One of America's most-watched talk show hosts called MarineTraffic his favorite app. Track vessels in real time and explore the app loved by millions.
Welcome to MarineTraffic.
You spoke, we listened. Based on feedback from our customers, the MarineTraffic app has been updated to deliver a faster, clearer, and more reliable way to track vessels and monitor maritime activity worldwide.
MarineTraffic is used by maritime professionals, shipping companies, port authorities, and enthusiasts around the world. With MarineTraffic 2.0, the experience you rely on has been improved, while keeping the core tools you already know and trust.
If you’ve used MarineTraffic before, you’ll feel at home straight away. The main features remain familiar, now supported by better performance, clearer maps, and a more stable foundation built for the future.
With MarineTraffic, you can:
Track vessels live worldwide using AIS data
View ship positions, movements, and voyage history with key events along the route
Build and monitor your chosen fleet by following specific vessels
Access detailed vessel information such as type, destination, speed, and course
Explore enhanced maps with close weather monitoring, including wind conditions
A unified MarineTraffic experience
The new MarineTraffic brings core tools together into one unified mobile app experience. The new app focuses on clarity, reliability, and ease of use, improving performance while keeping the experience familiar.
Maps load faster, interactions feel smoother, and information is presented more clearly, supporting both everyday use and professional maritime workflows.
What’s improved in MarineTraffic:
Faster performance across maps and weather views
Clearer visuals and smoother interactions throughout the app
Improved platform stability and reliability
All your key tools in one app, including close weather monitoring
Unlock more with the Mobile Pro Plan
The Mobile Pro Plan brings advanced capabilities together for users who need deeper visibility and extended coverage.
With Mobile Pro, you can:
Track vessels beyond coastal coverage using Satellite AIS, including activity in open oceans
Access advanced fleet monitoring tools for wider oversight
Follow vessels with extended historical data and deeper insights
Gain access to additional maritime data layers for professional use
Mobile Pro expands your vessel tracking capabilities when standard AIS coverage is not enough.
Mobile Pro is designed for users who need a broader, more complete view of global vessel movement.
Designed for real-world use
MarineTraffic is used in many different ways, from fleet management to vessel tracking. MarineTraffic is designed to support these use cases without adding unnecessary complexity.
You can follow vessels and fleets important to you, set up alerts, and explore global vessel traffic in real time. Vessel details, voyage history, and close weather monitoring are accessible in one place, helping you stay informed without switching between tools.
MarineTraffic builds on everything users already rely on, with a faster, clearer, and more dependable mobile experience designed to support maritime activity around the world.
Download MarineTraffic to explore global vessel traffic with improved speed, clarity, and reliability.
I was looking for an app to track my vehicle shipment. This app does a great job of that and more. There’s a catch for free accounts, however.You get three “past route” and three “vessel info” unlocks before having to register and pay. No problem, I thought. Just want to track one ship over a period of 3-5 days. So day one I unlock the past route and vessel info for my ship. Very cool info! Day two I go to check on the vessel and… I have to use another unlock for both the past route and vessel info. Now day two again, but I closed the app and it wants to use my final unlock for both the route and vessel info. It’s the same ship on the same route.If you’re going to subscribe, this won’t matter to you. If you’re like me and only have a single, one-off use of the app, go for it but don’t close the app! You’ll have to use your limited unlocks again and quickly run out. I hope the app dev will consider allowing each unlock to last for the current sailing of the selected ship instead of what seems to expire as soon as I close the app.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your lovely review. It means a lot to us! Should you have any suggestions on what could be improved, please let us know in our Community Help:https://bit.ly/3qEQGUa Have a great day!
Greed takes over again
mysierra4x4
I purchased this app last year and was very happy with how it performed. After using it for about 4 months it started to fail as a useful tool. Now when i use it i am very disappointed in how it works. It only gives vessel names and tracks within possibly 5 miles of land. After that it says purchase for tracking info .99 cents for 24 hr satellite info. Also my screen is full of ghost ships. Boats that were there previously but arent there now. Maybe they went off range but the icons are still on screen and they remain there for days. When i first purchased it i could see vessel names and tracks as far away as 150 to 200 miles off the new england coast. I used to track fishing boats from new bedford mass. Now as i stated i can only track as far as maybe 5 miles offshore. Not very happy with the app now. Its just a ploy now to have you make purchases to see vessels offshore. For this reason i am only giving 2 stars.Response to your reply,,,, ive given you all the details and you have given the same exact response to everyone who leaves a review. Its a computer generated reply. I purchased this app for full price because i thought i would be getting the same performance from it that i was before i purchased it in the trial version. That all changed after i made my purchase. Now if i want to track any vessel i have to pay again. If i want to track multiple vessels i might as well give up my weeks paycheck. That is not right. I gave an honest review and an honest 2 star rating. Thank you very much
Developer Response
Hi. Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback about our mobile app. I would like to clarify that we have not removed any functionality that was available before. What has changed is the addition of the Access 24 Plus service which informs you on how to unlock these positions if it is of your interest. Despite that, we would surely be more than glad to learn more about your case and assist you further. Please share more details about your issue at https://bit.ly/2GsHvCe Thank you.
Awful after recent update to 5.1.10
Dalopez.7
I work as a tugboat captain and have been using this app since I was in the maritime academy, over a decade ago. Since then I have loved it and it has been the go to tracking app. After automatically updating itself to the new version, I’m sad to say that it feels like a different app in all the worst ways. It can still show locations for ships using AIS, but not all will show up no matter if their AIS is working or not. Any ability to use vectors is now gone for basic or loyalty membership. With that in mind, most of the customization is also gone on the app. I used to be able to use the route tracking feature and had saved routes in there, but that has now been removed and put behind a paywall. The only thing that was “added” to my plan was weather tracking which I couldn’t care less about when compared to the many other features I had access to before. When trying to contact them to try and get some info on where to find some of the live data (vectors, angle indicators, etc.) that used to be there, their contact form said it couldn’t take an email address from aol, gmail, yahoo, or hotmail. It doesn’t say what, if any, email addresses would work so here I am leaving a poor review for a once great app. I can’t say I recommend this app to others, will be searching for a different one to use going forward, and hope everyone else does as well.
False Advertising
Sailor00
The basic app is fine, but expensive at $4.99, but knowing you could follow a vessel on a long journey with additional in app purchases would be great.... UNTIL you realize the company is dishonest and incapable of producing the information you just paid for. SO, if you get sucked into purchasing the $.99 for 24 hour tracking a vessels when they are outside regular communication distance, then joke is on you. They want you to believe you can follow offshore vessels using their connections to satellite information. HOWEVER, what they don’t tell you is the information they give you could be 11 or more hours off in their location. (Remember you just paid for 24 hours) The boat we following looked like it was 50-75 + miles out, only to find out they were already on the dock! When I contacted the company, they first blamed the vessels equipment ( which I know is first rate) next they stuttered and back peddled to blamed the satellites, then last, after several emails, they admitted their inability and uncertainty about connecting to nearby satellites and how they cannot control how close a satellite will be to get a signal. OK, fine, if that is true, BUT, If you can’t guarantee the information is correct, or even relatively close, then you shouldn’t charge for it. It’s not so much the .99 but the sheer deception in its accuracy. You want me to pay money for your 24 hour service when you fully know your information could be off by half? That is deceptive marketing. The company has no problem letting people fund their company knowing what we are paying for is inaccurate? Don’t bother buying if your vessel is going off shore, you will never know where they are.
Developer Response
Hello and thank you for your review. Please let me explain that when you download the MarineTraffic app in your device and without any extra charge you have access to all positions received by the coastal network of AIS receivers. Accessing mid-ocean positions received by Satellite is not available without an additional premium subscription. For the latest release, we have created Access 24 Plus ($0.99) so that Mobile App users can now choose precisely the vessel they want to get satellite positions for 24 hours, rather than buying an add-on for the global fleet. Our main concern is to create a clear description of our product, so as to set the correct expectations to our users. However, please let me further explain the basic functionality of our mobile app and the limitations of our system. As I mentioned above, through our satellite services, you can access the last updated position we have received for a vessel, even it has been collected by our terrestrial or Satellite AIS receivers. Due to the fact that we operate according to AIS protocol, the frequency of the position depends on several parameters. Due to several limitations, we cannot guarantee the frequency of the positions we receive. Since we try to constantly improve the quality of our services, we really appreciate your feedback, and we would be glad to learn any other idea or suggestion for improvement you may have. Please feel free to contact us at https://bit.ly/2GsHvCe. Any idea is more than welcomed. Thank you in advance!
Bug fixes and map improvements.
Version 5.2.0
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