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MapQuest Holdings LLC · Navigation · Free · v2026.10

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Review-rating drop
2.36

2023-Q3 4.53 → last 90 days 2.17, text reviews

Peak quarter
4.53

2023-Q3, text reviews

Last 90 days
2.17

text reviews

Store rating
4.64

all 7523 ratings, incl. star-only

Store gap
2.47

store minus reviews

Est. MRR
$343k

#23 top-grossing, Navigation

store 4.64 · reviews 4.53 → 2.17 · gap 2.47 store 4.64 reviews 2.17

Store ratings include star-only taps from in-app prompts, which skew high. The peak and recent figures come only from people who wrote a review, which skews low. Compare each against itself: the drop is the signal, and a big gap between the two usually means heavy rating prompting is masking unhappy users.

Average rating by quarter from 500 text reviews

2★3★4★5★ 1★ 2023-Q2: 4.52★ from 105 reviews 4.52 2023-Q2 2023-Q3: 4.53★ from 118 reviews 4.53 2023-Q3 2023-Q4: 4.36★ from 73 reviews 2024-Q1: 4.20★ from 64 reviews 2024-Q2: 3.80★ from 20 reviews 2024-Q3: 3.64★ from 11 reviews 2024-Q4: 2.91★ from 11 reviews 2025-Q1: 2.67★ from 6 reviews (small sample) 2025-Q2: 2.50★ from 6 reviews (small sample) 2025-Q3: 2.63★ from 8 reviews 2025-Q4: 2.14★ from 7 reviews (small sample) 2026-Q1: 2.13★ from 15 reviews 2026-Q2: 1.95★ from 21 reviews 2026-Q3: 2.16★ from 31 reviews 2026-Q4: 2.50★ from 4 reviews (small sample) 2.50 2026-Q4
Faint bars have fewer than 8 reviews. Text reviews skew negative versus star-only ratings; read the direction, not the level.
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QuarterAvg stars Reviews
2023-Q24.52 105
2023-Q34.53 118
2023-Q44.36 73
2024-Q14.20 64
2024-Q23.80 20
2024-Q33.64 11
2024-Q42.91 11
2025-Q12.67 6
2025-Q22.50 6
2025-Q32.63 8
2025-Q42.14 7
2026-Q12.13 15
2026-Q21.95 21
2026-Q32.16 31
2026-Q42.50 4

Recent 1–2 star reviews

Update = uninstall

★ · v2026.08.241 · Oct 9, 2026

After the most recent update the app shuts off if it isn’t interacted with every few minutes. My deliveries are often 10 to 15 minutes apart. It is also now taking about 3 minutes for the app to start up again. That is a really long time to sit and wait in some stranger’s driveway. There is an “always on” toggle but it does nothing. I am unsure why the app takes so long to open up now. I assume it is loading maps from all over the world for my local deliveries. That reminds me… since the update I have to include the city I am in when adding addresses or it will literally give me options from all over the country. Not a big deal but it looked in my local area before. Now it is just one more thing that got worse. I have stopped the subscription and deleted the app. To many other options to put up with such bad decision making by people i assume are trying to justify their jobs by pushing out updates for something that was working fine. Poor management bad app.

2 weeks later and still no update

★ · v2026.08.241 · Oct 6, 2026

You would think that since no one asked for this update and people depend on this app for work you guys would revert back to the original app and not put out an update without back testing the reliability it is now 2 weeks and bug fixes or updates and we’re still getting charged the same for an app that’s barely working remember no one asked for this next time I think before you guys roll out an update you should roll it out to users who OPT in for experimental updates and once you have all the bugs fixed than roll it out and let people know atleast 2 weeks in advance not just catch everyone by surprise I do t like the blue either it depresses and throws me off it should be a little more transparent to see the direction of the road easier , I think you should be able to adjust the color of the trail I think map should be wider view it’s no need for it to be so compact I think you should see the names of the road easier without having to zoom in all the way in the street. I think when you are moving stops on list mode you shouldn’t have to calculate it for it to register sometimes we just want a general idea of where to go without having to follow the list stop by stop because if there’s a stop on the corner the map would force us to do a whole extra run around instead of just letting me walk to 2 houses down for example

They ruined this app

★ · v2026.08.241 · Sep 29, 2026

This used to be the most legit routing app until the recent updates. Color and logo design is awful. The routing doesn’t save or goes completely blank after plugging in multiple addresses. Awful update. Completely ruined the app.

Trash

★ · v2026.08.241 · Sep 24, 2026

Ever since you guys updated the app I lost my routes. They’re not popping up no more. I wish you guys would go back to the old version. I’ve been using this app since 2022. It is now 2026 and I wanna throw it away.

Terrible Update

★ · v2026.08.241 · Sep 23, 2026

Added a bunch of new things for no reason, made the app worse tbh

New update

★ · v2026.08.241 · Sep 19, 2026

Used yesterday with no problem - today the new app is freezing upon opening

Bad

★ · v2026.08.241 · Sep 17, 2026

It’s bad for iPad very bad update can’t use like landscape

New update garbage

★ · v2026.08.241 · Sep 17, 2026

After 8 years of using this app I’ll be canceling my subscription. You have destroyed a once useful app to something cumbersome and terrible to use. A shame. Bring back the old design and listen to the customer complaints.

Horrible

★ · v2026.07.301 · Sep 14, 2026

Before you can even look at a map, you have to give your email to create an account. You also cannot search locations by name, only by coordinates or address.🤦‍♂️

Uh…

★ · v2026.07.301 · Sep 1, 2026

Just downloaded. Opened. Asks for a username/email. I don’t have one yet, so it just says whatever I type in is invalid. So I guess this app is dead.

Not happy with the app

★★ · v2026.07.301 · Aug 5, 2026

Having trouble logging into the app it’s been over two weeks!!!

New version

★★ · v2026.07.301 · Jul 24, 2026

Don’t like the new version it’s lagging when using app

Sharing is working

★★ · v2026.06.151 · Jul 23, 2026

The most recent update has made it so I cannot share the route via text. It used to be so easy. I can share it from the routes master list, but not when I’m in the route. The option is there, it just doesn’t do anything. And when I DO share it from the master list, it doesn’t include the times for each stop anymore. Please fix!

No longer useful

★ · v2026.06.151 · Jul 23, 2026

I can’t access it without having to pay for it… I use it 3-4 days a month and it’s not worth the money

Please update and fix editing asap.

★ · v2026.06.151 · Jul 23, 2026

I rely on utilization of this app daily for work travel, accessibility to notes, and route planning. After the last update the app doesn’t work even half as good as it did before the update. It’s almost impossible to edit/update notes if there is a significant amount of existing notes as the edit button does not exist. Also, app keeps freezing. Please fix asap!!

New Update

★ · v2026.06.151 · Jul 23, 2026

New update 7/23/2026 is absolute junk. Childish looking maps. Slow. Definitely stopping my subscription after this.

Ruined it with new update!!!!

★ · v2026.06.151 · Jul 23, 2026

App is awful and crashes takes to long to enter stops and does work when you don’t have service. New update will lose customers!!!

7/22/26 Last couple updates ruined the app entirely

★ · v2026.06.151 · Jul 22, 2026

Urgent: Today (7/22/26) we got a massive overhaul of the app. It’s not good. Matter of fact, the app is now technically barely functioning. But before I comment on this new version I need to say that the changes to the previous version also made the app less useable. Prior to this major update they snuck in another update that broke the best feature of the app: having your map loaded into system RAM. Why is that important? Because no matter where you are your internet connection wasn’t reliant on the map loading. They snuck that update in and because I operate in an area with little to no cell service I have to keep driving out of my way to pick up an internet connection to even get past the first loading screen. That was totally ridiculous. Today, we wake up to an overhaul. I’m sure there are some improvements but the core features you need for this app now all load extremely slow. First off, it defaults your navigation to walking, not driving. Minor detail but no other previous version had this easy to catch mistake. In addition, it also now completely eats your battery and overheats your phone. I have had my phone refuse to charge due to overheating. My phone is in front of the AC on full blast. I have never experienced this. Even when the phone isn’t overheating due to Road Warrior, it won’t charge because it’s eating more battery than can be charged into it. This is a full-on disaster. When you type an address in and switch from the address number to the street name, it minimizes the keyboard and then realoads it again. So let’s say you’re typing in “100 main st”. You type “100” and then when you switch back to ABC, rather than just switch like every keyboard on earth, it minimizes/closes, then reopens. Now you’re 2-3 letters into the road name. And the absolutely experience-destroying feature of forcing the app to have an internet connection to load the map YOU just CREATED, is longer than ever. Added dumb features are : 5 second response time to mark a stop as completed. Previously it was milliseconds. And after clicking the “optimize” button a pop-up says “do you want to optimize?” Come on. This is ridiculous. And I’m sure I’ll find more throughout the day. (Edit: you can not even mark a stop complete without a full internet connection). It keeps logging me out in between stops as well. This version feels worse than a beta 0.0.1 test release. This was a very polished, excellent app at one point. Now it’s garbage. I want the version from 2025. I’m not paying for this anymore. I’ll gladly pay for the 2025 version for the rest of my life. But not this. This is worse than the app I created myself. So I’m canceling this and switching over to the one I made on Android.

Update garbage

★ · v2026.06.151 · Jul 22, 2026

Stop changing stuff that works just because someone gets paid to do that job. Worked great, let’s change it for all those that use to depend on it for their jobs 🤦🏻

Broken “Re-Design”

★ · v2026.06.151 · Jul 16, 2026

This app was almost perfect before 06/10/2026 the re-design. Now - the app fails to optimize based on the current time (bug), the routing upon optimization completely ignores any and all schedules or time windows that the user has set to either an individual stop or saved favorites with schedules. I have had MANY emails back and forth with support and they say a fix is coming… it is now over a month later and the same issues persist. Myself and the rest of my local DHL drivers are now looking into other options as it seems the best routing app is now DOA. My last email to them was 6/25/26 and never received a response. If your route requires you to be at places before or after certain times… use something else.

Great App Until the Recent Update

★ · v2026.06.151 · Jul 8, 2026

I’ve been a loyal RoadWarrior user for years and have trusted it with my business. Over that time I’ve built a database of more than 1,000 saved favorites/addresses and just under 400 saved routes. It has been an essential tool for my work. Unfortunately, after the recent updates, I’ve experienced missing data and syncing issues that are incredibly concerning. Years of work appear to be missing or inaccessible, and there’s no clear explanation of what’s happened or how to recover it. For users like me who depend on this app professionally, this isn’t just an inconvenience—it’s a potential loss of years of valuable business information, money, and time. Before rolling out major updates, there needs to be better testing, better communication, and a much more reliable way to protect customer data. I sincerely hope the developers address these issues quickly because RoadWarrior has been a fantastic app in the past. Right now, however, I can’t recommend it to anyone who depends on it for their livelihood until these data and syncing problems are resolved. Super unhappy right now.

Bad update

★ · v2026.06.151 · Jul 6, 2026

Ever since the new update, the app opens much slower, big city names don’t load except for one specific amount of zooming in on them, it’s harder to manually organize the order of the stops, selecting multiple stops to delete them is harder, loading the next stop is slower after checking in the one you just did as well as several other things. If they went back to the previous version the app would be great.

Bad update

★★ · v2026.06.151 · Jul 2, 2026

Ever since the update, this app has been a complete nightmare. I have all of my clients in my favorites and I cannot scroll to save my life because it auto scrolls the whole entire list without me doing a thing.

Forcing to upgrade

★ · v2026.06.151 · Jun 30, 2026

Using basic now trying to FORCE me to upgrade using an upgrade popup.

Poor updates

★★ · v2026.06.151 · Jun 23, 2026

Every time they “update” the app, it gets worse. It’s useful for creating a plan and routing stops, but the map has become almost unreadable, the saved stop indicator dots are way too big and dominate the map unless you zoom way too close to see anything useful.. The blue dot that used to track your location as you moved is no longer there do you have to keep tapping the find me indicator to know your position on the map. I’ve used this app for 5 years, but I won’t be renewing it after this subscription period is over. It has become way too cumbersome and hard to read the small print and road names on the map.

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