Comments on: 10 GPS Apps For Navigation [Android and iOS]

By: Paweł Włoch

Paweł Włoch — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:39:49 +0000

I am disappointed your review of TomTom navigation. They’re a lot of apps that require accessing your data. But going a bitI further then this and a brief note about road radars alerts and pretty visual sidethere is nothing on your review concerning the practical side. Seems like you’ve never used the app. I think it has a very good display of road conjunctions and lane assistant, something that gMaps doesn’t offer and one can find himself driving past the turn.

By: Robert Gay

Robert Gay — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:01:15 +0000

Greetings from the borderlands of Arizona.

Our interests in mapping here are mainly off the pavement – places where the agile 4runner can take us for some exploring or hiking. Are there apps that do well with this aspect of GIS info, and are there some that Android phones can download? Thanks for any help – comparative reviews are always interesting!

By: Rodrigo Smarzaro

Rodrigo Smarzaro — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:44:08 +0000

If you are a OSM contributor there is no better app than OsmAnd. If you have enough OSM edits you get unlimited map updates. Also, the annotation features and customizable interface helps a lot. :-)

By: Oyajebul Islam

Oyajebul Islam — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 01:53:27 +0000

Need to measure land

By: JM De Leon

JM De Leon — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 05:05:51 +0000

Have you ever checked Magic Earth? Compared to others except for the top 3, this is so far the best offline navigation map. Clean and fast—even for Bicycle routes—straightforward and completely free. Another 1 next to this and way above the others mentioned is Mapy.cz. This is supposed to be primarily for Czech users, but being in the Philippines and using this for a few years directly comparing to Maps.me, this has more details and information, more fast and clean, though bested only by ME (mentioned above) for bicycle route use. For car navi on long travel I prefer this over google maps because it’s offline and sticks on the road even while under a concrete skyway. Please check and make a review if possible.

By: Charles W. Dickens

Charles W. Dickens — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:08:56 +0000

I had Sygic on my iPad a number of years ago (until the iPad broke) and at the time, it was by far the best navigation software I had found. I really liked the resident map feature that didn’t require continuous internet communication to load the map while driving as it uses up my monthly data allowance rather quickly on a long trip. Previously, I had a Magellan and a Garmin, but at times these failed to route me via most efficient way. I later had a Boss Audio system in my car which had the N-Drive mapping software. It was the worst of all. So, I decided to buy an Android tablet and dedicate it as a GPS device and purchase the Sygic again. So I bought the full version with all the bells and whistles. What a mistake! It appears that the original Sygic was sold out to some third-world company and the downloadable maps were totally useless. They didn’t have 5% of the locations right in my own town that have been on the map for decades.

By: Kat Mak.

Kat Mak. — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 08:39:31 +0000

I wonder why you are so negative about Mapfactor. I like and use this app especially for offline navigation to spare my data. I have not had problems with it.
There are not that many ads as you describe at all! I see an ad only when I am online and only by the app exit or during map download (which I download when while on Wi-Fi connection and the ads do not bother me here at all). No ads disturb me during navigation or at the start?!
Mapfactor has recently changed the menu design. I had to get used to if first, but it made navigation set up faster. I like it.

By: rstd

rstd — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 20:21:20 +0000

I would expect way more from a site that is called “gisgeography”.

You only list couple of apps that you picked on google play/whatever IOS uses the most downloaded/used apps.

There’s many more alternatives than this list.

For example excellent choice is Locus. You can use free OSM maps – either standard or modified like the hike and bike maps… You can even create your own maps, you can also project your shapefiles on the map or use this app for mapping – tracking your location, drawing shapes, adding POIs, adding comments and taking pictures of the posis then export it and work on in in your GIS software.

For my country, there’s a superior app map than all the mentioned apps as all are nearly unusable.

What a lame article, as I said, I would expect waaay more apps than just listing the most known and used ones.

By: Musa

Musa — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:16:08 +0000

I love Google maps, I think its the best. Though Apple maps is rated so much and always recommended by many. Keep up…

By: Alf

Alf — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 14:35:23 +0000

Hello.
I have tried several offline navigation applications.

The 3 that were reasonably satisfactory for offline road navigation were Magic Earth (best one, has been forgotten by the article)), Mapfactor (not bad in offline mode, but doesn’t offer alternative routes), and Maps.me (not as good as Magic Earth as it doesn’t offer alternative routes, offline search results are significantly poorer than Magic Earth and Mapfactor, administration of offline maps is more complicated than Magic Earth and Mapfactor).
The 3 allow offline navigation with voice guidance and offline search and adds are not a problem offline.
I haven’t tried Here We Go due to the many negative comments from users on GooglePlay.

For off road navigation, the article has forgotten to mention two excellent Android applications: Locus maps and Orux maps. Both are significantly more difficult to master, but offer a very large scope of possibilities (you can use practically any map with them, and the databases for tracks and points are powerful). Free versions are available for both, and Locus paid version is very cheap. They are not well suited for road navigation, although Locus offers something usable.