Boat Beacon App Reviews

This app used be great but now there are all these phantom ships that never disappear. The app is completely useless theres no way to know what vessels are in real time and what are days old. Bummer

A great APP. Very reliable. Works very well on iPad and iPhone. Wonderful customer service. Questions are answered the same day. Highly recommend.

When I first purchased this app, it included charts. The charts were later removed and the company wants to sell the NOAA charts to me again for me to have access. I emailed them to ask if it was a mistake and they didn’t respond. I don’t trust these guys and there are plenty of other good apps available.

Purchased this app but AIS or Boat Beacon boats not showing up. Very dissapointed and not worth the money

Does not work, other boat positions are not accurate, other boats do not pick up your position or name at all!

Everyone without AIS should have this app. Recently I has a small problem and Customer service was very responsive. We now have AIS, but I use BB to track friends who dont transmit on AIS. I wish everyone had it!

Very clever way to get you AIS for almost nothing ... For pleasue, for safety, for sailing regatta with friends, ... I love it ! Marc

One of my favourites apps and the best available replacement for AIS. This app was very well designed and it works flawlessly.

Used all the time. Now I dont like the update. Makes it difficult to see boats coming in etc

This app will not do anything but place an icon on my phone , can anyone tell me where the boats are ?

So far so good, app is working as advertised. I checked a number of area where I often operate (south florida, NY, Chesie, New England) and data is available /updated Being able to transmit data opens interesting possibilities. Crashed a few times though which prevents me from giving it 5 stars

Its useless for the Great Lakes, has yet to find any vessel anywhere on them, you can watch some ship traffic in and around other areas of the country. But on the great lakes it WILL NOT FIND ANY SHIP, I live a couple blocks from the Detroit river and have been standing there watching freighters go buy yet this app says it sees no ships.... Gave it 2 stars because it doesnt work in the great lakes and it would of been nice to know that b4 I purchased it..

I cruise in New England and this tool picks up all the boats I can see other AIS web sites. The position of targets appears to be more accurate based on my own boat. And the staff are extremely responsive. I sent a question by email on a Saturday morning and had a reply in 30 minutes.

I have both inboard AIS displayed on my Raytheon E80s and Boat Beacon on my iPhone/iPad. In Lake Erie I find that Boat Beacon locates MANY more targets than my VHF AIS system. It also allows me to track my fellow sailors. Not perfect, but still an excellent tool.

I use this in Long Island Sound which is busy with commercial and ferry traffic. Boat Beacon is wonderful in the fog with or without using radar. Makes me want real AIS except for the expense, installation and upkeep of same. App has an annoying habit of crashing every so often when I am running it in the background "tray" and wish to return to update ships after doing other tasks on iPhone. All in all an amazing app. Get it

The few moments this program runs it seems to have potential but I have had it do nothing but crash. DEBUG THIS APP!

Get a real AIS if you are outfitting a vessel.

Really nice app. Works great on the long island sound. Im able to detect vessels with no problem and for the price you cant go wrong. Great little navigation tool to have at hand.

Great app. Used it in the Ohio river for the first time and was able to see all the barges coming. Will also use it on lake Erie. I would like to see the option of using feet vs meters and statute miles vs nautical miles but it is still a wonderful app.

There are other apps that are surpassing this one. I just bought this app as I love AIS technology and I own a boat in New England, but this App was a huge disappointment. Does not update as often and misses many vessels out there. Dont be fooled tat the more expensive Approved is better, because often it is not. This Approved is simply not worth it.