GoodMaps vs STEP Navigation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GoodMaps
Navigate complex indoor environments with ease and precision. This app offers an inclusive and user-friendly experience for exploring buildings, ensuring a seamless journey for everyone.
- Effortless indoor navigation
- Inclusive design
- Complex space exploration
- Precise accuracy
- User-friendly interface
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Experience the future of indoor navigation with GoodMaps. Inclusive by design, our app enables effortless navigation and interaction in complex indoor spaces, providing a seamless and stress-free experience. With a user-friendly and efficient interface, GoodMaps empowers everyone to explore indoor environments with precise accuracy.
STEP Navigation
This app assists blind and low-vision users in locating building entrances and navigating indoors with precise guidance. It utilizes computer vision for outdoor navigation, offering accuracy beyond standard GPS, and allows for the creation and use of private or public indoor maps.
- Precise building entrance finding
- Indoor navigation with virtual anchors
- Computer vision for outdoor navigation
- Create private indoor maps
- Utilize public indoor maps
- Request outdoor location mapping
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STEP Navigation is designed to help blind and low vision users find building entrances, and navigate while inside. Pinpoint your exact location using virtual anchors and follow the precise guidance to within a cane's length of your destination. The App uses computer vision to support outdoors with precision much greater than GPS-only technologies. If you have a place you'd like to navigate to outdoors where high-precision is a must (e.g., a building entrance or a bus stop), you can request that we add it to our mapping database using an in-app form. For indoor navigation, you can create your own private maps or utilize public maps provided by others. Our set of public maps is small, but we are working to bring more maps online. If you manage a venue and would like to map it so visitors can navigate it using our app, please contact us.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: STEP Navigation at 5.0 against GoodMaps's 4.3. GoodMaps's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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.
STEP Navigation holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GoodMaps has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GoodMaps | STEP Navigation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 411 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GoodMaps Inc | Paul Ruvolo |
Customer experience
GoodMaps
STEP Navigation
In-app purchases
GoodMaps
No in-app purchases
STEP Navigation
No in-app purchases
