Total annual cost

Jonathan

Have loved and still love watching Tom’s YouTube videos. Great idea for app. Are the costs in the store all annual subscription or are some of them one-off, e,g, ais, instruments, etc. I understand charts and tides would need to be annual subscription.

Is there a trial concept whereby all features can be assessed prior to deciding?

Bill

Dear Jonathan,

Thanks for your question and glad you like the concept! The features of AngelNav are in 3 categories:

Included (free)
One-off purchase (capabilities)
Recurrent annual purchase (subscriptions)

The capabilities include items that not everyone wants (eg instruments or race wizard), but once purchased are available for ever.

As you say, charts and tides are annual subscriptions which include access to the charts, the regular updates service and the new notice to mariner service.

It is possible to evaluate almost all the features before purchasing anything. For example, although the included GB Overview chart is small scale, it allows you to play around with waypoints, routes, tracks, and chart work (position lines etc). You can also create satellite charts and see what they look like for any location before buying the satellite capability.

For those with the ability to transmit NMEA data over WiFi, there is an NMEA simulator included free of charge which allows you to test out the AIS and Instrument capability prior to any purchase (full details are in the manual in the app or here).

For subscription charts, you can examine the exact coverage in detail by tapping the (i) button next to the folio in the Store section of the app, or using the tool on the website and zooming in and out (each chart is shown as a blue outline).

I hope that helps.

Bill Aylward

Jonathan

Bill

Thanks. I bit the bullet and paid for tides, Ireland charts and the KAP and satellite features. Of course I then discovered NOAA had moved to vector charts away from raster. I live in Chicago hence wanted charts I could play with for Lake Michigan although boat is in Northern Ireland after being based in Scotland for 3 years. I like the app although find it strange to move around the raster charts as I am more used to isailor and Navionics. I’ll start a new thread on best way to use the raster movement for passage/route planning.

Bill

Dear Jonathan,

It is sad that the NOAA have stopped issuing their excellent (and free) charts of US waters. However, all is not lost as they have introduced an innovative raster chart creation tool. There are more details in the AngelNav manual, but essentially it allows anyone to pick an area and a scale and create up-to-date raster charts based on the same database that supplies ENC (ECDIS) charts. The link is here. For unexplained reasons they have chosen to produce them in GeoPDF format rather than KAP/BSB, but AngelNav now supports that format as well.

However, that does mean you won't be able to use the KAP capability that you have purchased. I have a solution to that - please email me at bill@sailtrack.co.uk.

I look forward to you new thread about using raster charts. Essentially having separate charts rather than 'quilting' them together is a deliberate design decision to give more control to the user.

AngelNav website