I have been using Savvy Navvy for a while now and continue to be impressed. It’s easy to use and new features are being added or improved regularly. Comparing this to similar apps out there, it is very good value and is always my go-to app for navigation.

This app tells you they are collecting any purchases you do on the device. All your searches & the data that goes with that. And there’s so much more. Why can’t we buy a service or device/app & it doesn’t take your location for another reason than to tell you where you are. I’m very disappointed that something as simple as a satnav would need to know what purchases I do on my phone. This is an overreach. And potentially something more than nefarious I personally feel.

The potential for Savvy Navv as a passage planning tool is considerable. It’s drawbacks are that it simply does not (yet) have all the information needed for its use as an onboard navigation app. There is, for example, no facility to view light or mark characteristics, and no tidal height information, or means of plotting position lines that are not part of a route. Given, therefore, that other apps will be required if navigation is being done electronically, Savvy Navvy is not a complete solution. You will still need a tidal height almanac a nautical almanac and a plotter app. That would be fine other than the pricing of Savvy Navvy being pitched as if it does the lot. Nearly £100 just for an offline passage planner is just too much. And as the Basic Plan relies on constant connectivity, that’s not much use either despite its lower cost. In summary, a good idea, bags of potential but not yet either complete or realistically priced. Really responsive support though and really nice visuals etc. I wish them well but it is not right for me or responsible navigators looking for a complete package (yet).

Unfortunately this app isn’t (yet) suitable for serious navigators. Its lacking the ability to feed NMEA data in, so you’re stuck if your device does not have GPS. No depth or wind info from your nav instruments. Crucially no AIS support either. Then we move onto the huge holes in the chart areas. Having sailed from the UK to Australia, there seems to be reasonable coverage for those areas but as I continue west, I see that Indonesia and most of the Indian Ocean isn’t covered. I’m also not sure how well the chart download works - it doesn’t seem to clearly show me the areas I’ve downloaded for offline use. I’ll give this more of a try offshore in the coming days (without data). For now, I’m sticking with iSailor for my serious navigation but I will check back periodically especially if the NMEA and AIS feeds become possible (as a hint I’d like to be able to set an IP address and port number that Savvy Navvy connects to using TCP to get NMEA/AIS data).

Used for the first time in anger this weekend. Forced to buy an annual subscription as my trial was used up experimenting with it versus Navionics for a week in May. This app kills battery life. Considerably less efficient than Google Maps. You need a charging source if going for a several hour sail. My latest iphone died from full charge after 3 hours of sailing. ‘Cannot plot a route’ is seen way to frequently due to waypoints being apparently unsailable. The app should be snapping you to a nearby location to the waypoint it thinks is is sailable, a marina is a sailable destination - please take note. Debugging 5 or 6 waypoints manually is not an experience I want to be paying for particularly when trying to get going on an improvement of the weather. Calculating a route relies on internet connection which is not guaranteed. At least give a button to start tracking the vessel against course without needing to wait to download weather and tide information that may not happen. Do the downloading in the background if the much required ‘Get going’ button is pressed.The heading line gets stuck despite gps being present. It was tracking me but not showing the correct heading for direction at around 5 knts SOG. Why would this happen, Goggle maps doesn’t have that issue. Finally on saved tracks, you can see where you have been and the time it stopped tracking. You cannot see start times, headings, distance logs or arrival at waypoints and your destination in a table despite the app having all the required tracking info. Maybe a download of a gps file (gpx I think they are) into another app would fix that however I cannot seem to download the file and would hope the app could tell me where I have been on my journey.

I’m brand new to sailing so I can’t make recommendations based on any real comparison or across large areas.That said for my situation Savvy Navvy has been just perfect. I can pre plan routs and find my way back to the buoy systems using GPS. I agree that is is just like google maps for the sea.I am currently only sailing close to the shore, around Conwy bay, Anglesey and Beaumaris. Without this app there is no way I could have navigated this area so quickly. I do also have the navionics which in my opinion is not as good for preplanning but the Charts on navionics are arguably a bit easier to read when at sea, due to simpler, chunkier graphics.

Very impressed with the app and the courses it plots using the navigational charts. I have not used it on my boat yet but plotted a few known courses and it has selected them well. With regards to the app, one passage I will be doing this year is from Weymouth around Portland Bill to Brixham. If any one knows this passage I understand one route is to keep in tight around the Bill????I have now subscribed for the 2nd year and as far as boating costs go this is excellent value.I use it home to plan my passages at home to familiarise myself with the seas before we go to the boat and this is just perfectThankyou Savvy Navy,10/10👍👍👍👍

Great to see the app now available and even easier to use than the website I have used for a long time now, since the earliest days of its availability. So mush better to access this directly on my iPad.The concept is great and the execution even better as the range of additional features continues to grow - now with weather and tide information included it really becomes a “one-stop shop” or, at the very least and more likely, a “must go to” when planning a route or looking at options and background information.

Started in Maldon, first year with my own boat and soloing. Paper charts drawing plots, then immediately tacking away from my best intentions.Savy Navy proved itself on the third day, a mile offshore looking for the River Blyth entrance for Southwold is far to far away. Get in closer and sail past. Downloaded Savy Navy the problem solved.Took me to the Orkney’s, still scribbling on paper charts, updating them as I sailed up the coast.Loch Inver in the Hebrides was another matter.Torrential rain, the run in whites out, get the app up, slow right down and tack back out to safer water. Sod crabbing around a rock infested shore, line up two mile out trust the app, very slow straight approach while waiting the rain to clear. Perfectly on target when the curtains parted.Now my little Sadler 29 is parked up in Zumaia, in the Basque Country for another week.Well done Savy Navy, my most essential safety backup. I use it several times every trip out, or more when out of site of land.

Downloaded the app and had a little play with it. Looks impressive but have not used it on my boat yet . However tidal data is not included in the “basic price” you have to pay for an upgrade to get tidal data. That’s a bit cheeky since tides are an important part of passage planning for every mariner, power or sail. It makes me suspicious about what other “upgrades” might be required . There are numerous free tidal apps so difficult to understand why tidal cannot be integrated in the basic price module.