Useful apps

[January update 2025] This great app, not updated for several years, No longer working. It's a shame because I had made the French version. Une alternative similaire pourrait être Celestial Navigation dont la dernière version 1.4 date de Read more …

First appeared at the end of June 2023, l’application Bloc Marine, published by Météo Consult / Le Figaro Nautique, came to replace the Escales Guide (¹), previously removed from the Apple Store. This last application was far from unanimous following a Read more …

Boaters and water sports enthusiasts now have two applications helping them to better understand and protect the increasingly fragile marine environment.. Nav&Co is an initiative 100% public composed of SHOM, of the OFB (French Office Read more …

Boaters and water sports enthusiasts now have two applications helping them to better understand and protect the increasingly fragile marine environment.. DONIA is a private initiative of the Andromède Océanologie company which received Read more …

More and more of you have adopted the Iridium GO! for its easy way to request GRIB files, directly from Weather4D and some other applications. But some also want to transfer these files to PC for Read more …

It saddens me to end the year with a critical article, but the subject deserves it. I wrote in December 2016 (*) a sincerely positive assessment of the evolution of the Guides Escales application 2017 – the Bloc Marine digital version of the editions Read more …

Our friend Guillaume Bolo, the first in France to have offered for many years a very elaborate web interface presenting the SHOM predictions – tide.info – is also the developer of the excellent tide info application for iPad, iPhone Read more …

Last July I mentioned the “Stopovers” Guide, digital version of Bloc Marine published by the Figaro Group. It seems that the remarks I made on the excessively fragmented division of these guides were heard : The version Read more …

I wrote at the beginning of this year the greatest things I thought about the Digital Almanac, the digitized version of Reed’s Nautical Almanac. The Figaro group, publisher of the site www.figaronastronomie.fr, owner of Météo-Consult / The Weather Channel and Read more …

In recent years, French startups have flourished in the world of recreational boating. Their common denominator is to use digital technology to implement an idea which intends to provide a unique service to boaters.. How many will survive Read more …

During a search on the App Store for my previous post, I found out under the term "Simrad" an application that furiously reminds me of something. From research to research, I discovered the company Electric Pocket. This British application publisher develops Read more …

You know all the good things I think about this excellent application. Unfortunately, many users did not understand that the “Free” download was intended solely to allow testing of the application before subscribing to the data.. This incomprehension has Read more …

Thousands of users have been familiar with the excellent tide.info website for several years, which offers SHOM tide times and heights for all coastal stations in the Channel and the Atlantic.. Boaters, professional fishermen, beach fishermen, kite surfers and Read more …

AyeTides XL, tides prediction application of Hahn Software LLC, is available since 2 nd August on AppStore. From the AyeTides software for Mac and AyeTides for iPhone, the iPad version offers a completely renewed user interface to draw Read more …