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Navigation apps.

11 apps · 5,235 reviews held · 3,345 negative · 2026-09-02 snapshot

The market’s shape

1.6star
How angry
64%
Negative reviews
32%
Room to enter
4 of 11
Willingness to pay

Mostly solved: login & auth. 11 of 11 apps run below the store’s typical rate on it, while 11 of 11 still carry accuracy complaints.

2 gaps.

Shares of this market’s 3,345 negative reviews.

Accuracyextreme

7.4% vs 1.5% typical store-wide.

Counted in 249 reviews · 11 of 11 apps · 1.6star mean

What they said · 3 of 249
  • Apple Maps1star· Sep 4, 2026

    Inaccurate Labeling — This app contains names of large landmarks that are inaccurate and/or misleading.

  • Apple Maps1star· Sep 4, 2026

    Untrustworthy — Apple Maps knowingly and willfully includes false information to placate a whiny, wannabe fascist dictator baby. How can users trust a maps app that doesn’t care about accurate geographical information? They can’t.

  • Apple Maps1star· Sep 4, 2026

    MapQuest is better — People should be aware that names of certain global landmarks have been replaced by the incorrect names when you’re using the app in the United States. For an accurate map, find MapQuest instead.

UXelevated

6.5% vs 4.9% typical store-wide.

Counted in 217 reviews · 11 of 11 apps · 2.0star mean

What they said · 3 of 217
  • Apple Maps1star· Sep 4, 2026

    Incorrect names — This is a confusing maps app to use because major areas are labeled incorrectly. It seems to be incredibly incorrect pertaining to bodies of water.

  • Apple Maps1star· Sep 4, 2026

    Embarrassing international standing — Hurting international integrity since 2024 Renaming Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes to non internationally recognized names? Give the users an option. Known for great design in their past. Now known for terrible design choices.

  • Apple Maps1star· Sep 3, 2026

    Lake AMERICA?🤦🏼‍♀️ — Changing the name of a historic, international body of water on a digital map is absolutely asinine. Lake Ontario has been the established name for centuries, shared between two nations. Bowing to a political executive order to label it "Lake America" for U.S. users makes this app look completely unreliable.Supporting an unhinged leader, standing by petty behavior, and acting

Also counted

ThemeOf 3,345 negatives
  • Performance422 · 12.6% · 11 apps
  • Billing370 · 11.1% · 11 apps
  • Ads345 · 10.3% · 9 apps
  • Support63 · 1.9% · 9 apps
  • Limits & caps26 · 0.8% · 6 apps
  • Login & auth24 · 0.7% · 7 apps
  • Sync & data16 · 0.5% · 6 apps

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

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 14 · just a basic one 5 · it used to be simpler 319
  • Wants it to plug inCarPlay 1114
  • Shut out by device or contextCarPlay 6 · landscape 2 · iPad 213

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 11 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-02.

Installs are Google's own count, captured 2026-09-06. 5 of 11 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 · 7 tiers3.2% of 283
Google Maps$0.89–$9.99 · 4 tiers0% of 830
MapQuest GPS Navigation & Maps$1.99–$4.99 · 2 tiers0% of 266

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?

11 apps compete on this shelf, holding 5,235 App Store reviews. And the widest unfixed complaint, accuracy, runs in 11 of 11 of them at 7.4% 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 11 of 11 apps, 7.4% of negative reviews; 2. UX: in 11 of 11 apps, 6.5% of negative reviews.

How many navigation app reviews did App Imp count?

5,235 US App Store reviews across 11 apps, 3,345 of them negative. Counted on the 2026-09-02 snapshot, never estimated.

How markets are ranked

We give each market a mark out of 100 for seven things (nobody's fixed it 20 · above the norm 15 · how angry 10 · room to build 15 · room to enter 15 · getting bigger 20 · willingness to pay 5). Then we multiply the marks together. We do not average them.

Averaging lets a market hide one bad problem behind good numbers. Multiplying means one bad mark pulls the whole score down. That is the point. A market you cannot win is still a market you cannot win, however badly it is served.

Each mark has a fixed rule. Nobody’s fixed it and willingness to pay are plain shares. Above the norm maxes out at 4 times the store’s usual rate. How angry runs from star3.0 down to star1.5. Room to enter is what the biggest app does not own. Getting bigger hits 100 at 10% growth. Room to build is different. It is a sweet spot, not a size. A market can be too small to live on, or too big to break into.

If we cannot count something, we leave it out. We never guess it. The score only sorts this list. Every other number you see on a market is counted.

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 12,728 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.