Reviews for Magic Earth Navigation & Maps

After the update (May 29, 2023) it became too slow to use. Tried it again in June 2024 and it improved a lot, however after the latest updates (June 2025) the recorded videos don't have sound even when copied to my personal photos folder. This to me is unacceptable: my privacy my choice, regardless of the reasons the company may invoke to restrict access to sound, it should be my choice to record with or without sound. I am sure the videos are recorded with sound and its access is restricted.

I like the app look and feel but there are couple of issues. 1. App doesn't calculates on the route travel time in the beginning on basis of congestion on the roads real-time. Instead it continues to increase time to react at destination on the way which gives a wrong information of your arrival at the first place. 2. App switches to night mode automatically in the evening once and then after 30 mins or so it again switches back to day mode using Android Auto.

Prevously rated as 4 stars because overall it's a very good navigation app. The irritation for me is the huge size of the map updates. My wifi is high speed but after waiting an hour for only half the update for England mapping to download I gave up and cancelled the download. Another gripe is that when you have dowloaded maps but don't need them, you can't delete the maps and you have to delete the app and reinstall with .aps that you need.

I would give this a 5-star rating, but unfortunately there are some features missing that would take it all the way to the top. I think it has Apple Carplay, but no Android Auto. That's a big one. Where I live, it doesn't show the exit to take, only that I should exit in 'x' miles. The UX/UI could use some cleaning up. Other than these three, it's an awesome GPS that can one day replace Waze.

Seems like a good application. But i noticed that there no way to report that a name of a specific location is wrong are that you can help to enhance the map by adding location names and type to the map. If you add this feature, you will enhance the map further more. And i noticed that for the Caribbean Netherlands map the map is not completely updated.

Thanks for the fully free, ad-free app but it's lacking very useful features so badly. For example, there is no way automatically dowoad all the medium location maps when you are starting building directions to the very remote place. It's very useful when you are in the plane, flying, and wanted to know where exactly are you now.

Fantastic app. Speed and speed limits showing up clearly on Android Auto, nice, customizable speeding alerts, not just when navigating, but also when cruising. Also showing upcoming pedestrian crossings and traffic lights, and nearby parking. Offline use/maps, and no subscriptions. In short, it has all the features that Google Maps, GO, Waze, Navigation and a whole bunch of other GPS apps I tested so badly lack.

So far so good and NO ADS! Yay! I need an offline Android Auto compatible nav app. A real user manual would be great. What's really missing is a non-workaround method to save, load and re-edit trips, ideally on a desktop. You can save and then import a GPX track, but the entire track becomes a single un-editable node. Unfortunately Support is non-responsive. Six weeks since I emailed them with no reply (despite an auto-response saying someone would get back to me).

Love this app and it's only gotten better with time. The heads up display is wonderful at night and the dash cam works as well as many stand alone products at any price, and this is free. Only minor quibbles are the overheating issue when trying to use driver assist ai, and difficulty in locating and managing recorded dashcam video (I've found it much easier to use a file explorer to manage vids than trying to do it in app).

Only just installed it and played around with it. So far so good. The elevation feature is awesome. Very important when driving an RV. An RV profile would be nice to avoid dead ends etc. Maybe even show alternate routes with lower elevations. The gas station feature would be better if you could specify fuel type. Showing only stations with diesel would be great.

Going to give 3 stars because it's free and works offline. Needs alot of improvements. Microphone input doesn't work well, misinterpreted all the time. Have to type location and I had to input the address to find a restaurant. This was all offline. Get rid of the battery icon? That shows up next to speed icon. Add X to cancel navigation kinda like you know who. Would simplify things. Not many points of interest. Not good enough to replace pay to play apps.

Wonderful alternative to creepy Google. No ads and I love that you can change the voice! Some suggestions would be to add a miniviewer or a notification that the app is running to quickly review the map on the road if you get out of it while navigating. Add some visible things in the map (stopped car, speed trap, etc.), and a clearer alert to traffic queues(the traffic delay is in 1.0 mile or similar) when you approach them and you have a Perfect GPS App. Thank you for making this!!!

I like this app, but there is one thing it needs before I commit to using it. My problem is that the voice doesn't say street or exit names which makes it extremely difficult to navigate in urban areas where there is often many exits close to together. A less important thing is that the voice says, if I'm hearing it right, "Bare Left" which is a bit confusing because typically the phrase used is "Keep Left"

I've only been using the app for a couple days and I have to say it's good alternative to the other navigation apps that you're stuck paying for to get in order to get all the bells this app gives free. It's very easy to use but I wish it had more options to customize the experience, if I had a negative it would be that "it doesn't announce the street names for each upcoming turn", just a simple turn left or right and distance. Waze is full of ads but it's more thorough with giving direction.

I enjoy Magic Earth greatly - it's better than Google maps in many ways, such as actually showing street names on the map. Imagine that! But the inability to mute the voice during navigation mode is infuriating. I often only need navigation for the last .5 to 1 mile of a trip. I simply don't want or need constant interruptions during my entire route. I just want to use the display or be able to turn the voice on and off during times when I do or don't want it.

I don't know how such a god awful app can be highly rated. 9/10 it will not pull up a location I search with exact words. it's not like those locations don't exist in the app either, if you can find them on the map it will be there labeled but it doesn't populate searches. Most of the time it is pulling up locations hundreds of miles away. I would instead recommend OsmAnd. It is very particular about spelling but at least it will pull up stores. Personally I think the UI is a lot easier to use.

Quite happy with this app. I like the way it looks and route selections. In addition I also like that it shows the speed limit of the road and a speedometer and verbally announces when you are speeding. However, things that I feel need improving and are a must have: 1. Some shown speed limits in the app are not upto date and are incorrect 2. Speed cameras are not announced (at least whist using Android Auto) they are however displayed but are tiny! 3. There is no option for you to change route

great app! The offline navigation is great for people who are often without service. I wish I could disable non-OSM POI's - lots of inaccurate data. Besides that, only issue is results sometimes don't filter by distance - if I search for "10 Green St", it will show results hundreds of miles away, often across the ocean, when the "Green St" I'm looking for is only five minutes away. Sometimes it *only* shows far away results, and I have to type the city I'm in for that address to show up.

It seemed interesting because of the multitude of options. But the longer I use it, the more I see its shortcomings. First of all, there is no flat map display mode. There is always this quasi-3D view. You can't click on a place on the map and navigate to that place. And the saddest thing is that the application does not save GPS tracks in GPX files. It supposedly saves them, but after saving, these files are nowhere to be found in the smartphone's memory or on the SD card. It has a lot to fix.

No trackers, limited permissions asked, no wifi scanning needed, no blue tooth scanning needed, no screwoogle location history needed. Several 2d and 3d map styles to choose (day and night specifically too). I'll be donating. Searching for specific business isn't as fast or nearly as accurate as Google... which hurts to admit. If you're in a panic or mid-drive this isn't a great app for super-fast place-finding. But it gets the job done.