# Magic Earth Navigation & Maps

> Offline Maps, Traffic

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1007331679](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1007331679)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1007331679`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Magic Lane International BV
- **Category:** Navigation
- **Rating:** 3.90 / 5 (564 ratings)
- **Version:** 9.5.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-18
- **First published:** 2015-07-21
- **Size:** 93 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magic-earth-navigation-maps/id1007331679)
- **Website:** [https://www.magicearth.com](https://www.magicearth.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.magicearth.com/privacy](https://www.magicearth.com/privacy)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #74,627 — Overall
- #6 — The Best Apps for Commuting
- #17 — navigation

## Review summary

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 Users note slow map loading, outdated imagery, misplaced points of interest, and buggy behavior, which undermines its appeal as a rival to Apple/Google Maps despite its strong privacy stance and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.)

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1007331679)