Boat Watch - Ship Tracking App Reviews

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Poor tracking. The app keeps telling me that ship is out of range. Meanwhile it’s docked in a covered location. The app seems to be a day behind so that cruise ships are always located at the port it was yesterday. I’m sorry that I upgraded the app for 5.00. What a terrible was of money.

KeeperMM. Change Color of ship names. Yellow is very hard to read.

iPad problems. I have had Boat watch for several years, and overall I like it. But recently it won’t load on my IPad it still works with my iPhone.

Tracking Vacation Boats. Fantastic app, I’m following friends boats around the Great Lakes in Michigan and Chicago! Highly recommended!

Rip off. I was using the free version and it was working fine decided to upgrade to the paid version and now it isn’t picking up any vessels. What a rip off

Frustrating. Tried the upgrade because the free addition showed only a few ships in harbors and none moving. Even though I could see them. The upgrade shows no ships. Again I can see them. Waste of money

Not so good anymore. Bought this app two years ago and it was great but this past year I have seen more ships out in Lake Michigan passing through that never show up on the app which was the reason for purchasing the app. Feel like a waste of money now. 😞

Disappointed. I paid for the upgrade before my cruise in order to track other ships. The upgrade was no better than the basic service which was dismal at best. Very disappointed in the accuracy of this app. Spending the money for the upgrade was a waste of money. The updates were so far behind and inaccurate that is was useless. Very frustrating to deal with. Don’t waste your time or money downloading.

Not what I expected. Although being able to see where ships are, it’s sad that you pay for the “one time upgrade” and then find that everything else within the app costs an additional charge. So they mislead you to believe that once you’ve upgraded, you won’t be charged again……. False. False false. Don’t waste your money on this.

Informative and incredible. Neat app. Great learning tool!

Missing ships. It’s frustrating when I’m looking at the ships from shore and they’re not showing up on the screen. Happens all the time. Not much help when I can see four ships and the app can only see two of them.

Lakeshore resident. New user-wonderful app.

🚢⛴🛳🛥⚓️i love this app. I’m only a kid but when I grow up I want to work on a ship in the Great Lakes and this app is awesome time passer. One problem is I have to pay $4.99 to upgrade it…bummer dude🙁

Awesome. Very useful and informative, thanks much!

Love it!. I’m just an amateur observer of nautical stuff, but I love this app!

It scams u. When I am on shore I see like 20 boats in the bay but this app says there r one or no boats. RIP OFF Don’t get this app

Worst. Does not show boat even when in front of you.

I wouldn’t trust this in fog or just ship-watching. Not dependable. I know there are at least 6 ships within 20 miles. There’s no ships in the entire Great Lakes according to this yet I’m able to download apps. What gives? Where are the ships? I see a thousand footer but guess you don’t? What really is this app for?

Disappointed. I used to see boats. I upgraded and they all went away. Frustrating as I can see them on the water but they don’t show on the app anymore

Boat Watch is the best!. I’ve tried a few different app but I like the features and reliability of Boat Watch most.

Terrible App. There currently is a boat in at the ore dock in Marquette and I can see the ship at the dock with my own two eyes but it’s isn’t visible on the radar? I would enjoy my money back to switch over to an app that has better functionality.

Eli. Thank you

Ripoff new charge. Bought this app a while ago and it was fine. They took away info about the boat you were watching and charged an additional $5 to see it again. Nothing new. Just more money to get what I originally paid for

Perfect for Boat Watchers. Love this app! I live on the Chesapeake Bay and I use this app to let me know who’s anchored out there, where they’re from, where they’ve been. Well worth the “investment!”

Not unlimited fleets :(. The style of the app was very nice at first, but once upgraded it did not provide unlimited fleets as suggested. Bad advertising and very disappointed customer.

Awesome. It’s a must for watching boats go through the Soo Locks

Emerald Princess. I bought this app just to track the Emerald Princess and I could never track it. I could track plenty of other ships but not the one I bought the app for. What a rip off.

Can’t find ships location.. I can’t never find the cruise ship position. Hasn’t updated in 3 days. Had to use different app. Payed the one time charge to get the best out of the app for nothing. Have had better results on other apps and free of charge.

Terrible. Had 2 cruise ships right infront of me and it said there was nothing

Crap. App is over a day behind. Does nothing you would want a app to do. Trash

Useless. I downloaded this to watch my sons cruise ship. I paid the extra $5 and all that did was allow me to save his boat. I was able to use the app for one day before the boat went out of range and could not be tracked anymore! Very stupid app

Shows boats that aren’t in the harbor. Do not waste time on this app. The free version is useless, so I upgraded for $4.99. The app shows the names of boats that are not currently docked in my town of Sag Harbor, NY. Deleting app now

Cool Cruise Ship Location App. Upgraded for $4.99 tell you delta iOS & location of Cruise Ships, Tankers & Cargo Vessels. Interesting to see there Origins

App has stopped showing large ships. My large ships have quit showing up and I can see them on the river.

Boat traffic. Love watching the boat traffic from my condo! But love it even more now that I know all about individual vessels!!

Bad choice. Doesn’t show Cruise Ships, detail info not complete, and not accurate. Don’t waste your money.

Boat Watch. Awesome app! Let’s you know exactly where canal traffic is so I don’t have to sit and wait on the draw bridge! Perfect!

Terrible. Does rarely track Celebrity? Says they cannot be tracked as they are out to sea??? WHY WOULDN’T THEY BE! They are cruise ships! SAVE YOUR $$$ on this one..

What boats?. It worked for a few hours and then even the barges that were right in front of my house didn’t show up in the screen

Very very good. Use to make my way around Puget Sound, WA and identify ships in ports around the world.

Surprise extras. I purchased this app because it had NOAA charts. Now the developer wants additional money for the chart feature. I’m unwilling to invest more in an app that changes the terms after I’ve made the purchase.

My Life 360 works better than this app😆. I’m not sure how this app works but it shows my daughter’s ship out of range for over 48 hrs even when they’re in port. Life 360 picked her up until she was out in the middle of the ocean. I think this ship tracker needs to talk to someone at Life 360 and ask them what app they’re using 😂. And yes I paid the upgrade fee.

Picture Upload. Please change to “Do you have a better photo” for proper grammar.

Pretty good. The app’s upgrade seems to work as promised, with real time data.

Missing Vessels. This boat App used to be accurate. I don’t understand what happened because it’s never accurate and hasn’t been for over a year, now.

Great app. Great App ! Informative and we all love it at our cottage on the st Clair river . Happy!

Love this App. We live on the shore of Green Bay north of Green Bay and love to know what ships pass.

Boat watch. I enjoy seeing what ships are coming through. Thank you!

Boat Watch is Awesome. Boat watch is a great app I use it all the time on my boat! Love the NOAA charts make sailing so easy!

Sad. I paid $4.99 for the pro version and the Watch app is still telling me I need to buy the pro version. Please help.

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Total waste of money!!!. Don't buy this app! It's absolute rubbish! The main reason I bought it was to find out where my family is on the cruise, but gps location never works!!! It is a pathetic app and a waste of your money, don't be conned like me;(

Works well except......... It updates often but when viewing boats in a harbour you can see it is very inaccurate. Boats are often shown 30 metres up the bank in buildings. Marine Traffic in its free version is much more accurate although sometimes has a large lag time. You are using the same AIS data and it would appear the same satellite map so proper positioning of the boats would be good and make it worth 5 stars. Boats position sometimes jumps back a long way. I used to like this app but now it is so inaccurate it is of no use.

Very Poor. Trying to track ship travelling between Sydney & Lifou, no response whatsoever, a very poor investment!

Ignore this. Slow,limited information and tries to force in app purchases.

Lindsay. What a dud of an app. I actually paid for this, not a lot,but I could have bought a couple of beers instead.

Useful App.. I have found this app. very useful and interesting for tracking and identifying boats and ships in the major harbours. Although most of the reviews I've read have been negative and I wasn't expecting much, when you consider how the data is received, I was pleasantly surprised and think they have done a good job.

Dissapointed. I am very disappointed with this app! After upgrading to pro version there is no details on the vessels. The originator of this app needs to look into this.

Rubbish - don't waste your time. NOT a Live tracker at all. Shows very old data most of the time, and only really seems to update when a ship gets close to/from port.

Overpriced and clumsy interface. Others better and cheaper. I'll be deleting this App.

Ok.. So I gusse the map is quite interesting, but the boat information costs money, I’m a child and my mother doesn’t like spending money on games so the app is completely useless

Don't waste your money with this app. I paid 6.50$ and it didn't unlock all the features! The available features are soo poor and it leak accuracy!

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Ship locations. Not very responsive to ship locations in Sydney...

Utter, utter RUBBISH. If you are considering this app DON'T!! Its a pile of poo! Nearby ships don't work the gps is the same one Magellan used. Its just useless do us all a favor and pull this from the app store

Bought it but keeps asking to regrant. Bought it but keeps asking to regrant

Poor. Right area but won’t bring up the boat sitting in the bay. States no ships.

Jamming. The program jams all the time

Disappointing. I downloaded this app so I could track a particular ship. It has not given me an accurate location for over a week.

Works great. Love using the app to see where ships are from and where they’re heading-perfect for anyone on the beach

Useless. I’m trying to track a cruise ship that family is on. It’s telling me they are out of radio range for the last 3 days when in fact they were between Singapore and Malaysia! Location has not moved on the map for 3 days. Internet shows ship almost in a port. If it can’t track a cruise ship that is near a port every day, then it’s pretty hopeless.

Needs heaps of work. It not very good all they do is ask you to pay money and barely have any information on the boats☹️ but the maps good

Port watch it’s unique way of pacifist. I’m thinking of doing a trainee ship due to lack of knowledge Yours sincerely Luke James Hadden

Rubbish. The worst app. A waste of time. 3 cruise liners....... nothing shows.

Boat Watch. Locates all ships in range on map colour coded for type of ship. Able to locate a specific ship by name and shows location, ship details and position on map. Very useful for anyone interested in ship locations and movements

How to opt out of this. I bought this a few days ago to follow family aboard the Norwegian epic. Constantly tells me it is out of range. Whilst sitting in harbour in Barcelona please tell me how to abort this app thanks

Must buy. Sit for hours at Mooloolaba watching ships come in and out of the Brisbane passage - get a pair of binoculars.

Absolutely terrible waste of money!!!. If you like wasting money. Get this app if not, don't even bother.

Mr.t. Cannot track any ship once it leaves port, waste of time and money. Don’t know where the ship is!

Find Ship is free and better. This app doesn't let you even get any details of the ships that can be found free using any search engine. Even to get a satellite map, they want money. Why pay for something that you can get for free elsewhere like Find Ship or other apps.

Useless. What a useless app couldn’t do a thing with it trying to track a particular shop and it says there no ship what a waste deleting it right now

Useless. Only tracks ships when they're close to shore. What's the point?

My review. An awesome app. Great information when purchasing the upgrade. Upgrading is way to cheap for the information you get from it.

Yes and no. When it works it is fantastic. But sometimes I get nothing like right now. I have got an upgrade app.

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Useless. Wow major problem with their system. Every ship, shore station and marker light in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and the Caribbean islands that I checked are showing " not presently transmitting" or not transmitting for 6 - 21 hours. As of February 8th 7am est.

Qualité de cette application. Je suis impressionné par la qualité de cette application. Nous demeurons au 22e étage dans une copropriété situé face a la voix maritime du Saint-Laurent.

Only want to track one vessel. The free app has too much detail for my purpose. I only want to locate one vessel, currently making its way from Texas to Florida. I would be satisfied if all vessels except pleasure craft could be selected.I also want the vessel’s latitude and longitude as well as the track of its movement. I am considering the upgrade but not enough information is provided about the features offered.

Information Out of Date. I checked on a cruise ship that runs a route every few weeks out of Miami, to see how accurate the app is. I know the exact location of this ship. The app doesn't. It shows a location that's way out of date. As a result, I can't rely on any information from this app. Uninstalled.

Comentaire. Il me semble que l,Ont ne payait moin avant? Prix à l’heure pour déblocage pourrait m,intéressé

Crapy App. No intersting info without bying in-Apps.

Ahoymateys. Fantastic app….updated constantly. We are in St Maarten and off to SBH tomorrow and so fun to see all the action. I just feel for the poor Harbour Master in Gustavia and off-shore action. This person deserves a medal

This app is a scam.. The title says it. First you buy and then you have to pay again to use it. Dont buy this.

Not great.. Leaves much to be desired.

Almost there. This app is awesome but it’s just missing one thing: route history. This is almost like the Flightradar24 of ships but it just needs that line that shows the route it’s been taking. This will show that it’s actually moving and what not because the only way you can actually tell a ship is moving right now is through it’s speed or watching it on the map. I personally just think it’d be a great add on.

Boat Watch. I am about to delete Boat Watch from all of our units. We are unable to look at the data presented without your page advertising the $6.99 add on popping up every 20 seconds.

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Poor. Currently cruising on celebrity infinity just west and north of Havana Cuba. I can visually see two other cruise ships (carnival ship and MSc ). Yet none of the 3 ships show up on boat watch. These boats must be transmitting their positions. I think you should refund all users who pay for premium services as it’s easier to watch the boats visually than on the map. If the point is to watch the boats you fail miserably. On the good side the NOAA overlay maps are excellent.

1 Star. I’d give it more if it supported family sharing

Very noice. Sub to pewdiepie

Great app, worth the money to upgrade!. After having issues with app crashing, I emailed the developer with the issue (on a Saturday morning), and had a personal reply within 45 minutes. The $6.99 CAD is worth every penny to be able to favourite different ships.

Rip-off. About a year ago I paid for the full version of this app. Recently updated and now it doesn't recognize me and asks me to upgrade. Wasted my money.

Love it! Great for cruise ship watching. Great for watching approaching ships

Useless app. This app is absolute garbage. We live right near the ships going by yet it will say no ships found. Or it says ship not transmitting. Absolutely a waste of download.

Crap. Doesn’t show any boats. Always searching.

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New update is buggy. This update hasn’t been good. Sometimes it is way behind where the ships actually are. And then it will load and be normal. Then it will load and be off again

Great App. App opens on my location to show ships near me in canal. It now shows local landmarks. Very accurate

Windstar cruises. This app can’t find windstar Pride passenger cruise ship

Rating -10. Trying to view boats in South West Nova Scotia at start of lobster fishery Over 2000 boats out there with epurbs on “None show up on Boatwatch!, Free version of App is non functional! Sad

BoatWatch. Pretty good. Fascinating! Entertaining! Informative!

Boat Watch. 👍

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Great app & support team. Great app to identify ships and boats. Support team helped when I had issues.

Wasted upgrade. I have used this previous years with success. This time it wasn’t working (there were no boats in off the coast of southern Florida), and so I figured I needed to purchase the offered 4.99 upgrade. Still no boats.

Lake Erie & Boat Watch. Many times you can see a ship right in front of you and it won't show up on this program. I wish it was reliable. Erie Pennsylvania

Not really free. To get any data, you need to upgrade for $4.99. Waste of time.

Hardly Useful. I can never find boats on the Great Lakes, always getting messages that the vessels aren't transmitting their position. Don't waste your time and money, use other free AIS websites. Funny, the vessels are transmitting their positions to those sites.

Love to keep track!. Like to keep up with YouTube Vessels.

Works great for me!. Never an issue.

Not worth my time.. Useless app. They want you to pay to display any info.

I wish I had read the reviews before !. The free app is a waste and the paid App is a total waste - i AM sitting in the center of Gustavia Harbour and surrounded by the largest and most expensive one ----- and the App sees nothing Will try to get a cancellation on my credit card ....

don’t waste your money. was not able to get much tracking info on the cruise that my son was on recently

User. I really like this app a lot. I love watching the ship traffic on the St Lawrence river and the Great Lakes. PLEASE keep updating this app!!!

Unreliable.. Downloaded this app for work purposes. At first (lite version) I had no issues. Once I paid for the full version, all of my troubles began. Again I use this for work purposes. There is a constant freeze or delay of ship movements or locations. At times the ships don’t even show up at all. Major waste IMO.

Stopped working. This app used to work. Now it's showing about 4 boats in all of Connecticut. Only one in Newport! It's July. There are more -- I'm sure of it. Perhaps they "fixed" this version now that they have a Pro version available for $7.99!!!!! Thanks for nothing.

Whoop whoop. YEEEEEAH BEST APP

Cruiseship tracking. Certain cruise ships dont show or show erratically

Stopped working. I have used this app happily for more than a year. Today it stopped, showing no ships even as I watched a car carrier moving up the Columbia river. Contact support? Nothing. I paid for an upgrade last year. Do they want an annual fee? A notice then would be helpful instead of a blank screen.

Doesn't work all the time. This app has not been working consistently for the past month. Can see tankers and cargo ships cruising by condo but they are not shown on the app. Has something changed since this app seemed to be dependable until recently.

Worst app I ever had!. This is the worst app I ever had! I purchased upgrade and it charged me says restore is successfully and never works. Even after Apple upgrade this morning. Nothing! The worst app I ever had!

What is going on?. I tried the free app and it works fine, but then after downloading the "pro"....I get nothing more. I want my money back or fix this!!!!!!

Where did the NOAA charts layover go?. I have used this app for months and loved it. It is a valuable asset for doing my job. I especially loved the NOAA chart layover. Yesterday, when I wanted to use my app all of a sudden the NOAA charts were gone. Restoring purchases didn’t bring them back, reinstalling the app didn’t do the trick and I don’t see any option to select the NOAA charts layover as I was able in the past. Please help!

Boats on dry land?. The app consistently shows boats on dry land. I’ve also had issues with it incorrectly reporting location showing the boat I’m tracking to be somewhere that I know it is not while I’m in communication with someone actually on board

Boat watch. Watch boats go out of port all the time and says no ships in area. Rating - “0”

Would not recommend you spend the money. Not good. Waste of money. Didn't work. Got the app to follow my parents' trip. Disappointed

I don’t think so.... Usually seems accurate. At the moment I am near Cleveland, and allegedly there are two vessels. One going from Sault Ste. Marie to Two Harbors (eastbound no less) and one going from Rogers City to Cheboygan (eastbound). WRONG!!

Doesn't up date.. Won't update.

Missing ships. If you offer a service make it accurate!

Just ok. Disappointing! 70 percent of the time you can't track a certain boat or your favorites! If your trying to track a private yacht over 100 feet in length, Good luck! Because it's up to the boat owner whether they want to be tracked or not! Also the pro version for 9.99$ is no better than the fre bee!

Nice but not as good as some. It lacked AIS reports for many ships in rivers I visited. Private luxury craft were missing as well as Tugs along Southeast US ICW. Other free AIS apps did show.

Pay for features that used to be free. This is a fun app for those of us who enjoy Brooklyn Bridge Park and similar places dense with boats. Less fun is the way info about the boats used to be free but now costs $5.

Revision of previous review. I did get a response and have now begun using and enjoying this app. This is the best app for boat spotting. I see the boat, I check it out on Boat Watch and get all the details I need about the vessel. The user's guide portion has great detail and tells me about ALL kinds of boats that I see. Next up I may download the nautical charts portion of the SeaNav app. I like it!

Other Apps do a better job.. I don't really know the details of these ship reporting apps go grab their data, I just know that when I use this one and compare it to Marine Traffic or BoatNerd's AIS, they always seems to have a better representation of what I know is out there. As an example, the Soo Locks opened for traffic today and I know two boats are nearby waiting, and the Boat Watch app shows nothing. I pop over to Marine Traffic, and I see the two along with the supporting ice breakers. By the way, this is not an uncommon issue, and I can easily find other examples of this on a daily basis.

Disappointed. I wish I hadn’t of purchased this ap and the live view—- it doesn’t show anything “live” it’s historical views apparently and I e wasted $4.99 x2.

Doesn't work. No boats in Puerto Rico, and I'm looking at various ships!

Slow, inaccurate. Too bad the app doesn’t deliver. The concept is great, but it is slow and often completely inaccurate.

Boat watch. They should add more movement to the map map movement and ship movement. They also should add the bouys

I didn’t order this. Still trying to get refund on this, looked at app and several others in app store. Now charge thirty bucks for something I don’t have boat to use with. One star for total frustration.

Piece of garbage. This app has no capabilities at all. It's merely a scam to get you to pay for the Pro version for $7.99, and who knows if that works?! Don't waste your time, effort or money. This thing could track a cork bobbing in a toilet!!!

Dont track well!. Don’t know what they use to track ships but don’t work well, not even if the ship is a shore. I have been following the allure of the seas and for the past 2 days got no report, they had stopped in San Juan P R and in Haiti and still showing the ship in around St Thomas No reliable app!

Not very impressive. When I first downloaded the app, it worked great. I can see the ship moving toward its destination... It was very cool. On day 2, I keep getting messages that the ship cannot be tracked, but when I check online through a different site, I get updated information within a ten minute window. Pop up adds are irritating... Need to spend more time providing the service instead of showing ads. I'm glad I didn't purchase the app. I would have thrown money out of the window. Proceed with caution.

Didn’t work. I paid for the fancy version, and I should have just stuck with the marine traffic free website.

Not working?. The app doesn't display any ships or boats for me. Is it the app or me, I don't know?

Freezes on refreshing ships. Doesn't work

What happened?. Doesn't show any boats anymore. Useless.

Cindy. As of 10-28-2020 your app is not working.

No longer works. Worked great at first, now I don't see any ships. Waste of money!

Was great but stopped connecting after awhile. Great app nice detail But stopped connecting to network said network failure occurred.