Guru Maps — GPS Route Planner

Evgen Bodunov

In-app purchases

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.

PRO Subscription
• With a pro subscription, you'll have access to unlimited markers, GPS tracks, and offline map downloads, as well as additional sources and file formats.
• Without subscription it’s possible to create up to 15 pinned places, record up to 15 tracks and have only 3 vector countries (regions) downloaded on your device.
• Choose from monthly, yearly, or one-time purchase (aka lifetime license) options.

Ratings and reviews

I use this app as the platform for the patrol department that I manage at work. I read the reviews and all the negative ones are issues that do not happen to me. User error? No, the app will not turn off randomly, or the record stop randomly, based on the devices wake state. Yes, there is a way to deselect the elevation and contour changes via settings. Please people, if you're going to review something - don't lie through your teeth about its capabilities. This is a marvelous app!!!!!!!!

One of the best free GPS navigation map apps that I've found. It could use some more work on making it easier and more streamline when trying to input, find, set up and then navigate to a new location or point on the map to have the app help you navigate to. Besides not being the most accessible nav app, it's got a LOT of choices and options to make use of. It's nice to be able to set up a map with a layer over the map to show other useful info, like weather or cellular coverage. 8.5/10

Ive used this map for over 5 years now and no complaints. I like having the option of having an offline map, esp if signal strength is spotty. Easy to download whatever states (and I use Mexico too, but its not as useful as US maps) I may currently be traveling to, and if storage is limited on your device, delete the ones you wont be needing soon. I have not used the pro version - the free one is ok for me.

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