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Apps with Offline Map Support

Internet access is never a guarantee when traveling abroad, especially in more rural areas or in the wilderness. That’s where these apps with support for offline map viewing come in. These maps don’t require an active Internet connection, which can be a life saver for making sure you stay composed and aware of your surrounding in unfamiliar areas.

  1. Google Maps is a basic web mapping service application and technology provided by Google. It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, car, or public transport and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world.
  2. OsmAnd is a map and navigation application with access to the free, worldwide, and high-quality OpenStreetMap data.
  4. Organic Maps is an Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists based on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and curated with love by MAPS.ME founders.
  5. MAPS.ME offers the quickest offline maps of all the countries of the world. Travel with full confidence: wherever you are, MAPS.ME addresses all your offline mapping needs.
  6. Explore the world in glorious 3D with HERE Maps. Discover new places, collect your favourite places, plan the perfect journey, and sync it all with your mobile phones.

  7. Leaflet

    • Free • Open Source
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
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    Leaflet is a modern open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. It is developed by Vladimir Agafonkin with a team of dedicated contributors. Weighing just about 28 KB of JS code, it has all the features most developers ever need for online maps.
  8. Find the best route to your destination even without an internet connection. Magic Earth uses OpenStreetMap data and a powerful search engine to offer you the optimal routes for driving, biking, hiking and public transportation.

  9. 2GIS

    • Free • Proprietary
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Blackberry
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
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    2GIS provides 3D-maps of 180+ cities, contacts of 1.5 million companies, car routing and public transport routes and and more! 2GIS is a complete and up-to-date directory of organizations with detailed cities’ maps.
  10. Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads. A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article.
  11. You can take your device anywhere in the world with you. Thanks to the tourist map you know about every trail and bike trail and you won’t miss a single castle, outlook or other attraction. In My maps you can save your places and routes to files.
  12. OpenStreetMap offline maps with track recording and custom bookmarks .kml path. Based on MAPS.ME project. Features include:
  13. Design and publish beautiful maps.

  14. OpenMapTiles

    • Freemium • Open Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
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    OpenMapTiles is a set of open-source tools for self-hosting of OpenStreetMap maps in more than 50 languages. It provides both raster as well as vector tiles, WMS and WMTS services for GIS programs, support for JavaScript viewers and mobile SDK.

  15. Yandex.Maps

    • Free • Proprietary
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Blackberry
    • Android Tablet
    • Telegram
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • Kindle Fire
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    Yandex.Maps gives you access to maps of over 1800 cities and towns right in your pocket. Find addresses and companies. Plan your journeys in a car or on public transport taking current traffic conditions into account.

  16. Komoot

    • Freemium • Proprietary
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
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    Komoot is the key to the outdoors. Just plan your hiking, road cycling or MTB adventures in the planner, and be guided along every trail, track, road or path—even when you’re offline. Get your first region for free and say hello to your next adventure!