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.
Built for real navigation
The core of the app: official charts, a route that respects your draft, offline coverage, and a watchful anchor.
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
Smart auto-routing
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
Charts that work offline
Signal disappears offshore. Download chart regions to your phone so navigation keeps working with no connection.
Anchor Watch
Drop anchor, set a watch radius, and Pathr sounds a drag alarm if your boat swings outside it. Every watch is saved to history.
Know the weather before you go
Live conditions painted right on the chart, plus the forecast for the days ahead.
Live weather overlays
Switch on radar, wind, waves, or temperature as animated layers over the chart — plus AIS vessel traffic — each with its own legend.
- Animated wind and wave fields
- Rain radar
- AIS traffic and Seabed layers
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.
Routes built for your boat
Set your vessel's draft and beam. Every route keeps you in water deep enough for your hull — not a generic line.
Customize the chart
Day, Night, and High-Contrast presets, automatic night mode, and full control over depth areas, contours, and soundings.
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.
Community reports
See and file on-the-water reports — hazards, weather, harbor and dock notes, boat launches, and wrecks — so the chart reflects reality.
Every trip, logged
Sailing History automatically records each outing with its route, distance, average and max speed, and duration.
Trip checklists
Build packing and prep lists so nothing important gets left at the dock before you cast off.
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.
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.
Instrument dashboard
A big, glanceable panel — speed, heading, and, when navigating, ETA and distance to destination. Easy to read from the helm.
News & updates
Release notes and field reports from the team building Pathr, so you always know what's new.
Free & Premium
A free tier plus Premium — auto-routing, more layers, and bigger dashboards. New sailors get a two-month free trial of Premium.
Get Pathr on your next trip
Charts, routing, weather, and safety in one app — free to try for your first two months on iOS.