Access accurate marine charts, intelligent routing, live AIS, and weather forecasts with Orca. Trusted by hundreds of thousands of sailors and powerboaters in the United States and across the world.
Navigate confidently with clean charts
- Modern and easy-to-read marine charts
- Performant and responsive no matter how fast you zoom, pan, and rotate
- Clear readability with both day and night modes
Plan in seconds with smart routing
- Sail routing powered by weather forecasts and your boat’s polar diagram
- Automatic route recalculation if wind or other conditions change
- Engine routing that finds a route to your destination instantly
One step ahead of bad weather
- Weather forecasts for wind, waves, currents, and tides
- Accurate hour-by-hour ECMWF forecasts
- Real-time rain radar forecast with down-to-the-minute accuracy
Stay aware of other vessels
- Global AIS from MarineTraffic for industry-leading coverage
- Live AIS targets with vessel names, images, Closest Point of Approach (CPA), and more
- Easy-to-read vessel icons overlaid directly on the chart
True-to-life satellite charts
- Dock easily with true-to-life marina layouts
- Get a realistic overview to avoid uncharted obstacles
- Boat like a local by seeing where other boats have travelled, moored, and anchored
Works online and offline
- Download charts and view them when boating in areas with no internet access
- Stay protected from unforeseen internet outages and connectivity issues
- Charts load instantly, without having to wait for your cellular network
Upgrade with Orca Core
The Orca App can be used as a standalone planning and navigation system. If you are looking for a truly modern navigation system that gives you complete control of your boat and helps you make better decisions, get an Orca Core to unlock a full chartplotter experience on your mobile device.
The Core is delivered with a high-precision GPS and compass, giving you a more accurate and reliable boating experience.
Connect the Core to your existing NMEA 2000 to view instrument data, AIS targets, and control your autopilot – all from your phone, tablet, and Orca Display.
Trusted by the modern boating community
Sailors, cruisers, powerboaters - hundreds of thousands trust Orca for a clearer, safer, and more confident experience on the water.
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Used Orca on a 47’ sailboat during a round Vancouver island race. Worked amazingly well. While we didn’t always follow its predicted line for sailing, it always makes the eta within 20 minutes. Very impressed. Chart coverage is great in the PNW. Auto route woes great too.
I really want to like Orca, … BUT
Stephan.ilberg
Orca is just not ready for prime time. I'm using the app alongside Navionics for over a year now and was hoping to replace the nav on my boat with Orca however:The auto routing is not working properly. The latest bug is when I plan a route from my home port Orca is picking a start point in a river about 5 miles away that on top of everything has low bridges. Even after moving my start outside the marina, it doesn’t change.Also, I was trying to route to an anchorage about 10 Miles away and Orca tells me the route is too long.Charts from the Bahamas are only usable if you use the satellite overlay to see where the shoreline is. If you don't you will see random roads in the ocean and no shoreline.In some parts of the Long Island Sound I was trying to route to an anchorage, but Orca cut the route short at some random point about 3 miles from where I wanted to go.All in all, I like the look and feel of the app, it's just not there yet as my primary navigation system. I'll probably continue to play with it and hope they get their act together.P.S. As mentioned all my experiences are US East Coast and Bahamas. The app might work better in other parts of the world.
Terribly broken
There are some who call me, Tim
Took me forever to create an account. Apple sign in didn’t work. For some silly reason I spent time to it figure out (despite worthless error messages, a confused fire base backend, and an unhelpful AI that asked for my phone number). I guess I was motivated by “free”.Well, it ended up being a waste of time as this app doesn’t work as a basic chart plotter. Good luck pulling up details of a bouy. If the app doesn’t feel like rendering text alongside it at the zoom level you’re at, well I guess you’re not going to get any more info. The “at this location” screen is perversely too sparse on data “starboard lateral mark” AND too verbose as overlapping restricted areas take all available screen real estate and you can’t even scroll to the last ones.As far as data goes, this is purely coastal. Inland rivers in the US have occasional bridge heights listed, nothing else.Complete waste of my time and not worth any space on my phone (even though free). Maybe in a couple years if real mariners start using it.
Orca is not useful nor user friendly
Captain Cortez
The app is not designed to be used easily for navigation. It’s impossible to enter an actual start point based on desire or current location, and impossible to enter way points that are desired. There are no features present such as type of data that could be obtained, wind, current, weather, predicted, estimated, speed or actual? Perhaps there is a way to unlock “dumb demo” mode? There are no menu options, nothing, seems like a troll?
This update contains minor fixes and improvements
Version 2026.17.1
The developer, Orca Technologies AS, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
Orca Technologies AS
Size
175.9 MB
Category
Navigation
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
