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The pitch: offline search and routing that need only a GPS fix, zero mobile data, and an app that says it collects no information about you at all.
The catch users keep hitting is search, with no way to blend city with name, road with category, or filter by opening hours.
The top HN threads: facts from the discussions, both sides, insider voices. Email, Telegram, or RSS.
The pitch is clean: 100% of features work offline, no ads, no registration, verified tracker-free, 6 million installs by December. Then a CoMaps contributor shows up in the thread recruiting iOS developers, and others start listing why the community walked out a year ago — quietly added ads, a slice of code turned proprietary, donations that allegedly went missing.
The awkward footnote from a long-time user: even fans admit the search is so bad they keep crawling back to Google Maps.
