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Organic Maps

Experience a privacy-oriented GPS solution with Organic Maps, featuring turn-by-turn navigation, offline maps, and a commitment to community development. Enjoy zero data collection, no location tracking, and comprehensive OpenStreetMap data for diverse travel modes.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Linux
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
  • HUAWEI AppGallery
  • iPad
  • Android Auto
  • Obtainium
  • OpenStreetMap
  • Flathub
  • F-Droid
  • OpenAPK
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Features

Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Integrations

  1. OpenStreetMap icon  Openstreetmap
  2. Wikipedia icon  Wikipedia
  3. Apple CarPlay icon  Carplay
  4. Android Auto icon  Android Auto

Features

  1.  Works Offline
  2.  Based on OpenStreetMap
  3.  GPS Navigation
  4.  No Tracking
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  Offline search
  7.  Offline routing
  8.  Bookmarks
  9.  Cycling
  10.  Dark Mode
  11.  Turn-by-turn Navigation
  12.  Apps with Offline Map
  13.  Hiking Maps
  14.  Driving directions
  15.  Route Planning
  16.  Crowdsourced
  17.  Points of Interest (POI)
  18.  Public Transportation
  19.  Nearby Search
  20.  Voice Navigation
  21.  Offline
  22.  No registration required
  23.  User generated
  24.  Location-based
  25.  OSM Editing
  26.  Geotagging
  27.  Route optimization

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: Organic Maps earns strong praise as a fast, lightweight, attractive open-source/FLOSS app for offline navigation, hiking, cycling, and multiple travel modes. Users value its clean interface, OSM data, stability, and ease of use, sometimes preferring it to OsmAnd or Google Maps. Limitations include weaker search and address discovery, missing place details and public-transport coverage, fewer advanced features, dated UI, occasional crashes, and concerns about its open-source status and community conflict.
Top Positive Comment
w
3

First open source customer centric maps client. It's much more appealing to the regular user than osmand as it gives only essential features.

Top Negative Comment
bbqman7089
11

Organic Maps is no longer fully open source

Ruyeex

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

EXit
0

Works, but as the others have pointed out there is some sort of conflict going on that has lead to a community fork called Comaps, which does its job just fine

bingud
0

Great offline maps

Gwrvan Barré
3
FeUser
-3

FLOSS tool, all what needed for offline navigation and mapping, multi-platform, GPS tracks.

Álvaro Ayres
-1

I used to use OsmAnd, but it wouldn't find the exact house number when searching, while Organic Maps can. That was reason enough to switch.

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What is Organic Maps?

Organic Maps is a privacy-focused and community-developed GPS navigation app for drivers, hikers, and cyclists.

The app features navigation with privacy - no location tracking and no data collection. Search, routing and navigation operates without a cell phone signal, ideal for travel on distant hiking trails or locations with poor connections. Organic Maps uses the crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data with contributors from all over the globe. The apps is free and open-source software, with priority for community development and collaboration.

Privacy • No Location Tracking • No Data Collection

Offline Navigation • Offline Maps and No Cell Signal Required

Saves Battery Power • Efficient Usage of Battery

Usage • Hiking, Biking, Driving, Public Transportation

• Detailed offline maps with places that don't exist on other maps • Cycling routes, hiking trails and walking paths • Contour lines, elevation profiles, peaks and slopes • Turn-by-turn walking, cycling and car navigation with voice guidance • Fast offline search on the map and bookmarks • Dark mode to protect your eyes

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Organic Maps information

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  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.2 (38 ratings)

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  • News

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Arabic
    • Basque
    • Belarusian
    • Bulgarian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • Finnish
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hebrew
    • Hungarian
    • Indonesian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Norwegian Bokmål
    • Persian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Slovak
    • Spanish
    • Swahili
    • Swedish
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Vietnamese

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  •  1,589 Forks
  •  3520 Open Issues
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Our users have written 26 comments and reviews about Organic Maps, and it has gotten 230 likes

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