1.75 out of 5
8 ratings in United Kingdom
How the ergonomics if this app ever got through quality control is amazing. To be unable to see what you are doing with the control panel on the screen you were viewing is a design stuff-up of mega proportions. Did someone really get paid to build this?
Having just parted with £1k+ for my mfd I find that the advertised remote app is utterly useless & unusable (see the other reviews) Clearly, cynically designed to push owners into buying another instrument when led to believe an existing tablet would fill the role. Shameful!
Raymarine chart plotters are great. Top of the line equipment, maybe the best there currently is. I have spent more on their equipment than some people spend on a car. I like their hardware. And yet they supply with their superb chart plotters this wholly inadequate piece of junk app. It is unusable. It means people like me end up buying multiple Raymarine chart plotters to get the connectivity needed because this app will make you throw your iPad in the sea in frustration. The app has not been updated (at the time of this review) for three years. That’s inexcusable. The sooner new tech startups get into gear (check out Orca for example) the sooner Raymarine will have to get off their lazy super-profitable backsides and develop usable tablet software. Shameful Raymarine, shameful.
Not very! If you aren't in front of your MFD you could use it to view what's on the screen... OR If you are in front of the screen you could use it as a control pad (it's beyond me why you would bother)... But you can't sensibly use it as a remote version of your MFD - perhaps that is by design. Bottom line - it's fuseless!
Who allowed this crap to be published? Your phone screen is EITHER a virtual joystick / d-pad OR the displayed content e.g. plotter / radar. Not both. So to move the crosshairs on the say chartplotter you have to switch to a joystick, do it blindfolded & guess where you're moving it, then switch back to see if it did something like what you wanted! ( crying with laughter and frustration at same time ). It's literally not believable that this passed any kind of QA or even a basic common-sense check.
Like the app but would give 5 stars if bellow was added. I would like to see some basic touch screen function on the viewer screen the touch control on the iphone is very good especially with the added room on iphone5. Or maybe the controls could be overlaid and transparent.
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Top Free
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Top Free
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449
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