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Seapilot Navigation App

I recently tested the premium subscription service for the Seapilot Navigation app, available for mobile devices using Apple iOS and Android operating systems. The app seeks to combine nautical charts with professional-level navigation technologies and AIS boat tracking, as well as other features, to make the app an all-in-one navigation solution.

The app was free to download to my iPad 2, a 16-gigabyte model running iOS 9.3.5, and has a premium upgrade for $40 per year—that’s less than $3.34 per month. Android’s upgrade is less, at $38 per year. The download was quick for me, but that will depend on the user’s Wi-Fior cellular connection. When I opened the app, it was easy and quick to

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