OceanPulse: Marine Navigation
OceanPulse LLC Navigation iPhoneiPadiPod touch
OceanPulse: Marine Navigation is a free Navigation app for iPhone and iPad by OceanPulse LLC. Rated 5.0/5 from 2 ratings. Requires iOS 26.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 2 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 96 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 21
- 2026 · v3.0.0
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About OceanPulse: Marine Navigation
OceanPulse turns your iPhone and iPad into a full marine chartplotter. Navigate with real NOAA nautical charts, plan routes, record your voyages, and check tides, currents, and marine weather — even miles offshore with no cell signal. Whether you sail, fish, cruise, or paddle, OceanPulse puts everything you need on the water in one beautifully simple app. REAL NAUTICAL CHARTS • Detailed NOAA vector charts with buoys, beacons, lights, wrecks, landmarks, and depth soundings • Tap anything on the chart for a plain-English description of every nautical object under your finger • Depth shading plus a safety-depth layer that hatches water shallower than your chosen depth in red • Bridge clearance labels, light sectors, and depths in feet, meters, or fathoms • Light, dark, and auto themes with road or satellite land overlays OFFLINE CHARTS • Download any region — frame it on the chart and see the exact size before you commit • Downloads continue in the background and resume automatically if interrupted • Update badges tell you when newer charts are available • Only-offline mode shows exactly where you have coverage — no surprises offshore ROUTE PLANNING & NAVIGATION • Tap to drop waypoints, drag to fine-tune — legs redraw live and everything autosaves • Total distance, per-leg distance and bearing, ETA, and estimated fuel burn from your boat's cruise speed • Navigate a route with live distance, bearing, and ETA to the next waypoint — reverse direction anytime TIDES & CURRENTS • Worldwide tide and current predictions computed on your device — no internet required • Interactive tide graphs with highs, lows, slack water, and sun and moon times • Station icons on the chart show rising or falling conditions at a glance, up to 100 years ahead MARINE WEATHER • Wind speed, direction, and gusts, swell height, period, and direction, temperature, clouds, and precipitation • Detailed 3-hourly forecast grid plus a week-ahead outlook for any point you tap on the chart TRACK RECORDING • Record your voyage with live speed, distance, and time — pause and resume anytime • Live Activity keeps your stats on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Review speed graphs and stats for every saved track, then share as a photo or GPX file MARINAS & ANCHORAGES • Marina and anchorage details powered by Waterway Guides: fuel, dockside depth, VHF channel, holding, and wind protection • The Nearby view surfaces marinas, anchorages, and tide stations within 10 nautical miles of your boat WAYPOINTS, GPX & SYNC • Drop custom markers with names, notes, colors, and icons — or enter exact coordinates in DD, DDM, or DMS • Import and export GPX waypoints, routes, and tracks to and from any other app or chartplotter • iCloud sync keeps your waypoints, routes, tracks, and boat profile up to date on all your devices BUILT FOR THE HELM • GPS follow and course-up modes with a projected course line, plus live speed and heading readouts • Caliper tool measures distance and bearing between any two points on the chart • One search for places, marinas, anchorages, tide stations, and your own waypoints, routes, and tracks • Snap a photo of your boat and OceanPulse estimates its specs to set up your vessel profile in seconds Perfect for sailing, fishing, powerboating, coastal cruising, kayaking, and offshore passages — from your home harbor to waters you've never explored. Read the EULA at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 3.0.0 · Updated October 21, 2026
This major OceanPulse release includes a new app layout that appears on launch. The new dashboard shows at a glance weather information, maritime safety alerts, along with quick access to your favorite tools like coastal charts and tides & currents. OceanPulse is also launching an industry first AI driven analysis of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System. Typically broadcast via radio & satellite, we perform an analysis of the broadcast and translate to easy to read storm systems show directly on the chart - with the ability to step hour by hour to see how the forecast changes. We are also introducing the new Ocean Pulse daily summary, a quick summary for the expected conditions broken down by morning, afternoon, evening, and overnight. Also updated is our atmospheric and ocean weather forecast table view, now shows additional forecast fields like CAPE index, and is grouped by section, for wind, wave, currents, and atmospheric categories. OceanPulse is also proud to announce the available of ECMWF, AIFS, and Copernicus Mercator models. Much of the forecast data from these highly respected models are available without subscription. In fact, wind, gusts, rain, cloud, and air temperature are all now available on our free tier. To make use of these new weather models, we've completely revamped our forecast map view. You can show wind, waves, currents, rain, gusts, cloud, air temp, and CAPE forecasts on a dedicated animated map. Our engineers also massively improved the rendering performance of the on map particle effect, the net effect is the animations use minimal CPU & GPU processing, resulting in longer battery life. In the new map view, we also launched a split view, allowing you to compare two models for the same field (like wind) side by side, or to compare two different fields (like wind and waves) together. The rain radar feature has also been updated with a smoother animation while scrubbing and the download time has been reduced by 90% allowing you to see rain radar nearly instantly on device. The tides feature and the tracks list now allow you to sort, group, and pin your favorite stations and important track recordings. The OceanPulse live activity has been updated to show our logo. We also fixed a bug that prevented weather data failing to load in certain regions of the globe. We hope you enjoy these major new improvements as OceanPulse becomes the new leader in ocean forecasts.
App privacy
The developer, OceanPulse LLC, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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