aka maps navigates by the names your family actually uses. Rename any place — the good Publix, Grandma’s house — and every device in the household follows. Offline-first, no ads, no tracking, free.
Vol. 1 — first edition Works without signal No account required Price: free
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Nobody in your house says “Publix Super Market at Westgate Plaza.” Rename any place on the map and navigate by the name you actually use; the official name stays underneath for when a stranger asks. Search finds both.
Rename it once and everyone’s map learns it. “Grandma’s house” means the same pin on every phone in the family — and it means nothing on anyone else’s. Your names never leave the household, and never touch a server you can’t see.
Download your regions and the whole map — search, turn-by-turn, your names — works in a parking garage, on a back road, or abroad in airplane mode. Speed-camera alerts included, free, because safety is not an upsell.
No engagement loops, no sponsored pins, no place pages hawking ads. A map, directions, and the names you gave things — the whole product on one sheet. Rename a place once and it is yours: the household sees it, and nobody else ever does.
Free on iPhone and Android, with CarPlay and Android Auto. No account, no ads, no tracking — funded by tips.
Your searches, routes and names stay on your phone. If you join a household or circle, its names travel between the phones in it as encrypted blobs through our relay; the relay stores what it cannot read and keeps no access log. When the map streams an area you haven’t downloaded, our file host (Cloudflare) serves the tiles you’re looking at; we keep no access log and there is no account. Once a day the app tells our server it was opened, with the app version and a random installation id made on your phone; the id isn’t tied to you or your names, and we use it only to count how many devices use the app. The full privacy policy has the detail.
Shake the phone inside the app to send feedback, or write to hello@akamaps.com.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors; map tiles from OpenMapTiles; places from Overture Maps; addresses from OpenAddresses; terrain from Natural Earth and the USGS.