I've tried just about all of the GPS apps in the store and I keep coming back to three.
TomTom. I'm using this one currently. I like that it lists all the street names and is easy to read the text on the screen. Multitasking makes it easy to do something else and then come back to the app. I did find a few times that it stopped tracking me until I came back to the app. It's easy to use with music or podcasts that you are already listening to, just hit the music note and you can pause or rewind or skip a track. TTS is included.
CoPilot. It's cheap and works great and 99% of all street names are listed. Sometimes it can be hard to enter a destination especially if you are wrong about the zip or city. Maps can be slightly out of date. I actually think they may be based upon old city plans that were never carried out. In my area, there is a huge field where a farm sits and CoPilot shows there are 3 streets cutting through that farm and there clearly aren't any. I still love using this app because of the colorful maps and the POIs are clearly labeled. TTS is included.
Last summer, I was using G-Map U.S. and Canada version allot and then I forgot all about it and actually lost the app from my computer. I went to look for it and found it wasn't there a little while ago. I downloaded it again and see that it's now on 2.0. I used to like it because again, the streets and text on the map display were easy to read and address very easy to enter as a destination. Traffic was built in but I don't think it worked good but this was last summer. One highway near me was always marked red. I'll be trying this app out again this week since it's been a long time and an update since I've used it. This app has TTS.
I also tried Navigon and hated it. There were areas of my city on the map that would have an olive green background to it that made the map hurt my eyes. I couldn't read any of the text when that background color was on the screen. Lane assist was very nice and so was the TTS. I haven't used this app since last summer because of the background colors and the text on the maps was very hard to read and way too small.
Sygic was not detailed enough for me.
Those are the ones I have tired.
TomTom. I'm using this one currently. I like that it lists all the street names and is easy to read the text on the screen. Multitasking makes it easy to do something else and then come back to the app. I did find a few times that it stopped tracking me until I came back to the app. It's easy to use with music or podcasts that you are already listening to, just hit the music note and you can pause or rewind or skip a track. TTS is included.
CoPilot. It's cheap and works great and 99% of all street names are listed. Sometimes it can be hard to enter a destination especially if you are wrong about the zip or city. Maps can be slightly out of date. I actually think they may be based upon old city plans that were never carried out. In my area, there is a huge field where a farm sits and CoPilot shows there are 3 streets cutting through that farm and there clearly aren't any. I still love using this app because of the colorful maps and the POIs are clearly labeled. TTS is included.
Last summer, I was using G-Map U.S. and Canada version allot and then I forgot all about it and actually lost the app from my computer. I went to look for it and found it wasn't there a little while ago. I downloaded it again and see that it's now on 2.0. I used to like it because again, the streets and text on the map display were easy to read and address very easy to enter as a destination. Traffic was built in but I don't think it worked good but this was last summer. One highway near me was always marked red. I'll be trying this app out again this week since it's been a long time and an update since I've used it. This app has TTS.
I also tried Navigon and hated it. There were areas of my city on the map that would have an olive green background to it that made the map hurt my eyes. I couldn't read any of the text when that background color was on the screen. Lane assist was very nice and so was the TTS. I haven't used this app since last summer because of the background colors and the text on the maps was very hard to read and way too small.
Sygic was not detailed enough for me.
Those are the ones I have tired.
