Wärtsilä iSailor for Android

iSailor is a solid charting app. It presents the charts in a way that experienced paper chart users would expect. Lots of customization available too. Add-on subscriptions for things like tides, currents, AIS, etc. It hasn’t been updated in three years though, and in those three years other charting apps have caught up and surpassed iSailor, especially in things like route planning, automatic route planning, overlays, etc. I use iSailor as my chart plotter but use other apps for route planning and such. Always good to have a few apps to refer to and to compare.

When somebody purchase an item, only to find later that the seller decided that they are only renting it to you. So even tho you purchased the item, you must pay annual rent. Then they get you again! My original version covered both my Android and my Mobile. In preparation for a passage, I paid the rental fee for the app on my Android. But now they want me to rent the Mobile version too. Quite nasty and greedy. I do my planning on my phone, and navigate within the Mobile.

The software works well and the charts are reasonably priced. The chart quality is excellent. The issue is there is way too much information on the charts at certain zoom levels to the point where you can’t see anything but massive amounts of text all jumbled up on the chart. You can’t control the amount of detail like depth readings, buoy names, location names, etc which is displayed as text on top of the chart.

Not sure why I can’t get AIS data on other vessels around me. They don’t even appear on the chart for me at all. Disappointing to say the least.

Purchased a chart for eastern seaboard which is suppose to include CT waters but it doesn’t include fishers island sound and little Narragansett bay which is a HUGE omission. Don’t waste your money.