# Mapply for Open Street Map — user reviews

> 14 indexed App Store user reviews of Mapply for Open Street Map by Florian Chrometz, rated 4.10/5 from 51 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mapply-for-open-street-map/id1591409886/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mapply-for-open-street-map/id1591409886.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 33 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 5

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Hard to use

*2025-11-17*

Very hard to use this app, not user friendly and UI is bad

### 1/5 — Doesn’t really work well

*2025-11-09*

Wanted to view railroads and while it would show them for the United States zoomed out, as soon as I zoomed into south east Florida, no go.

### 1/5 — Won’t load after a few minutes of use

*2025-06-30*

I love this app for exploring but after a minute or two of use the app stops loading in the map and i am forced to restart.

Edit: changed from 4 stars to 1 star. this app has become unusable, map wont load

### 1/5 — Won’t load after a few minutes of use

*2025-06-28*

I love this app for exploring but after a minute or two of use the app stops loading in the map and i am forced to restart.

Edit: this app has become unusable

### 1/5 — No navigation

*2025-02-28*

This map app is categorized under “Navigation” but it doesn’t actually have that functionality, so if you have someone else manually looking at the screen to tell you which direction to drive, like back in the day of paper map books, maybe you will find it useful, but for me it’s just another OSM viewer, and OSM is too incomplete, and often wrong due to being updated only by volunteers, that this is a useless app.

### 1/5 — Not using OSM

*2025-02-15*

This doesn't seem to be using OSM, but the maps from Apple. Gulf of America??? What is that???

### 1/5 — Gulf of America?

*2025-02-12*

Forget that. I’ll use another map that has the correct name for major bodies of water

### 1/5 — In current form useless, monetising OpenSource material

*2024-06-16*

The idea as such is not bad. However the various layers take so long to load, even on home WiFi, that it renders the app useless.

The only part of the app which loads quick enough is the ads - the app uses free content to present ads, thereby monetising OpenSource material (Open Street Map).

### 2/5 — 5 stars if it worked

*2025-08-16*

Worked a few months ago. Can’t load after 5 seconds of use.

### 2/5 — A little clunky but better image

*2025-01-19*

Better than open maps that it does busniess searches , but no gps is okay, use Waze or a GPS guidance app for that that does traffic without centralization of roads etc

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## Most praised reviews (4 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Awesome maps!

*2024-01-11*

I just happened to stumble upon this app. I’m a map freak, so I just have to say these are awesome maps! It combines the political boundaries of open street maps with the locator of Apple Maps (plus the presentation of route shields as they actually appear on the road). Excellent job!

### 4/5 — Gut aber Kleinigkeiten können noch besser sein

*2024-11-19*

Eine wirklich tolle App. Ich nutze sie sehr gerne und sehr oft. Aber ein paar Kleinigkeiten, zum Beispiel die Einblendung der Legenden der Overlaydaten fehlen noch. Und das caching behaviour ist manchmal ein bisschen erratisch. Außerdem gibt es einen Beschriftungsfehler bei der Openrailwaymapoverlay

### 3/5 — Won’t load after a few minutes of use

*2024-11-02*

I love this app for exploring but after a minute or two of use the app stops loading in the map and i am forced to restart.

### 2/5 — Funktioniert leider nicht

*2024-06-30*

Ich mag OpenSource-Apps und solche von kleinen Entwicklern. Diese App erschien überragend mit den ganzen verschiedenen OpenStreetmap-Ablegern. Leider laden die Kacheln selbst im Wi-Fi sehr langsam, manchmal nicht vollständig, während andere beim Heranzoomen gar nicht laden, also z. B. die Topografie nur deutschlandweit, aber schon ab Bundeslandebene nicht mehr angezeigt wird. Stattdessen erscheinen dann Apple-Maps? Einmal hat sich die App aufgehangen, passiert auf dem iPhone eigentlich nie. Keines der Features hat 100%ig funktioniert. Der Fehler mag bei den Servern (eigene oder fremde?) liegen, aber ohne Karten ist halt alles nichts.

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-02.*