AngelNav 4+

Have used this extensively over about 2,500 miles of cruising around UK & Ireland alongside other navigational programs. It enables you to keep your traditional skills up to date without paying a fortune (and finding space for) a plethora of paper charts. It provides an immediate back up to your MFD and once you make the effort to understand how to switch between charts it’s all rather simple. However, accessing tidal diamonds to plan a long passage (particularly with cyclical tides) is a pain; it would be great if the developer could make this easier with perhaps animated tides *in addition* to providing the basic info. Such a mod would make it worth 5+ stars.

Thank you for your thoughtful comments. I can confirm that our method of changing charts (rather than having a continuous pan and zoom) is a deliberate design decision aimed at leveraging the advantages of rasters over vectors, but it doesn't have to be clunky. For example consider the question of whether there is more detail available at a particular point on a chart. With a vector chart, the only way to answer it is to keep zooming in until more detail appears (or not). With AngelNav the answer is available instantly, either by observing the border of a larger scaled chart or by using the 'long tap' function. In addition, while on passage you can set the charts to load automatically so the best detail is always available. Currently we don't include tidal information, but that is planned for a future release.

This looks like a really interesting app. Unfortunately the base map is just a blur. It would be helpful to have a time limited sample map (of my area) to evaluate whether this works for me.
Although Navionics (and others) offer a cheaper way to get map coverage the reality is that most of us don’t move that far from our cruising areas and the cost of a folio is pretty reasonable given the additional detail.
One question: Is it possible to sync routes etc. with chart plotters or other apps?

Thanks you very much for your review, and we are delighted you think its interesting. The included UK map is certainly small scale, but it shouldn't be blurred and it does allow all features of the app to be evaluated prior to purchasing a folio of UKHO charts. The next version (out soon) allows export of routes as GPX files for import into other apps.

I’m a user of paper charts for passage planning. Up until now that meant bringing my chart folio home from the boat. With Angelnav I can now create all of my passage plans in the comfort of my home before heading to the boat. Switching from paper to Angelnav is a simple process, replacing pencil for a tap on screen a passage plan with CTS for each waypoint is easily produced. Having looked at other apps and being a South coast sailor for me Angelnav offers great value, no other app offers these features at this price point. In future editions tide tables and tidal flow atlas would be a perfect addition.

Thank you very much indeed for your review and we are delighted that AngelNav has 'hit the spot'. We are currently working on adding tide tables and tidal streams to AngelNav and hope to be able to release these some time next season