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Best 10 Boating Map Apps
Lake maps & marine GPS can easily take the stress out of a boating trip. Besides regular navigational maps, get highly accurate lake depth & contour maps.
About Boating Maps
Boating maps are a two-dimensional representation of sea areas or lake districts in which the coastal regions are also outlined. They serve the purpose of navigation.
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Marine Ways - Free Nautical Charts
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i-Boating:Marine Navigation Maps & Nautical Charts
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C-MAP - Marine Charts
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Garmin ActiveCaptain®
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Aqua Map Marine - Boating GPS
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Wavve Boating - Smart Boat GPS
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Fishing Points - Fishing App
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savvy navvy - Smarter Boating
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Simrad: Boating & Navigation
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Marine Navigation Lite
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Marine Ways - Free Nautical Charts
Free nautical charts, route planning, and GPS-guided marine navigation4.6 Ratings 2K+ Reviews 100K+ DownloadsFree In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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i-Boating:Marine Navigation Maps & Nautical Charts
Chartplotter w/ Voice : Marine Navigation Charts & HD Lake Contour Maps4.4 Ratings 19K+ Reviews 500K+ DownloadsFree Fresh In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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C-MAP - Marine Charts
Marine and nautical chartplotter. Offline maps for boating and sailing.4.0 Ratings 11K+ Reviews 500K+ DownloadsFree Fresh In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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Garmin ActiveCaptain®
Connect to Your GPS Plotter4.0 Ratings 6K+ Reviews 500K+ DownloadsFree In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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Aqua Map Marine - Boating GPS
Nautical Charts for Navigation4.6 Ratings 8K+ Reviews 100K+ DownloadsFree Fresh In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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Wavve Boating - Smart Boat GPS
America's Boating App. Custom nautical charts, routing, tides, weather, & more.4.1 Ratings 211+ Reviews 10K+ DownloadsFree Fresh In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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Fishing Points - Fishing App
Find fishing times using tide charts, marine map, solunar and weather forecast.4.4 Ratings 112K+ Reviews 5M+ DownloadsFree In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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savvy navvy - Smarter Boating
Includes routing, active tracking, tidal graphs, weather forecasts & chart data!4.6 Ratings 3K+ Reviews 100K+ DownloadsFree In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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Simrad: Boating & Navigation
The Simrad companion app. Great nautical charts for boating and cruising.3.9 Ratings 894+ Reviews 50K+ DownloadsFree Fresh In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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Marine Navigation Lite
Offline GPS tracker for boat navigation. GPS Chartplotter for Sailing & boating3.5 Ratings 2K+ Reviews 500K+ DownloadsFree In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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How We Choose The Best Apps
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Broad Search
Our unique algorithm scoured the App Store and Google Play Store by searching boating gps, boating maps, lake gps and 3 other keywords. From there, we retrieved a total of 543 unique apps (54 Android apps and 489 iOS apps) as potential candidates. -
Additional Review by Editorial Team
Finally, our editorial team checks all apps in our best 10 list one by one to make sure these apps are of the highest quality. -
Filter only high-quality apps
We then selected the highest quality apps from the 543 apps listed. We compared the number of stars, downloads, and reviews along with the velocity of these apps to create a list of the Best Boating Map Apps for both Android & iOS.
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