# aka maps — Offline maps with your names

> Offline maps with your names (iPhone/iPad app by Fried Grouper Creative Studio.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aka-maps/id6809616873 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Fried Grouper Creative Studio](https://appshunter.io/developer/6798055380)
- Category: Navigation, Travel
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 57 MB
- Languages: American English, Canadian French, Brazilian Portuguese, Mexican Spanish, Ukrainian
- Released: 2026-10-20
- Data updated: 2026-10-22

## What is aka maps?

aka maps is an offline map that speaks your household's language. Name places the way you actually say them — "the good Publix", "Grandma's", "the back way" — and the map, search and turn-by-turn use those names from then on.

Everything works with no signal. Download a state (or a whole country) once and you have the map, place search, house-number addresses and driving, cycling and walking directions on the phone itself. Routes are computed on the device. Search never touches the network.

YOUR NAMES, YOUR COLLECTIONS
• Give any place a name of your own. It shows on the map, ranks first in search, and is what guidance says out loud.
• Group names by how you use them: Everyday for the regulars, a collection per trip or routine.
• Share a collection with the people you choose — a spouse, the carpool, the beach-trip crew. Names sync device to device, end-to-end encrypted. We never see a name.
• Household notes on places ("pharmacy pickup is at the back counter") and your own arrival point when the map routes to the wrong door.

DRIVING
• Turn-by-turn with lane guidance, spoken with your names.
• Speed limits and speed-camera alerts from the offline data.
• CarPlay: the same names on the car screen.
• "Hey Siri, take me to the good Publix in aka maps."

APPLE WATCH
• The next turn on your wrist in your own words, with haptic turn cues so most turns never need the screen.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account. No sign-in. No analytics, no ads, no trackers.
• Your searches, routes and names stay on the phone. Nothing leaves it unless you share a collection, and then only as encrypted data we can't read.
• Backup rides iCloud device backup, or export a names file you keep anywhere — it opens on any phone.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors; places from Overture Maps; addresses from OpenAddresses. Built on MapLibre and Valhalla. Regions available today: all 50 US states, DC, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, Canada, Mexico, Poland and Ukraine, with more added as they are built.

## Is aka maps safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess aka maps.

## Is aka maps legit?

aka maps has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for aka maps is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-10-20

No release notes.

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