Karta GPS - Offline Maps Nav

Excellent navigation, comparable to Google Maps as far as I can tell, doesn’t steer you wrong, and loaded with points of interest to help you find your destination. I use it whenever I don’t have cellular service and Google Maps leaves me stranded. However, Favorites cannot be sorted by distance, which is very inconvenient when you have to painstakingly read through your long list of favorites, of which many of mine are 5000 miles away, to find the one you want. I don’t always remember the name of my favorite, but sorting by distance makes them easy to find in Google Maps. I’m hard pressed to compare with Sygic, except to say that I have tried both and settled on Karta.

So I really loved the look and feel of this app when I downloaded it, so based on how it appeared, I spent a whole bunch of money subscribing to traffic and speed cameras and every other option available including buying some voices etc. Big mistake, I did all this assuming that as a navigation app, it would do a good job at that, but it routinely fails that test. Almost without exception I can enter same start and destination in Karta and then 3 or 4 other apps, most using OSM maps, and they will usually all give the same optimum route, but not Karta. In fact I don’t know that it has ever suggested the same route as the other apps. Just today, it wanted me to get off the highway and instead of taking the loop exit to go west, it wanted me to take the east exit and do a U-Turn! I have tried sending examples to technical support but honestly a navigation app has to be good at that before anything else can really matter. If they get that right, this is a winner, I think it is the best overall product for appearance, features etc except for the routing issues, so I hope they figure out their algorithm problems.

This GPS app is descent not great. Basically it an offline gps app that allows the user to use gps without internet connection which is super. Couple things that I found out with the app. First is that it can’t correctly find the location and it can’t give you a accurate exit routes. The display in the app to where your doing does not display the exit on the highway, which is super important if your traveling and need to know the exit, not hating but it can help. Second thing I’ve noticed is that the app can’t show the places that are nearby to stop. Example, say I’m driving and I noticed a place I want to go to but don’t physically want to go inside, I would appreciate it if I could simply click on the place & check important information about the place. Last I definitely would like to see a upgrade to traffic around the area. What I mean is to see if any road blocks, construction or high traffic. There is some good things about the app that I like and I really would like to everyone that worked on it. Also side note give me better suggestions and places to avoid.