Sygic GPS Navigation & Maps

Sygic GPS Navigation Review: Offline Maps Done Right, Guidance Sold Separately

Free Basic version: route planning yes, voice guidance no

Since July 2026, new installs open straight into the free Basic state; the automatic seven-day trial that used to come first is gone. Basic keeps offline maps, address and place search, route planning and the route line. It does not speak, gives no turn-by-turn instructions, and shows no speed limits, lane arrows or live traffic. The help center also confirms that Android Auto and CarPlay stay locked in the unpaid version. In practice the free app is a trip planner and an offline atlas rather than a navigator, which is why several September 2026 Play reviews complain about driving through city traffic with no voice. The only way to try guidance before paying is the annual Premium+ plan with a three-day trial, offered inside the app but not on the company's web store.

Offline maps from TomTom and OSM: 3 free updates a year, or 12

Maps download per country, and the largest ones, the US included, split into regions, so a driver can keep one state instead of a continent. The catalog covers more than 200 countries, and the help center warns that maps take anywhere from hundreds of megabytes to several gigabytes; on Android they can sit on an SD card. The data comes from TomTom or OpenStreetMap depending on the map, which creates one quirk: a route crossing several maps calculates only if all of them come from the same provider. Free users get three map updates a year, in January, May and September, while Premium+ makes them monthly. Update every map together, because a partial update can delete the others. Google Maps works differently: its saved offline areas expire unless refreshed and give no walking or transit directions offline.

Premium+ at $19.99 a year, and what it still leaves out

Premium+ is sold for three months or a year only; there is no monthly plan. On October 2, 2026 the company's web store listed $19.99 a year and $11.99 for three months, while the US App Store shows annual tiers from $14.49 to $26.99 and a $12.49 three-month tier, and the trial version renews at the full annual price. Check the current price in the app; it varies by region and promotion. The money buys TomTom Traffic refreshed every two minutes, lane guidance, the Head-up Display, Dashcam, Live Route Alternatives and car-screen support. Lifetime Premium licenses stopped selling in 2021; old ones still work but miss newer Premium+ features and cannot move between Android and iOS, while Premium+ can. Motorbike Mode costs $49.99 more as a one-time add-on, and cancelling stops renewal without a refund.

Speed cameras, SmartCam and the location data behind them

The feature glossary describes alerts for more than 60,000 fixed speed cameras as free and offline, while mobile and average-speed cameras need Premium+, and mobile ones a live connection. The company itself says camera content is not legal in Switzerland, Liechtenstein or Turkey, and France gets generic danger zones instead, so check local rules. SmartCam bundles Dashcam, sign recognition and Real View, but sign recognition does not work in the US, Canada or Puerto Rico, and camera features can heat up older phones. On privacy, Apple's label says location, contact info, identifiers and usage data may be used to track you across other companies' apps, with precise location linked to third-party advertising. The developer, Sygic a. s. of Bratislava, is part of the Eurowag Group and accepts data deletion requests.