Reviews for TomTom GO Expert: Truck GPS

This app sucks. The only gimmick is showing which lane you should be in, but even that isn't very helpful since it doesn't show which lane of an exit to be in for the next turn, which Google maps does. Speed limits were wrong, default view when not navigating is way zoomed out, traffic patterns were wrong, zero speed trap warnings, and speech to text is a digital voice from the 1980s. Save your money, Google Maps and Waze, both free, are better in every way.

I haven't used it. I just looked at the price. $20 per month for trucks? I might as well pay for Trucker Path which does a lot more. I guess I'll keep using Copilot. (Also, $5 a month for autos? You do know Google and Waze are free, right? I have yet to find an app for car navigation that is anywhere close to those 2. Even truck drivers pull it up for real time traffic conditions.)

When you minimize the screen to use any other function like phone, music app, book app etc, the app reroutes you to what it thinks may be the fastest not what you have already chosen, to maybe avoid the school district when it will be congested halfway through your commute, just because it isn't now. Then it doesn't let you look ahead enough to plan which lane to be in, even when it's almost immediate if you're going 75mph on the interstate, 800 yards goes quickly, then zooms out at odd times.

This app leaves a lot to be desired. First of all, it really struggles to log into the right account (not sure if that's because I have more than one email or not) once I'm finally logged in (which takes so long because once you try the wrong credentials once, it's stuck on a loop where there is no obvious lot out button) then halfway through my trip an ad booted me from my map and I had to pull over to try to get it to work again (I actually couldn't get it to work again. Waste of money. Sad.

I attempted to renew the subscription, paid for it, but app won't update. A bar on the top says something about "Purchase Waiting" or some such thing, but tapping it does nothing; and because their support team doesn't work weekends, no help is available. I got a refund from Google and will be uninstalling when the present subscription runs out. Why pay for that kind of non-support? I may as well use a free app. It's a shame because it was my favorite navigation app overall. Oh well.

it's okay. the mobile version is good but it's needing some UI stuff. for example the exit numbers are very small and hard to notice, when you turn at a light it's very difficult to see which turning lane to go through nor did I understand what it was for at the beginning of using this app. there are a some suggestions that could prove to be useful but for the most part I just had to cancel my subscription

This is the app to have for navigation. I found it to have better routing than Google and Waze. It does fall short on finding business sometimes, but if you have the street address it will get you there. An unexpected surprise was the live traffic. I have enjoyed using TomTom GO for the past month during the free trail. I don't travel enough to justify paying for it, though I am tempted. If I do have the need in the future I won't hesitate to subscribe.

Have three big issues after installing. I predominantly use Android auto. 1st issue, and this is a deal breaker, I can't figure out how to display the current street I'm on w/out a destination programmed. This is a must have feature. 2nd. Font is too small, need to make bigger. Can't see without my readers. 3rd. I need to turn off the speed nany. Update: That setting is enabled. Still no street name. Also I sent an email about inaccurate destinations.

Overall good, but I have a couple of small issues. The map zoom is weird. It stays really close. You can zoom out and it will stay, but when it zooms in for a turn, it barely zooms back out afterwards, so you only see about a mile ahead. It also does strange routing sometimes. Like trying to go around the perimeter of my neighborhood instead of the faster, direct route straight through. It should also give better alerts when map updates are available.

Being a part time courier I need a good navigation app, I was hoping this would be the app, as the price is very reasonable. Unfortunately I cannot even get it to run on my phone, Galaxy S8, it appears that any map you download won't work. I can't add any places or search for anything, just get 'internal search error' message, have reinstalled several times to no avail. Very disappointed.

The app is nice. I seem to be accurate. The is a few annoying thing. There should be an option to save the map to the external memory card. it takes to much memory. Seems to somethings pick the nears intersection, when saving a location. Points of interest is basicly useless. I dont understand, where they come from. I took me on a toll road, even though I had the option set to not do that. It would be nice, if miles would be expressed in decimal 10th miles, instead of fractions.

I had big hopes for this app because it worked with Android Auto. The posted speed is wrong on the app for many roads I travel. For example, if the posted speed is 35, the app shows it as 20. Then, when the posted speed changes to 45, the app shows 30 and takes too long to update. Because of this, I had to turn off the audio speed warning. Also, at different places in my daily travels, the app will drop. My Android Auto will show that it is connected, but the app has lost connection.

Would love to rate it 5 stars. Absolutely love the look and UI of the app. The maps look great. But I had to go back to Copilot. There are too many stretches of Interstate that it thinks are still closed due to construction. So it tries to route you way out of route. Also there are several secondary roads that it thinks have a 4 ton weight limit that have no signs stating that. As a truck driver I can not afford to have it routing me way out of route. Especially for $19 a month.

Using TomTom to navigate to an unknown Point of Interest (POI) has been a long-standing issue, but it was easily resolved by manually adding the POIs. Over the years, I have created a personalized library, and it was always possible to import .ov2 files into the TomTom app. However, in this new version, this simple operation is no longer possible, rendering my files useless. In conclusion, the app has become useless and expensive. I recommend using WAZE, which is free and user-friendly.

After using this only 3 times, I was sold. Paid for the year. For the first time I have a Navigation app that works near perfect. The settings are great, good customization, good UI, nice features, but the most important thing is that the navigation is flawless. The only nav app that DOESN'T give me anxiety when using it. No worrying that I can't figure out where I'm getting off for the next exit, no ridiculous maneuvers, no trying to figure anything out. Just getting where I need to go easy. 🙂

Price for subscription is too high. I was an early adopter and had used this app years ago, at the time Google maps weren't nearly as good and phone data was more expensive and coverage worse, so it made sense to have a standalone navigation app. nowadays, the cost for data, data coverage and gmaps are much much better, that's why I think for me, I would be willing to pay $10 per year for the otherwise great TomTom interface, but not more.

For people having problems loading the app like myself I finally figured it out! Go into settings and then go to apps. Click on the go app. Click storage. Then you want to clear the cache and then clear data. restart your phone or tablet. I did not have to reinstall the go app from the Play Store. Good luck this is what worked for me .

Update: I managed to test this product for almost a week. It works great if you enter street addresses. Routing works on point. I really like how I can find gas stations on route. Businesses like restaurants, bowling, etc, that have existed for years are not in the database. This limits it's day to day use. I can justify spending a small one time fee and live with this limitation, but not a subscription.

I used it for a while and decided to try it again. I had to purchase it because I'm not eligible for the free trial again. Ot required me to download a map, which took a long time. It now shows a blue arrow (presumably where I am) against a totally blank background. I just wasted $5. Edit... finally got the map to load but it can't find a destination 7 hours away. Ugh

It might get you there. Downloaded and installed this trying to get away from the Google option. They give you a whole week (woohoo) to try it out before paying for it. There were a couple of glitches that I just couldn't see paying for. In Android Auto, twice the display just stopped moving while driving in an area I've never been. Had to go back to Maps to get where I was going. AA always starts with North up. Would prefer to have the option to change that. And the cartoonishly large arrow??