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Navigation apps.

Installs
23857.5M

Across 9 of 12 apps we could match.

Google Maps has 93% of them.

  • 12 apps
  • 6,168 reviews held
  • 3,999 negative
  • Median $1.494 of 12 charge.

2 gaps.

Shares of this market’s 3,999 negative reviews.

Accuracyextreme

9.3% vs 1.5% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 371
  • Google Earth1star· Sep 14, 2026

    Inaccurate naming of locations. — Lake Ontario was named by indigenous people long before European settlers arrived. This petty name change is a disgrace to those indigenous people.

  • Waze Navigation & Live Traffic1star· Sep 13, 2026

    Terrible — Do not use this app it's not accurate and you will be giving your private info to foreign nation

  • Waze Navigation & Live Traffic1star· Sep 13, 2026

    Worst navigation app — I had used Waze for years and ended up deleting it not once but twice. Cool it shows you where cops are but that’s about the only thing that this app has going for it. On multiple occasions it has taken me down one way roads… going the wrong direction. Also it can’t seem to find my location even though I changed the setting to “always” when it came to tracking my location an

UXelevated

5.9% vs 4.9% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 237
  • Garmin Drive™1star· Sep 15, 2026

    Slow, slow, slow. Latest update brakes connectivity with Dashcam 46. — I’m fairly confident that Garmin has managed to put out software so bad that it ruins the experience of their dashcams. It feels like forever ago, but they used to have desktop software that very quickly pulled videos and photos off their dashcams using USB. It was really speedy and super reliable. Now they force you to use thi

  • Waze Navigation & Live Traffic1star· Sep 13, 2026

    Worst navigation app — I had used Waze for years and ended up deleting it not once but twice. Cool it shows you where cops are but that’s about the only thing that this app has going for it. On multiple occasions it has taken me down one way roads… going the wrong direction. Also it can’t seem to find my location even though I changed the setting to “always” when it came to tracking my location an

  • Waze Navigation & Live Traffic2star· Sep 11, 2026

    Really wanted to like Waze — I really wanted to like Waze, after deleting Google Maps for the endless ads and sponsored results got in the way. I tried getting used to Waze, as it takes time to adapt to a new interface, but it is simply getting frustrating and clunky. 1) It’s hard to customize the route start point. Often times I want to see the time/distance between 2 places. But with Waze, if

Also counted

ThemeOf 3,999 negatives
  • Performance438 · 11.0% · 12 apps
  • Billing377 · 9.4% · 11 apps
  • Ads352 · 8.8% · 9 apps
  • Support63 · 1.6% · 9 apps
  • Limits & caps26 · 0.7% · 6 apps
  • Login & auth25 · 0.6% · 7 apps
  • Sync & data16 · 0.4% · 6 apps

The tick marks the store-typical rate. A review can mention more than one theme, so these sum past 100%.

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Countries

Is anyone looking for this?

What Apple and Google complete after navigation apps, in their order.

Who they're for
finding great walking trailssas airlinesair franceboatsmotorcycletruckerschinamotorhomes
Google
navigation appsnavigation apps for androidnavigation apps uknavigation apps for iphonenavigation apps compatible with android autonavigation apps in chinanavigation apps australianavigation apps for boats
App Store
best marine navigation for boatersnavigation for iphone freeroolz navigation for truckersdelm8 city navigation, maps uknavigationweather navigation for carplaynavigation 360navigation toyota

Marked App Store phrases are searched, but no app in this market says them in its name. Audiences are what Apple and Google complete after “navigation for” and “navigation apps for”, with the query stripped.

Potential customers

People the apps here do not serve, and what they asked for.

  • Wants lesstoo many features 19 · just a basic one 6 · it used to be simpler 424
  • Wants it to plug inCarPlay 1118
  • Shut out by device or contextCarPlay 6 · landscape 2 · iPad 215

Counted in 1 to 4 star reviews. The small numbers are how many reviews named each thing. What they wrote is in the free trial.

Who’s in it

All 12 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-14.

Apps count as part of a market for 90 days after they last appear in it. Installs are Google Play's own count, last captured 2026-09-14. 9 of 12 apps have an Android listing we could match. A dash means we could not pair the two stores, not that the app is absent from Play.

What they charge, and what it costs them

Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.

AppMoney complaints
MAPS.ME: Offline Maps, GPS Nav$0.99–$54.99 · 10 tiers4.5% of 178
Sygic GPS Navigation & Maps$12.49–$26.99 · 6 tiers2.5% of 284
Google Maps$0.89–$9.99 · 4 tiers0% of 1090
MapQuest GPS Navigation & Maps$1.99–$39.99 · 3 tiers0% of 280

Browse the apps behind these counts

Every app we count, with the complaint it runs furthest above the store’s typical rate.

Open the app library

Is there a market for a new navigation app?

12 apps compete on this shelf, holding 6,168 App Store reviews. And the widest unfixed complaint, accuracy, runs in 12 of 12 of them at 9.3% of negative reviews against 1.5% typical. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

What do users complain about most in navigation apps?

1. Accuracy: in 12 of 12 apps, 9.3% of negative reviews; 2. UX: in 12 of 12 apps, 5.9% of negative reviews.

How many navigation app reviews did App Imp count?

6,168 US App Store reviews across 12 apps, 3,999 of them negative. Counted on the 2026-09-14 snapshot, never estimated.

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. A market rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 13,217 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the market carries it, at least 20 reviews are behind it, and the market’s rate is elevated above the store’s, the same cutoff used everywhere on this site, because a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug, and a problem every app on the store shares is nobody’s gap. This market has no full report yet, so the per-app notes are absent rather than estimated. The anger axis is counted either way: mean star of the reviews carrying each theme, from the same classifier as the counts above.