Guru Maps - Offline Navigation App Reviews

While this app has its issues, the concept is so wonderful. It makes travelling so easy, using your GPS data on downloadable maps. Very accurate, and I love the ability to save folders of points of interest for different trips. Keep working on this app - its great!

Spent 2weeks driving around Europe and with this app I was able to locate my position on the very detailed map totally offline. I kept my phone on airplane mode and the GPS was extremely accurate. It even displayed the speed, location and altitude of the flight I was on! 10 stars!

I have used this app to travel internationally for the past two years. This app has always lead me in the right direction, I have never gotten lost abroad. Guys you are doing a wonderful job, please keep at it!!

Ive been using it for years and it just keeps getting better!! They are constantly updating it! Lots of updates, they are on the ball. Constantly updating the app and updating the downloadable free maps. It has small DETAILED downloadable maps that you can access fast, require no data (other than when you download them) and uses less power (no data means less power). Be sure to download your maps in advance of your trip so you don’t eat up your power or data. This is not ANYTHING like what the program would do the first few years that it was out, this is an AWESOME FREE improvement. This app works SO DIFFERENT now, you need to ignore reviews older than a year. If you download AND select vector maps in advance, you will not use data with this app. This feature costs nothing. It’s great to have a map that does not require data downloads or a signal. I travel to Costa Rica often and it’s a must have app. Please understand what this app does. It’s a digital MAP, not a GPS, the map will show you where you are, not route you (just like a big paper map, but with a magic dot where you are). If you download the vector maps (and have the settings set for vector maps) it does not need any data (I use this on an iPad with no data plan and it works great!). These are vector maps: small detailed scaleable maps. These are easily downloadable from the app itself. This means with a quick download (size varies on state/country) I have all the details do the the city street and many landmarks. Here’s the important part: if I’m in an area of Michigan with no cell coverage I can still view my map because I already downloaded the whole thing! (You MUST leave your settings on “vector", or it will try to download maps for whatever setting you are set at!) This is one of the first apps I install on people’s iPhones for them. It’s great to have a map that does not require data downloads or a signal. I travel to Costa Rica often and it’s a must have app. They recently added vector maps: small detailed scaleable maps. These are easily downloadable from the app itself (they are rolling this feature out, so you may not see every country yet). This means with a quick download (size varies depending on state/country) I have all the details do the the city street and many landmarks. Here’s the important part: if I’m in an area of Michigan with no cell coverage I can still view my map because I already downloaded the whole thing! (You MUST leave your settings on “vector", or it will try to download maps for whatever setting you are set at!) Please do not leave a bad review if does not do something you think it should do, read the description for what it says it does do! I say that because this is one of those apps with a huge number of 5 star review and 1 star reviews but most of those 1 star reviews are because the program is not supposed to do what they are complaining about, the reviewer didnt read the description. They added the vector feature close to a year ago, reviews from before then arent even accurate any more, the addition of the vector maps TOTALLY changes the way the program works (although all old features still work too). My old maps (created the hard way) still work great, but 99% of the time I’ll be using these new vector maps. Other EXCELLENT features require in app purchase (these features are free in pro version): Downloading other off-line maps (this is great and it why I purchased it in the first place) you can get maps from different sources and build them (on your desktop computer) and put them on the device for later. I downloaded great maps with heights of the hills/mountains for where I hike in Costa Rica, I don’t need to use international data roaming for this since I built them once and they stay on the device. You can also leave bookmarks in the app, incredibly useful for marking places that have no other frame of reference. You can have it record a path/trail for where you have been and view (or export) where you’ve been. When hiking, I think of it as bread crumbs. I miss the old app icon but I’m not going to ding the app any points for that! These folks listen to feedback so write them with suggestions, people complained about the alert notifications and they removed it (but the old reviews are still there). I’ve sent them country suggestions (was there a week or two later), font size suggestions, bug reports and more. They’re constantly updating the maps and they have WAY more maps available then back in early 2014 when they added downloadable maps to the app.

I never would have guessed how completely this app has improved my experience traveling both for pleasure and for research. Im continually astounded by the level of detail available in the tiny little back paths of places like Sicily and Cyprus, and on a number of occasions I have discovered new sites I didnt even know to search for. The GPS populates the map even with no mobile service or data, meaning that the app can be used for navigating in real time virtually anywhere in the world, and all that is needed is a little advance planning (with a wifi connection). Getting (unwillingly) lost and buying copious and unwieldy paper maps are things of the past.

The Crimean Peninsula isnt the part of Russia. Its occupied part of Ukraine, so according to the UN General Assembly Resolution 68/262 (adopted on March 27, 20014), developers must correct this.

This is one of the best apps ever. The software is fast and reliable. If you look at the low reviews here you will see that every one of them is written by someone who doesnt understand this apps purpose. No, this is not a turn by turn gps. No, the app maker did not create the maps. I use Galileo almost daily. Updates have been frequent and filled with good enhancements. As a software developer I can tell that the team behind this app are solid engineers who know what they are doing. I put Galileo in the top 1% of apps Ive used.

I can sync between my iPad and iPhone. Search the net for using Google maps. Still using this after 2 years.