# NV Charts GPS Navigation AIS

> NV Charts App is an ideal tool to navigate with NV Charts cartography.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.plongo.nvcharts](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.plongo.nvcharts)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.plongo.nvcharts`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** NV CHARTS
- **Category:** MAPS\_AND\_NAVIGATION
- **Downloads:** 199,692
- **Rating:** 3.24 / 5 (3,066 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.753.253
- **Last updated:** 2025-11-18
- **First published:** 2013-06-12
- **Publisher country:** DE
- **Size:** 75 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plongo.nvcharts)
- **Website:** [http://nvcharts.com/app](http://nvcharts.com/app)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://nvcharts.com/privacy\_policy\_app\_en.html](http://nvcharts.com/privacy_policy_app_en.html)

## Description

Enhance your maritime navigation with the NV Charts GPS Navigation AIS Chrome extension. Seamlessly access up-to-date digital nautical and inland charts covering regions including the North Sea, Baltic Sea, Caribbean, USA, and more. Download charts offline, ensuring reliable navigation even without internet access. The app perfectly complements traditional NV Charts paper charts, offering a combined digital and physical navigation experience.

Stay connected with a vibrant boating community by sharing points of interest, harbours, anchorages, and photos. Benefit from powerful features like fast auto-routing, live AIS real-time tracking with WiFi receiver support, tide forecasts, online weather updates, anchor alarms, and position sharing. The extension supports synchronization across multiple devices and allows exporting navigation data such as GPX files for further use. Ideal for both casual sailors and professional mariners seeking comprehensive, reliable, and user-friendly navigation tools.

## Rankings

- #159,104 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.BLUETOOTH_CONNECT`
- `android.permission.CAMERA`
- `android.permission.CAMERA2`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.READ_CLIPBOARD`
- `android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.permission.VIBRATE`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `android.permission.WRITE_CLIPBOARD`
- `android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.webkit.PermissionRequest`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.plongo.nvcharts.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`

## Review summary

Users praise NV Charts for strong chart content and easy route planning, including AIS maps and broad coverage. Recurrent negatives center on licensing and yearly renewal costs, unreliable offline maps, stability issues after updates, inconsistent map quality and UI, and GPS/routing accuracy concerns. A few cite good support when problems occur. Overall, the app is valued for charts and planning but hampered by licensing, offline functionality, stability, and map/UI inconsistencies.

### Pros

- Accurate and useful charts with broad US and international coverage
- Easy-to-use route planning and navigation
- Responsive customer support when issues arise
- AIS-enabled raster maps provide situational awareness

### Cons

- Licensing and ongoing payments: paid content often requires yearly renewal and licenses expire
- Offline maps/content not reliable: offline maps may not work and are tied to annual renewals
- Stability issues: crashes and update-related instability, with some features breaking after updates
- Map quality/UI inconsistencies: maps can be of uneven quality, with nonintuitive UI and features like anchor alarms
- GPS/routing accuracy and coverage concerns: GPS location reliability and routing accuracy can be problematic, with limited global coverage

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.plongo.nvcharts)