Magic Earth Navigation & Maps

Name: Magic Earth Navigation & Maps
Rating: 4 (541 reviews)
Author: Magic Lane International BV

By: Magic Lane International BV

Offline Maps, Traffic

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Features & Capabilities

Celebrating Magic Earth’s 10-year milestone on the App Store in 2025, the app now offers a freemium model with free core features like map browsing, search, favorites, and turn-by-turn navigation. Premium unlocks traffic-aware routing, offline maps, activity recording, and an elevation map style. Built on OpenStreetMap data, Magic Earth emphasizes privacy—no tracking or profiling, with regular map updates and support for CarPlay and Apple Watch.

With real-time traffic updates, multi-modal navigation (car, bike, walk, public transit), weather, and easy access to nearby points of interest, Magic Earth aims to provide a private, feature-rich navigation experience across 233 countries and regions.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Navigation & Mapping Privacy & Security

By:

Magic Lane International BV

Rating:

4.00

(541) 4 new ratings

Version:

9.4.1 Last updated: 2026-06-02

Version code:

886269604

Creation date:

2015-07-21

Compatible devices:

Size:

87.12MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-04

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 80,689 ▲ 241

Other rankings

#6 in The Best Apps for Commuting #26 in navigation keyword 12 ▼ 2

Other platforms

Magic Earth Navigation & Maps (v7.1.26.21.F7ED7677.ED222D27B)

3,746,353 1.71

(42,069)

For Developers

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Developed by:

Magic Lane International BV

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magic-earth-navigation-maps/id1007331679

Website:

https://www.magicearth.com

User Reviews

Reviews converge on a core tension: Magic Earth offers attractive offline maps and a privacy/open-data angle, but is hampered by a steep, poorly communicated price increase, and ongoing reliability issues in maps, search, and performance. Users note slow map loading, outdated imagery, misplaced points of interest, and buggy behavior, which undermines its appeal as a rival to Apple/Google Maps despite its strong privacy stance and offline capabilities.

Pros

Offline maps support is strong and frequently valued by users.
Privacy-focused approach and data protection are praised by some reviewers.
Open data/open-source mapping basis offers an alternative data source to proprietary maps.

Cons

Mandatory subscription at $20/year and sharp price increase is widely criticized.
Frequent glitches, bugs, and reliability issues across devices and updates.
Map quality and data accuracy problems (slow loading, poor imagery, misplaced POIs).
Search/navigation reliability issues (inaccurate search results, confusion in CarPlay, etc.)

Recent reviews

Due to circumstances outside of my control I have had to switch phones twice in the last few months. Their process for accessing your paid premium features on a new device absolutely sucks. You have to click a link that is supposed to email you a new code you have to activate on your new device to get the features you paid for. The big problem is both times I’ve needed to switch I’ve had to contact support because I straight up don’t get a link to my email. I’ve tried every email and alias I have. Support can’t offer any help either, they just resend the same link. Eventually when I had to switch the first time it worked after several weeks of trying. This time I had trouble again and I think I’m giving up on the app. Check the Google Play store reviews. They’re much different. They remade their entire app and started charging subscriptions for it while it was half baked, using customers as beta testers. It crashed on me every single drive no matter how long, the search sucks and the app overall still leaves a lot to be desired. They slowly started improving on the crashes but they still have a looooong way to go before the product they present actually lives up to the promises to their customers. CoMaps is under active community development and will take a while to get live traffic updates but when they do it will be a much better option for people

by No*****, 2026-05-28

Perfect alternative to "big tech" apps. This is my go to, and it has everything I need. The one draw back is that is overheats the entire phone within 10 min if it's the summer and within 30 min if the car is cool. Doesn't matter if the phone is or isn't charging or where it's sitting. It's just the app. Once that's fixed, this is 5 stars.

by Pn*****, 2026-05-28

I hardly use it at all. Got it just for emergency when I forgot to download googlemap ahead. It was free in the first year, then I paid $1/yr for past 2 yrs. It is $20/yr now. I may not renew the subscription based on how rarely I use it. Anyway, it’s a very good offline map to have (I’ve tested out in city, small town and trails) Highly recommend.