OpenMaps - Topographic maps appears to be a legitimate app. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for OpenMaps is 90 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

OpenMaps User Reviews

Name: OpenMaps - Topographic maps
Rating: 3.9 (16 reviews)

OpenMaps - Topographic maps

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Positive experience10.0% of reviews

Neutral10.0% of reviews

Negative experience80.0% of reviews

~ Based on 60 written reviews from the US App Store.

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OpenMaps - Topographic maps appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for OpenMaps is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

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Adverts

Update. Developer has contacted me to tell me that the full page ads are now gone. That is if I buy the pro version!!! Totally missing the point of my review I will not be using this app agin poor service a map with ads total rubbish ————
Launched the app first time and a full page advert with count down to close. Uninstalled..

Rhrheheafrahadbwynabtjat

18 days ago

Response from developer

A full-page ad with a countdown as the very first thing you see is a terrible way to greet someone, and uninstalling was the right call. That's gone: there is no ad at all on the first launches now, and none while you're reading the map. OpenMaps Pro removes them entirely. Behind it there's now a real app — 6 topographic and nautical map styles, offline region downloads, route drawing, GPX and Garmin FIT support. — Andrea, OpenMaps

Schrott!

Startet gar nicht, habe es eben nach dem letzten Update noch mal versucht. Wieder nichts! Diese Schrott App öffnet nicht einmal eine halbe Sekunde, dann fliegt man wieder raus.

Hans1959

a month ago

Response from developer

Sie hatten recht, und es tut mir leid. Das war ein echter Fehler: Die App ist beim Start abgestürzt, während sie den Zugriff auf Health angefragt hat. Behoben ist das in Version 10.3, die jetzt im App Store ist — die App startet damit wieder normal. Falls es bei Ihnen weiterhin nicht läuft, melden Sie sich bitte über www.andreapiani.com, dann sehe ich mir das persönlich an. — Andrea, OpenMaps

Lädt Kacheln oft nicht

Oder extrem verzögert. Stattdessen sieht man dann nur AppleMaps. Und dann noch ein Abo? Nein danke.

Ken Dschun

2 months ago

Response from developer

Berechtigte Kritik. Die Kacheln wurden über einen einzigen Server geladen — war der langsam, sah man nur die Basiskarte. Inzwischen verteilt die App die Anfragen auf mehrere Server und hält einen Cache auf dem Gerät, und ganze Regionen lassen sich für offline vorab herunterladen. Zum Abo: Es ist optional und entfernt nur die Werbung. Alle Karten, Routen und Werkzeuge sind auch ohne Abo vollständig nutzbar. — Andrea, OpenMaps

Just no

I worked with map software for years. Absolutely hate the app. Wants to track a lot more than map usage. Wants health metrics. What looks like a menu at the bottom is ads and more intrusive software. Touted to be a topical map app for outdoor enthusiasts and professionals. Wanted to send me to Microsoft ads on my iPhone every time I tried to use the app. If there is a way to import a map I did not find it. I found the app to be the most annoying app I have ever tried.

Wiretalker

9 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you for the detail — it's more useful than a star rating, and several of your points were fair. On Health: it's used only on the Apple Watch to record a workout, it's entirely optional, and declining it changes nothing on the iPhone. The bottom row you took for a menu was indeed an ad; OpenMaps Pro removes every ad in the app, and the free version no longer shows anything on the first launches. On importing: the app now reads and writes GPX and Garmin FIT files, so you can bring your own routes in and send them back out. — Andrea, OpenMaps

Lädt mit 30 Sekunden Verspätung die Karten

Einige Karten sind überhaupt nicht abrufbar, man sieht nur grüne Flächen, die topographischen Karten laden dermaßen langsam, das liegt nicht an meinem Internet.

Arthurgabriel

a year ago

Response from developer

Das lag nicht an Ihrem Internet — Sie hatten recht. Die Kartenkacheln liefen über einen einzelnen Server, und wenn der überlastet war, blieben grüne Flächen stehen. Inzwischen verteilt die App die Anfragen auf mehrere Server, hält bereits geladene Bereiche im Cache und lässt ganze Regionen vorab für offline herunterladen. Dazu gibt es jetzt 6 topografische und nautische Kartenstile. — Andrea, OpenMaps

Ads are way too intrusive

Ads that randomly take up the full screen with full volume. Couldn’t even really check the app out because the ads were too many.

Chysil

2 years ago

Response from developer

Fair criticism — full-screen ads firing at random with the sound up were far too aggressive, and that behaviour is gone. The free version now shows nothing at all on the first launches, and there are no video interruptions while you use the map. OpenMaps Pro (€1.99/month or €9.99/year) removes every ad across iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac. Worth a second look: the app itself has been rebuilt, with offline maps, route drawing and 6 topographic and nautical styles. — Andrea, OpenMaps

Bare minimum for a map app

It is the bare minimum for a map app and not worth the ads. Upon opening the app you are presented with 4 buttons and an ad. The buttons just have icons and no description. The 1st button doesn’t seem to do anything. The 2nd button opens a list of osm maps with no way of adding your own. 3rd brings the view to your location. And the 4th is a download for a completely different app. The ad sits under the buttons and I had a popup ad when I tapped the 1st button (maybe that’s all it did). That’s all this app can do.

BenH-777

2 years ago

Moche et trop de pub

Application inutile, bourrée de publicités pour pas grand chose...

Passez votre chemin

Toniotte

3 years ago

Response from developer

Critique méritée : il y avait beaucoup trop de publicité pour bien peu de fonctions. L'application a été entièrement reconstruite depuis. Elle propose maintenant 6 styles de cartes topographiques et nautiques, le téléchargement de régions hors ligne, le tracé d'itinéraires avec distance et dénivelé en temps réel, l'import/export GPX et Garmin FIT, et la recherche de points d'intérêt. Plus aucune publicité sur les premiers lancements, et OpenMaps Pro les supprime toutes. — Andrea, OpenMaps

Open maps

I upgraded to pro for 3 bucks and the colors are fixed!
To get to Pro, I had to search the developers page, and slide to the right.

HarryHydro

3 years ago

Use to be the best!

No maps at all now. I think the last update did it.
The menu is almost completely dark. But, if I click around the 7th space down, a map does come up! I have to do this every time, though.

HarryHydro

3 years ago

Werbeschleuder

Werbung über Daten, für die andere sich viel Mühe gegeben haben, einblenden:
Pfui, pfui, pfui!
Schömt euch, ihr Abzocker!

ctshh

5 years ago

Response from developer

Der Punkt war berechtigt: Werbung über Daten zu legen, an denen Freiwillige jahrelang gearbeitet haben, war zu viel des Guten. Die Werbung ist heute deutlich zurückgenommen — auf den ersten Starts erscheint gar keine — und OpenMaps Pro entfernt sie vollständig, auf iPhone, Apple Watch und Mac. OpenStreetMap und OpenTopoMap sind im Impressum der App ausgewiesen, wie es die Lizenz verlangt. — Andrea, OpenMaps

Doesn’t work

Same experience as other reviews here.

Kind of surprised that the rating is being hidden on the search results.

theungoliant

5 years ago

Response from developer

Fair enough — at that point the app was genuinely not working for a lot of people. It has since been rebuilt from scratch. Map tiles now load through several servers with an on-device cache, whole regions can be pre-downloaded for offline use, and there's route drawing, GPX and Garmin FIT import/export, POI search and compass/altimeter/sun tools. If you ever want to check, it's a different app now. — Andrea, OpenMaps

I immediately love it.

Even the color or lack of it it’s the best if you add color just make it so you can do bw as well. I would pay to remove ads but as there is currently and inherently no features it’s just a map. But you can zoom and pan freely I just think it’s great. Relaxes my brain when looking at a digital map. Please let me remove ads or make it that they at least can be minimized. Added functionality in route sharing and overlays perhaps waypoint creation or coordination with. Keep up the work!

Aznpandaman

6 years ago

Broken

Latest update crashes on launch. Awesome app turned terrible

needANickname908

6 years ago

Response from developer

"Awesome app turned terrible" is a fair way to put it — shipping an update that crashes on launch is the worst thing I can do to someone who liked the app. That crash was fixed, and the app has since been rebuilt from scratch: offline region downloads, 6 topographic and nautical map styles, route drawing with live distance and elevation, GPX and Garmin FIT support, plus an Apple Watch and a Mac app. — Andrea, OpenMaps

Crashes instantly

Crashes

A_Mitch

6 years ago

Response from developer

You were right, and I'm sorry — that build crashed instantly for a number of people and should never have gone out. It was fixed, and the app has since been rebuilt from scratch. Current version: offline region downloads, 6 topographic and nautical map styles, route drawing, GPX and Garmin FIT import/export, POI search, and Apple Watch and Mac apps. — Andrea, OpenMaps

This version does not work

Crashes instantly

ouoihh

6 years ago

Unusable

Appallingly slow even on an iPad Pro. Tiles refresh on pinch-zoom glacially slow. Any visual cues to switch map views totally absent. Doesn’t say in-app-purchases here but tries to up-well. AVOID.

Fivey Mackenzie

7 years ago

Totaler Schrott

Die App ist nichts wert und absolut unbrauchbar - schade ums Geld 🤮

Lurchi 3000

8 years ago

Response from developer

Das war damals ein faires Urteil — die App leistete zu wenig für das, was sie verlangte. Sie ist seitdem von Grund auf neu gebaut worden: 6 topografische und nautische Kartenstile, ganze Regionen offline vorladbar, Routenzeichnung mit Distanz und Höhenprofil, GPX- und Garmin-FIT-Import/-Export, POI-Suche, Kompass und Höhenmesser — dazu Apps für Apple Watch und Mac. Der Download ist kostenlos; das Abo entfernt lediglich die Werbung. — Andrea, OpenMaps

Awful

I read a review of the Altometer app produced by the same Andrea Piani and found out that you get ads in that application even after paying not to get any ads.
Despite better knowledge I bought here «OpenMaps» and indeed even after paying to get rid of ads, one button remained dedicated to show me disgusting ads.

DO NOT BUY ANY APP FROM THIS PRODUCER.

Pisipojakene

9 years ago

Response from developer

Paying to remove ads and still being shown ads was indefensible, and you were right to say so publicly. That's been put right: OpenMaps Pro now removes every ad in the app — banner, interstitial and launch — and one subscription covers iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac. Nothing else is paywalled except a single metered commercial base map; the topographic and nautical styles, offline region downloads and all the tools are free. — Andrea, OpenMaps

Zu aufdringliche Werbung!

Kommt wieder runter, Werbung zu nervig.

mrks115

9 years ago

Response from developer

Berechtigt — die Werbung war damals schlicht zu aufdringlich. Inzwischen erscheint auf den ersten Starts gar keine, beim Kartenlesen gibt es keine Videounterbrechungen mehr, und OpenMaps Pro entfernt sie ganz. Kostenlos bleiben dabei alle 6 topografischen und nautischen Kartenstile, das Vorabladen ganzer Regionen für offline sowie Routenzeichnung, Kompass und Höhenmesser. — Andrea, OpenMaps