B&G: Companion App for Sailors

B&G: Companion App for Sailors

By Navico Norway AS

  • Category: Navigation
  • Release Date: 2019-11-06
  • Current Version: 2.5.4
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 181.08 MB
  • Developer: Navico Norway AS
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
Score: 3.97143
3.97143
From 315 Ratings
Free On itunes

Description

The B&G® App is designed to help you get the most out of your time on the water, and your electronics, whether you are cruising with your family or racing with your friends. With detailed charting powered by C-MAP®, weather and marine traffic information, route planning and GPS, it is the perfect aid to navigation for sailors, and is a must-have for sailors with B&G on-board. Get started – The B&G App can be used as a standalone or synced with your system. Get started by connecting and registering your chartplotter to your phone via the App... Explore more – Use the App to plan your routes and mark waypoints in advance or as an aid to navigation while out and about on the water. With detailed charts, Autorouting™ and AIS, it’s a powerful tool to have at your fingertips. Simply download offline charts, save your favourite routes and waypoints in the app, so you can enjoy your time on the water and make the most of your sailing time. The B&G App Includes: - Activation and Registration of your B&G Chartplotter - FREE C-MAP Chart Viewer - Autorouting™ – find the best route to your favourite places - Personal Waypoints - Track Recording - Thousands of pre-loaded Points of Interest, including relevant information about marinas, harbours, beaches, shops and much more - Marine Weather Forecast - Weather Along the Route - Weather Overlay - Chart Personalisation - Import & Export GPX Files – share your Routes, Tracks or Waypoints with friends - Measure Distance Tool Upgrade to Premium to unlock additional features, including: - Full GPS Functionality - Offline Map Downloads - REVEAL Shaded Relief - High-Resolution Bathymetry - Custom Depth Shading - AIS & C-MAP Traffic Try before you buy… Experience the B&G App Premium for yourself, with a free 14-day trial (3-day trial in Denmark and Sweden). The B&G App updates on a continuous basis to make sure you get the best experience and to bring you the most up-to-date maps and functionalities. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Links to Your Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable Privacy policy https://appchart.bandg.com/core/map/privacy.html Terms of service https://appchart.bandg.com/core/map/tos.html

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Reviews

  • Zeus 3s tracks won't sync

    2
    By Zeus 3s user
    The Zeus 3s seems to work well. I thought it would be a pretty straight forward and common task to want to sync your tracks from the unit to the B&g app. I have everything setup, I'll initiate the sync in the app, it will say that it syncs, but the tracks never show in the app. I tried creating new tracks, clearing everything and starting over, making sure both Bluetooth and WiFi are connected between phone and unit, it never works. I've not found anything else useful with the app. Creating waypoints feels unintuitive. I'm only writing this in hopes they fix the track syncing issue

  • Garbage at best

    1
    By AR Querencia
    I am an old B&G user, and this app and the new MFDs are about the worst B&G has ever released. The app is a power drain, it crashes, chart updates take days if you are lucky, it corrupts waypoints and routes on the MFDs. Frankly the Navionics app is magnitudes better. But then it is not all that difficult to beat this one

  • Keeps crashing

    2
    By Frag222
    Haven’t used this much but it’s crashed like 5 times already. Will update later if I get it working.

  • Needs a lot of work

    1
    By Hecto101
    For $14.99/year this app needs a lot of work. Too many issues to list, but rarely syncs to MFD, buggy, etc. Not worth the money, except it’s the only way I can upload routes (which only works 10% of the time).

  • AIS and traffic scam

    2
    By Maringert
    I have been paying for this premium subscription for more than a year and cannot get the AIS to work properly, either it doesn’t show any active boats even in marina or occasionally shows boats way out of date. I have all the settings turned on. I have cellular connectivity with 5G and my wife pays for a separate subscription and has the same issue Customer (AI) service is not helpful - This is a scam !

  • Easy route planning, useful charts

    5
    By Jake50505
    Easy route planning and useful charts for sailing trips

  • Great app with minor room for improvement

    4
    By johellwig
    The app has come a long way and is now sufficient for my needs. I moved from Navionics. That said, a couple of thoughts: 1. Can you please consider allowing Split screen on the iPad? I would like to combine viewing with windy or predict wind. 2. Please check the setting for changing the anchor alarm. Once in the menu I cannot go back to the menu on both iPhone 15 and iPad 12.9. only restart resolves, but no saving possible. 3. on iPad 12.9 when downloading a defined map area the result differs continuously from the area chosen. The area delivered trends to the south west. One final note: B&g and c-map differ only by hardware add-on opt in for B&G. I would consolidate the apps and offer all features of hardware add on holistically. Apart from that great work. Thank you.

  • Buggy

    3
    By SailAwayIntoSunset
    Update gives “SD Card Error” on both iPhone and iPad. Rebooting doesn’t fix it but reinstalling it does but then I lost all area downloads. On iPhone 11 and iPad mini 6 running 18.4.1, the area download controls are off the screen to the left at the bottom. Had to rotate sideways to find them but even then, they are off the edge. On the iPad mini, it downloads the wrong area despite showing the correct area originally. Also the auto routing seems to be hit or miss. It’s OK for short routes. Note - the Garmin/Navionics app is far better and not buggy though considerably more expensive. I will continue to use it until B&G fixes the bugs even though I have a Zeus 3S chart plotter.

  • Options

    5
    By Tbj112
    I like being able to compare equipment data.

  • A bit unstable

    2
    By mrmoo315
    This app freezes and is slow. With the last update I am no longer able to create routes at all.

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