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Organic maps is also 100% free unlike OSMAnd.

• tangus 3y ago
  OsmAnd+ installed from FDroid is 100% free AFAIK.
  • biodranik 3y ago
    What about iOS?
    • teekert 3y ago
      There is no free option for iOS.
  • Freak_NL 3y ago
    On F-Droid that is OsmAnd~, and it is indeed the free equivalent of OsmAnd+ from Google's app store.
• onetimeacc 3y ago
  I can get OsmAnd~ from FDroid for free.
  • Aachen 3y ago
    You can also download map files from the server manually via, e.g., a web browser and get unlimited downloads that way. Don't need to pay for the standard functionality no matter where you downloaded the apk. OsmAnd is free-as-in-beer if you want it to be, though imo that's not fair to the developers unless you truly can't afford a few euros (which can be, no judgement, especially in countries with lower incomes or high income disparity).
• Aachen 3y ago
  So how do they finance the servers from which you download the sizable map files, if there's no "pay to unlock unlimited downloads" like in OsmAnd?
  • balencpp 3y ago
    "Our sponsors - Mythic Beasts ISP provides us two virtual servers with 400 TB/month of free bandwidth to help our users with maps downloads and updates." On their github README.md.
    • hkt 3y ago
      Mythic Beasts are absolutely great, on that note. One of the truly old school hosts in the UK. They pay their employees a share bonus, they're technically excellent, and their services are reliable and well priced. I've been using them for years (since Bytemark got eaten by IOMart) and love them.
  • biodranik 3y ago
    We pay it out of pocket or from users' donations.
  • ihatehn 3y ago
    Also consider that with Google you have to redownload your area of the map almost constantly since they're online maps, whereas it's only even possible to download a ~100mb map file from OrganicMaps monthly-ish when they release app updates and most people don't update. 100mb per user is nothing.