Decent
Has lots of good features and works fairly well most of the time. It does have weird annoying quirks. An example is a recent stay at a well known large hotel in Gangnam. It would never correctly set my location at this hotel, it kept insisting I was 80 feet away across the street. The other super annoying thing is that there isn’t an simple “end route” or cancel option, at least that I could figure out, so once I committed to a route and started travel, I couldn’t get it to stop running and trying to direct me. There are certain things that are just not intuitive. BTW, Google Maps worked just as well for directions in the Gangnam area.
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Poor app
Terribly design not tourist friendly
Lags
Always lags for my iPhone in the most important situations
Technology miracle
It is a miracle how in 2026 in first world country, which specializes, especially in IT and technologies, you have a main app, which is unable to load anything, and when I was trying to register, after it simply doesn’t not work, it has white screen. I even tried to tried redownload, but now it simply broken. I wonder how developers even able to find a way back home or to the nearest grocery store with such mental capabilities.
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Bad verification system
Not traveller friendly. Verification requires IP address and phone code location to match but this means I can’t verify while I’m outside my home country meaning I’m blocked from using the app
Too good
It is an amazing app so convenient for tourists and helpful. I am so impressed, other map apps hold no candle to this one. Really awesome.
Very slow , too much advertising
Very slow , too much advertising
Content ok but terrible performance
Very slow, laggy app. Takes forever to load info, keeps freezing. Also often can’t find addresses in Korean or English. Good for transit info though. Only using it because google maps doesn’t fully work in Korea
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없애세요... 지도 보다가 자꾸 꺼지잖아요
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Most services require a Korean phone number
App feels slow, delivery services require Korean phone number
Sehr laggy und buggy
Wirklich eine der schlimmsten Karten Apps die ich genutzt habe. Es hakt wie Sau teils brechen Routen ab. Wenn man Apple Karten oder Google Maps gewöhnt ist ist das hier eine Katastrophe.
Forced to use this terrible app
Just so bad
Glitchy
Comprehensive but glitchy and slow. Would prefer google or citymapper.
Lost everything
After 4 years of research and creating categorised lists with over 1000+ places saved throughout my visits, NAVER decides to log me out the account despite having used it for years both when in Korea and the UK. I’m not able to log in anymore and there don’t seem to be a customer service to contact to ask for help in solving the issue. You are forced to submit your personal passport details with very little hope to be reinstated as most people end up with accounts suspended despite having submit the right requirements. Considering the increased tourism in South Korea, you should make it easier for foreigners to use the app and not suspend accounts and ruin people’s trips. Sort it out.
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Absolutely necessary for Korea but UI is so slow
Incredibly slow app, it’ll take about 5-10 seconds for each action to actually complete (search to, search from, route, etc). Far more accurate than google and Apple Maps in Korea though
UK user
This app is rated for being easier to use than Apple and Google maps. The problem is that if you have any contact with customer support because your app is suspended you will be stuck in a loop that means it is impossible to use.
Nice App
Отличное приложение для навигации по Корее и Сеулу
Ok but not great
Used mostly for walking and transit directions in Seoul for 10 or so days.
General
-many more, much more obtrusive ads in free version. Didn’t try paid version to see how much such ads are diminished.
-lacks many places of interest that users of g maps take for granted, eg public toilets and drinking fountains which seoul has many more of than are shown on naever
Walking
+it works for directions because ROK government allows it, but doesn’t include elevation gain/loss like better apps in other cities.
Transit
+shows real-time transit arrival/departure times.
+clearly shows station exit numbers for transit stations with multiple exits/entrances
-doesn’t tell user which train car to board/exit to expedite ingress/egress or prioritse escalator/life access for accessibility.
-doesn’t allow mixed mode very well, particularly mixing ride-hailing/walk or private bike/walk or bikeshare/walk.
+/- does other things like make restaurant bookings and payments if you’re into that.
General
-many more, much more obtrusive ads in free version. Didn’t try paid version to see how much such ads are diminished.
-lacks many places of interest that users of g maps take for granted, eg public toilets and drinking fountains which seoul has many more of than are shown on naever
Walking
+it works for directions because ROK government allows it, but doesn’t include elevation gain/loss like better apps in other cities.
Transit
+shows real-time transit arrival/departure times.
+clearly shows station exit numbers for transit stations with multiple exits/entrances
-doesn’t tell user which train car to board/exit to expedite ingress/egress or prioritse escalator/life access for accessibility.
-doesn’t allow mixed mode very well, particularly mixing ride-hailing/walk or private bike/walk or bikeshare/walk.
+/- does other things like make restaurant bookings and payments if you’re into that.
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Pourquoi en coréen
Je ai pas compris pourquoi j’ai naver en coréen j ai tout essayé j ai même réinstalle mais du coup ça ne m as pas servi
It’s the only option in South Korea
It works and is super helpful with navigating public transit, especially in advising when to prepare to get off the next stop but the walking and discovery is a little hard. It doesn’t always orient when walking and hard to discover new places. Also be aware that it’s easier to navigate to specific locations if you put the address in Korean.
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