CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive Offline with Privacy

CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive Offline with Privacy is an open-source Android navigation app for walking, cycling, driving, and outdoor travel. It uses map data from OpenStreetMap and is developed as a community-led, not-for-profit project. The project is a fork or spin-off of Organic Maps, which itself originated as a fork of Maps.ME.

The app is designed to keep its functions available offline, allowing users to download detailed maps and search for addresses, places, and points of interest without cellular service. Its outdoor mode highlights hiking trails, campsites, water sources, peaks, contour lines, walking paths, and cycleways. Navigation includes voice announcements for walking, cycling, and driving, while the map data includes restaurants, fuel stations, hotels, shops, and sights. Users can bookmark places, read offline Wikipedia articles, use the subway transit layer and directions, record tracks, and export or import data.

Privacy is a central part of the application’s design: it does not identify people, track users, or collect personal information, and it contains no advertisements. The project is fully open source, with transparent decision-making and financials, and its development involves community contributions such as map updates, testing, feedback, and code work. Compact offline maps are intended to limit storage use, while the project also describes the app as designed to avoid draining the battery like other navigation applications.

As an Android application in the Navigation category, CoMaps fits users who need map access for everyday travel or remote activities while limiting reliance on online services. MirrorNest mirrors the official Android build directly on its own storage and scans it for malware before publishing. The open-source license and community-based development give users a way to inspect the project and participate through its Codeberg community.