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Everything Pathr can do

The modern boating app, feature by feature: charts, smart routing, live weather, and the tools that keep you safe on the water.

Pathr nautical chart

Built for real navigation

The core of the app: official charts, a route that respects your draft, offline coverage, and a watchful anchor.

Pathr nautical chart of San Diego Bay with buoys, anchorages, depth soundings and hazards

Official NOAA charts

A full vector nautical chart with your live GPS position as a blue dot. Everything a paper chart shows, updated and in your pocket.

  • Depth-shaded water and soundings in feet
  • Buoys, beacons and anchorages
  • Rocks, wrecks and obstructions marked
  • Tap any mark for its details
Pathr auto-generated route through San Diego Bay with distance, ETA and a Route Safety score

Smart auto-routing

Premium

Pick a destination and Pathr plots a depth-aware route that follows navigable water and steers around the shallows, then rates it.

  • Follows the channel, not a straight line
  • Distance, ETA and a Route Safety score
  • Live guidance with Start Navigation
Pathr Offline Charts screen with a Download New Region button

Charts that work offline

5 GB with Premium

Signal disappears offshore. Download chart regions to your phone so navigation keeps working with no connection: 200 MB of charts free, 5 GB with Premium.

Pathr Anchor Watch with Drop Anchor, watch radius and drag history

Anchor Watch

Premium history

Drop anchor, set a watch radius, and Pathr sounds a drag alarm if your boat swings outside it. The alarm is free; with Premium, every watch is saved to your history.

Weather

Know the weather before you go

Live conditions painted right on the chart, plus the forecast for the days ahead.

Pathr wind overlay with flowing particles and a wind speed legend

Live weather overlays

Premium layers

Switch on wind and waves as animated layers over the chart, each with its own legend. Radar, temperature, AIS vessel traffic and the seabed layer come with Premium.

  • Animated wind and wave fields
  • Rain radar (Premium)
  • AIS traffic and seabed layers (Premium)
Pathr marine forecast with hourly and 7-day wind and wave outlook

Full marine forecast

Current wind and waves, an hourly outlook for the next 24 hours, and a 7-day forecast with temperature, wind, and wave height.

And a lot more

Every other tool in the app, from planning to logging to sailing with friends.

Pathr vessel profile with draft and beam

Routes built for your boat

Set your vessel's draft and beam. Automatic routes (Premium) are planned around charted depths for your boat's draft and given a Route Safety score. Check every route against the chart and the conditions before you go.

Pathr Chart Layers settings with Day, Night and High-Contrast presets and bathymetry toggles

Customize the chart

Premium presets

Full control over depth areas, contours, and soundings on the Day chart. Night and High-Contrast presets and automatic night mode come with Premium.

Pathr Waypoints screen with Marina, Anchorage and Fishing filters

Save your spots

Long-press the map to drop a waypoint (a marina, anchorage, fishing hole, or dive spot), then find them all, filtered by type.

Pathr community Reports with Hazard, Weather, Harbor and Dock categories

Community reports

Premium to view

File on-the-water reports for free: hazards, weather, harbor and dock notes, boat launches, and wrecks. Seeing what other boaters report is Premium.

Pathr Sailing History with sessions, distance, top speed and per-trip cards

Every trip, logged

Premium to view

Pathr automatically records each outing with its route, distance, average and max speed, and duration. Looking back through your Sailing History is Premium.

Pathr Trip Checklists screen

Trip checklists

Build packing and prep lists so nothing important gets left at the dock before you cast off.

Pathr Friends screen with friend code and share-location controls

Sail with friends

Add friends with a code or QR and optionally share your location, so your crew can see where you are and follow each other's miles.

Pathr profile with badges and points

Earn badges

Your profile tracks badges and points as you rack up trips and milestones, a fun way to mark your progress as a sailor.

Pathr Data instrument panel with Speed, Heading, ETA and Distance

Instrument dashboard

A big, glanceable panel: speed, heading, and, when navigating, ETA and distance to destination. Easy to read from the helm.

Pathr News and Updates feed

News & updates

Release notes and field reports from the team building Pathr, so you always know what's new.

Pathr Free and Premium plan comparison

Free & Premium

Pathr is free. Premium adds automatic route planning, radar, AIS and trip history, and is free for your first two months.

Premium features are free for your first two months.

Free on iPhone and Android

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Pathr puts official NOAA chart data, the tide and the wind on one chart, and the charts work offline.

Premium adds route planning, radar and AIS. New accounts get two months of Premium free.

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