FindShip - Track vessels

Seems the further the away from cell service the updates are less and less. When near land the updates are in real time. Out at sea it’s about every hour. Watching my boyfriends fishing boat in Bristol Bay, Alaska. For the price of the app I think this is a great deal. Being able to see where he’s at from my phone brings me peace of mind. Being able to see it in real time out in the Bering Sea would be even better.

Excellent app. If only there was a way to do a refresh of my fleet on demand. I don’t understand why it is not updating. First 3-4 days, it worked great. A large cruise ship is not updating and the last 2 days it has lagged 5-10 hours before updating when everything else around it is updating fine. This evening again it has not updated for almost 6 hours and shows still underway when in fact the ship has been in port almost 3 hours. Too be even more frustrating, it is also not showing any other ships of any kind along a large stretch of the eastern shores of Japan. Makes no sense!

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The app does not always provide real time updates. For example, it currently displays my friend’s boat 3 days ago and it’s traveling at 4mph, even though it’s in the same spot. I know that the boat isn’t there, based on the updates on Facebook. There are numerous times the update shows about 4-8 hours later, but currently it’s displaying their whereabouts from 3 day’s ago. I just updated the app in hopes it would fix the issue, but it’s still showing their status as of 3 days ago. A friend of mine is using another app and it is displaying their correct location and gives real time updates. 👎😭

I am professional mariner and very often in need to locate the vessel outside my onboard AIS receiver range. This application is really amazing ! Just one note - large passenger vessels do not show up ( at least in Persian Gulf ports ) most probably because of security concern and some kind of ‘plug’ outside this wonderful application. Yes, you shall activate premium subscription at the fraction of cost compare with other providers.

I very much appreciate being able to follow the vessel when there is hardly any communication for weeks and months at a time. I would give this app 5 stars, however, I have noticed there are times that it will not show the update or refresh. For example, I know the vessel I’m tracking left yesterday and it’s still showing it at at port with yesterday’s date, along with other ships around it. It usually refreshes every time I get on, but occasionally this happens.