Oruxmaps is pretty good too.
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I thinl they are intended for very different kind of users and use cases: Organic Maps is a simple and traightforward navigtaion app. It does not do much, but does it very well. OsmAnd is a feature-rich app for power users who want to tinker and customize.
I have both on my phone :)
Iโll go ahead and throw another option out there. Magic Earth. I would use OsmAnd or Organic Maps more often but neither support routing with public transport other than the train.
Also a great option, but closed source
OSMand is a much more powerful tool even with no plugins and it's a mature app you can count on.
On the other hand Organic Maps has less features, which means a much simpler interface and much better performance
Performance of OSMand is actually great on mid-level SOCs I usually get. Anything with snapdragon 6xx or more and performance is a non-issue for me, especially since it has a new opengl2 renderer. Also, it uses very, very little battery navigating me with voice (so screen off) along a pre-defined GPX on locally downloaded maps in airplane mode. And the simplicity of the interface is a downside once you spend a few hours tinkering with OSMand and get used to all it can do.
Big pro for Organic Maps is rendering speed. So smooth and perfect...
Everything else is on the OsmAnd side. It's loaded with features, everything you may want and more. But rendering lag is so annoying that I'm using Organic by default.
(I haven't used osmand in a minute)
Osmand has a buttload of features but the UI is kinda complicated, whereas OrganicMaps has a simple UI but less features.
If you want car navigation I'd recommend MagicEarth because it has traffic info
Thanks, that's a nice and concise summary!
Where does MagicEarth get its traffic data from? Also is it FOSS? I couldn't find much about it.
Some of it is user reported. I think they have a 3rd party provider as well but Iโm not 100% certain on that.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Magic_Earth
It's proprietary.
Proprietary is not some evil demon. Sure open source is better, but it's just one bullet point in a pro/con table.
Deal breaker for people who care about Free software
who care too much about Free software
There's a difference between caring and caring too much. I care about eating healthy. Doesn't mean I never eat anything unhealthy and immediately throw people who try to eat a sweet out of my third-floor window.
Not about throwing someone's off but doing it myself
It kind is, though. Proprietary doesn't mean paid; I'll pay for OSS apps. Proprietary means they won't release the source code, and this is bad for a whole bunch of reasons. But the reason that gets my goat is that it's almost guaranteed that proprietary app was developed with open source tools, and probably uses at least some open source code. I fucking hate hypocrites.
For some people, not getting stuck in traffic is worth using proprietary software.
Are there any FOSS navigation apps with (paid?) traffic info?
For traffic info, I would use Google maps. For other map related data, OSMand / Organic Maps.