CoPilot HD USA & Canada App Reviews

Used to be a good app. Update is useless. Very difficult to use. Cant find menus. Cant navigate thru trip planning, views, functions, trips, etc. Im deleting it. Would not recommend for anyone for any use.

This app works exactly as advertised. I travel to Canada often and I lose my carrier immediately upon crossing the border. Co-pilot has worked perfectly for me and I highly recommend it

I love the new CoPilot user interface. It took a couple times to get used to but now I really love the new features - especially the alternate route suggestions and the easily accessible written directions.

It does not show any speed limit after weeks tried on screen. I updated it on Dec.3 .2016 but that still does not show the speed limit like as advertised on this app. Disappointed . I will maybe change the rate star if theyre fixing asap. Doesnt recommend buy this app at this time.

So I purchased this yesterday, downloaded the North American map (USA and Canada - I guess someone there doesnt realize Mexico is considered NA, too). Anyway, I put the CoPilot up next to my Garmin Nuevo 2595LM, and went on a trip to the daughters house about 60 miles away. Both mapped almost the exact same route - interesting that CoPilot mapped the way I like to go. While both give good instructions, the CoPilot was a little more articulate about them, and gave better warnings when a turn was coming. While I saw the posted speed limit on the Garmin I never did see it on the CoPilot. Which brings up my main gripe so far with CoPilot - why are they so cheap with the info-bar real-estate? The Garmin gives Speed, Arrival time, miles to go, altitude, and a couple of other items, while on CoPilot I can choose one of those items for the left side of the info-bar and one for the right side? Come on! This is running on an iPad Pro and I get one choice for each side? This is inexcusable. The 5" wide screen of the nuvi compared to the 12 inch screen of the Pro? I personally would like to know why we cant have more choices on the infobar. This travesty knocked two stars off my review. Other than that, I dont see any problems with CoPilot, but I still have a ways to go (pun intended!)

THIS APP IS NOT STABLE AND DOES NOT WORK DO NOT BUY!!!!!! I DOWNLOADED IT AND AFTER I SPENT 2 HOURS DOWNLOADING THE MAPS, ENTRY MY INFO, AND PERSONALIZING IT WITH MY SETTINGS IT CONTINUOUSLY BEGAN TO CRASH!!!!! I HAVE THE 64 GB IPHONE 5S AND IS UP TO DATE RUNNING IOS 7.0.4. IVE HAD PROBLEMS WITH THIS APP SINCE IT CAME OUT A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO!!! I HONESTLY DONT THINK IVE EVER BEEN ABLE TO USE IT EVEN ONE TIME, TO NAVIGATE FROM ONE POINT TO ANOTHER, IN THE LAST TWO YEARS THAT IVE OWNED IT!!! EVERY TIME A NEW UPDATE COMES OUT, I GIVE IT ANOTHER CHANCE TO SEE IF IT WILL WORK, BUT EVERY TIME I TRY TO USE IT, THERES ALWAYS ONE THING OR ANOTHER, WRONG WITH IT, THAT CAUSES IT NOT TO WORK AND I ALWAYS END UP DELETING IT!!!!! MY ADVICE IS DO NOT BUY IT, BECAUSE IT IS JUST WAY TOO EXPENSIVE TO NOT WORK EVEN SOME OF THE TIME, AND HONESTLY IN MY CASE IT HASNT WORKED 100% OF THE TIME!!!! MAYBE TWO YEARS FROM NOW ILL ACTUALLY GET TO USE THE APP I PAID FOR OVER TWO YEARS AGO!!!!!!

I read the previous reviews,and dont know what the issue is. I have had this app for SEVERAL months - pre IOS 7 and it has worked fine pre update and after. I WOULD NOT trade this app for any other GPS APP out there!

This is the finest Nav application I have ever used... its intuitive, recalcs quickly and is very accurate.

It might: Have incorrect exit numbers. Want you to turn onto a road that does not exist. Not have the road you need to travel on in the maps. Have you exit the highway, just to have you get right back onto the very same highway. Not detour you correctly around traffic or detour you into more traffic than you are trying to escape. While this app may get you home, it has real problems that lead to a lot of frustrating navigation.

Love it so far

Its not to bad, but POI options such as gas stations are not accurate. When test searching for the closest gas station, it said it was 30 miles away when i know that there are dozens within a couple of miles.

I had used an older version before on my iPhone and iPad and it worked OK, except that quite a few local height restrictions weren’t in the CoPilot database (I used this for a motorhome). I sent in data updates to ALK and eventually they were added, but I question the completeness of their database. Another issue that I had was in the alternate routing - a primary route will avoid a height restriction but alternates won’t, and the app won’t display the height restrictions. I reported that bug last year. My latest problem is that the app crashes on the iPad and iPhone so frequently that it is completely unusable. Until that is fixed I cannot recommend the app at all.

The feature set keeps improving. The maps are regularly updated to include obscure locations. Very customizable. Better than any stand alone unit.

Why oh why do you have it so it routes you off a parkway youre driving on, only to get back on it after???

Really good navigation program!

Were now home from our 12 day trip out west and to Canada, and I wasnt able to use this app at all because it wouldnt allow me to download the maps I wanted. Even when I was connected to wi-fi, it would reject my request to download anything, saying that I wasnt connected to wi-fi. At that point there were no options available to back up a screen to try again. This was a total waste of my money.

The tracking is good, but the routing suggested offers very poor choices for the roads that are available. I realize this is somewhat subjective, but I have learned it is best not to follow copilots routing choices. Save your money. There is better out there. I would lower my rating from a 3 star to a 1 star but the review app wont let me. 6/22/2014 The map location only updates every 15 to 30 seconds. I dont know if this is the app or my ipad. In a highly congested jungle of roadways the updating is too slow. 7/25/2014. The review app will now let me reduce the number of stars from 3 to 1 star. So I did.

This doesnt use data, which is nice. But one complaint, when youre looking for nearby POIs why isnt there a way to continue looking further and further? It gives you locations within a mile of your location but then stops... Itd be nice to see. Restaurants within 2-5 miles of your location..

I use this app mainly in New York City. For those unfamiliar with New York, its divided into five boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island and Queens). The first four boroughs i mentioned are easily searchable. Queens however is a different matter. I have to know which section of Queens Im traveling (Long Island City, or Jackson Heights) in order to find an address in Queens.

Planned a trip from New Jersey to Canada. I needed an offline GPS navigation app because I knew going into Canada I would be charged extra for cellular data. So, Co-Pilot premium seemed to be the best choice and I got it on sale for about $13. Trip routing was excellent for the most part, that is, until I got close to the Canadian border. For some reason Co-Pilot navigated me off the main Interstate and onto local back roads that took me through the middle of towns with road speeds of 25MPH. Though I had “Toll Roads” selected in preferences, Co-Pilot didn’t allow me to use the NY Thruway which would have been much faster and a more direct method to the Canadian border (Peace Bridge). Another problem I found is that it didn’t give me the opportunity to select multiple routes as other navigation systems usually do. Had that feature been available, I could have selected alternate (and faster) routes to my destination. Still, I was quite satisfied with the way this app quickly re-routed me on the way home when I ignored its back road directions and took the NY Thruway instead. Once it got on MY directions, it kept me there. Nice touch that you get a year’s worth of active traffic for free (or at least I did). Traveling during the night to avoid traffic didn’t allow me to use the feature to its potential. In all, I am very happy with this app and plan to use it again. Hope ALK Technologies improves some of the routing options.