B&G: Companion App for Sailors - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

The B&G® App is designed to help you get the most out of your time on the water, and your electronics, whether you are cruising with your family or racing with your friends.

With detailed charting powered by C-MAP®, weather and marine traffic information, route planning and GPS, it is the perfect aid to navigation for sailors, and is a must-have for sailors with B&G on-board.

Get started –
The B&G App can be used as a standalone or synced with your system. Get started by connecting and registering your chartplotter to your phone via the App...

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Use the App to plan your routes and mark waypoints in advance or as an aid to navigation while out and about on the water. With detailed charts, Autorouting™ and AIS, it’s a powerful tool to have at your fingertips.

Simply download offline charts, save your favourite routes and waypoints in the app, so you can enjoy your time on the water and make the most of your sailing time.

The B&G App Includes:

- Activation and Registration of your B&G Chartplotter
- FREE C-MAP Chart Viewer
- Autorouting™ – find the best route to your favourite places
- Personal Waypoints
- Track Recording
- Thousands of pre-loaded Points of Interest, including relevant information about marinas, harbours, beaches, shops and much more
- Marine Weather Forecast
- Weather Along the Route
- Weather Overlay
- Chart Personalisation
- Import & Export GPX Files – share your Routes, Tracks or Waypoints with friends
- Measure Distance Tool

Upgrade to Premium to unlock additional features, including:

- Full GPS Functionality
- Offline Map Downloads
- REVEAL Shaded Relief
- High-Resolution Bathymetry
- Custom Depth Shading
- AIS & C-MAP Traffic

Try before you buy… Experience the B&G App Premium for yourself, with a free 14-day trial.

The B&G App updates on a continuous basis to make sure you get the best experience and to bring you the most up-to-date maps and functionalities.

Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Links to Your Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable

Privacy policy
https://appchart.bandg.com/core/map/privacy.html
Terms of service
https://appchart.bandg.com/core/map/tos.html

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In-Apps

Region

$22.99

Caribbean

$31.99

North America

$22.99

Atlantic Ocean

$54.99

Annual Subscription

$29.99

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User Rating

3.6 out of 5

175 ratings in United States

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Ratings History

Reviews

Can’t load on iPad IOS v12.5.7

Trying to use on an old iPad mini. I can install, but app dies after initial B&G display screen. App info suggests it should run on iOS 12 and later. My iPad has 12.5.7

Routing unusable

I have spent two hours trying to create a route this morning and been entirely unable to do so. The auto routing takes me out of the navigation channel and into shallow water despite my depth setting. Further there is no way to establish a manual route. This is useless. I will use Navionics instead.

They just don’t get it

The developers of this app are clueless about what the app needs to do. It is deficient in too many ways to list. Just one example. Create a route and send it directly to your b&g chartplotter. Nope. Can’t do that. Need I say more?

B&G Support and App is Pathetic!

I have emailed customer support numerous times over weeks; including a major safety issue where my Bahamas charts disappeared, putting me and my family in danger. Nothing. Not a peep from B&G. Now the app; about useless for 1 major reason…..it keeps requiring a network login to the BG server while I am in remote locations with no cellular or internet, this renders the mirror/remote connection to the chart plotter via my iPad useless because you know what? It wants me to login to the BG Server!! Just perfect when in bad weather I can’t view my plotter via my iPad, so I have to go out in driving rain and wind to access the plotter! Also, the settings aren’t working on the app… The screen just has the waiting swirlybird even when I have internet…..so can’t adjust any settings. How unhelpful. Outside of BG being lousy at customer support and an app that is pitifully below expectations, the BG plotter is pretty good…. I will have to give them that, but after this experience my next product will be a Garmin as I can’t in good faith endorse this company unless they make some changes.

$14.95 is the price. Why not say that to begin with?!?

No thanks.

So far so good

Since the App asks me to rate it after using for about 2 minutes I cannot say much, but so far found easy to connect to Zeus and mirror screen as well as maps seems good and automatically create route seem to work

B & G is AWESOME! We love you!!!

B & G is AWESOME! We love you!!! Your products have made me safer and helped me win races. Keep doing what you’re doing! Brad Lewis SV Rising Sun Pacific Northwest USA

Best navigation app

I just purchased a new boat that came with B&G chart plotter. I was told the this app would allow me to register all the equipment, which it did. I now find that it has much more. I was able to create routes by just selecting a start point and end point, and app figures all the waypoints between them. But the best part was the when I select the chart plotter from the app I can sync the app to the chart plotter and all the routes are transferred and stored in the chart plotter no need to copy anything.

Routes crash app

Routes now crash the app every time I try to access them. I had just created a new route when this began

Really tried to like the app

I have B&G instruments on my boat and I’m quite happy with them but the app is terrible. I really tried to like it since it has world wide coverage but trying to download maps for offline use is the worst experience. I also have the Navionics app and the downloads work like a charm. On B&G I have selected 3 areas I wanted to have as offline maps and they just won’t download to my iPad. I get to 10 to 20 percent before the download stops. All this is on a super fast Fios connection. Given these results, it’s utterly unusable while on passage trying to update maps on a cell connection or public wifi. This is a problem since I first downloaded the app 2 years ago. I tried deinstalling and reinstalling with no change. Really disappointing and even support could not help me when I contacted them a year ago.

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Category Rankings

Chart	Category	Rank
Top Grossing	New Zealand Navigation	7
Top Grossing	Turkey Navigation	11
Top Grossing	Hungary Navigation	18
Top Grossing	South Africa Navigation	19
Top Grossing	Sweden Navigation	21

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