C-MAP: Boating is a marine navigation and nautical chartplotting app for mobile and tablet users.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
#59
▲3Navigation · grossing
Sentiment
3.7
17k reviews
Nemesis
iNavX: Marine Navigation
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire the app to plan routes and access offline nautical charts, serving the job of safe maritime navigation and trip planning.
For Recreational boaters, sailors, and fishing enthusiasts.
What does it look like?
Key features
Calculates suggested navigation routes and ETAs.
Enables local storage of nautical charts.
Provides 1-ft contour detail for underwater ledges.
How much does it cost?
Freemium model uses a 14-day trial to gate high-utility navigation and safety features.
Velocity
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The app has shipped only two releases in the last five months, resulting in a cadence of approximately 0.09 releases per week. This frequency falls firmly into the maintenance tier, as there is no evidence of new feature development or live operations. The release notes for the latest version are generic and opaque, focusing solely on performance and stability. Development appears to be in a long-term maintenance phase with no signs of active feature expansion.
Who built it?
Navico Norway AS
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Simrad PRO System BuilderUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews frustrated. Users appreciate offshore and inland marine routing features provide high utility for boating enthusiasts and detailed sea floor mapping provides valuable insights for fishing and navigation, but report frequent application crashes during launch and track saving disrupt critical navigation tasks.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Offshore and inland marine routing features provide high utility for boating enthusiasts
- Detailed sea floor mapping provides valuable insights for fishing and navigation
- Frequent application crashes during launch and track saving disrupt critical navigation tasks
120 of 130 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
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Competitive landscape for C-MAP: Boating
How's the Navigation market?
C-MAP sits between #38 and #45 in the Maps & Navigation Grossing charts across multiple regions. The gap between free-tier utility and subscription-gated stability creates a conversion bottleneck that prevents the app from challenging iNavX for the professional segment.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By NavX Studios LLC
With over 21,000 ratings and a long-standing presence in the marine navigation niche, iNavX serves as the primary benchmark for professional-grade chart plotting.
- Offers deep integration with external NMEA marine hardware, a feature set absent in this app.
- Provides a professional-grade chart library that caters to serious offshore sailors rather than casual boaters.
- Maintains a specialized, high-intent user base that prioritizes technical reliability over consumer-friendly UI aesthetics.
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Key takeaways for C-MAP: Boating
Where is it heading?
The marine navigation market is consolidating around apps that combine weather-integrated routing with high-precision bathymetry. C-MAP is currently exposed due to its inability to maintain basic app stability, which threatens to drive its core fishing and sailing user base toward more reliable competitors.
- Persistent login and launch crashes in the latest version prevent users from accessing paid features, accelerating churn.
- Broken support feedback forms leave users unable to report issues, which compounds frustration and drives negative store sentiment.
The SWOT
- Bathymetry data functions as a specialized fishing content moat
- GPX interoperability reduces hardware-migration friction
- Integrate marina reservation workflows to capture transactional value
- Expand wearable integration for navigation alerts
Next best moves
Rebuild login input field logic because keyboard glitches prevent account creation → increase new-user conversion
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's high-resolution bathymetry is a stronger retention lever than its navigation routing…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Real-time NMEA data streaming (available in iNavX but missing here)
Since the last report: The app is experiencing a decline in stability and user sentiment, forcing a pivot from feature development to critical technical maintenance.
Bottom line
The app provides high-utility navigation data but suffers from critical stability regressions, so the PM must prioritize technical hygiene over new features to prevent total churn of the subscription base.
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