Comparison

WhichMap vs NAV

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

WhichMap

Instantly compare travel times from multiple popular navigation apps in one place. Enter your start and end points, and see real-time ETAs highlighted for the fastest route. Tap to open directly in your preferred navigation app.

Highlights
  • Compare ETAs from Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Waze
  • Highlight the quickest route instantly
  • One-tap deep links to launch navigation
  • Simple and fast interface
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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WhichMap helps you choose the fastest route — instantly. No more switching between map apps to see who’s faster. With WhichMap, you can compare travel times from Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Waze side-by-side on one screen. Simply enter your starting point and destination, and WhichMap will fetch each app’s estimated time of arrival (ETA) in real time. The fastest option is automatically highlighted. Tap any option to open that route directly in your preferred app — navigation takes over from there. Features: • Compare ETAs from Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Waze (coming soon) • Highlight the quickest route instantly • One-tap deep links to launch navigation • Simple, fast, and ad-free WhichMap makes your drive smarter — not longer.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

WhichMap4 screens
NAV4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: WhichMap at none against NAV's shown. WhichMap also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.6). NAV's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for WhichMap against 5.0 for NAV. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NAV has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WhichMap ships an update every 5 days, NAV every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
WhichMap versus NAV: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhichMapNAV
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB6 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperNam Hoon KimRonald Fella

Customer experience

WhichMap

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

NAV

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

WhichMap

No in-app purchases

None

NAV

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WhichMap free?
WhichMap is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NAV free?
NAV is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, WhichMap or NAV?
WhichMap and NAV are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do WhichMap or NAV have ads?
NAV shows ads; WhichMap does not.
Which is updated more often, WhichMap or NAV?
WhichMap ships an update every 5 days, and NAV every 2 days. Most recently, WhichMap was updated on September 26, 2026 and NAV on October 8, 2026.

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