Comparison

Clearway vs Gamer Maps

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

Head to head
About

Clearway

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Record your drives and build a personal map of the roads you've travelled. Review your routes, distance and driving history in one place. Enable automatic drive recording and grant the required location and motion permissions to record your drives automatically. You can also start a recording manually. Browse the global drive feed and leaderboard with a device account. Link an Apple or Google account to use friend features, publish drives, like or comment in the Feed, and sync your account. Highlights: • Record drives automatically or manually, including in the background • Reveal explored roads and areas on your personal map • Review drive history, distance, time, and exploration progress • Build personal street and weekly reports • Browse the global leaderboard and chronological global drive feed • Add friends, compare statistics, view friend rankings and manage groups for free • Explicitly publish one drive's complete route, distance, duration, and average speed after linking Apple or Google • Like posts and join plain-text discussions after linking Apple or Google Clearway Premium Live drive sharing and live map viewing are optional Premium features. Both the sharing and viewing accounts need a Premium subscription. Premium also unlocks additional reports and appearance options. Clearway is not turn-by-turn navigation, an emergency service, or a driving safety tool. It does not reward speed. Set up the app before driving and do not interact with it while driving. Some street-level Premium reports require separate consent to upload a raw GPS route. Uploaded raw routes are deleted after successful processing and always within seven days. See the Privacy Policy for details. Optional usage analytics and crash reporting Help improve Clearway by enabling Usage analytics in Settings & Privacy. This setting controls Clearway product analytics and Google Firebase Analytics/Crashlytics, is off by default, and can be turned off at any time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://clearway.4dalyo.com/privacy

About

Gamer Maps

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Gamer Maps turns everyday turn-by-turn navigation into five fully playable-looking worlds — the same real roads and directions, a completely different look depending on the mood you're driving in. Every theme is a full re-skin of the map itself: road colors, building fills, water, labels, the turn arrows, even the marker that shows where you are — built from scratch on real map data, not a filter laid over someone else's map. FIVE WORLDS, ONE APP • Midnight — true OLED black, neon-violet roads, built for night driving. • Sin City — a sun-bleached, chrome-and-neon crime-drama city map. • Saint Denis II — aged parchment and sepia ink, an old-west frontier map. • Blossom — every shade of pink, from petal to bubblegum. • Pixel City — a blocky, voxel-world map with its own pixel-art font and marker. REAL NAVIGATION Turn-by-turn directions, guidance spoken in each theme's own voice, live rerouting, and a Live Activity / Dynamic Island that keeps your next turn on the lock screen. CarPlay puts the same themed map on your car's own screen. ONE PURCHASE, EVERYTHING A single purchase unlocks every theme — present and future — plus CarPlay and every app font. No subscription, ever. Your trips are never logged to a server we run. Map data comes from OpenStreetMap under the Open Database License. Full details are in the app's own Privacy & Terms page. Gamer Maps is an independent app. Its five visual themes are original artwork and styling inspired by classic video-game aesthetics — it is not produced, endorsed, or affiliated with any game publisher.

Screenshots

Clearway4 screens
Gamer Maps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Gamer Maps at none against Clearway's shown. Clearway's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Clearway sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Gamer Maps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clearway ships an update every 9 days, Gamer Maps every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Clearway versus Gamer Maps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClearwayGamer Maps
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size116 MB64 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperYusuf islam TufekciAhmed Ammar Abu Salih

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Clearway

Subscriptions2
  • Clearway Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Clearway Premium Annual7 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time4
  • 3,000 Exploration Tokens$0.99
  • 9,000 Exploration Tokens$2.99
  • 20,000 Exploration Tokens$5.99
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  • 50,000 Exploration Tokens$12.99
1 purchases

Gamer Maps

One-time1
  • Full Map Access$9.99

Questions

Is Clearway free?
Clearway is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gamer Maps free?
Gamer Maps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Clearway or Gamer Maps have ads?
Clearway shows ads; Gamer Maps does not.
Which is updated more often, Clearway or Gamer Maps?
Clearway ships an update every 9 days, and Gamer Maps every 5 days. Most recently, Clearway was updated on November 10, 2026 and Gamer Maps on October 31, 2026.

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