Alternatives to Savvy Navvy
A boat navigation app with marine charts, tides and weather, pitched as Google Maps for boats. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Savvy Navvy
A boat navigation app with marine charts, tides and weather, pitched as Google Maps for boats.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Savvy Navvy.
Argo
A marine navigation and trip planning app with nautical charts, autorouting and a boaters' community.
Argo adds a free plan with nautical charts, crowdsourced marina reviews and a web version, while autorouting sits in paid plans.
Aqua Map
A marine navigation app for boaters that shows NOAA, USACE and CMOR charts with offline use.
Aqua Map uses NOAA, USACE and CMOR charts offline and includes an anchor alarm, but its coverage centres on US waters and the Bahamas.
iNavX
A marine chartplotter app for iPhone and iPad with charts from many providers, AIS and GRIB weather.
iNavX works as a handheld chartplotter with more than 25 chart providers, live AIS and GRIB weather, though commercial charts are bought separately.
Seapilot
Marine navigation app with digital nautical charts, AIS, routes and weather routing.
Seapilot offers charts, AIS, GPX import and GRIB weather routing, but most navigation features need Premium and charts cost extra outside the US.
OpenCPN
A free, open-source chartplotter and marine GPS navigation program for laptops and onboard computers.
OpenCPN is a free, open-source chartplotter for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android built for use at the helm, but its desktop interface suits phones less well.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Savvy Navvy as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Orca
A marine navigation app for planning trips with charts, routing and weather, with optional boat hardware.
Savvy Navvy also plans boat routes around wind, tide and current on a phone, without Orca's optional Orca Core hardware for instrument connections.
qtVlm
Navigation and weather routing software for sailing boats, with a GRIB viewer and chart support.
Savvy Navvy plans routes around wind, tide and current in a simpler phone app aimed at less experienced boaters, with advanced features by subscription.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
OpenSeaMap
Free community nautical chart built on OpenStreetMap, with seamarks, harbours and depth data.
Signal K
An open marine data standard and local server that connects a boat's instruments and sensors.
Windy
An interactive animated weather map with wind, waves and radar forecasts from several forecast models.
