CoMaps vs NAV
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CoMaps
Navigate your world with a free, open-source mapping application focused on privacy and offline functionality. Discover detailed maps, plan trips without cellular service, and enjoy essential navigation features. It's community-built and respects your data.
- Downloadable detailed maps
- Offline navigation
- Outdoor mode with trails
- Points of interest search
- Voice navigation
- Bookmark favorite places
- Track recording
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A community-led free & open source maps app based on OpenStreetMap data and reinforced with commitment to transparency, privacy and being not-for-profit. ‣ Simple and Polished: essential easy to use features that just work. ‣ Offline-focused: Plan and navigate your trip abroad without the need for cellular service, search waypoints while on a distant hike, etc. All app functions are designed to work offline. ‣ Respecting Privacy: The app is designed with privacy in mind - does not identify people, does not track, and does not collect personal information. Ads-free. ‣ Saves Your Battery and Space: Doesn’t drain your battery like other navigation apps. Compact maps save precious space on your phone. ‣ Free and Built by the Community: People like you helped build the app by adding places to OpenStreetMap, testing and giving feedback on features and contributing their development skills and money. ‣ Open and Transparent Decision-making and Financials, Not-for-profit and Fully Open Source. Main Features: • Downloadable detailed maps with places which are not available in many commercial maps • Outdoor mode with highlighted hiking trails, campsites, water sources, peaks, contour lines, etc • Walking paths and cycleways • Points of interest like restaurants, gas stations, hotels, shops, sightseeings and many more • Search by name or an address or by point of interest category • Navigation with voice announcements for walking, cycling, or driving • Bookmark your favorite places with a single tap • iCloud sync for your bookmarks and tracks • Offline Wikipedia articles • Subway transit layer and directions • Track recording • Export and import bookmarks and tracks in KML, KMZ, GPX formats • A dark mode to use during the night • Improve map data for everyone using a basic built-in editor • CarPlay support Freedom Is Here Discover your journey, navigate the world with privacy and community at the forefront!
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 ads: CoMaps at none against NAV's shown. CoMaps also leads on ratings volume (147 vs 5) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). NAV's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price 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.
NAV holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CoMaps has 147 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CoMaps ships an update fortnightly, NAV every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CoMaps | NAV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (147 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 147 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Best chart rank | #207 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anton Wenemoser | Ronald Fella |
Customer experience
CoMaps
NAV
Bugs and requests
CoMaps
Reported bugs
2 issues- Unable to find known locations and addresses
- Incorrect search results for distant locations
Requested features
3 requests- Add ability to read GPX files and compute distances
- Add option to display elevations in feet
- Improve search functionality to include parks and trails
NAV
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CoMaps
No in-app purchases
NAV
No in-app purchases








