One-Boat Network

If the app worked as advertised it would be 5 stars easy. App works until you are Bluetooth connected to your fish finders and as soon as you open the update screen the app crashes, also as soon as I click to view charts to stays on the loading screens and never loads. Great concept, bad execution. Just something else to note, the update screen crashes didn’t happen until after I was able to use the app to update my fish finders and trolling motor. I tried redownloading the app several times and it does not change

It has it’s pros and cons. Because I’m a grumpy old man, let’s start with the cons. It has some bugs. It won’t find the firmware version of my mega live and is forever hounding me to upgrade even though it’s running the latest. That is just a nuisance. More aggravating is the fact that if you use the chart in the app to map out where you want to fish, you can’t transfer those waypoints to your graphs. I’m not going to use my dinky phone to navigate on the water when I have a 12’ Helix in the dash. Seems to completely defeat the purpose of the charts on the phone. Now for the pros. Software upgrades are quick and easy with the new app. You still need an sd card but it’s still quicker and hassle free. I really like my One Boat network and the app seems like a worthy addition. Fix the inevitable bugs and make the waypoints work the way they did in the previous app and you will take a big step in the right direction of what a fully integrated app can do.

I’ve used the legacy Humminbird FishSmart app for a few years and loved it. I used it to mark all my favorite spots and could add notes to each location. It wasn’t flawless, but it worked. I no longer needed to keep handwritten note for my waypoints, everything could be kept in the app. Then Humminbird announced FishSmart would no longer be supported or updated, so I purchased the One-Boat Network app, which is the replacement for the old FishSmart app. The new app seems ok, but there is no, currently working, way to transfer my waypoints from FishSmart to One-Boat on my iPhone. If transferring doesn’t work, I would be forced to manually enter my hundreds of waypoints and notes into the new app. Humminbird’s customer service acknowledges the issue and says the issue has been escalated to their lead and engineering, but they have no timeline for a fix. I’ve been waiting for a fix since early March and it’s currently mid-May. I’m very disappointed, to say the least.