Yandex Metro vs PolyMap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yandex Metro
Plan your metro journeys across multiple cities with detailed maps, optimal route calculations, and estimated travel times. Discover station exits, get information on closures, and even pay for public transport fares directly within the app.
- Metro maps with station details
- Optimal route planning
- Estimated journey times
- Station exit information
- Public transport fare payment
- Closure alerts
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Plan your metro trip in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Uzbekistan and know how long your journey will take, including any line transfers. The app displays the optimal route, shows which metro car will be most convenient, shows station exits on the map and forewarns of any closures. • Metro map with everything you need to know On the map you can see which stations are closed for repairs, and which stations are best for getting to railway stations and airports. Enlarge the map to see more detail, like different types of interchanges between stations. • Optimal routes and metro cars for convenient transfers Yandex Metro shows you how long a journey will take, the number of transfers and whether any stations are closed for renovations. It shows which metro car to choose to speed up your trip and not waste time when changing lines. Information about metro exits • Information about metro exits See detailed information about every station: how many exits and which streets they lead to, working hours and warnings of any closures. Hail a taxi to pick you up from your chosen metro exit right within the app. • Pay your fare in the app Use the app to top up Moscow’s Troika and Strelka public transport cards. • Accessibility The app supports VoiceOver, so it can be used by people with visual impairments. • More than 20 schemes – Russia: Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Samara, St. Petersburg. - Austria: Vienna. - Azerbaijan: Baku. - Armenia: Yerevan. - Belarus: Minsk. - Hungary: Budapest. - Greece: Athens. - Georgia: Tbilisi. - Italy: Milan, Rome. - Kazakhstan: Almaty. - UAE: Dubai. - Poland: Warsaw. - Portugal: Lisbon. - USA: San Francisco. - Turkey: Istanbul, Izmir, Adana, Bursa, Ankara. - Uzbekistan: Tashkent. - Ukraine: Dnipro, Kiev, Kharkiv. - Sweden: Stockholm. - Finland: Helsinki. - Czech Republic: Prague.
PolyMap
Navigate a university campus with detailed indoor maps and route planning. Find classrooms, plan visits, and share custom invitations with embedded routes. Ideal for students and event organizers.
- Detailed campus and indoor maps
- Classroom search
- Route building
- Shareable route invitations
- Customizable invitation maker
- AppClip technology support
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Can't find a class? Entered the university and don't know where building 11? Would you like to visit an open day but are afraid to get lost? This app is for you! View a highly detailed map of the Peter the Great Polytechnic University campus and indoor plans. Build routes. Create invitations. For students: • Timetable of classes • Viewing a detailed map of educational buildings • Search for cabinets • Building routes For event organizers: • Ability to share route via URL link or QR/AppClip code • Invitation maker with the ability to attach a welcome message to the route, as well as customize and create a beautiful visual code • The application supports AppClip technology, which means that the user does not need to download the application to see the route
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PolyMap at 5.0 against Yandex Metro's 4.6. PolyMap also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (75% vs 53%). Yandex Metro's advantage is ratings volume (837 vs 6) and chart position (#178 vs unranked). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PolyMap holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yandex Metro has 837 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Yandex Metro's written reviews are positive against 75% of PolyMap's.
Yandex Metro ships an update every 2 months, PolyMap every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yandex Metro | PolyMap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (837 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.5% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 837 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #178 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Direct Cursus Computer Systems Trading | Andrei Soprachev |
Customer experience
Yandex Metro
PolyMap
Bugs and requests
Yandex Metro
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frequent log-outs
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
- Laggy performance on some devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add more metro systems from around the world
- Ability to disable certain metro lines on the map
- Option to pin frequently used stations
- Improved offline functionality
PolyMap
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Yandex Metro
No in-app purchases
PolyMap
No in-app purchases
