Boatie

Version 5 is a major version update (released August 2022) – re-written from the ground up to take advantage of the latest Apple frameworks, and to provide a solid foundation to ensure continued updates well into the future.

What’s New?

• A full UI Refresh to be responsive to all screen sizes – now also supports ‘Dark Mode’ and support for iOS/iPadOS 16.
• Tidal predictions and weather forecasts are now available for over 750 primary and secondary ports from the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Republic or Ireland. As well as Met Office based marine forecasts, ROI based Sea Area Forecasts and Coastal Report are now also available from Met Éireann.
  • Tidal prediction data is now also sourced from ADMIRALTY® tidal data and Ireland’s Marine Institute increasing the number of ports with a tidal curve available to over 620.
  • With a 10-Day Tidal Curve subscription, tide heights and curves are now available for up to 10-days rather than the original seven.
  • Weather data for Port meteograms are now sourced from Weather giving a higher resolution of data and are updated more frequently.
• A Tide Table view with tidal and astronomical predictions for up to 12 months (with a 12-month tables subscription)
• Marine Forecasts (UK) can be read out loud to you by your device.
• The Reference Library has been reviewed and brought up to date and expanded with new sections.
• Waypoint File management has been updated for easier import and editing – including:
  • Multiple format options for entering coordinates (i.e. DD, DMS and DDM)
  • The ability to import .gpx files from within the app.
  • Share your .gpx files with others through the standard iOS ShareSheet (i.e. AirDrop, Messages, Mail etc.)
  • Share your .gpx files with others through the standard iOS ShareSheet (i.e. AirDrop, Messages, Mail etc.)
  • Solent Marks for 2022/2023 are pre-loaded (as .gpx file).
• New option to choose display units for ‘distance’ – see ‘Settings’.
• Responsive technical support.

New Minimum OS Version: To provide the best app experience, the minimum OS version required to run the new version will be iOS/iPadOS 15.0

The list of supported devices can be found on Apple’s website here for iOS and here for iPadOS.

Why change to Subscriptions?

For this release we have taken the decision to move Boatie to a subscription based commercial model. This has become necessary to cover the costs of ongoing 3rd party licensing/hosting, to cover user support, the continued regular development of new features and to proactively respond to framework changes as Apple updates OS versions, i.e. no more 6 year gaps between updates.

Feature Overview