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NOW LET US Article – Organic Maps

Organic Maps is a privacy-focused, 100% offline maps and navigation app that recently hit 6 million installs. Developed by the creators of Maps.Me, it offers a tracker-free, battery-efficient alternative to mainstream map services.

Organic Maps: Offline Hike, Bike, Trails and Navigation

Organic Maps is a privacy-focused offline maps & GPS app for hiking, cycling, biking, and driving. Absolutely free. No ads. No tracking. Developed with love by the open-source community and the same people, who created MapsWithMe/Maps.Me app. Powered by OpenStreetMap data.

Organic Maps is one of the few applications nowadays that supports 100% of features without an active Internet connection. Install Organic Maps, download maps, throw away your SIM card, and go for a weeklong trip on a single battery charge without any byte sent to the network.

In December 2025, Organic Maps reached 6M installs. Help us to scale!

Download and install Organic Maps from AppStore, Google Play, Huawei AppGallery, Obtainium, Accrescent, FDroid

Features

Organic Maps is the ultimate companion app for travelers, tourists, hikers, drivers, and cyclists:

  • Detailed offline maps with places that don't exist on other maps, thanks to OpenStreetMap
  • Cycling routes, hiking trails, and walking paths
  • Contour lines, elevation profiles, peaks, and slopes
  • Turn-by-turn walking, cycling, and car navigation with voice guidance and CarPlay/Android Auto support
  • Metro/subway maps
  • Fast offline search on the downloaded maps
  • Import or export bookmarks in KML/KMZ, GPX, GeoJSON formats
  • Dark Mode to protect your eyes
  • Countries and regions don't take a lot of space
  • Wikipedia articles for popular places
  • Free and open-source

Why Organic?

Organic Maps is pure and organic, made with love:

  • Respects your privacy
  • Saves your battery
  • No unexpected mobile data charges

Organic Maps app is free from trackers and other bad stuff:

  • No ads
  • No tracking
  • No data collection
  • No phoning home
  • No annoying registration
  • No mandatory tutorials
  • No noisy email spam
  • No push notifications
  • No crapware ~~No pesticides~~Purely organic!

The application is verified by Exodus Privacy Project:

The iOS application is verified by TrackerControl for iOS:

Organic Maps doesn't request excessive permissions to spy on you:

At Organic Maps, we believe that privacy is a fundamental human right:

  • Organic Maps is an indie community-driven open-source project
  • We protect your privacy from Big Tech's prying eyes
  • Stay safe no matter wherever you are

Reject surveillance - embrace your freedom.

Who is paying for the free app?

The app is free for everyone. Please donate to support us!

To donate conveniently, click on your preferred payment method icon below:

Beloved institutional sponsors below have provided targeted grants to cover some infrastructure costs and fund development of new selected features:

| The Search & Fonts improvement project has been funded through NGI0 Entrust Fund. NGI0 Entrust Fund is established by the NLnet Foundation with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101069594. | | | Google backed student's projects in the Google Summer of Code program during 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 programs. Noteworthy projects included Android Auto, Wikipedia Dump Extractor, Track Recording for Android. | | | Mythic Beasts ISP provides us two virtual servers with up to 400 TB/month of free bandwidth to host and serve maps downloads and updates. | | | 44+ Technologies is providing us with a free dedicated server worth around $12,000/year to serve maps across Vietnam & Southeast Asia. | | | FUTO has awarded $1000 micro-grant to Organic Maps in February 2023. |

Community

Organic Maps is an open-source software licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

  • Please join our beta program, suggest your features, and report bugs:
  • Report bugs or issues to the issue tracker or email us.
  • Discuss ideas or propose feature requests.
  • Subscribe to our Telegram Channel or to the matrix space for updates.
  • Join our Telegram Group to discuss with other users.
  • Visit our GitHub page.
  • Follow our updates in FOSStodon, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Bluesky, Threads, Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok.
  • Join local communities: Hungarian Matrix room, German-, Chinese-, French-, Italian-, Spanish-, Russian-, Ukrainian-, Arabic-, Persian-, Turkish-speaking Telegram chats.
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