Maps & Navigation
Sygic: GPS Navigation, 3D Maps
Turn-by-turn navigation with offline 3D maps for every country, plus live traffic and speed camera alerts.
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- Developer
- Sygic a. s.
- Score
- 4.5
- Downloads
- 10K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 4+
- Version
- 26.6.1
- Price
- Free
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About this app
Working without a signal is the main selling point of Sygic. Maps for every country, sourced from TomTom and other providers, are stored on the phone and updated free several times a year, so routing and spoken directions carry on in tunnels, rural areas and abroad. It also does walking directions and carries a large points-of-interest database. When online, it adds live traffic and real-time speed camera alerts. Driving aids include speed limit warnings, a Dynamic Lane Assistant, a head-up display mode that reflects directions onto the windscreen at night, a dashcam that saves footage automatically after an accident, a Cockpit screen with live car performance figures, wrong-way warnings developed with Bosch, and CarPlay support. Route sharing sends your position and arrival time to others. A dedicated motorbike mode favours twisty roads, enlarges buttons for gloved hands and tracks lean angle and elevation. Parking and fuel price information help along the way.
Sygic: GPS Navigation, 3D Maps: the full guide
What the app is
Offline is the reason to consider Sygic over the map app already on your phone. Country maps from TomTom and other suppliers sit on the device, get free updates a few times a year, and keep spoken directions going when the signal drops in a tunnel or on a back road abroad.
Around that core it piles on driver aids: speed limit and speed camera warnings, lane guidance, a head-up display mode for night driving, a dashcam, a live car-data screen, CarPlay, and a motorbike mode that prefers bendy roads and records lean angle.
How it works day to day
Before a trip you download the maps for wherever you're going, which is the step people forget. On the road it behaves like any turn-by-turn app, with voice directions and lane arrows, and traffic rerouting when there's a connection. At night the HUD mode mirrors the display so it reflects off the windscreen, and the dashcam records in the background and keeps footage if it detects a collision.
Riders flip to motorbike mode, which swaps the fastest route for a more enjoyable one and enlarges the buttons for gloves. Route sharing sends your ETA to whoever's waiting.
Why people look for it
Holidays abroad without a data plan, mostly, and long rural drives at home where coverage comes and goes. Sygic's full offline map set covers both, and the free map updates mean the download doesn't go stale. The motorbike mode is a smaller but loyal reason, since few mainstream navigation apps bother with lean angle or gloved-hand layouts.
Look and feel
Navigation apps live or die on the driving view, and the five screenshots on the page should show whether Sygic's 3D map style suits you. The feature list (HUD, Cockpit, dashcam, lane assistant) implies a busy interface with several modes to switch between, so expect more controls than Apple Maps rather than fewer. The motorbike mode's bigger buttons are a deliberate exception.
Updates and upkeep
The version number, 26.6.1, follows a year-based scheme that suggests regular releases, though the data here can't confirm how often. Sygic a. s. is an established company name, and a 4.5 rating from 10,000-plus reviews is decent for a category where ratings tend to be harsh. Only the App Store is linked on this page.
