Yandex Maps & Navigator vs NAV
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yandex Maps & Navigator
Navigate your city with detailed maps, real-time traffic, and multi-modal routing. Find businesses, get directions by car, public transport, bike, or foot, and access offline maps for over 2000 cities.
- Offline maps for over 2000 cities
- Real-time traffic conditions
- Multi-modal routing (car, transit, bike, walk)
- Detailed organization information
- Street panoramas
- Speed camera and speed limit notifications
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Search for an address or the best places nearby both online and offline. Yandex Maps provides information about organizations and helps you reach your destination by car, public transport, bike, or on foot based on current traffic conditions. Search for and select locations: • The largest organization database and filters to refine your search. • Detailed information: contacts, hours of operation, services provided, photos, and reviews. • Floor plans to find your way around Moscow's major shopping malls. • Search for places and addresses without an internet connection (offline maps). • View places saved on your smartphone, tablet, and PC. Custom map settings: • Real-time location of buses, trams, trolleybuses, and minibuses. • Road maps that show current traffic conditions in the city. • Parking layer with the location and cost of official parking. • Street panoramas for a road-side view of any address. • Choose from three map types: Roadmap, Satellite, and Hybrid. Public transport, car, bike, and walking routes: • Pedestrian navigation: paths between buildings, through parks, across squares, and other pedestrian zones. • Bike navigation: road types, underpass and overpass preferences, and highway warnings. • Public transport routes with timetables and estimated time of arrival. • Optimal driving routes based on live traffic conditions and driving options. • Step-by-step instructions with voice navigation. • Speed camera, speed limit, and speeding notifications. • Real-time updates on traffic, road accidents, speed radar, and more. Offline maps: • Driving routes and voice navigation. • Downloadable lightweight maps (minimum storage space, for example, the Moscow map is just 187 MB). • Database of organizations with hours of operation, services provided, and more. • Over 2000 cities in Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Turkey, Ukraine, and Estonia. Information from users: • Mark road events on the map and comment on user submissions. • Regular updates to the Public Map keep you informed about your city. • Write reviews, upload photos, and update information about organizations. Yandex Maps has an Apple Watch app. Use it to: • Navigate the map. • View the nearest metro station and public transport stops. • Find out when public transport will arrive at a nearby stop. • Track traffic patterns a few hours ahead of time. • View weather forecasts. Terms of Use: apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: yandex.com/legal/confidential
NAV
This advanced driving companion offers real-time, multi-vector route scanning, allowing you to compare multiple paths and travel times simultaneously. It provides detailed pre-navigation briefings, adaptive camera controls, and live destination intelligence for a more informed journey.
- Strategic route scanning with multiple branches
- Pre-navigation mission briefing
- Adaptive camera intelligence
- Live destination intelligence
- ETA-specific weather forecasts
- Driver-focused HUD with alerts
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NAV – Navigation Assistant is an advanced navigation companion designed to provide greater route awareness and driver control. Rather than relying on a single suggested route, NAV scans and displays multiple route options simultaneously, helping you compare travel times, distances, and alternate paths before and during your trip. Core Features • Strategic Route Scanning: Analyze a primary route alongside multiple alternate routes with live travel time and distance comparisons. • Mission Recon Summary: Review estimated travel distance, duration ranges, and arrival windows before starting navigation. • Dynamic Route Switching: Automatically transitions to a more suitable scanned route if you naturally follow an alternate path. • Adaptive Camera Intelligence: Speed-based camera automatically zooms in for city driving and out for highways. • Manual Zoom Controls: Override the automatic camera with dedicated Zoom In, Zoom Out, and Auto Reset controls. • Live Destination Intelligence: View satellite imagery, business information, phone numbers, websites, and destination weather before departure. • Current & ETA Weather: Displays current weather at your location and forecasted conditions expected at your estimated arrival time. • Toll Awareness: Identifies known toll facilities along scanned primary and alternate routes before navigation begins, while live toll detection continuously monitors nearby toll facilities as you drive. Voice alerts provide a caution when approaching a toll area. Toll awareness is also available in Manual Mission Mode (Portrait and Dashboard) and Dashboard Mode, helping you stay aware of tolls even without an active navigation route. • Voice Guidance: Spoken navigation announcements, route summaries, arrival notifications, and toll approach alerts. • Driver HUD: Live speed, compass heading, GPS accuracy, altitude, and route information presented in a clean, high-visibility interface. • Tactical Map Mode: Monitor live traffic, speed, heading, and current street information without starting navigation. • Manual Mission Mode: Track free-drive sessions without a destination while recording distance, speed, travel time, and a live breadcrumb trail. Choose between Portrait or Dashboard layouts. • Dashboard Mode: Transform your iPhone into a landscape driving dashboard featuring navigation telemetry, traffic, weather, GPS precision, media controls, battery status, connectivity indicators, and mission tracking. • Integrated Address Management: Save up to 48 destinations in your Address Book and maintain a Favorites list for one-tap navigation. • Continuous Path Visualization: A live breadcrumb system creates a seamless visual trail behind your vehicle, providing a continuous record of your journey while maintaining a unified navigation experience. • Mission Summary: Upon arrival, review a complete post-trip report featuring total distance, travel time, average speed, top speed, and an interactive Mission Map with color-coded speed visualization and route recap. NAV combines Apple Maps, live traffic, weather intelligence, destination previews, toll awareness, and intelligent route monitoring into a single navigation experience designed to give drivers more information before and during every trip. Always obey traffic laws, remain attentive while driving, and use NAV as a supplemental navigation aid.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NAV at none against Yandex Maps & Navigator's 13. NAV also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). Yandex Maps & Navigator's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (41K vs 5). On price and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Yandex Maps & Navigator sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. NAV asks for nothing beyond the download.
NAV holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yandex Maps & Navigator has 41K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Yandex Maps & Navigator ships an update weekly, NAV every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yandex Maps & Navigator | NAV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (41K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 41K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #28 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 873 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Direct Cursus Computer Systems Trading | Ronald Fella |
Customer experience
Yandex Maps & Navigator
NAV
Bugs and requests
Yandex Maps & Navigator
Reported bugs
4 issues- Incorrect address and location display
- Malfunctioning route planning
- Disappearing public transport information
- Compatibility issues with newer devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add more detailed filters for businesses
- Improve accuracy of location and navigation
- Better synchronization of public transport data
- Provide offline map downloads
NAV
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Yandex Maps & Navigator
- Yandex Plus1 Month trial$0.991 Month
- Yandex Plus3 Months trial$0.991 Month
- Yandex Plus$0.991 Month
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- Yandex Plus2 Months trial$0.991 Month
- Yandex Plus3 Months trial$2.991 Month
- Yandex Plus$2.991 Month
- Yandex Plus2 Months trial$2.991 Month
- Yandex Plus1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- Yandex Plus1 Month trial$3.991 Month
- Yandex Plus3 Months trial$3.991 Month
- Yandex Plus$3.991 Month
- Yandex Plus3 Months trial$4.991 Month
- Yandex Plus$4.991 Month
NAV
No in-app purchases







