NV Charts App - More than navigation

The NV Charts App is the digital counterpart to the NV Charts paper charts, but enriched with many useful functions around navigation, safety, voyage planning, exchange with others and time on the water - from leisure cruises to regattas.

AIS

The environment on the water always in view. 

Current & Wind

Real-time forecast as overlay on the map.

Tides

Calculation and display of the current tides in the app. 

Search

Easy search for navigation notices and marinas. 

Trip planning in the twinkling of an eye

Creating routes and waypoints is now child's play! Adjust your plans for the day on the water to the conditions at any time and share them with your friends. As the first app ever, the NV Charts app offers the possibility to manually edit individual segments of your auto-route. This makes trip planning even more flexible and if your plans change spontaneously, you don't have to recalculate the entire route. Now also with continuously updated auto routing networks.

The automatical created route can now also be flexible adapted.
Discover new ports and anchorages with the BoatView port guide.

BoatView - Your harbour guide

Great features for voyage planning directly in the NV Charts app. Share your experiences with others and make your time on the water the best of the year - even before you get on the water. With the BoatView harbour guide, you can navigate to new favourite places, enter exciting POIs yourself and discover many new things along your route. By means of the augmented reality view, which you make possible with the help of your mobile phone camera, the whole thing is projected directly into your app view in real time. It's worth trying out!

Your way to get your digital licence - buy digital nautical charts for the NV Charts App

Get your digital licence with the purchase of a NV Charts paper chart in a combo pack or choose the digital licence directly in the app.

Combo pack: paper & digital

  • Order a NV Charts paper nautical chart here in the shop and receive the matching digital nautical chart as a licence.
  • The sea chart comes with the activation code of the digital licence for the app.
  • After activation - within the year of purchase, you can use the nautical chart in the app for 365 days.
  • After that, you can decide to extend the digital nautical chart licence and purchase and update it directly in the app.
  • If you do not wish to update, you will be prompted in the app to delete the old map so that you can continue to use your app with the remaining digital maps.

Your digital app licence subscription

  • New digital nautical charts without the purchase combination with the paper nautical chart can also be purchased directly in the app as a subscription.
  • During the licence period, you will receive all updates to your charts and can back them up on your devices for offline use without an internet connection.
  • This digital subscription is automatically renewed after one year. So, you are always up to date.

App news and blog posts

Current information about updates and new functions.
All articles

NV Charts App News

The new NV Charts App Version 2024 with exciting features

Just in time for the start of the season, it's ready: the new version of the NV Charts app.

GPS reception with mobile devices such as mobile phone or tablet

What are the causes of an insufficient GPS signal and what are the effects when using navigation apps?

BoatView Harbour Guide - the NV Charts App Community Layer

With many interesting POIs and opportunities to interact with friends and the BoatView community.

Tutorials

Learn how to use important functions in the app.

Create auto routes

Connect external USB devices

Download the NV Charts app and use the web app

The clearly structured navigation app with intuitive operation and extensive tools can be used on mobile phones, tablets, iPads or PCs and Mac.

Please note the system requirements of the app: IOS version 14, Android version 7.0+, Windows 11, 10, 8, Mac OSX 10.13 10.14 10.15, 11, 12 (current version) and at least 6 GB RAM.


Using the Web-App: The NV Charts web app is the online version of the NV Charts app and offers you access to your nautical charts, trip planning and port information on your computer without direct use from the app.

With your login data for app use on your mobile phone or tablet, you can also simply log in to the web app and thus use the functions of the app directly online without further installation.


 
App Store

Download the app for
Apple iPhone and iPad.

Google Play

Download the app for
Android devices.

Windows

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Windows devices.

Mac OS X

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Apple Mac devices.

Frequently Asked Questions

In our knowledge base for the nv charts app, you will find articles on the app's functions as well as answers to our users' most frequently asked questions.