The PolarView MX navigation and charting app has just come out for iPads and other Apple devices, and I'm excited to test it out soon. Not long ago I installed the PC version of Polar View on my cruising laptop and wrote a full review - one of the best things about it as an inexpensive, full-featured chartplotter software program is the integration of the Active Captain interactive cruising guidebook. A huge database of important information about harbors, marinas, local knowledge, etc. - all of which you take with you offline for instant use within the navigational software. If it works as well on an iPad, I'll heartily recommend it there too. But given how much information cruisers will find themselves accessing, I'd be hesitant about using it on iPhone's smaller screen, except perhaps as a backup. If you're serious about cruising information, take your laptop or tablet!
