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OsmAnd
Raised as a usability problem by 127 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 80 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
- 1Pasting a full address into search failsUnreviewed
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Every issue, all time, most people first
Pasting a full address into search failsUnreviewed
20132026- Street search defaults to the last searched city, not the user's location2026-02-27
- Same address query returns 19,000 highlighted results, making the location impossible to find2023-12-29
- Address entry is often misinterpreted, making straightforward searches unusable2023-09-21
Panning and zooming feel slow, worse with each updateUnreviewed
20132026- Map panning and zooming feel annoyingly slow, worse with each update2026-02-26
- Map is slow to load higher detail levels when quickly checking location2025-09-04
- Map redraws on every interaction, making the app feel slow and laggy2023-09-21
Hard to work out how to remove temporary markersUnreviewed
20132026- Can't easily work out how to remove a temporary map marker2025-09-04
- Can't easily work out how to remove temporary markers2025-09-03
- Accidentally placed markers have many options but no simple way to delete them2024-03-03
Too many features make it slow to figure out how to do thingsUnreviewed
20132026- Too many features make it slow to figure out how to do things2023-09-21
- Takes about five minutes of digging to find how to enable features2022-08-10
- Unintuitive UI; takes ages to find particular functions2020-12-23
Route takes minutes to calculate and is not optimalUnreviewed
20132026- Takes around 5 seconds to render the current map view and route calculation is unpredictable2025-05-12
- Routing is much harder than Google Maps; couldn't get simple search-and-route working2023-08-09
- Took several minutes to calculate a route, and the route it found was not optimal2014-05-19
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 50 complaints
- Growing list of specialist features makes the ones you use harder to find2026-08-27
- Interface is complex and confusing unless the user is already familiar with it2026-08-27
- Unclear how to change the route's start point once it defaults to current location2026-08-26
- General public finds the app too confusing, so people get angry at recommendations2026-07-06
- Interface is so convoluted that the commenter abandoned the app2026-07-06
- Search is very slow and only finds results on an exact 100 percent match2026-07-06
- Everyone complains the app has terrible UX2026-07-06
- Interface is so convoluted that the user abandoned the app2026-07-05
- User could never figure out how to use the app, UX described as a disaster2026-05-06
- Interface is not made for casual use, hard for everyday users2026-05-06
- Must copy and paste addresses from Google Maps into the app2026-02-27
- Street search defaults to the last searched city, not the user's location2026-02-27
- Search is unreliable, forcing many taps through category results to find places2026-02-27
- Map panning and zooming feel annoyingly slow, worse with each update2026-02-26
- Searching for a business by name returns nothing or scattered, irrelevant results2026-02-26
- Navigating to businesses often lands in the wrong location or lacks addresses2025-12-12
- Can't easily work out how to remove a temporary map marker2025-09-04
- Map is slow to load higher detail levels when quickly checking location2025-09-04
- Couldn't figure out how to navigate; learning curve too steep for new users2025-09-03
- Commenter struggled to work out how to simply navigate from A to B2025-09-03
- Can't easily work out how to remove temporary markers2025-09-03
- Display is dense and confusing to configure2025-08-23
- App is so hard to use it bordered on unusable2025-08-23
- Gives wrong turn instructions at intersections, telling user to turn where turns aren't allowed2025-08-22
- Phone overheats during pathfinding and when drawing complicated terrain2025-07-27
- Takes around 5 seconds to render the current map view and route calculation is unpredictable2025-05-12
- More features but more confusing and slower to use than Organic Maps2024-12-07
- Chock full of features, so getting around the UI can be tricky2024-11-08
- Accidentally placed markers have many options but no simple way to delete them2024-03-03
- Same address query returns 19,000 highlighted results, making the location impossible to find2023-12-29
- App opens without showing the map, forcing an extra search step2023-12-29
- Can't find an address the user previously added to OSM2023-12-28
- Frustrating UX that takes effort to learn; rendering is annoying2023-10-29
- Too many features make it slow to figure out how to do things2023-09-21
- OsmAnd's interface feels slow to respond compared to Organic Maps2023-09-21
- Address entry is often misinterpreted, making straightforward searches unusable2023-09-21
- Map redraws on every interaction, making the app feel slow and laggy2023-09-21
- Repeated unnecessary 'Continue straight on road X' voice announcements2023-09-01
- Super powerful but incredibly convoluted, hard to navigate2023-09-01
- Too many nested options menus make the app a mess to navigate2023-09-01
- Routing is much harder than Google Maps; couldn't get simple search-and-route working2023-08-09
- Found OsmAnd lacking for real-time driving navigation2023-08-08
- Requires time to learn the quirks of how to use it2023-08-08
- User experience is irritating to use2023-06-17
- Interface feels laggy and poorly designed to use2023-01-28
- Search only works with a rigid country-city-street-house sequence, fails for businesses2023-01-27
- Trip Recording is hard to find; must dig through Plugins menu to enable it2023-01-27
- Cannot find a setting that correctly transliterates Japanese place names2023-01-27
- Valid UK postcodes in Bournemouth are rejected by search2023-01-27
- Clunky and difficult for newcomers to use2023-01-27