Maps & Navigation
Yandex Navi – navigation, maps
Driving navigation that reroutes around traffic, optimises multi-stop trips and pays for parking and fuel.
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- Developer
- DIRECT CURSUS COMPUTER SYSTEMS TRADING LLC
- Score
- 4.7
- Downloads
- 10K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 4+
- Version
- 31.1.4
- Price
- Free
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About this app
Drivers are the sole audience for Yandex Navigator, a turn-by-turn app that routes around traffic jams and closures and quietly re-plans when conditions change. Voice prompts warn about upcoming turns, complex junctions, speed limits and cameras, so eyes can stay on the road. Multi-stop trips of four to ten destinations can be reordered automatically with an Optimize button. Offline maps for a city or region allow searching and routing without a connection. Parking near the destination can be found and paid for within the app, and the fuel tank button shows nearby stations where fuel can be chosen and paid for without leaving the app. A route setting avoids bad and unpaved roads, departure times can be set in advance to see how long a trip usually takes at that hour, and truck drivers can enter their vehicle's dimensions and weight to get routes that respect restrictions. The listing is cut off before it covers anything beyond truck routing.
Yandex Navi – navigation, maps: the full guide
What the app is
Where Yandex Maps serves everyone, Yandex Navigator serves drivers only. It gives turn-by-turn guidance that steers around jams and closures, re-plans when conditions shift, and warns of turns, junctions, speed limits and cameras.
Trips with four to ten stops can be reordered by an Optimize button. Downloaded maps of a city or region keep search and routing working without signal. Parking and fuel at nearby stations can be paid for inside the app. A setting keeps you off bad and unpaved roads, departures can be set ahead to preview travel time, and truck drivers can enter dimensions and weight for compliant routes.
How it works day to day
Morning: set the destination, glance at the predicted time, go. The app watches traffic and if the usual road clogs it swaps to another without asking. Voice warnings arrive before cameras and before the speed limit drops, which in Russia saves money.
For a delivery day you enter all the stops, press Optimize and let it decide the order. Arriving in the city centre, the parking search finds a space and pays for it from the app, and the fuel button on the way home shows stations and lets you pay at the pump from your seat.
Why people look for it
Traffic in Moscow and St Petersburg is the classic reason, and local drivers rely on Yandex's congestion data. Couriers and taxi drivers search for it because of the multi-stop optimiser. Truck drivers want restriction-aware routing. Travellers who hire a car in the region find it recommended over global apps. A 4.7 rating on 10K+ reviews is the stronger of the two Yandex listings here.
Look and feel
Navigation screens are big arrows, a distance to the next turn and a lane diagram, and the five screenshots will be variations on that plus the parking and fuel screens. Yandex's navigation view favours high-contrast colours readable in daylight on a dashboard mount. Expect a driving-first layout with large touch targets rather than a general map browser.
Updates and upkeep
Version 31.1.4 matches the Yandex Maps listing exactly, which suggests the two apps share a release cycle and a code base, and that both are updated often. The developer entity is DIRECT CURSUS COMPUTER SYSTEMS TRADING LLC, the same publishing company as the maps app. Ten thousand plus ratings at 4.7 is healthy. App Store only on this page.
