Need lake contour app...not navionics.

[slamminsam]

My tracfone will not accept navionics...apple and andriod only...any other recomended apps?  I can download apps, just not navionics, which I saw someone use this weekend and looked great.  If I can leave my Garmin home, I will. 

[cylegreen]

You can try Cabela's Recon Fish.  I had the free version last year.  It was ok.  I got rid of it for the Navionics app, though.

[americanfisher77]

I did the same thing once I found the navionics. If you do a search I think here you can find a way to overlay DNA maps on google. It might be a way out of nothing else works.

Cylegreen have you noticed any miss alignment of the maps on the navionics app? I have a iPhone 5 and  I'm noticing a lot of maps are on the right gps coordinates if I overlay the satellite map I can see a severe misalignment of up to 250' on some maps. Google earth is with  feet of the correct gps overlay while the navionics maps will have me standing on land and I'll be in 20' of water. Maybe I'm expecting too much from a $10 app. I have my gps but the phone is cool and easier than my old h2oc.

[Firefightertom32]

I did the same thing once I found the navionics. If you do a search I think here you can find a way to overlay DNA maps on google. It might be a way out of nothing else works.

Cylegreen have you noticed any miss alignment of the maps on the navionics app? I have a iPhone 5 and  I'm noticing a lot of maps are on the right gps coordinates if I overlay the satellite map I can see a severe misalignment of up to 250' on some maps. Google earth is with  feet of the correct gps overlay while the navionics maps will have me standing on land and I'll be in 20' of water. Maybe I'm expecting too much from a $10 app. I have my gps but the phone is cool and easier than my old h2oc.

I noticed this last weekend. App had me standing on the shore when I was 75 feet off from it and probably 30 feet to the right

[cylegreen]

Oh, yeah.  The Navionics app is often incorrect.  Here's what I wrote on another forum topic:

I just downloaded the Navionics app for Android.  It was $10.  Some (Minnesota) lakes are more accurate than others, but the app will get me close enough to be well worth the $10.  I'll just mark the map on my phone with the depth that I read when I drill, so I'll know the next time.  Also, you can mark your hot spots and no one else can see them, unless you upload them somehow. 

If I head to a new lake, I'll go to the DNR Lake Maps website and double-check the depths and contours.  There is a lake out by me, Little Long Lake, that had HUGE discrepancies between the Navionics app and the DNR lake map.  The two were literally off by 20ft.  Well, the DNR map was correct, but I didn't know that until I started drilling.  No big deal.  I just marked those depths on my app.  Another lake about the same size, just down the road, was pretty darn accurate on the Navionics app and was similar on the DNR map.

All-in-all, it's worth the $10.  Don't expect it to be perfect, but once you get used to it, I think you'll find it super useful.