Top 5 Offline Map Apps for iPhone 5

Asking a stranger about a route, points of interest (POI), a popular restaurant, or a public place is not considered a safe practice these days. Owing to the growing crime and insecurity while at an unknown place is a matter of worry, because you are not aware of the way out to reach a safer place. Google Maps and other prominent maps applications will assist your Apple’s device in finding directions, but only when your device is supported by a working internet connection. But what will you do when there’s no connectivity on your iPhone 5? Map apps are one of the most important accessible factors when you are away from your city and want to find out POIs or routes. Offline Maps apps are specially developed for no internet connectivity situations hence, you can download the map image, a place of interest, or a part of the map on your iPhone.

In this blog, you’ll read about the top 5 offline map apps for iPhone 5:

1. Pocket Earth Lite

Pocket Earth Lite is an excellent offline map app that works with GPS and is meant to keep handy while you’re travelling to abroad. Possessing a detailed and interactive database of worldwide maps, the app lets you access information about more than 100,000 places. Coming with customization features, the app lets you personalize the maps and view only the info you want. Capable of displaying information about various POIs such as hotels, restaurants, bars, and tourist sites, the app is a constant travel companion as it fetches metro and public transit info. One of the most amazing features is that the app provides access to more than 50,000 detailed Wikivoyage Travel Guides in 7 languages.

2. Galileo Offline Maps

Galileo Offline Maps is an app that provides you an access to the offline vector maps and also lets you do an offline search to look for routes to your desired locations. Pro version users can access and download unlimited number of countries/regions maps, without any interference or annoying ads. Supporting multiple languages, this map app offers monthly updates to keep the database refreshed and up-to-date. You can easily record your trips, mark your favorite places, set points of interest for later use, and can share your itineraries from the app via Mail, Facebook, and Twitter. It also monitors your real time speed, distance and time traveled, in order to keep you posted about the past activities.

3. City Maps 2Go Pro

City Maps 2Go Pro is another offline app that provides unlimited access to maps and travel content to worldwide destinations while the free version limits the access to five destinations of your choice. Featuring a complete package of offline maps, popular places, in-depth travel content and insider tips, the app also assists you in searching the best restaurants, attractions, shops, hotels, and bars. Possessing a powerful search function, the app can easily find map by name, category, or your device’s GPS. You can easily share your favorite places, post reviews, rate your favorite places, and share tips and recommendations for other travelers with this amazing app.

4. OpenMaps Pro

OpenMaps Pro is an amazing offline maps application that allows downloading of maps, editing them, searching for addresses, getting directions, and scanning the map for iPhone users. Advanced users have an access to the custom map and your friends’ tweets that have been mentioned for you on the map. The app can efficiently find the car, bike or pedestrian routes with directions between any two locations and an estimated travel time provided along with it.

5. MAPS.ME

Maps.ME is an offline iPhone app that can efficiently display information about various POIs like restaurants, gas stations, and tourist destinations. The database is always up-to-date as details are added on a daily basis by map users located worldwide. The app provides maps that are small in size, and can present route to various destinations and POIs for free, irrespective of their country or location. Offering you the offline search feature to find everything that you want, the app lets you bookmark locations and POI for later use.

The above mentioned apps are some of the efficient offline maps apps for your iPhone 5 and may or may not be used on other Apple devices. Apart from these, you can also install CoPilot GPS, Tripadvisor Offline City guides, Scout GPS, Wi-Fi Finder, Map With Me Lite, A&T Navigator, MotionX GPS, and Geocaching for added offline map support. For more options you should also explore the iTunes store and look for the local offline map apps as they are efficient in offering details about local POIs.