Skippo

Skippo is a navigation app for the Nordic region. Designed for boating enthusiasts, it boasts a large community and is the go-to app for planning, navigating, and documenting maritime adventures. Users can use it to create personalized and convenient sailing experiences, easily planning, navigating, and recording their maritime adventures. Whether you're searching for islands, coordinates, or guest ports, this app has you covered. Furthermore, it features offline maps; simply download a map to use and plan your routes at sea even without internet access. Download and experience it now!

Features:

Easy Planning: Search islands, coordinates, explore guest and nature harbors, and save favorite places in your boat profile. Use wind and weather forecasts to plan your route or let the automatic route planning provide the fastest and most fuel-efficient route to your destination.

Seamless Navigation: Navigate using locally adapted nautical charts and aerial photos that can be downloaded and used offline. Customize your view with zoom, lock the boat's direction, and add map layers such as ports, AIS boats, and your own saved locations. Keep track of your boat's position with the anchor watch feature.

Interactive Logbook: Create a personal boat profile and save favorite places, plotter tracks, and manually or automatically created routes. View statistics on your boat trips, distance traveled, and time on the water. Available on both the app and the web app.

Pro Features: Upgrade to Pro for additional features like an instrument panel to view speed and course, trip meter, navigation tools, wind and weather forecasts, offline sea charts, measure and calculate distances, and access to harbor information with services and facilities.

Enhanced Experience: Add special sea charts from Hydrographica for a complete experience. Navigate in shallow waters, open up safe routes and passages, and explore natural harbors with designated mooring spots. Access Danish sea charts with an additional subscription.

Support and Feedback: Visit the support center for any questions or access the feedback form to provide suggestions and share feedback.

Highlights:

Local Swedish nautical charts – always up to date and available.

Autorouting – choose your destination, we’ll help you find the best route.

Route navigation – see heading, ETA and distance right on the map.

Offline maps – download in advance and stay ready even without signal.

Night mode – a clear and eye-friendly view for navigating in the dark.

Saved tracks – view previous trips directly on the chart.

Split screen – display detailed and overview charts at the same time.

Wind and weather – wind arrows and forecasts right on the chart.

Points of interest – marinas, dockside restaurants, fuel stations, pump-out, grocery stores and more.

Save places, routes and tracks – log your best moments on the water.

See and follow vessels (AIS) – stay aware of nearby boats.

Hydrographica premium charts – unlock 2m depth contours and mooring tips.

Harbor guide – detailed harbor descriptions, filter by facilities, search by wind conditions and view special harbor charts.

FAQs:

On which devices does the app work?

Skippo's app is compatible with phones and tablets running Apple iOS 15 or later and Google Android version 9 or later. Please make sure your device meets these requirements to ensure the best user experience.

In which countries can I use the app?

When you download Skippo's app, you get access to nautical charts for Norway. You can purchase and add Danish, Swedish and Finnish nautical charts.

Can I navigate offline?

By downloading maps in Skippo's app, you can navigate offline.

Conclusion:

Skippo is the leading navigation app in the Nordics, catering specifically to boating enthusiasts. With a user-friendly interface and a range of features, Skippo allows users to effortlessly plan and navigate their boat trips. Whether it's searching for islands and coordinates, exploring harbors, or creating personalized boat profiles, this app offers a comprehensive experience. The app also provides offline navigation, Pro features, and the option to add special charts for enhanced navigation. With Skippo, boaters can have a seamless and enjoyable boatlife experience. Click here to download and join our boating community!