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VesselFinder is the most popular vessel tracking app, providing real-time data on the positions and movements of vessels, utilising a large network of terrestrial AIS receivers.
VesselFinder Pro features include:
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- Port Calls - arrival and departure information for recently visited ports
- Real time tracking of over 200,000 ships every day
- Ship search by Name, IMO number or MMSI number
- Ship movement history - follow the track of vessels for the past 7 days
- Ship details - name, flag, type, IMO, MMSI, destination, ETA, draught, course, speed, gross tonnage, year of built, size
- My Fleet - add your favorite vessels to "My Fleet" list. It is synced with VesselFinder.com, so any change of vessels in My Fleet list will reflect on either the mobile App or the website.
- Filter vessels on map according to their type
- Ship photos contributed by VesselFinder users
- Simple, Detailed, Dark and Satellite maps
- Weather layers (temperature, wind, waves)
- Distance Measure tool
- See Your Location feature
Coverage - near-shore coverage, same as the web-based application VesselFinder.com and the Free version of VesselFinder available at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vesselfinder-free/id918080862?mt=8
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Visibility of vessels in the App depends on AIS signal availability. If a particular vessel is out of our AIS coverage zone, VesselFinder displays her last reported position and updates it as soon as the vessel comes into range. Completeness and accuracy of the information provided cannot be guaranteed.
Connect with VesselFinder
- on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/vesselfinder
- on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/vesselfinder
For any help and support, please visit the VesselFinder forum: http://forum.vesselfinder.com/forum/6-vesselfinder/
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Community Voice & Feedback
Not user friendly. $9.99 for an app that doesn’t always display the name of the ship that you are interested in even though Ship Names is checked in the Settings. Not worth it to me.
I can’t find any meaningful value in this version. I regret throwing money at it. Stick with the basic version.
It works like Marine Traffic but WAY CHEAPER. Only complaint is that it hides boats that have not updated recently. You can find them in my fleets, but they don’t show up unless you go looking for them.
I purchased this thinking it would provide more detailed information on vessel tracking, but immediately realized it does not. I had the app on my phone less than a min and requested a refund which has been denied. This is a total ripoff. All information available on this app is readily available by tracking on multiple websites for FREE.
App said I could view a satellite ship with pro, so I pay $10 for pro and then it says viewable with subscription. So not viewable with pro… waste of money and total scam.
I spent $9.99 to buy this app, just to be offered subscription plans to make it useful.
What a scam!
What a scam!
I want to add boats to my fleet in the app, but with a fleet of zero boats it says I’ve reached my limit, so I have to search each time. What a waste of money.
This app is a waste of money. I tracked a ship that I know has moved multiple times. This app shows it’s in the same place for over a month. I would say this app is trash.
App doesn’t work! Real frustrated that I purchased this and now it don’t work won’t pull up anything. All my vessel in my fleet can’t track.
The app worked fine had a update I completed update and the app crashed on me will not open. It’s asking for a star rate I don’t even want to give it a one star but have too to post this
All the information on the app can be googled and you can find the same information. You have to pay for the app and then pay more for additional information. I want my money back!
After buying you still need to subscribe to the *real* vessel tracker for the data. Uselsss.
Once you pay your $10 for the premium version of the app, only then do you find out that the only way to view satellite AIS data for a ship is to pay $1000 per year for their Satellite Plan. Caveat emptor!
If you buy this app thinking that you’ll be able to track your vessel, forget it. You might be able to with the ridiculous cost to do satellite tracking. If you aren’t using it to track for a year the cost doesn’t justify it. It doesn’t update more often than free tracking.
More than a week the vessel position still the same not updating pls cancelled my subscription! Thanks
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