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Best navigation apps in 🇿🇦 South Africa, September 2026

Four lists from Apple's own charts, read every morning: the most downloaded free navigation apps, the best rated among the hundred most downloaded, the top paid and the top grossing. Ratings are the store's, positions are today's, and movement is against yesterday. Nothing here is estimated.

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Most downloaded free navigation apps

Apple's top free chart, ZA, today.

  1. 1 SafeWalks: Smart ProtectionGreason Tech Solutions (Pty) Ltd 4.4★ ▲1
  2. 2 Google MapsGoogle 4.7★ ▼1
  3. 3 Waze Navigation & Live TrafficWaze Inc. 4.8★ ·
  4. 4 Bolt Driver: Drive & EarnBOLT TECHNOLOGY OU 4.7★ ▲1
  5. 5 Real-time GPS Location SharingVan Hoa Nguyen 5.0★ ▼1
  6. 6 Open Street Map : View TrafficVasundhara Infotech LLP 3.8★ ·
  7. 7 Citymapper: Your Transport AppCitymapper Limited 4.9★ ▲2
  8. 8 AMap GlobalAutoNavi Information Technology Co. Ltd. 4.8★ ▲2
  9. 9 Traccar ClientAnton Tananaev 5.0★ ▼2
  10. 10 GPS Phone Location TrackerREIDXSOFT YAZILIM TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI 3.2★ ▼2
  11. 11 Organic Maps・Offline Map & GPSOrganic Maps 4.9★ ▲1
  12. 12 MyCiTiWorld Wide Creative (Pty) Ltd 2.6★ ▼1
  13. 13 Safer City GOSafer City Pty Ltd 5.0★ ▲1
  14. 14 Live Earth Camera - GPS MapInfinityBridgeLimited — ▲6
  15. 15 MapXplorer: GPS NavigationGoldlab Applications Yazilim Bilişim Anonim Şirketi 4.6★ ·
All 100, with movers and drop-outs →

Best rated of the top 100

Highest star rating among the hundred most downloaded, at least 500 ratings.

  1. 1 Citymapper: Your Transport App#7 free · 5,122 ratings 4.90
  2. 2 Waze Navigation & Live Traffic#3 free · 24,538 ratings 4.80
  3. 3 TfL Go: Plan, Pay, Travel#23 free · 578 ratings 4.80
  4. 4 Google Maps#2 free · 184,840 ratings 4.70
  5. 5 Bolt Driver: Drive & Earn#4 free · 27,146 ratings 4.70
  6. 6 what3words: Navigation & Maps#65 free · 1,819 ratings 4.70
  7. 7 Avenza Maps: Offline Mapping#45 free · 810 ratings 4.70
  8. 8 Speedometer Speed Tracker GPS#88 free · 1,419 ratings 4.60
  9. 9 MapXplorer: GPS Navigation#15 free · 1,053 ratings 4.60
  10. 10 Sygic: Sat Nav - Live GPS Maps#69 free · 1,603 ratings 4.50

Top paid navigation apps

  1. 1 MapOut 4.6★
  2. 2 Solocator - GPS Field Camera 4.8★
  3. 3 GPX Viewer PRO: Hike & Bike 4.0★
  4. 4 Blitzer.de PRO —
  5. 5 Nakasendo Route Map Navigator 4.0★
  6. 6 Alpin Quest PRO – Outdoor GPS —
  7. 7 Kruger Navigator 3.0★
  8. 8 GPS Coordinates Finder Pro —
All 100 →

Top grossing navigation apps

  1. 1 Gaia GPS: Mobile Trail Maps 4.7★
  2. 2 Open Street Map : View Traffic 4.0★
  3. 3 Navionics® Boating 3.1★
  4. 4 MapXplorer: GPS Navigation 4.6★
  5. 5 Find my Phone - Family Locator 4.4★
  6. 6 Spoke Route Planner 4.7★
  7. 7 Wheelz - Social Drive Tracker 4.7★
  8. 8 Geocaching® 4.7★
All 100 →

Most downloaded on Google Play

ZA, today
  1. 1Bolt: Request a Ride 4.8★
  2. 2inDrive. Rides with fair fares 4.9★
  3. 3Uber - Request a ride 4.8★
  4. 4Bolt Driver: Drive & Earn 4.6★
  5. 5Waze Navigation & Live Traffic 4.7★
  6. 6Phone Tracker Live Locator 4.1★
  7. 7Phone GPS Tracker 4.4★
  8. 8GPS Tracker: Find Phone 3.9★
  9. 9GPS Navigation & Map Direction 4.5★
  10. 10Number location-phone locator 4.0★
Google Play chart, all rows →

How "best" is decided

Downloads decide the first list: Apple's top free chart for South Africa, which ranks by installs over the last days. The second list takes those hundred apps and sorts them by the star rating South Africa users gave them, ignoring apps with fewer than 500 ratings so a handful of five-star reviews cannot win. Paid and grossing come straight from Apple's charts. We add no score of our own and take no placement fees.

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