CoMaps
Community-led offline navigation offering privacy by design, ad-free experience, open-source code, transparent decision-making, donation funding, and inclusive collaboration for drivers, cyclists, hikers, and travelers. Prioritizes transparency and community ownership.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Android Auto
- F-Droid
- Apple Car Play
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- GPS Navigation
- Based on OpenStreetMap
- Ad-free
- Works Offline
- No Tracking
- No registration required
- Points of Interest (POI)
- Non profit
- Crowdsourced
Openstreetmap integration- Hiking Maps
- Route Planning
- Apps with Offline Map
- Dark Mode
- OSM Editing
Wikipedia integration- Community-based
- Cycling
- Turn-by-turn Navigation
- Voice Navigation
- Data export/import
- Nearby Search
- Public Transportation
- Map-Editor
Tags
- open source
- wikipedia
- non-profit-organizations
- openstreetmap-editor
- Privacy Protection
- street-map
- offline-wikipedia
- offline-first
- open-location-codes
- material3
- plus-codes
- openstreetmaps
- openstreetmap-data
CoMaps News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about CoMaps
CoMaps adds updated OpenStreetMap data and Material 3 themesCoMaps now uses OpenStreetMap data as of December 9, ensuring navigation reflects the latest availa...
- Maoholguin published news article about CoMaps
CoMaps updates OSM dataset, adds non-paved routes & more POI featuresCoMaps has released v2025.11.19-2 with updated OpenStreetMap dataset to November 16 and adds an opt...
- Fla published news article about CoMaps
CoMaps updates to November OSM data, drops Germany speed camerasCoMaps now uses OpenStreetMap data as of November 4, enabled by a faster map generation server and ...
Recent activities
- radiowolf08 liked CoMaps
- Opensourcelover reviewed CoMaps
Best foss maps app there is!
- urbestro liked CoMaps
Myrano added CoMaps as alternative to Simple OSM Viewer
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What is CoMaps?
Discover more of your journey – Powered by the community
🗺? About CoMaps CoMaps is a new community-driven map app project born out of the desire to create a truly open, transparent, and community-focused navigation app. Our goal is to provide easy, offline navigation for travelers, drivers, hikers, and cyclists, all while respecting user privacy and supporting open-source collaboration.
We believe that the best navigation app should be:
- Free
- Open-source
- Built by and for the community
- Privacy respecting
🤔? Why CoMaps? The CoMaps project was initiated in response to the growing concerns and dissatisfaction with the Organic Maps project leadership. The original Organic Maps project, while initially promoted as an open community effort, faced significant issues related to governance, transparency, and the potential for shareholder profit at the expense of the community. These concerns were detailed in the Open Letter to Organic Maps Shareholders. Despite some positive steps, the lack of a substantive resolution has led us to establish a new, independent path: CoMaps.
🌟 Our Vision & Principles CoMaps envisions a future where navigation tools are free, open, privacy-respecting and community driven. We believe in software that serves the public good, that is free from trackers and ads, transparent and accessible.
Our core principles:
- Transparency: All decisions, financial info and other data are transparent and accessible to everyone.
- Open Source: The complete codebase and associated resources are released under Free and Open Source Software licenses.
- Community-first: Development is guided by the needs and input of users, contributors, and volunteers.
- Privacy-focused: No tracking, no data collection, no ads - ever.
- Not-for-profit: The project operates for the public good, focusing on creating value for the community rather than generating profit for shareholders, investors or corporations.
- Community funded: There are no investors that invest money into the app, just people like you that support the app with a donation.
?? Highlights
- Offline-first: Navigate without a connection
- Privacy-respecting: No tracking, ads or data collection
- Lightweight: Battery- and space-efficient
- Simple: Polished, user-focused interface
- Cross-platform: Available for Android, iOS, MacOS, and Linux.
- Community-built: Free, open source, and collaborative
- Transparent: Open finances and governance
Freedom Is Here – Navigate the world with privacy and community at the forefront.
CoMaps information
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Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4.8Alternatives
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10 news article related to CoMapsSupported Languages
- English
- Catalan; Valencian
- Czech
- Danish
- German
- Estonian
- Spanish
- Basque
- French
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Swahili
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Hungarian
- Dutch
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Slovak
- Finnish
- Swedish
- Vietnamese
- Greek
- Turkish
- Bulgarian
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Hebrew
- Arabic
- Marathi
- Hindi
- Thai
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Comments and Reviews
I like CoMaps and it's community-driven approach, and for data privacy. Full transparency on how the app is developed.
Best foss maps app there is!
Much better than OM and Maps.Me. The Map Color change is very good IMO!
Navigation can sometimes be a bit glitchy, but at least they are working on it :)
It's essentially Organic Maps with worse colors, making it harder to see roads and trails.
I often go hiking and use CoMaps to get to the right route. I used OrganicMaps for a long time, but after I heard that there are some transparency problems, I switched to CoMaps. The map looks great and the navigation is also very accurate. I really like to use CoMaps and can recommend it!
Works great on iOS & Android, team makes it very easy to contribute
Better than Organic Map. The app is changing to Material 3 Design. It is completely open source.