I’ve been using the YachtWorld app and find it to be a fantastic platform for browsing and finding yachts. The interface is user-friendly, and the app runs smoothly without any major issues. However, there is room for improvement, particularly in the “Interests” section, which corresponds to the “Class” section on the website.…Currently, the “Interests” section has a limited number of options, and categories like “Sailing Boats” and “Powerboats” lack subcategories. This makes it more challenging to narrow down specific searches. Adding more options and subcategories would significantly enhance the user experience by making searches more precise and tailored to individual needs.…Additionally, it would be great if the app included the option to view videos of the boats, similar to what is available on the website. This feature would provide a more comprehensive experience for potential buyers and enthusiasts.…Overall, it’s an excellent app, but with these adjustments and added features, it could be even better!

This app is awful. 1) There are numerous bugs. 1A) Location search is routinely ignored. I live in San Francisco, and have my search set to 1000 miles. I repeatedly get results from Rhode Island and Portugal. The location search feature is flat out broken. 1B) changing the hull material often results in 0 results. Once you get in this state you cannot get more results by changing the material back to something more popular. It just shows 0 results from that point on. 2) It seems like the search results are downloading full size images rather than thumbnails. Worse, the boat metadata doesn’t load until after the image finishes loading. This means that when you do a search, you wait forever just to see the boats, and you also get no info about the results until after the images load. 3) paid ads for boats that are clearly outside your price range can not be excluded. For instance, suppose you look for boats between $10 and $20,000. You will get many many ads for boats that are clearly beyond your price range. When your sort by date, you’ll be scrolling through dozens of boats that don’t apply to you even though you’ve explicitly set a price range with concrete upper and lower price bounds, these boats have no price data and are clearly all million dollar boats. In short I’ve never experienced an app with more contempt for the user, and I highly recommend YachtWorld change app developers. Real boat folks stay away. I’ll stick to Latitude 38 classifieds thanks.

I wouldn’t be so harsh if YachtWorld didn’t have a de facto monopoly on the used sailboat market. This app has one simple job: show a list of products, show details and pictures of individual products when clicked on, and most importantly - keep track of where the user was in the list when going back to the list. Instead we get pushed back to the top of the list every time because the developers can’t solve this monumental conundrum of computing? My peeps just store and update one variable representing the highest seen boat while scrolling and keep track of it, then show me that place in the list whenever I go back. If that’s too much, then when I’m viewing a specific boat and hit back to go to the list, at least put me at the place in the list where that specific boat is instead of the top. Also the filters don’t match the website (website is by region whereas app is by state). Pictures often don’t display correctly. Often I get “no results” for a search even though the blue button after setting filters says there will be results. Change one filter, search, change it back, search, and suddenly I now have results. Just pure untested jank.

I wish you could filter out certain things. Such as time share boats / fractional ownership or other items not interested in. Also some listings are really vague or have limited information about the boat they wish to sell. This is a loss to those trying to sell and not a fault to the developer. But what if the the developer could add fields to help encourage customers to add more data about there boats at the time they write up their ads (something to get better info). It seems weird that someone who wants to sell an expensive yacht but doesn’t make the effort to add as much detail as possible.Update: Dropping to 1 star. Perhaps not the fault of the app but I emailed Lelievre / Alize Marine from within the app. Shortly after i started getting really bad spam. I never ever had spam mail on that email before. I also never got a reply from that marine company either. Not sure why they would post an add with pictures that were clearly not the pictures of that boat or older pics. The description said the boat was hurricane damaged but the pictures were of a new boat. If i am wrong let me know and i will either update or delete my review.