OS Maps User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience43.9% of reviews
Neutral12.4% of reviews
Negative experience43.7% of reviews

~ Based on 531 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is OS Maps Safe?

OS Maps: Walk, Hike, Run, Bike appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for OS Maps is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 431 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

94.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 431 App Store ratings for OS Maps.

Is OS Maps Legit?

OS Maps: Walk, Hike, Run, Bike appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for OS Maps is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Dishonest

Claims to allow route planning in the free mode but actually it just draws a straight line to your destination and expects you to do the rest. And it should say in app purchases. So upgraded to premium on free trial , selected off road biking put in a popular local mtb route and it just sent me along roads. Then promptly cancelled free trial and it charged me anyway.
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Good app.

Unfortunately sends marketing notifications when notifications are turned off.

Worth every penny

Been a subscriber for years now and honestly it’s fantastic! Great for planning routes and just seeing what the surrounding areas have to offer. Highly recommended

Mappa Mundi.

I like to read books . I like to read my country. Ever since I was a boy , I have found a deep satisfaction in just looking and imagining the poetry on the parchment.

Opens up UK hikes

Amazing ways to explore walks that work for everyone

Personalised Routes

It would be useful to be able to adjust route maps on a desktop or laptop computer

Where is the AR?

This app used to have a very useful augmented reality feature which would identify anything on the horizon if you pointed your device at it. Why has this been removed on the fully paid version?

Really useful but some quirks

The offline maps work great and this app has held up when exploring remote locations with poorly defined paths. It has some issues - when tracking a route the phone app sometimes automatically pauses when I stop for a rest but doesn’t warn that it has paused, nor does it restart automatically when I move on so my recorded routes always have gaps; I can’t find any key to the topographical map symbols; the Apple Watch app as others said is useless but could be so so useful.
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Dimi

I can retrace my runs on here and get the distance in my free time for free

Excellent

Great self route creation feature

Code not valid

Bought the map in a book store, downloaded the app, entered the code—got an error message: CODE NOT VALID. Pfui. The paper map is useful, not the app.

Why no family sharing?

I’d feel a lot happier paying the subscription cost if my husband and teenager could also share the subscription. When out walking our phones have different signal strength, and battery life. We take three phones on walks to share the risk of one not working. Yet only one can access the subscription. I can’t afford for three separate subscriptions and it seems crazy anyway seeing as we walk together.
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Not for beginners

I struggled a lot with this app. The home page is not intuitive. I signed up for Premium but could not find how to open a standard topographical OS map of any UK area. I tried downloading an area but on opening it it goes blank as soon as you zoom in to the topography detail. The only maps I can access are those I have already bought in paper!
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Novice user

I’m just getting to grips with this app, but liking the it so far

Find my walking mojo again

I used to be a long time (free) subscriber to the OS maps app whilst I had a subscription to Trail magazine.
I returned earlier this year to help me get back into the outdoors. I've been planning various routes to explore my locale and record them for others to see and use.
There's some great features to get involved in various projects and encourage people to get walking.
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Pretty good

Very useful and pretty goodon the whole. When planning though, it fairly regularly refuses to snap onto an available route which renders some searches and planning completely useless

Great maps poor planning tool

Update:
OS maps are great for hiking and biking. Traveling a lot round the country it saves money not having to buy and carry local maps (usually 2 as I always seem to walk on the edge of the map.
One thing annoys me when in a popular area there are too many routes made by other users, which can be very distracting.
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OS maps

Brilliant app, OS maps still the best!

Account needed

I remember the good old days where Apple didn’t like apps which have zero functionality without an account.

Now has watch maps but activities broken

Great to see the watch app can now display maps.

However in 5.6.0 I can't save activities to Apple Health. The watch app asks for read permissions when you first install it but doesn't seem to be trying to write. Reinstalling doesn't fix it.