Wärtsilä iSailor App Reviews

Our regular chart plotter died on day 2 of our 3 week boating vacation on the West Coast of BC. We found and downloaded this app with the appropriate charts and were very pleased. Since we were travelling to unfamiliar destinations, this app worked great in plotting courses, recording tracks, and even estimating travel times and fuel consumption. Now that they have added some anchor alarms etc. it is even better. We paid well over a $100 for the same charts for our chart plotter so these charts are actually economical. You definitely need this at least as a back up. Worked great on the iPad and I understand that once you buy the charts you can use them on all of your devices. Side note, West Coast charts were restricted from downloading over cellular network directly to iphone due to their large size so we connected iPad to iPhone4 thru hotspot and downloaded it to iPad over "wifi". Worked great, downloaded in a just a few minutes and we were back on the go! This is my first recommended app.

The free maps are looking good, but after paying 24.99 for one set maps its not what it should be I give it a one out ten.

I like the way the app functions, but I purchased a map and the app gives me an error message when I try to download. The company website is also down and not loading either. Refund what cant be delivered upon!!!!!

Biggest ripoff on the App Store. $25-$40 per region?? Ridiculous. The sloppy UI elements dont exactly lend confidence either.

Not a very good app. Give it a miss.

I bought this as a backup nav system to track a voyage across the gulf of St. Lawrence. I bought a map pack for $25 that was missing critical areas along the coast of Newfoundland. When they updated the map packs into smaller areas I lost access to the maps I already paid for. While this is great when it works I would save your money because the charts you buy today probably will not be on your app tomorrow.

This app has some potential but the fact that the creators are charging 25 bucks for charts that are less than half complete is disgusting. I dont know what the cheaper charts look like but I cant see it being any worse. In this state this app is completely useless.

I purchased what I had thought was a chart for small boats but it does not show the buoys to navigate near the shore and is of no use to me. I have asked for a refund and will keep you posted on the customer service I receive.

I was using the previous version and it was great. It was easy use and very user friendly. The new version was downloaded over top of the program I bought and it is simply pitiful. Dont waste your money if the new version is the only one available. Normally I really like it when programs are updated, but in this case, if it aint broke, dont fix it

To get charts is so painful ! I would not wast my time on this app ! To painful to use !

This is a very powerful program restricted a lot by its lack of features. The iPad renders the vectorial charts extremely fast and its a great reference tool, however the features and functions that you actually need for navigations are very basic, for the weekend warrior it might do but for a professional mariner it doesnt cut it. You need to include cables to short distance measurement, AIS overlay, better route and waypoint management, better tools for EBL and VRM, exportation and importations of user editable data.

Outstanding app. Very accurate, very usefull. I highly recommend this app.

Since the latest upgrade, all intuitive function for course plotting has been lost. This is garbage.

This is an awesome app for navigation easy to use totally scalable, far superior to the cartoon like mapping of Inavx . All features are smooth easy to read. To be sure I purchased downloaded and tested Inavx , yes it has a nice instrument heading speed etc. but the isailor , usability andthe money, ease of downloading maps is the best!

In the past Ive rated this a 5 star. With the new updates Ive downgraded it. My primary concerns are: - only allows true compass, all chart plotters and many apps allow magnetic. Ive been requesting this for two years. - suffering from feature bloat - putting in many new features while allowing the usability to become more complicated and less intuitive.

I am a operator of the Transas Marine, all versions since 1998, I immensely enjoy using Transas 4000, and all the advancements and improvements for the last 4 years. In comparison with commercial and iPad versions, I found no difference in accuracy, other than physical connection to gyro.

I am a part time sailor and I enjoy sailing as much as I enjoy navigation planning, exploration and reporting. I am very impress by the capacity of this inexpensive app to fulfil all of my three needs in navigation. Easy to use and up to international standards, iSail is helping me enjoying navigation without spending to much time with rulers and pencils. I recommend it to everyone!

Very pleased with this product. Charts are accurate and work wonderfully on my iPad. I have stopped using my old system and switched to this as my primary due to its ease and compactness.

The best app I have used for iOS, so intuitive! Charts are very good and the value compared to a dedicated chart plotter is undeniable!

Looks promising but very non intuitive. You need a manual every time to figure it out. Youll be on the rocks while you fuss with it.