Electromaps vs IONITY
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Electromaps
Easily locate and access over 470,000 electric vehicle charging points worldwide. Plan your routes with optimized navigation, view real-time availability, and track your charging history. Join a community of EV drivers to share insights and contribute to a greener future.
- Find charging points worldwide
- Optimized navigation to stations
- Real-time availability information
- Charging session price details
- Statistics and charge logging
- Community reviews and photos
- Add new charging points
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Find charging points easily and charge your electric vehicle with Electromaps! Electromaps allows you to find all available charging points for electric vehicles and charge at many of them. You can search for charging points by type of connector, power, or type of establishment. Electromaps is an app that has all the information and functionalities to best suit your needs when charging your electric vehicle. FUNCTIONALITIES: Find charging points at any time: Access to a network of more than 472,865 charging points for your electric vehicle, available in over 200,000 locations worldwide! With Electromaps, you don't have to worry about finding a place to charge your electric vehicle. On our App you will get charging options close to you at any location. Navegation Optimised to Reach Your Destination: Our advanced navigation technology will get you efficiently and accurately to the nearest charging locations. Plan your journeys with confidence, knowing that there will always be a charging station available on your route. Real-Time Information: Know the real-time availability of charging points and avoid uncomfortable situations when arriving at a busy station. Electromaps provides you with up-to-date data so you can make good decisions about where and when to charge your electric vehicle. You can see if the charging point has the right connector for your vehicle, how to get there, the price of the charging session and all the information you need before stopping to charge your vehicle. Contribute to the environment: By using Electromaps, you are contributing to reducing emissions and caring for the environment. Every electric charge is a step towards a cleaner and more sustainable future - join the green mobility revolution! Statistics and Charge Logging: Keep a detailed record of your charging sessions and get valuable information about your electricity consumption. Our statistics will help you better understand your charging habits and optimise your electric driving experience. Electromaps Community: Electromaps has a highly collaborative community of over 860,000 registered users. Check out other users' photos and comments to find out the reputation of the charging point or directions to find it more easily. Add your comments or pictures and join our community. You can also add recharge points that are not in our app so that they can be used by other users. CHARGING POINTS FROM ALL OPERATORS Tesla Superchargers Tesla Destination Charging Endesa X / Enel X Iberdrola EDP Repsol / IBIL CEPSA Ionity Shell (New Motion) Total Energies EVBox Fenie Energía Easy Charger BSM / Ayuntamiento de Barcelona Empark Wenea Plenitud Be Charge Powy Electra And many more! AVAILABLE FOR ALL ELECTRIC VEHICLES (EV and PHEV): Volvo XC40, Renault Zoe, Nissan Leaf, Tesla Model S, Tesla Model 3, Tesla Model Y, Tesla Model X, Volkswagen eUP, Volkswagen ID.5, Volkswagen ID.4, Volkswagen ID.3, KIA eNiro, KIA EV6, Hyundai KONA, Hyundai Ioniq, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Fiat 500e, Citroen C4e, Mercedes EQA, Mercedes EQC, Mercedes EQS, Mercedes EQB, Dacia Spring, Skoda Enyaq iV, BMW i3, BMW iX, Peugeot e-208, Peugeot e-2008, Opel Mokka-e, Ford Mustang Mach-e, Ford Kuga PHEV, Audi e-Tron, Audi Q4 e-Tron, Polestar 2, Porsche Taycan, MG 4. ... whatever your electric car you can use Electromaps to find a charging point. Download Electromaps today and discover a new way to travel with clean energy. Become part of our global community of users committed to a more sustainable future and discover the benefits of being part of the electric community that moves the future! Note: Feature availability may vary by region.
IONITY
Find and use high-power EV charging stations across Europe. Plan your routes, start and stop charging sessions, and manage payments easily. Offers subscriptions for lower charging prices.
- Find nearest charging stations
- Real-time charger availability
- Route planner
- Start/end charging sessions
- Track charging progress
- QR code scanning to start
- Secure payment storage
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Say hi to your co-driver. You’re searching for a top-notch EV charging experience? Here you are: Download the IONITY App to access Europe’s leading High-Power Charging (HPC) network available across 24 countries – open to EVs from all manufacturers. Our network delivers maximum charging speeds of up to 400 kW, enabling you to charge 300 kilometres of range in 15 minutes. Faster charging sessions — more time for you. Discover the highlights of the IONITY App Navigation • Search and find the nearest or a specific IONITY Station — the availability of all charging points is displayed in real-time. • Use the IONITY Route Planner to plan your journey ahead and import your daily or upcoming routes to your favourite navigation app with ease. Charging • Conveniently start and end your charging session directly within the IONITY App. • Track your charging progress in real-time and receive a push notification when you’re at 80% to go back on the road. • Optional: Use our app to scan the QR code on the charger to start the session. Payment • Safely store your account and payment details within the app to conveniently pay for your charging sessions. • Receive monthly invoices for your personal or professional use to keep an eye on your spendings. • Have a closer look at your past IONITY charging sessions and explore useful information like station location and kWh charged. Find the right IONITY Subscription for you Discover our subscriptions within the app: Choose the one that matches your lifestyle, driving habits, and charging needs by opting for IONITY Power or Motion. Sign up now and charge your electric vehicle at very attractive price per kWh. Prices vary by country. IONITY Power Power your EV and charge for less: Our IONITY Power subscription is the right choice for most EV drivers. You save money after only two charging sessions per month: Benefit from the cheapest charging prices per kWh and continue your journey fast. IONITY Motion Keep yourself in motion: IONITY Motion is the ideal subscription for drivers that only occasionally use their electric vehicle and want to benefit from a cheaper charging price per kWh by using the IONITY App. Your benefits with IONITY Power and IONITY Motion: • A significantly lower charging price per kWh • No seasonal or peak changes of kWh prices • Switch your current subscription anytime • Cancel subscription anytime to next billing date • Subscribe and pay via the IONITY App Charging for registered users without IONITY Power or Motion subscription: IONITY App tariff Ready. Set. Charge! Sign up within the IONITY App and automatically benefit from a slightly lower charging price per kWh. No subscription and no monthly fees. This is the IONITY App tariff. Upgrade to our subscriptions to save even more. About IONITY IONITY builds and operates Europe’s largest ultra-fast charging network. With a High-Power Charging (HPC) capacity of up to 400 kW, it enables maximum charging speeds. IONITY exclusively uses renewable energy, ensuring emission-free and carbon-neutral driving. Currently, the IONITY network includes over 700 charging stations and more than 4,800 HPC charging points across 24 European countries. IONITY was founded in 2017 and is a joint venture between the car manufacturers BMW Group, Ford Motor Company, Hyundai Motor Group, Kia, Mercedes-Benz AG and Volkswagen Group with Audi and Porsche as well as BlackRock's Climate Infrastructure Platform as a financial investor. The company is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and has additional offices in Dortmund, Germany, the French metropolis Paris, and outside the Norwegian capital Oslo. Further information at www.ionity.eu.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: IONITY at none against Electromaps's shown. IONITY also leads on review sentiment (44% vs 30%). Electromaps's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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.
Electromaps holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 342 and 147 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 30% of Electromaps's written reviews are positive against 44% of IONITY's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Electromaps ships an update monthly, IONITY fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.
| Parameter | Electromaps | IONITY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (342 ratings) — better | 4.5 (147 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 29.7% of reviews | 44.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 342 — better | 147 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wallbox | Ionity |
Customer experience
Electromaps
IONITY
User reviews
Electromaps
From 342 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Lifesaver for EV travel
- 👍 Works with alternative payment
- 👍 Useful in Spain
- 👍 Fast and easy to use
- 👍 Essential for Europe travel
Room to improve
- 👎 No customer service
- 👎 Unreliable station availability
- 👎 App shows unavailable stations
- 👎 No way to report errors
- 👎 Inconvenient phone number location
IONITY
From 147 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and reliable charging speeds
- 🗺️ Extensive European charging network
- 💰 Affordable subscription plans with good value
- 👍 Simple and intuitive app interface
- ⚡ High-power charging capabilities (350kW+)
Room to improve
- 🐛 App frequently crashes and freezes
- 🔌 Many chargers non-functional or out of service
- 💸 Expensive pricing without subscription
- 📍 Chargers often in inconvenient locations
- 🔐 Complex payment authorization process
Bugs and requests
Electromaps
Reported bugs
76 issues- 100,- credit disappeared
- App shows unavailable stations as available
- No response to emails
- No support for days
- No way to report errors
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- No customer service
- Incompetence in providing tickets
- Few chargers on maps in Australia
- Registration fails
- Cannot proceed without postcode
- Postal code invalid
- Invalid postal code
- Invalid postal code
- Unusable on iPhone SE
- Invalid postal code
- Fails to recognize valid UK post codes
- Purchased card not recognized
- App tells me postal code is invalid
- Postal code issue
- Cannot register
- Connection is a misery
- Codes never work
- Map not zoomable
- Postcode not recognised
- Rubbish, couldn't register
- Kept telling me postcode was invalid
- Unusable app
- Cannot access without registering
- System doesn't accept UK or French postcodes
- No stations displayed
- Charging bookings don't always work
- Charging errors very frequent
- Ads are annoying
- Clock still running in charging history
- Registration hangs
- Cannot complete registration
- Password reset doesn't work
- User not recognized for password reset
- Registration difficult
- Verification stage hangs
- Cannot input verification code
- Not usable in Berlin
- Map is slow
- No filter for free chargers
- Difficult to see tariffs
- No return button
- Terms and conditions not in German
- App freezes sometimes
- Tariffs rarely indicated
- Incomplete application
- Doesn't work at all
- Cannot select connector to start charge
- No tariff indication
- New version is horrible
- Loses useful information
- Adds more taps to access information
- Limited private parking chargers
- Dreadful
- Doesn't recognise locations
- Cannot register
- Registration crashes
- Registration fails on iPad
- No map points displayed
- Charger not used at time of query
- Login errors: Wrong User, Error Token, generic_error
- Cannot log in, only see stations as guest
- Login screen too low for iPhone SE 2022
- App hangs or crashes on sign up
- Unable to activate fields or buttons
- No reply to email
- No landscape mode on Samsung tab
- Cannot use external keyboard
- Registration hangs when selecting country on iPad
- App opens but shows no points
- Search does not work
- Cannot select country on iPad
Requested features
27 requests- Make charger information easier to access and read
- Improve map window when driving
- Easier exit after looking for chargers
- Add option to report closures or errors
- More chargers needed in town square
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- Support for Canadian postal codes
- Support for Canadian/US phone numbers
- Provide tickets for professionals
- Display more chargers in Australia
- Fix registration issues
- Accept all valid postal codes
- Improve customer service responsiveness
- Add more chargers in Montry or Esbly
- Improve user interface for beginners (e.g., icons for plug types)
- Add filters for higher power charging classes (150kW+)
- Show tariffs directly
- Improve map loading speed
- Indicate if charger is in use
- Add option to filter by free chargers
- Add a return button in menus
- Provide terms and conditions in German
- Improve charger selection and tariff display
- Indicate tariffs for all chargers
- Show private parking chargers
- Improve real-time availability updates
- Add hotels with EV charging and solar options
- Improve updates for out-of-order chargers
IONITY
Reported bugs
22 issues- App hangs on logo screen and won't load
- Login and registration process fails repeatedly
- Map doesn't display charging stations
- Charging session won't start despite payment
- App crashes during payment authorization
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- QR code scanner button missing or non-functional
- Charging status not updating in real-time
- Unable to stop charging from app
- Session stuck in app after failed charge attempt
- Email verification codes not received or delayed
- App freezes when selecting locations
- Payment method changes not working
- Subscription cancellation failing with server errors
- Route planner crashes and malfunctions
- Charger not recognized after QR scan
- Double charging occurring on account
- App doesn't sync with vehicle data
- Language settings not respected
- Tariff/pass information not displaying
- Invoice download functionality broken
- Weak mobile signal causes app failures
- Address validation rejecting valid entries
Requested features
19 requests- CarPlay and Android Auto integration
- Plug and Charge functionality
- Real-time charger availability status
- Route planning with charging stops
- Business/company account invoicing
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- RFID card or badge payment option
- Charger occupancy forecasting
- Infrastructure information (restaurants, toilets, WiFi)
- Dark mode for app interface
- Ability to save and export planned routes
- Multiple invoice consolidation
- Wallet/prepaid balance feature
- Live charging progress notifications
- Filter for IONITY-only stations
- Improved vehicle database for route planning
- Email language preference settings
- Payment method management in app
- Charger power output display on map
- Home screen widget functionality
In-app purchases
Electromaps
No in-app purchases
IONITY
No in-app purchases








