We’re thrilled to announce that CoMaps Android release 2025.06.10 is now live on the F-Droid app catalogue!
This is a big step forward in our mission to provide a privacy-respecting, community-powered navigation app to everyone.
Why F-Droid?
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Free and Open Source: F-Droid ensures that the apps listed contain no closed / proprietary parts. All apps are built by F-Droid itself and are guaranteed to correspond to source code made available by apps’ developers.
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Community: F-Droid is a volunteer-driven project, aligning perfectly with our values and the support of the amazing people who use CoMaps.
Get CoMaps on F-Droid
- Install F-Droid: Download F-Droid from f-droid.org
- Install CoMaps: Search “CoMaps” in F-Droid, install
We’re excited to bring CoMaps to the F-Droid community. Thank you for being a part of this journey with us! ❤️
Looks like it’s some Organic Maps / Maps.me fork: https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-05-29/ITs-FOSS-NEWS--Organic-Maps-Forked-Over-Governance-Concerns-CoMaps-is-Born/
It is. They split because of some leadership drama. I don’t know the details.
The Open Letter to Organic Maps Shareholders from April provides some details.
Thanks
The Organic Maps shareholders closed parts of the code, added Kayak advertising and there is a risk that they will sell the project for their own profit.
I think the key issue was lack of transparency around donations from the OrganicMaps owners. Article summary: https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-05-29/ITs-FOSS-NEWS--Organic-Maps-Forked-Over-Governance-Concerns-CoMaps-is-Born/ The open letter that startet CoMaps: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c
The Organic Maps project was advertised as community-driven, but shareholders were making a number of decisions without community input, and without community being aware decisions are being made. While the use of donations is concerning, it wasn’t the main problem. When people contribute to the project so that it can be for the entire community, but the shareholders are open to selling the contributors’ work for their profit, that becomes problematic. Maps.me was sold and it added paid subscriptions and a crypto wallet, which destroyed the entire experience. And it appears Organic Maps risks the same problem.
Its already better than Organic Maps. The latest update has this
save built routes as trackswhich is so good for doing long bike tours :)Is CoMaps going to merge commits from OM in the future? Or is the development completely parallel?
It does merge commits from OM at the moment.
Installed and in daily use! Thanks comaps team ❤️
Why can’t I find it?
It’s because it has antifeatures you have filtered out. I believe it was “tethered network services” that made comaps appear in search results
I still don’t see it…
I can see it on the website, copy the link and when I open it on the phone it says app not found.Is your local repository cache up to date? Pull down to update.
That was it. Thank you :)
Update the repos in the app
Downloaded and switched! 🙌
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I have a problem with map downloads. On the 1st install, out of 6,1 failed, and on the last update, another map failed to download. It just gets stuck and goes really slow and won’t complete, then finally fails after a while. I have to come back after some time to complete downloading.
Is there some kind of request limit 5hat throttles downloads?
Also could it please support Open tracks to view its maps. Sharing maps from Open tracks share menu is imported as bookmarks, which isn’t optimal.
