What Users Really Think About B&G: Companion App for Sailors

Latest app is better, but the charts default to meters and not feet and can’t be changed. Also, there’s no way to get help on the app. Help and feedback simply send you to the BNG master website, which has all kinds of other stuff.

I updated to IOS 26.2 and now this app no longer works. I have had many problems with this app over the years. It is not the most intuitive of the sailing apps. I recommend Garmin Navionics. Much more intuitive, faster, and stable with more features. B&G just doesn’t seem to put much effort int...

This app crashes constantly, I’m on a brand new 13” iPad Pro. I’ll download it use it a bit, the next day it crashes constantly. The only fix is delete the whole app and reinstall. How is this supposed to be acceptable for sailing and cruising this is pure BS. This app has been like this over a year...

As a delivery skipper of sailing yachts I’ve come across this constant issue of the app not connecting. Also freezing and closing on its own. I thought it was possibly my devices but my crew tries and it’s also hit & miss. Perhaps in some cases it’s the boat hardware but regardless this is the same ...

The Zeus 3s seems to work well. I thought it would be a pretty straight forward and common task to want to sync your tracks from the unit to the B&g app. I have everything setup, I'll initiate the sync in the app, it will say that it syncs, but the tracks never show in the app. I tried creating n...

I am an old B&G user, and this app and the new MFDs are about the worst B&G has ever released. The app is a power drain, it crashes, chart updates take days if you are lucky, it corrupts waypoints and routes on the MFDs. Frankly the Navionics app is magnitudes better. But then it is not all that di...

Haven’t used this much but it’s crashed like 5 times already. Will update later if I get it working.

For $14.99/year this app needs a lot of work. Too many issues to list, but rarely syncs to MFD, buggy, etc. Not worth the money, except it’s the only way I can upload routes (which only works 10% of the time).