For years I saw the Sygic app appear when searching for car navigation apps. Finally I decided to experiment with the app. I drove a familiar route yesterday, and another one today and the experience was good. It has the advantage of being European and it is well designed for people with electric cars.
I chose to tell it that I was driving a specific electric car, and the charge state, and it calculated the resulting charge within a few percentage points. I find this feature interesting because in theory, on longer trips it could calculate the optimal places for charging along the route. I have not tested this routing option yet.
I found that navigation information was useful and clear when driving on the route I knew well. I need to run more extensive tests to give a fuller review.
An interesting feature of this app is the travelbook screen. It provides you with the distance travelled, total time, total trips as well as individual journeys. This allows you to see the start point, end point, distance, duration, average speed and max speed for each trip. It provides you with the info that the Citroën app is meant to provide, more reliably, so far.
The TomTom app costs about 21 CHF per year whereas this app costs one franc less. They also offer it for 15 CHF if you choose to pay within 7 days of testing the app.
TomTom and Sygic both provide European Alternatives to US based GPS car navigation. They do cost around 20 CHF each per year, but this means that we are, at least partly, the clients. With Google Maps, Apple Maps and other solutions they are "free" but they are US based.
And finally, I avoided testing the app until now because I thought it was not ready, but after testing the app yesterday and today it feels like a good app to consider once my TomTom subscription lapses.
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