ShippingExplorer

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Stunningly overpriced app that is clearly intended for business users only. With the FREE Version: You get to see the position of ships! (At least where they were 72-hours ago) and DEMO mode (lasts for how long?) allows real-time viewing of all the little arrows and dots. That's about it. Otherwise, NO pictures; NO filters (cannot filter by vessel type, for example); NO easy way to return to previous search results or history, so you're always starting from scratch. LOTS of pinching and zooming and dragging to navigate around, as there are no zoom buttons. MANY more issues that make the whole user experience clunky, unintuitive, and not much fun. If you want a better app with more features, no problem. You only need pay 42 Euros a month (that's right, PER MONTH!) to ShippingExplorer for pictures and better access to their desktop based system; because that's why we have apps, so we can then have to go online to actually get any use of them. All of these ship tracker apps have a long way to go before they will ever be of the quality of their far more reasonably priced flight tracker brethren. At least for the casual hobbyist user, there isn't much to be found in these free versions

Quite a good little app but I just wanted a way of checking out ships off the coast from our Essex holiday home so my young son could identify them & possibly obtain a bit more info on them including a photo but to get the photo you have to pay 40 Euros a MONTH! Come on guys, flight radar24 do this for a one off change of £1.99! I would have paid up to a tenner for this but no way £40 a month for something we might use a couple of times a year? Maybe it it's designed for corporate users & the data it's mega expensive for the developers to buy in? Who knows?