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About Orca
Orca is a navigation app for boaters that combines charts, route planning and weather in a modern interface. Reviewers point to its sail routing, which can reroute automatically, and its weather routing. The app runs on phones and tablets, with access also on watches and laptops.
Orca also sells hardware: Orca Core connects the app to the boat for chartplotter-level instruments and control, and Orca Display is a bright marine screen. It suits sailors and motor boaters who want a phone-based chartplotter, with the option to add dedicated hardware.
Strengths
- Sail routing with automatic rerouting
- Weather routing built into trip planning
- Can connect to boat instruments through Orca Core
Limitations
- Full chartplotter features need separately purchased hardware
- Pricing for app features is not clearly stated
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumApp pricing is not detailed here; Core and Display hardware are sold separately.
- License
- Proprietary
- Platforms
- Android, iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Sailors wanting a modern app-based chartplotter
- Categories
- Maps & navigation
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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A boat navigation app with marine charts, tides and weather, pitched as Google Maps for boats.
Savvy Navvy also plans boat routes around wind, tide and current on a phone, without Orca's optional Orca Core hardware for instrument connections.
Argo
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iNavX
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Aqua Map
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qtVlm
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qtVlm adds weather routing with departure-time comparison and a Windows version, reading S57, S63 and raster charts, though mobile versions are paid.
OpenCPN
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