Ship Finder for Android

This app needs satellite data so ships can be tracked across oceans. Also, more voyage and ship data in general. Lastly, the width or “breadth” of a ship is called the *beam*. You should use the proper nautical terms.

This used to be a pretty good app that I could rely on when I saw a vessel that piqued my interest. Sure, I would have preferred to see the vessel name instead of just the MMSI, but it was still okay. Lately, however, it has become much less reliable. It fails to register vessels that I can clearly see. I thought at first that maybe some military vessels just weren’t broadcasting due to recent tensions, but then I realized that some civilian traffic such as the ferry that is normally detected and displayed has also failed to register in the app. Frankly, these days when I open the app I do it with lowered expectations.

A MUST HAVE for those who love to ships and boats of all sizes. I use this app to track the big cargo ships in the New York and jersey area for picture taking and drone pictures. The App i would give ten stars !

I am sitting here watching commercial boats go by and they show no boats within 100 miles of me

More often than not, it doesn’t show the ships, even though we can see them visually