Offline maps for Canada
The map that works where your phone doesn’t.
Offline navigation for Canadian road trips, cottage country and the backcountry. Download a province once. Search, route and navigate with no signal — ever.
25 regions are on the list across 2 countries. Prince Edward Island is built and downloadable today; the rest are marked coming soon.
Navzeno showing a cottage-country map — lakes with islands, a highway and a planned route — on a phone with no signal.
No Service
Built for the hour after the last tower
Most map apps degrade quietly when the signal goes: the tiles stop loading, the search box stops answering, and the route never recalculates. This one has nothing to lose, because it was never using the network.
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Airplane mode is the test
Turn the radio off and the map still draws, search still finds places, and the route still recalculates. That is the normal way to use it, not a fallback. -
One download per province
The map, the place index and the routing graph ship together in one file. Nothing streams later, and nothing expires. -
It reroutes on the phone
Miss a turn where there is no coverage and the next instruction still arrives — the routing graph is on the device, not on a server. -
Nothing leaves your phone
No account, no ads, no telemetry, no location history. The app goes to the network for two things only: the list of regions, and the region file you ask for.
Three ways people use it
Pick the trip you are actually taking
Same core, same regions, same offline promise. The difference is what you are looking for when you stop.
Driving
Road trip
Cottage weekends, the Highway 11 and 17 corridors, and the long drives between towns where the radio goes quiet. Fuel, EV charging, washrooms and hospitals along the way.
Driving
RV and trailer
Coming soon
Unpaved, ferry and toll avoidance work today, along with campgrounds and dump stations. Height, weight and low-bridge avoidance is planned and not yet available.
Off the road
Hiking and camping
Trailheads, campgrounds, drinking water and boat launches, with GPX tracks in and out. Walking and cycling routes, and a map that draws the lake you are paddling.
How it works
Three steps, and one of them is turning the radio off
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Download a province
Over Wi-Fi, before you leave. One file holds the map, the place index and the routing graph — Prince Edward Island is 30.3 MB; a big province like Ontario is closer to 2 GB.
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Turn on airplane mode
Or just drive until the bars go. Nothing changes: the map still draws, the search box still finds places, and the router still plans a route — all on the phone.
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Drive, ride or walk
Voice turn-by-turn with street names and roundabout exits, a follow camera, and rerouting on the device when you miss a turn.
Features
What it does with the network off
Everything below runs on the device. There is no server behind any of it.
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Everything runs offline
Drawing, search, routing and turn-by-turn all happen on the phone. The network is needed once, for the download. -
A province in one file
Map, search index and routing graph together. No tiles to fetch as you drive, and no surprise when you cross into a dead zone. -
Routing that knows the rules
One-ways, turn restrictions and access tags are honoured. Avoid tolls, ferries or unpaved roads. Driving, walking and cycling. -
Turn-by-turn with street names
“In 300 metres, turn left onto Bay Street.” Roundabout exits, spoken prompts, and automatic rerouting when you leave the route. -
Search with no connection
Find a town, a road, a lake or a campground by name — matching is by prefix, so the first few letters are enough. Searching by street address is planned. -
Nearby, where there is no nearby
Fuel, EV charging, campgrounds, toilets, drinking water, picnic sites, trailheads, boat launches, dump stations and hospitals. -
Favourites and GPX
Save a place, import a track, export a route. GPX 1.1 in and out, and the same list on every platform. -
Lakes with their islands
Forests, parks and lakes are drawn as the shapes they are, holes included, in OpenStreetMap’s own day colours. Cottage country looks like cottage country.
Ontario first
Ontario is where this has to work
Cottage country from Muskoka to Haliburton. The Highway 11 and 17 corridors, where the gaps between towns are measured in hours. Algonquin, the Bruce Peninsula and the Georgian Bay shore, where a lake with an island in it is most of the map.
The whole province builds into a single file of roughly 2 GB — every road, every lake and island, the searchable names and the routing graph. Other provinces, territories and the neighbouring states follow the same recipe.
25 regions are on the list across 2 countries. Prince Edward Island is built and downloadable today; the rest are marked coming soon.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database Licence. It is the most detailed map of rural Canada anyone has made, and it is not perfect — follow the road signs.
An illustration of a cottage-country map: lakes with wooded islands, a highway through the forest, and a planned route ending at a campground.
Platforms
Four apps, one core
Every decision about what to draw and how to route is made in one shared engine. The platform layer draws triangles and speaks the prompts, which is why a route on a Mac is the same route as on the phone.
- iPhone and iPad
- The main app: Metal renderer, voice guidance, follow camera, GPX and favourites.
- Mac
- The same app and the same core, with trackpad pan and pinch. Good for planning a trip before you leave.
- Android In development
- Vulkan renderer, the same region files and the same routes.
- Linux
- A desktop build that links the core directly — the reference shell we test navigation against.
Privacy
No account. No ads. No location data leaves the device.
The app asks for your position so it can draw where you are and follow you along a route. That position is used on the phone and sent nowhere. There is no sign-in, no profile, no advertising SDK and no analytics in the app. The one thing it does over the network is fetch a region file — after that, it does not need the network again.
Know when it ships
One email when the app is out. No newsletter, no marketing, unsubscribe with one click.
Email us and we will add you to the list: [email protected]
We store your address to send that one email. Nothing else, ever.