# C-MAP: Boating

> Charts, Planning & Navigation

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id967289980](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id967289980)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id967289980`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Navico Norway AS
- **Category:** Navigation
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (2,404 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.6.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-17
- **First published:** 2015-04-28
- **Size:** 169 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/c-map-boating/id967289980)
- **Website:** [https://www.c-map.com/en-gb/app/](https://www.c-map.com/en-gb/app/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://appchart.c-map.com/privacy.html](https://appchart.c-map.com/privacy.html)

## Description

The C-MAP App is a navigation and charting companion for recreational boaters. Available on mobile, tablet, or PC, it provides up-to-date C-MAP charts worldwide, with autorouting, personal waypoints, track recording, thousands of pre-loaded POIs, and weather overlays along the route.

Upgrade to Premium to unlock full GPS, offline maps, REVEAL shaded relief, high-resolution bathymetry, and AIS traffic. The app supports GPX import/export and sharing routes, tracks, or waypoints. A free 14-day trial (3-day in Denmark and Sweden) is available, with continual map updates.

## Rankings

- #37,787 — Overall

## Review summary

Overall, users praise C-MAP for reliability on boating trips and strong support, with user-friendly design and good features at a fair price. However, recurring stability problems—crashes on startup or during use—followed by frequent failures to save tracks, map loading and data quality issues (missing contours, locating lakes, depth errors), and an AIS feature that requires internet, are the most recurrent, critical drawbacks.

### Pros

- Reliable navigation for multi-leg boating trips (e.g., Lake Michigan crossings).
- Excellent support and longtime functionality.
- User-friendly interface.
- Good features at a reasonable price.

### Cons

- Frequent crashes and instability (crashes on startup/loading, app closes unexpectedly).
- Inability to save tracks led to data loss and safety concerns.
- Map loading problems (maps not loading, white screen) and authentication/login errors.
- Data quality and coverage issues (missing contour lines on some lakes, lakes not locatable, depth/contour inaccuracies).
- Premium AIS features require internet connectivity, offline functionality is not supported.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id967289980)