OsmAnd Maps Travel & Navigate

Great app, I tried many others, but all of them either felt scammy or were lacking true offline map support and route planning to be useful. OsmAnd Maps takes a little getting used to due to a steeper learning curve, but that’s the price for having amazing features. There are a lot of negative reviews which complain about issues that are clearly related to the user’s lack of patience rather than something lacking in the app. I have been able to plan and chart all of my hiking club routes both using the phone and the Mac version of this app (which is basically the mobile version for now, just on a larger screen). There’s no price gouging. Even the basic free functionality with fully downloadable off-line maps is perfectly sufficient. Some advanced features are behind a one time payment, which was worth it for me. Subscriptions are optional - though I’m sure they are useful to people who use them all the time, I’ve not needed them since I’m just running a hiking club, not doing professional cycling, forestry, or anything of that level of commitment. Amazing map app, hope it keeps growing in use and improving in function :)

This is a nice OSM viewer with a lot of customization. You can tweak just about anything in the app including map styles and layout of the navigation screen. The downside is the app is very confusing because of all these features. And it seems to be missing some basic ones. For example you can only quickly show the POIs in some category, eg “fast food” or “restaurants.” If you want to search them by name, for example if you want to search the nearest McDonald’s, it sometimes takes a minute to show the results even though I only have one map loaded. Another problem in general is the app is not very reliable. Today I was setting up my new iPad Pro and couldn’t download maps. It seems like the download needs to start over if it fails in the middle. And I’m not sure why it’s failing - my connection is gigabit and quite reliable for everything else. I also believe the app is not quitting in the background. I paid for the subscription to get hourly map update. This is pretty nice too. It auto updates any offline maps you have and it seems very data efficient.

If you’ve been looking for an app that supports turn-by-turn (including voice) navigation for custom routes, OsmAnd delivers! I had tried many apps, including all the big names in maps and navigation, but none could do what OsmAnd does. I was looking for an app to find off-road routes between destinations and it does this with the flip of a single button. No more choosing “fake” interim destinations to force a specific route. If you want to avoid specific roads that the other switches don’t handle, you can just tap any road (or multiple roads) and your route will not use them. Great app!