Download Genius Maps Car GPS Navigation on PC

This app was not cheap. But it integrates well with Land Rover vehicles when you purchase that option which I cannot do with either Maps or Waze. I purchased the entire suite including traffic and that has helped me out twice here in Chicago rush hour in my 4 months so far of having the app. And only once has it led me through city streets for no apparent reason. Next time it will be an email to the developers if it happens again. I don't regret purchasing the app. it was worth it.

Loses two stars as paid features advertised as "lifetime" but over the years they never respond to questions - no support after I paid around $100 for the Pro version and lots of added features. On the plus side, the mapping is buttery smooth and fast with simple and logical layout. Now looking at CoPilot for the next few years. Had a good run Genius.

Pay $60 to try this out on AndroidAuto? No, thanks. And I only found that out by downloading most of a gigabyte of mostly useless maps. I like downloading all of Washington, so I know it's there when I go on a road trip. I've done that for a bunch of apps. I download Oregon if I think I'll need it, and delete it after I'm back home. I don't want most of the Western United States on my phone. I don't want to be periodically updating most of a gigabyte of maps, and I don't want to be giving up that much space. But after trying it out on my phone and deciding the maps were moderately good and the routing was moderately almost-good (not in the top ten, but most of those don't support Android Auto), I tried to use it in my car. Nope. Not unless I was willing to pay $60 for the "premium" package of "features" I don't really want or have (presumably better) versions of in other apps. I'm currently paying $35 a year, $12 a year, $24, and more. They all add up to over a hundred dollars a year for map apps. This app doesn't hold a candle to any of them. So I'm using Gaia GPS when I just want a nice, useful, full-screen map on Android Auto, and Tom-Tom when I want something a bit more driving-oriented (that was a surprise: I disliked Tom-Tom when I tried it on my phone a few years ago). I will still use Google Maps when I want what it does well and can put up with what it does awfully. What I'm really looking forward to is OsmAnd, which is supposed to be on Android Auto before the end of the year: downloadable by state in the USA or comparably sized areas elsewhere in the world (with styles ranging from driving maps to topographical, nautical, and skiing), with hourly updates available in a subscription, if anything has changed ("Genius" is quarterly). Plus a bunch of online-only map sources. Two stars instead of one, because it doesn't seem truly awful, just not particularly good. And even if the $60 is one-time, not annual, it just doesn't seem like it is worth it.