If you have a smartphone or tablet with GPS and GLONASS support, it would be strange not to use it for navigation. And for the device to learn how to lay out routes for you, it is enough to equip it with a navigator application with maps of the area. There are quite a lot of applications of this kind, but not all of them are equally useful. We hope this article will help you choose a navigator for Android that will satisfy your needs in the most worthy way. The rating is based on the opinions of experienced drivers and travelers.
Waze
The developer positions Waze as a navigator that the Russian driving community helps develop. And, I must say, such collective support is beneficial for the application: many drivers switch to Waze from other navigators that they had previously used for years.
The program allows each traffic participant to add information to it themselves: report accidents, traffic jams, road works, traffic police ambushes, prices at gas stations and other things that may be useful to other users.
Waze features and functionality
Drivers value Waze for its up-to-date information, laconic interface, stable operation and, of course, free use. A big plus is that the program does not lose routes when Internet access is lost and automatically stops accessing GPS if not used during stops. This reduces the rate at which the battery drains.
Among the shortcomings of Waze, some users noted the lack of a 3D mode and voice search that does not always work correctly.
Yandex.Navigator
Another free application that travelers have ranked among the top navigators for mobile devices. Contains very detailed and details, useful for both drivers and pedestrians who are in unfamiliar areas in Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Moldova and even Turkey (note to tourists).
Features of Yandex.Navigator
- Construction of up to three route options to a given object, taking into account traffic jams and other road events.
- Warning about toll roads and ferry crossings.
- Displays the number of kilometers left to travel to the final destination, as well as the remaining time until arrival.
- Voice accompaniment of the trip with notifications about maneuvers, speed limits, road events, radars and traffic police crews, etc. Displaying them in the form of symbols on the map.
- Driver warning about speeding.
- Voice control. The option is designed much better than in Waze. By activating control of the “Listen, Yandex” command, you can request a route to desired point or search for an object on the map.
- Reporting information about traffic events to the program, including by voice.
- Storing the history of trips and routes.
- Search for parking (all - only in Moscow within the Third Transport Ring; in other places of the capital and some major cities— St. Petersburg, Kazan, Kyiv, Minsk, Nizhny Novgorod etc., individual large parking lots are displayed).
The best thing that, according to users, Yandex.Navigator has is the coverage of a large territory (especially convenient for those who travel a lot in Russia and neighboring countries) and the ability to control without hands. Disadvantages: maps are not always up-to-date, especially in regions remote from the center and small towns. And also that the program takes up too much space in the device’s memory due to the inability to move cards to removable media.
Although - paid application(the cost of content starts from 560 rubles), it was preferred by more than 20 million users around the world. After all, this is, in fact, the standard by which developers of other navigation programs are compared. Among its analogues, it has perhaps the largest range of functions, and there is no driver who would say that Navitel’s capabilities are not enough for him.
A short list of functions and features of Navitel
If you install Navitel from the store Google Play, he will be tied to yours account Google, not to the device. Thanks to this, you can use the program on different gadgets.
The most strengths Navitel, according to drivers, is rich in functionality, always up-to-date information, big choice cards and technical support. The reasons for negative reviews are, as a rule, limitations of the 7-day trial version, local failures, minor inaccuracies on the maps - the same as with all similar programs.
Maps.me
Maps.me is a free and open source Android navigator from Mail.Ru Group. It also works without Internet access if you download the necessary maps in advance. Designed not only for drivers: in addition to roads, Maps.me maps contain walking and cycling tourist routes in many countries around the world.
Key features of Maps.me
- Saving mobile internet traffic and battery charge. Important for those traveling by bicycle and on foot, especially where there is no cellular coverage (for example, in the forest).
- The routes are always up to date and very detailed. Maps include features not found in other apps, as the latter are more geared toward the needs of motorists rather than pedestrians.
- On walking and cycling routes, the degrees of slope of the area are indicated - downhill or uphill.
- Users of the program, of whom there are more than 65 million worldwide, participate in the compilation of maps. And you can join their community too.
- In addition to creating routes, Maps.me helps you search for various objects on the ground. Search categories: catering outlets, hotels and hostels, ATMs, bus stops public transport, attractions. The search function is available both online and offline (offline).
- You can book a hotel room directly from the app (only available online through the Booking.com website).
- The program allows you to send messages to your loved ones indicating your current location. For this purpose they can be used cellular(SMS), social media and web messengers.
The main advantages of Maps.me, according to experienced travelers, are free access to all functions, a large selection of maps (the latter, by the way, are well optimized for mobile devices: with the same amount of content as in other programs, they take up much less space in gadget memory), as well as taking into account the needs of pedestrians and cyclists.
The application has, perhaps, only one significant drawback. Because maps are created by users, the data often contains errors. In addition, some maps are better designed than others. This again comes down to user engagement: where people are more active, maps are more detailed and accurate. And vice versa.
Google maps, transport and navigation
is another free and widely available Android navigation app. Used and supported by perhaps the world's most impressive user community. Helps you navigate unfamiliar terrain and plan a route for travel in almost any locality on the globe.
Features of Google.Maps
- Quickly build routes taking into account the situation on the road. If obstacles appear - traffic jams, accidents, etc., the route is automatically rebuilt. Automatic selection of the least congested lane.
- Dynamic POI.
- The ability to quickly obtain information about objects of interest in the area, for example, catering outlets. Information about the latter may include user ratings, interior photos, reviews, opening hours, prices, menus, etc.
- Possibility to leave reviews about the places visited.
- Always up-to-date information on public transport routes.
- Unique feature: display of interior layouts of large public buildings: shopping centers, train stations, airports and stadiums, which helps visitors not to get lost in them.
- Description of more than 100 million objects around the world, as well as more than 220 regions and countries.
Travelers value Google maps primarily for its simplicity, accessibility and convenience. And many people called the strange experiments of the developers, such as the integration of the Pac-Man game into the program, as shortcomings, or rather, excesses, which only distracts the driver while driving and does not carry anything useful.
Here is the final part of the “series” about popular car navigation applications for Android. In it, we tried to summarize all the information from five previously published reviews of individual applications and give a final assessment. In order not to burden the reader, we will try to do this in the most concise and clear form using tables, providing them with relatively small comments.
Why did you choose these particular applications? The main criteria were popularity and availability large number positive feedback, as well as ease of use. The updated Shturmann did not fit into the first two criteria a little. The “Seven Roads” application did not pass all three criteria. Google Maps as a navigator is still in beta testing. Megafon navigation is essentially the same as Progorod, but only in an online version. The iGO app has not yet officially appeared in the Android version. Therefore, there are only five participants.
Prices and popularity
Putting ourselves in the buyer’s shoes, let’s start by looking at price tags and studying information about how popular a particular product has gained among users.
| Navitel | Progorod | Sygic | CityGuide | Yandex | |
| number of downloads on Google Play, million | 5-10 | 0,1-0,5 | 10-50 | 1-5 | 5-10 |
| rating on Google Play | 4,1 | 4,2 | 4,2 | 4,1 | 4,2 |
| price of Russian cards | 1350 rub. | 1290 (950*) rub. | €40 | 1800 rub. | for free |
| minimum price | $1** | - | €20 | 990 rub. | for free |
| update fee, rub | for free | for free | for free | for free | for free |
| traffic jam service fee, rub | for free | for free | does not work in Russia*** | for free | for free |
| allowed number of reinstallations | 1 | 3 | n.d. | 3 | not limited |
| free third party maps | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| test period, days | 30 | 30 | 7 | 15 | - |
* if you purchase a key on the developer’s website. The price is for the application itself with unlimited access to maps.
** rental of foreign cards.
*** for Europe the service is paid - from 12 euros per year.
So, the most expensive product is Sygic. It is aimed at European consumers, so the price tag is quite appropriate. In addition, you will have to pay separately for traffic jams and advanced information about cameras, but this all applies only to Europe. In Russia network services does not work.
The prices of Navitel and Progorod seem to be the most adequate. However, Navitel has a very strict policy regarding reinstallation. Transferring the application to another smartphone will most likely not work at all.
Against the backdrop of all these restrictions, Yandex looks like a king. However, the application has a number of significant limitations, thereby leaving good chances for others.
Feature Set Comparison
The developers of most of the presented applications are trying to attract users with various additional functions, for example, weather, photos on a map, articles from encyclopedias, tagging in social networks, displaying the location of friends and even augmented reality.
We have summarized the entire core set of functions of all five applications in one table:
| Navitel | Progorod | Sygic | CityGuide | Yandex | |
| Interface | |||||
| Manual map zoom during navigation | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Battery/satellite/GSM indicators | Yes Yes Yes | yes / yes / no | in the menu / in the menu / not | Yes Yes Yes | OS status bar |
| Changing the map orientation | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Manual map rotation | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Mileage information | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Satellite View Screen | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| 3D mode | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Map tilt | only in 3D | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Quick Access Toolbar | DPOI only | Yes | Yes | Yes | DPOI only |
| "Trip computer" | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Night mode | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Augmented Reality | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Search | |||||
| Universal | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Address | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| By coordinates | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| POI around / at the point / at the finish | Yes Yes Yes | Yes Yes Yes | Yes Yes Yes | Yes Yes Yes | Yes Yes Yes |
| Voice input | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Working with routes | |||||
| Save/Load | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Simulation of driving along the route | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Full display | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Working with tracks | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Operating modes: passenger car / truck / pedestrian | Yes Yes Yes | yes / no / no | yes / no / yes | yes / no / yes | yes / no / no |
| Cards | |||||
| Map update | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Provider | n.d. | own | Navteq | many, different | Navteq, Scanex, etc. |
| Installation of third-party and free cards | Yes | yes, based on OSM | No | yes, based on OSM | No |
| Online services | |||||
| Traffic display | Yes | Yes | No * | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic POIs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Friends on the map | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Thematic news feeds | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Photo on the map | No | No | yes (Panoramio) | No | No |
| Weather | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Ban on Internet access | Yes | by disabling the traffic jam service | No | Yes | No |
* only for European countries for a fee
This table is for self-study. Here everyone must answer the question for themselves whether this or that program has a minimum sufficient set of functions. For example, some people definitely need to work with tracks, while others need to install free OSM maps. Some applications have extraordinary abilities. For example, displaying on a map photos of places taken by Panoramio users (from Sygic), or an augmented reality mode (Progorod), as well as speech recognition and voice commands(Yandex.Navigator).
The applications also have major flaws. Thus, Sygic does not have a function for displaying traffic (traffic jams), and Yandex.Navigator will not work fully in the absence of an Internet connection.
Interface
Since each of us has our own ideas about beauty, we will not talk much about which program’s interface is more beautiful. Our eyes found the “picture” of Navitel Navigator, Progorod and Yandex more pleasant. But this does not mean that the other two programs have any problems with “ appearance" They're all good. These just stand out a little from the general background.
But if you step back from looking at the “pictures,” then completely different properties of interfaces come to the fore - practicality and information content. The first of them is when you always feel at ease. All you need is a quick glance at the screen to get as much information as you need. Not good a good example practicality can be served by the interface of the same Navitel - a jumble fine lines and small parts makes it difficult to read information while driving. Practicality also includes ease of operation with menus and search.
By information content we mean displaying various related information on the screen, such as the speed limit in a given area, information about cameras, etc. Availability of all kinds of hints and additional information in the POI database.
So, below we will provide screenshots of the interfaces of all programs with a short list of the main advantages and disadvantages. This time we will use a smartphone with a small screen resolution of 480x800, which is regulated by almost all software developers in today's test.
Let's start with the vertical map display option, which is the most natural for smartphones and more practical for navigation. Next to the usual map view we will place a 3D version.
Navitel Navigator 8.5
Progorod 2.0
Sygic 13.4
CityGuide 7.8
Yandex.Navigator 1.5
This is the junction of the Warsaw Highway and the Moscow Ring Road. Alas, the picture is static, and its perception while moving, when the scale of the map is constantly changing depending on the speed and upcoming events (turns), is radically different from what you will get simply by contemplating these two sets of screenshots. In addition, in 3D mode a lot depends on the tilt angle, which is adjustable in all programs. The developers have made it so that from one angle the map is beautiful and practical, but from another it is inconvenient to use, because the detail, perspective, etc. change. A similar remark can be made about scale. Therefore, we will give a verbal comment, but first we will post another portion of screenshots taken in navigation mode:
Navitel Navigator 8.5
Progorod 2.0
Sygic 13.4
CityGuide 7.8
Yandex.Navigator 1.5
Navitel Navigator
The picture deserves all the praise, but it is extremely impractical. The accumulation of a mass of small lines and contours makes it difficult to perceive the route line on the screen, which is slightly thicker than the road itself, but with busy traffic jams is in no way different from it in color. Camera icons, signs and other details are barely visible on the screen.
Progorod
The “Picture” is a little similar to Navitel, but there are fewer small details, and the route line is much easier to read than in the previous case. There are two complaints: the status panel takes up a lot of space on the screen and chaos reigns on it, as well as the graphics and all the control buttons are too small.
Sygic
In the screenshots, the interface is unimpressive, but from the point of view of ease of reading information while driving, it deserves the highest rating. There is one significant drawback - house numbers are not displayed in navigation mode. They only appear if you try to scroll the map in one of the directions, which will switch it to viewing mode.
CityGuide
The map interface is quite good in practical terms. It may not be as beautiful, but it is quite comfortable.
Yandex.Navigator
Trying to find fault with the Yandex.Navigator interface did not work out well. He is very practical. The only issue is users of platforms with screens with high density pixels per inch complain about small buttons and other menu items. For some reason, these UI elements did not fully comply with Google's developer guidelines, and programmers were working with absolute units of element sizes instead of relative DP and SP.
Well, for those who for some reason prefer the horizontal position of the map, we will post another set of screenshots.
Navitel Navigator 8.5
Progorod 2.0
Sygic 13.4
CityGuide 7.8
Yandex.Navigator 1.5
Cards
Unfortunately, most developers do not provide detailed information about their cards, since they may not look so brilliant compared to competitors.
We tried to collect as much information as possible and summarize it in one table. Pay attention to the line “Map online” - this is your chance to independently evaluate the quality of coverage. True, it also does not entirely accurately reflect the situation. Navitel and Progorod do not have the latest release online, while Yandex’s maps in the app and online are strikingly different in places, which sometimes causes confusion.
| Navitel | Progorod | Sygic | Cityguide | Yandex | |
| Russia: populated areas | 149 047 | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | ≈170 thousand |
| Russia: cities with details | 8762 | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. |
| Road graph, km | 3 809 652 | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. |
| POI objects | 992 163 | n.d. | n.d.* | n.d. | n.d. |
| Card capacity, MB | 1250 | 1131 | 623 | 1900 | 1910** (Moscow only) |
| date of last update | 25.10.2013 | 22.10.2013 | 12.2013 | 22.01.2014 | n.d. |
| Update frequency per year, times | 3-4 | 2 | 1-3 | 2-10*** | n.d. |
| Map online | - | - | |||
| Cards foreign countries, PC. | 52 | 28 (OSM) | ≈130 | 10 | 1**** |
| Information about maps on the developer's website | - | - |
*data from Foursquare is also used as POIs
** volume indicated full map Moscow
*** The map of Russia is updated almost every month, but changes in it each time concern a couple of separate areas. If we take, for example, the map of Moscow, it is updated twice a year.
**** Ukraine, Belarus and Türkiye are mentioned. There is no longer a word about Turkey in the company video, and only Ukraine appears on Google Play. However, in the list of maps for download you can find, for example, a map of Almaty.
According to the results of the 2010 census, the number of settlements in Russia was just over 153 thousand and about 20 thousand of them do not have a permanent population. Where did Yandex get 170 thousand from then? Firstly, nesting. A specific settlement always belongs to other territorial units. Secondly, the census does not take into account all types of settlements. Railway stations, winter huts, etc. may fall out of it.
So, our leaders, apparently, are Navitel and Yandex. The volume of cards is an indirect indicator. In Yandex.Navigator it has such unimaginable values because these maps contain a huge number of raster images.
As for the details, this issue is complex and requires a lot of time to study. For our own understanding, we took several settlements and looked at how things stand with this issue.
| Navitel | Progorod | Sygic | Cityguide | Yandex | |
| Olenegorsk, Murmansk region | detailed, with houses (3D) | three main streets | only the main street, with errors | detailed, with houses | three main streets |
| Bogoroditsk, Tula region | detailed, with houses | detailed, with houses (3D) | only the main street | detailed, with houses | three main streets |
| Angarsk, Irkutsk region | main road network | detailed road network | only the main street | detailed, with houses | detailed, with houses |
| Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | detailed, with houses | detailed road network | only the main street | point on the route | detailed, with houses |
| Astrakhan | detailed, with houses | detailed, with houses (3D) | detailed, with houses | detailed, with houses | detailed, with houses |
| Sochi | detailed, with houses | detailed, with houses (3D) | detailed road network | detailed, with houses | detailed, with houses |
| Chekhov, Moscow region | detailed, with houses | detailed, with houses (3D) | detailed, with houses | detailed, with houses | detailed, with houses |
| Tver | detailed, with houses | detailed, with houses (3D) | detailed, with houses | detailed, with houses | detailed, with houses |
| Rybinsk | detailed, with houses | detailed, with houses (3D) | detailed, with houses | detailed, with houses | detailed, with houses |
| Pechory, Pskov region. | detailed, with houses | main road network | three main streets, with errors | detailed, with outlines of houses, without addresses | three main streets |
| village Lanshino, Moscow region | part of the road network | a point on the map | detailed road network | detailed road network | main road network |
The leaders were Navitel, Progorod and Cityguide. Moreover, maps of Progorod are in almost all populated areas from the table, buildings have not only corresponding contours, but also height. Although CityGuide is good (OSM maps are used), you will have to look for maps of the regions you need in big list and download separately, which is not very convenient. For some reason, you can’t download the entire map of Russia at once. In addition, the Kamchatka Territory was not on the list.
Yandex.Navigator surprised me a little, and this considering the fact that the online browser map is beyond praise. At the same time, it is very funny that in the same Bogoroditsk you can indicate the exact address, it will be marked with a marker on the map and a route to it will be built. But the "last mile" will not be displayed correctly.
Well, he doesn’t like anyone the most small towns Sygic. He knows them only by hearsay.
The issue of map relevance is also important. Here we were guided by the map of Moscow, noting the presence of new well-known roads, overpasses and interchanges, opened in the summer-autumn period of 2013. Progorod, Cityguide and Yandex had no problems with this. Navitel had all the junctions and overpasses we were looking for, but for some reason at the intersection of Yaroslavskoe Highway and Malyginsky Proezd there was no turnaround under the overpass. But Sygic's map is at least a year old. We did not find any of the required road objects on it.
Our selection by cards: Navitel, Progorod and Cityguide.
Routes and navigation
All applications build quite adequate routes. And this is the most important thing. Navitel has some minor glitches. We described one of them in detail, but there is no reason to panic here. But it’s definitely worth reducing the sensitivity to traffic jams in its settings for residents of megacities.
To save the reader time, we will collect information on routes and navigation into one table.
| Navitel | Progorod | Sygic | Cityguide | Yandex | |
| adequacy of constructed routes | OK | OK | OK | OK | OK |
| number of alternatives | No | 2 | 1 | No | 1-2 |
| exclusion of toll roads / other settings | Yes Yes | Yes Yes | Yes Yes | Yes Yes | no no |
| logic of behavior when leaving the route | customizable | return to old route | changing lanes in detour mode | changing lanes in detour mode | |
| traffic jams on the route | Yes | Yes | No | yes, but at a short distance | Yes |
| speed warnings | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| camera warnings | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | yes, late |
| DPOI | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| work without an Internet connection | Yes | Yes | offline only | Yes | functions are very limited |
It will be most convenient to travel with Progorod, Cityguide and Navitel. Sygic, despite its very practical interface, works only in offline mode: no traffic jams or DPOI. In addition, his logic of behavior when the driver leaves the route is far from civilized. But there are no less problems with Yandex: it will not warn you about speeding, it will only tell you about the camera when you drive past it, and without a connection to the Internet, search and route planning will not work in the application! But before starting navigation, it will offer the user alternative route options, which can be viewed on the map and the most suitable one can be selected. Progorod can do this too, although it uses a slightly different logic. We really liked both of these features.
Our choice: Progorod and CityGuide. With some stretch - Navitel and Yandex.
Tests
We ran a series of tests to show how fast these apps would run on different mobile platforms. In a separate table we have summarized the results obtained on two systems, the main characteristics of which are as follows:
Both platforms are budget, but the tablet has a 4-core SoC, and the smartphone has a single-core, but with more modern architecture. Will there be any significant difference between them? In the table, smartphone and tablet data are separated by two vertical bars.
| Navitel | Progorod | Sygic | Cityguide | Yandex | |
| Loading time, s | 11 || 8 | 5-6 on both platforms | 6 || 3 | 12 || 9 | ≈2 in all cases |
| Satellite search time | in accordance with GPS technologies (1-2 min.) | ≈20-30 sec.** on both platforms | |||
| Route planning time, s* | 2,5-5 || 1,5-5 | 1-4 on both platforms | 12-20 || 6-15 | ≈2 in all cases | -*** |
| Utilization of computing cores in motion, % | 60 || n.d. | 70 || n.d. | 40 || 15 | 65 || 19 | 20 || n.d. |
| Smooth scrolling and zooming with traffic jams disabled | with strong jerks | with jerks | relatively smoothly | relatively smoothly | smoothly |
| Volume of network traffic on the route, MB/h | 2,5 | n.d. | - | n.d. | n.d. - 4**** |
| Volume of network traffic in a metropolis, MB/h | 4,5 | 1 | - | 1 | 3,5-6,5**** |
* the dash indicates the time of laying two routes: from the south of Moscow to the city of Olenegorsk in the Murmansk region; the second route is to Vladivostok.
** already two seconds after loading you see your approximate position on the map, determined by signals base stations and their coordinates. And after another 20-30 seconds the device “clings” to the satellites.
***routes are calculated on a remote server, and construction time depends on the quality of communication at a particular time. In GPRS or EDGE coverage area it may take a minute or more, but with good connection - 2-3 seconds.
**** The first digit indicates the traffic volume in the case of a pre-loaded full map of the region. The second digit indicates an empty card cache.
So, the main problem application performance - inability to use all available computing cores of the SoC. And although multithreading is declared by almost all developers, in practice on a 4-core system this results in one core being loaded at 100%, the second at 30%, and the other two cooling down. The only exception is Yandex. The application not only has low system resource requirements, but also active work on four cores it can show a total load of 60-70%, which indicates that someone is still able to create multi-threaded applications (benchmark developers do not count).
If we talk about the smoothness and comfort of working with the map, then Yandex, Cityguide and Sygic behave quite well, which cannot be said about Navitel and Progorod. Scrolling the map and scaling occurs with noticeable jerks, slowdowns and jerks. Moreover, if your smartphone has a resolution of 1280 pixels or more, the situation will worsen regardless of the type of SoC installed in the system.
Our choice: Yandex, CityGuide and, probably, Sygic. The latter takes a very long time to build routes, but otherwise is very smart.
Application Features
Since the competition is great, developers try to add a few highlights to their creation, and it would be a shame not to mention them.
Navitel Navigator
Progorod
Here we will only note the augmented reality mode, which will work quite well on those devices that have an orientation sensor.
Perhaps it will come in handy when traveling by car.
Sygic
Sygic tries to attract users with all sorts of useful and interesting little things: universal search, photos on the map from Panoramio, POIs from Foursquare, articles from Wikipedia (if they have a link to coordinates), a sidebar and a trip computer. All details in the corresponding .
CityGuide
Nothing unusual.
Yandex.Navigator
The main trump card is a universal search with a speech recognition system and voice commands, which works quite well.
Results
So, the most mentions marked “our choice” went to CityGuide and Progorod. Navitel, Yandex.Navigator and Sygic are lagging behind. But if we evaluate applications by their main functions (the quality of maps and the navigation process), then the following three leaders emerge before us: Progorod, CityGuide and Navitel. The cheapest of them is Progorod. The most expensive is CityGuide. And Navitel will receive the title of the most unfriendly due to the impossibility of transferring the application to other smartphones.
If you live in one of the Russian megacities, your region has reliable and high-quality cellular communications, you are not afraid of speed cameras and prefer not to spend extra money, then you can use Yandex.Navigator. It's free. Moreover, it works quickly and has a practical interface.
Sygic can be useful when traveling abroad. However, it will not be cheap at all. In this regard, Navitel is many times more attractive, but it will not contain information about traffic. Just like Sygic in Russia.
P.S. Better to see once than hear a hundred times. Therefore, we encourage you to try out the apps you like and draw your own conclusions. But it is important not to forget that everything navigation programs without exception, after deleting them through the application manager, they leave almost all their files in internal memory phone forever, “freezing” hundreds of useful megabytes. Don’t forget to delete them manually later, based on the names of the folders on the drive. Oh, Android, Android...
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MapDroyd is a free application created for use on the Android OS. After downloading the required map through the OpenStreetMap service, you can use the program without an Internet connection without wasting traffic. And the program takes data about your location from GPS data. Even though the program
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This is one of best apps for offline navigation. From version to version, new functions appear in it, and today it can lay out ordinary and pedestrian routes, has highly detailed maps and excellent operating speed. The application is completely free and does not contain any restrictions on the number of downloaded maps - you can download at least the whole world, if the smartphone’s storage capacity allows it.
OsmAnd
In this application, the source of map information is the OpenStreetMap project, which exists and is filled with data thanks to the help of thousands of volunteers from around the world. The usefulness of this application may depend on the place where it is used, since in some regions it knows the location of literally every object, even shops and monuments, while in others it has difficulty displaying only the main streets. Free version allows you to download maps for ten different countries, which in most cases is quite enough. Some additional functions implemented in OsmAnd using plugins, which also need to be downloaded separately. Overall OsmAnd is powerful application with a large set of functions, but with a somewhat confusing interface.
City Maps 2Go
This app's maps and data are stored on your device, so you can access them at any time, including offline. All functions such as address search, reviewing and GPS location can work without Internet access. Although the map data is also drawn from the OpenStreetMap project, I found the map detail in this application to be a little less detailed than in the previous one. allows you to search for addresses, attractions, points of interest offline, but does not have a navigation function. An interesting feature of this application is the integration with Wikipedia, so you can always get Additional information about the places you are interested in.
Google Maps
We can talk about the main mapping application for Android for a very long time, since it has a huge amount different functions. However, in light of this review, we're most interested in offline use. It was possible to download map sections in this application before, and more recently the developers added full-fledged navigation and search for objects without an Internet connection. So now Google Maps can be safely used abroad while roaming or in places where an Internet connection is not available.
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