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Sygic: GPS Navigation, 3D Maps

Offline Driving: Avoid Traffic

Sygic a. s.
No findings published
App Store rating4.5★56.8K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age4+Store age rating
Size479 MBiPhone download
CategoryUtilities
DeveloperSygic a. s.

At a glance

Full report

Things to watch for 0

Nothing published. That is not a guarantee the app is problem-free.

Positives 0

No specific positive published.

From our automated analysis, 10 Oct 2026.

This analysis describes version 26.5.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-10 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 26.6.0, updated 2026-10-15.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 26.5.3, not the version now listed on the store.

The developer’s release notes for the newer versions, where we hold them, are in Versions and dates analysed.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Sygic GPS Navigation & Maps is innovative GPS navigation app with monthly-updated offline maps and with precise live traffic & speed camera alerts, both updated in real-time. It‘s trusted by more than 200 million drivers worldwide. Offline 3D maps are stored on your phone for GPS navigation without an internet connection. We update the maps multiple times per year for free, so that you can always rely on Sygic GPS Navigation.

NAVIGATE ANYWHERE, EVEN WITHOUT AN INTERNET CONNECTION

• 3D Offline maps of all countries in the world, from TomTom and other providers

• Free map updates multiple times per year

• Voice-guided GPS navigation with precise directions and spoken street names

• Millions of interesting Places (POI)

• Pedestrian GPS navigation with walking directions and tourist attractions (POI)

• Customize your navigation arrow. Try everyday car, van or even formula.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

0 published · 2 shown, not confirmed

One source only — shown, not confirmed 2

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording

One source only

Constant upsell pressure: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 513 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From App Store reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.

Open evidence

Paywall blocks the basics

One source only

Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 513 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From App Store reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.

Open evidence

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

513 reviews read · 2 review-based observations

513 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording

Shown, not confirmed

You shove your full page ad up yours — I am a paying customer. And you keep pushing products I would never ever pay for everytime I open the app. Tell the person responsible for this idea to shove it up his.

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-09

Subscription prompts — It is beyond annoying to keep getting prompts to upgrade especially when I am driving, this is why only use the app when I have no cellular. Please give the option to disable it because I do not plan on subscribing…

2★ · App Store · 2025-11-18

Purchased North America Lifetime License, Still Trying To Make Me Buy Again — I purchased this app. I purchased the premium North America lifetime license. It’s is still showing pop up to buy things. They set the app so restore never works.

1★ · App Store · 2025-05-17

Paywall blocks the basics

Shown, not confirmed

DELETED — I deleted this app because you now have to pay for traffic data an voice guided directions. Where as apps like Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, Tomtom maps & traffic, Mapquest, or here we go maps are maps/navigation apps that do…

1★ · App Store · 2026-05-22

Not good. U have to pay for everything. No way. — Don’t download. Dont spend ur time Its no free. Other gps its free

1★ · App Store · 2024-12-01

It’s not free anymore — Everything became paid and premium I can’t use anything without paying

1★ · App Store · 2023-09-12

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 10 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 26.5.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-10 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 26.6.0, updated 2026-10-15.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 26.5.3, not the version now listed on the store.

Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:

Version 26.6.0 · 2026-10-15
Lots of improvements and bug fixes based on your feedback.
Version 26.5.4 · 2026-10-06
Lots of improvements and bug fixes based on your feedback.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 26.6.0 · 2026-10-15
Lots of improvements and bug fixes based on your feedback.
Version 26.5.4 · 2026-10-06
Lots of improvements and bug fixes based on your feedback.
Version 26.5.3 · 2026-09-21
Lots of improvements and bug fixes based on your feedback.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
sygic-apple-585193266
Assessment date
10 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
513
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-10 from 513 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-10 Version analyzed: 26.5.33 independent signals513 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
4.55 ★ · 56,833 ratings
Version
26.6.0
Updated
15 Oct 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
4+
Size
479 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
Sygic a. s.
Category
Utilities
Listing price
Free

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

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