Bristol Maps

Navigate, set your gear, and run your season from one app.

Bristol Maps is built for commercial fishermen: the latest satellite imagery and NOAA charts for navigation, crab pot tracking with a hauling screen made for the deck, fleet location sharing, tides, weather and digital log books. On your phone, your tablet, and the wheelhouse PC.

Offline Maps & Satellite Imagery
Crab Pot & Gear Management
NOAA ENC Charts
Pick Mode for Hauling
Fleet Location Sharing
Tide Predictions
Weather Forecasts
ADF&G Announcements
Digital Log Books
Windows, macOS & Linux Desktop
Bristol Maps chart of the Naknek River mouth with satellite imagery, district boundaries, waypoints and a fleet group

Features

Tools to provide a safer and more profitable season

Pick mode on iPhone: per-pot catch counts with large minus and plus buttons and next-pot steering

What's New

  • Pick mode for pot strings: per-pot counts, next-pot steering, heads-up plot Sept 2026
  • Drag a pot on the chart to fix its position
  • "Hey Siri, drop a pot with buoy 12"
  • Desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux on the Stable channel
  • NOAA ENC vector charts with day and night palettes
  • Share pot strings with your fleet, and pot locations with drag boats
  • GPX export of pots and set lines to your chartplotter
  • AI Assistant with live tides, marine forecasts and ADF&G announcements
Pot detail page with buoy number, set time, soak clock, depth and coordinates

Pots & Gear

  • One-tap pot drop at the boat, with the sounder depth recorded
  • Named strings with colour, gear type and icon
  • Buoy numbers, set time and a live soak clock on every pot
  • Pick mode with next-pot range, bearing and turn arrow
  • Every pick logged automatically and synced to all your devices
See how pot management works
Groups page with location sharing, chat, voice and waypoint sharing controls

Share Data

  • Share live location, speed and heading with group members
  • Share GPS waypoints, routes and boundary data
  • Share pot strings read-only with your group
  • Fleet chat and push-to-talk voice
  • Sync data with group members in real time
  • Data privacy controls
Local Maps page layering two satellite images with transparency sliders

Navigation Tools

  • Latest satellite imagery
  • NOAA ENC and raster charts
  • Overlay multiple maps and images
  • GPS tracking, waypoints and routes
  • Online or offline map access
Tide prediction chart for a NOAA station

Tide Forecasts

  • Up-to-date tide information for all NOAA locations
  • Tide prediction graphs
  • Tide stations shown right on the chart
  • Historical tide data for comparison
  • Offline access for favorite locations
NOAA marine zone weather forecast view

Weather Forecasts

  • NOAA marine zone forecasts
  • Real-time weather updates
  • Hourly and daily forecasts
  • Wind speed and direction
  • Air and water temperature
  • Barometer readings
Log book analytics with season totals

Log Books

  • Customizable log entries
  • Record keeping for fishing trips, sets and picks
  • Ability to add notes, photos, and weather/tide data
  • Access to previous logs for reference
  • Analysis over the course of a season or multiple years
Fishing district boundary lines drawn on the chart

Boundary Line Tools

  • Chart boundary lines on maps
  • Mark restricted or hazardous areas
  • Set alerts for boundary crossings
  • Share boundaries with team members
  • Automated alerts for entering or exiting areas
Bristol Bay NOAA chart layered over satellite imagery in Bristol Maps
Navigation & Maps

Navigate with Confidence

Stop relying on outdated charts. Bristol Maps delivers high-resolution satellite imagery of Alaska's fishing grounds, layered with NOAA charts, so you have the detail you need to navigate safely and efficiently.

  • High-resolution satellite imagery updated regularly
  • NOAA ENC vector charts with day and night palettes
  • Offline maps — download before you leave the dock
  • GPS tracking with waypoints, routes and track lines
  • Tide stations and current arrows on the chart
Crab Pot Management

Set. Soak. Pick. Every pot accounted for.

Built with Bristol Bay and Bering Sea crabbers. Drop pots from the wheelhouse with one tap, keep every string organized, and run your picks on a hauling screen made for deck gloves — on your phone, your tablet, or the wheelhouse PC.

Pick mode on iPhone: per-pot counts with large minus and plus buttons, haul checkmarks and next-pot steering
Pick mode on iPhone
iPad pick page with the heads-up plot of the whole string over the live chart, showing range, bearing and a turn arrow to the next pot
Heads-up string plot over the live chart on iPad and desktop
One-tap pot drop

Tap the 🦀 button and the pot is marked at the boat with the sounder depth recorded. Or drop a pot anywhere on the chart.

Strings, numbers, buoy tags

Named strings with their own colour, gear type and icon — crab, shrimp, cod, lobster, longline. Pots are numbered automatically and carry a buoy or tag number.

Set time and soak clock

Every pot keeps its set time, depth and position, with a live soak readout so you know exactly how long it has been down.

Pick mode

Count the catch per pot with big −/+ buttons, check off each haul, and steer to the next pot with range, bearing and a turn arrow. Map or list view on the phone; a keypad on iPad.

Straight into the fishing log

Every pick is written into your log automatically — pot number, depth, soak and count — and syncs to all your devices. No end-of-day data entry.

Phone, tablet, desktop

Pots and strings back up to your account and stay in sync between your phone, your tablet and the desktop app. Work offline; it catches up when you have signal.

Pot detail page with buoy number, set time, live soak time, depth and degrees-decimal-minutes coordinates

Your gear, your rules

  • Share strings read-only with your fleet group; updates arrive live
  • Time-limited pot-location sharing with drag boats so they steer clear of your gear
  • Edit on chart: drag a pot to fix its position
  • Record the set line as a track and export pots and tracks as GPX for your chartplotter
  • "Hey Siri, drop a pot with buoy 12" — hands-free from a locked phone (iOS)
Read the pot tracking guide
Group settings with voice chat and push notifications, and a member list showing who is live
Fleet Management

Coordinate Your Fleet

Keep your fleet connected on the water. Share real-time positions, talk over fleet chat and push-to-talk voice, and track vessels with AIS — all from one app.

  • Real-time location sharing with group members
  • Fleet chat and push-to-talk voice channels
  • AIS vessel tracking and filtering
  • Share waypoints, routes, boundaries and pot strings
  • Privacy controls for what you share, and for how long
Log analytics with season totals and largest deliveries
Fishing Intelligence

Fish Smarter, Not Harder

Turn your fishing data into actionable insights. Track your trips with digital log books, analyze season-over-season trends, and access NOAA tide and weather forecasts — all in one place.

  • Digital log books with customizable entries
  • Season-over-season analytics and trends
  • NOAA tide predictions with visual charts
  • Zone weather forecasts with wind, temp, and barometer
  • ADF&G announcement summaries and an AI Assistant that answers with live data
Desktop

The same Bristol Maps on a full-size screen

Bristol Maps runs natively on Windows, macOS and Linux. Plan ashore, run it on the wheelhouse PC, or put it on a second display next to your tablet. Same account, same maps, same data.

Windows
macOS
Linux
  • Your subscription follows your account — no extra purchase
  • Offline imagery, basemaps and NOAA ENC charts
  • Waypoints, routes, boundaries and logs sync both ways
  • Pots & gear with pick mode and the heads-up plot
  • Fleet chat, AIS, tides, weather and the AI Assistant
  • Open any tab in its own window for a multi-monitor wheelhouse
  • Automatic updates, Stable or Beta channel
  • Position from an NMEA feed or a USB/network GPS
Download for Windows, macOS & Linux

Fish tickets and deliveries stay on the phone and tablet app.

Bristol Fleet processor dashboard: active freight, fish tickets, total pounds, buying tenders and a map of tender positions
Processor & Tender Management

Streamline Your Operations

Whether you're running a tender or managing a processing operation, Bristol Maps gives you the tools to track fish tickets, manage tenders, and coordinate freight — digitally.

  • Digital fish ticket management
  • Tender tracking and assignments
  • Freight and shipment tracking
  • Processor analytics and summaries
Learn more at Bristol Fleet

Download the App today!

One subscription covers iOS, Android and desktop — $200/year. Start your free trial

iOS & iPadOS

iPhone and iPad, with Siri shortcuts and a Control Center pot drop.

Download for iOS

Android

Phones and rugged tablets, with home-screen shortcuts for pots and logs.

Download for Android

Desktop

Windows, macOS and Linux. Same account and subscription as your phone.

Download Desktop App

Pricing

One subscription, every device.

Yearly Subscription

One week free trial available

$ 200

/year

  • Group location sharing and fleet chat
  • Continuously updated satellite imagery
  • NOAA ENC charts and detailed navigation
  • Crab pot & gear management with pick mode
  • Tides and weather
  • Digital log books and analytics
  • iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux