Your location history is a diary you didn't know you were keeping — home, work, the clinic, the bar, every day, timestamped. Navigation apps are among the most invasive software on your phone, and among the easiest to replace.
Everything below runs on OpenStreetMap or European map data, and none of it needs to know who you are to get you there.
The verdict: The closest drop-in replacement for Google Maps that asks nothing about you — proper turn-by-turn, live traffic, offline maps, funded by licensing tech to carmakers instead of profiling drivers.
The verdict: Completely offline, completely open source, no account, no requests home. The hiker's and traveller's favourite — download the country, put the phone in flight mode, still never get lost.
The verdict: The best outdoor cartography in Europe — trail networks, elevation, viewpoints — from the Czech company that out-Googles Google at home. Underrated everywhere west of Prague.
The verdict: The most capable OSM app there is, if you're willing to earn it — every layer, overlay and profile is tweakable. Less an app, more a hobby that gets you places.
The verdict: Nokia's mapping legacy, now owned by the German auto industry — which is why the driving data is properly good. The most conventional option here, in both the reassuring and the corporate sense.
