OsmAnd

“the only reason I keep OsmAnd installed is that I can add a layer of "Wikipedia articles"”

“OsmAnd and a credit card are basically perfect substitutes for Google Maps and Google Pay.”

“It's very likely caused by a set of bugs in the app rather than simply inefficient patterns.”

“It has a history of having many memory corruption bugs discovered and reported by GrapheneOS users.”

“There's a known performance issue experienced by some users with the OsmAnd OpenGL renderer”

“OsmAnd works perfectly fine for me without disabling any exploit protection options.”

“Still I would not recommend OsmAnd to everyone, e.g. not to "Aunt Mary". It has a clunkier, more techy UI.”

“In my experience it's never more than a few tens of seconds, and usually much quicker.”

“OsmAnd is painfully slow, I keep it around just for unique features like transport routes and surface quality.”

“I used OsmAnd for a long time, and it's a great app that I learned how to use well”

“long (as in, cross-country) trips could take minutes (or hours?) to provide a route for”

“OSMAnd is a lot better for hiking as it has 3d views, hiking routes, topo maps and better routing in general”

“I'm one of those who grew up with OsmAnd and got used to having all those features”

“OsmAnd is great if you want a mapping swiss army knife in your pocket”

“is better than Google Maps for walking and public transit where I am at the moment”

“osmand, maps.me, organic-maps etc etc aren't used when Google maps shows accurate list of Bakeries”

“its guides, WikiData and Wikipedia integration are godsend for finding interesting places to visit”

“they have travel guides built in (they became usable now, even small cities have decent descriptions where I live)”

“And yet everyone always has the same complaint about the app: terrible UX.”

“the map rendering itself is excellent and can be heavily customized as needed”

“OSMand is a cartographer's friend - it does everything and more... With all the drawbacks of doing that.”

“OsmAnd is much more powerful, and if you can tolerate its complexity and battery-drain, it's worth it.”

“OsmAnd~ is great for hiking, when you need topographic contour info, 3D relief shading, etc.”

“Arcane and nerdy is a good description of OSMAnd. That's why I love it and would never switch to anything else.”

“OSMAnd is a really great full featured mapping app. A real tool that you can configure in detail.”

“Osmand is great, but it's difficult to use, it doesn't have good place search, and it doesn't plan public transport trips very well.”

“OSMand should cover this, tho it takes quite a bit of work to get address search to work.”

“its maps are better than what Google and apple offer especially when you're not a car user.”

“It's sadly easy to confuse "take public transit" with "driving a train" on the UI”

“I love OsmAnd and I've been using it ever since I've been using phones that can navigate.”

“planning something easy like "take a bus to the train station" is impossible in OsmAnd”

“OsmAnd still hasn't fixed utah addresses. If I enter in how we call addresses in local slang, it has no idea how to find it.”

“Same issue, OsmAnd is great, but unless geocoding services like Nominatim get as good as Google Maps's search, I cannot use it unless I know the precise location of where I'm going.”

“searching on anything other than Google maps either gives me nothing (OsmAnd in this category)”

“What it lacks is the ability to plot a sensible course across a polygon of open water.”

“There's a great app called OSMAnd which provides offline public transport routes”

“Very useful in some areas. Not even that out of the way - I have needed offline maps in Cumbria, which is just rural and hilly.”

“apps are available which offer regional maps with localized Wikipedia additions”

“For anything other than driving Organic Maps (iOS) or OSMand (Android) are the very best.”

“I have recently tried to navigate with OsmAnd a few times where I live. Once I ended up in the wrong location”