Guru Maps Pro & GPS Tracker

Evgen Bodunov

About this app

Guru Maps helps you find the best trail and spend some time enjoying the great outdoors like traveling, hiking, biking or off-roading. With detailed maps covering the entire world, offline navigation, and real time GPS tracking, you'll have everything you need to plan and organize your adventures.

Offline Maps
• High-resolution & based on OpenStreetMap (OSM) data.
• Updated monthly with the most-recent fixes and additions.
• Adjustable font size of the labels for better readability.
• Multiple custom map layers can be shown above the base one (GeoJSON support).
• Hillshade, contour lines and slope overlays for relief visualisation.

Offline Navigation
• Turn-by-turn voice-guided driving directions with alternate ways.
• Multi-stop navigation with the route optimization feature (circuit route planner).
• Voice instructions while navigating available in 9 languages.
• Routes for Driving/Cycling/Walking/Shortest Distance.
• Automatic rerouting gets you back along your way, even offline.

Drive Offroad
• There is an option for choosing the type of bike to build the perfect route, given the pavement (road surface): road, city, touring, mountain (MTB), trekking or gravel bikes.
• Plan an off-road overland trip in your 4x4 vehicle (quad, ATV, UTV, SUV, jeep) or moto, relying on topographic data in order to avoid trickier terrain. Find trails, campsites, adequate gas stations and other destinations along the route, even during an offline mode.
• The trip monitor shows the orientation (compass), accurate speed in mph, km/h or knots units (speedometer), distance (odometer), bearing line and azimuth during the trip. The app collects data from multiple satellites orbiting the Earth.

Synchronization
• Seamless sync your data across multiple iOS/Android devices as long as they are authorized with the same account.
• All the data such as saved places, recorded GPS tracks and created routes will be synced on all your devices on both OS platforms.

GPS Tracker
• Track the exact location of your phone & tablet real time.
• Record your footpath even when the app is in the background.
• Monitor detailed statistics of your ride: current speed, distance, time traveled, altitude.
• Choose from seven solid track colors, or altitude and speed gradients.

Offline Search
• Incredibly fast – results appear instantly as you type.
• Searches simultaneously in multiple languages, making searching easier than ever.
• Search in a variety of ways – by address, object name, category, or even by GPS coordinates. Supported coordinates formats: MGRS, UTM, Plus codes, DMS, latitude & longitude (decimal degrees (DD), degrees and decimal minutes, sexagesimal degree).

Online Maps
• Pre-installed online map sources: OpenCycleMap, HikeBikeMap, OpenBusMap, Wikimapia, CyclOSM, Mobile Atlas, HERE Hybrid (satellite), USGS - Topo, USGS - Satellite.
• Even more sources available for adding: OpenSeaMap, OpenTopoMap, ArcGIS, Google Maps, Bing, USGS etc from here: https://ms.gurumaps.app.

Supported File Formats
Support for a variety of file formats, including:
.GPX, .KML, .KMZ - for GPS-tracks, markers, routes or whole travel collections,
.MS, .XML - for custom map sources,
.SQLiteDB, .MBTiles - for offline raster maps,
.GeoJSON - for overlays.

Ratings and reviews

After testing several apps that claim they work offline and discovering that they don't I played with Guru Maps and it was my happy moment. Offline navigation works flawlessly. If I deviate from the planned route, it recalculates it instantly. It is faster than my old TomTom GPS and has a better user interface (at least in my opinion). It took me a while to learn how to use it since in some scenarios it's not so obvious how to achieve your goal.

Free version was great. Upgraded to Pro version and initial download was plagued with glitches and crashes. After finally getting the app installed and beginning to download maps, app crashed after downloading two or three states. Unless using the app takes me to nirvana, this one will go on the trash heap. Makes me wonder what drove all the glowing reviews.

The app looks cool and responsive but I've instant find out that are missing the Speed Cameras (Autovelox) so the app is not so "GURU". Please add that information, should not be complicated, the international database is online. Edit: other things... The NAV view is distracting, the past track is still visible and the arrow, that rapresent ourselfs, is mimetized in that track with the same color. The recalculation is extremely slow, sometimes it don't even try to do it. There are many missing places. All those things happen in offline mode (the only mode I consider to use).

What's new

We're thrilled to introduce exciting new features in the latest version of Guru Maps:
Perspective Map View:
• Experience a 20° tilt view by default when starting navigation
• Easily visualize turns and surroundings for better orientation
Share Your Adventures:
• Create shareable pictures of your trips with embedded stats
• Perfect for social media or sending directly to friends