmin Chart plotters.
By OTC 2