Navigation made for Canada
Turn-by-turn directions in your language, live traffic and closures, a maple leaf on Canadian-owned businesses, no account and no history of where you've been. Practical first, proud second.
Own a local shop? Claim it.
Claim your listing and keep its hours, phone, website and pin yourself. It is free, drivers see a verified mark beside the LOCAL badge, and if your city is not on our list yet, you start it.
A maple leaf on the map
Search results carry a maple leaf when the business is Canadian-owned. A solid leaf means we confirmed the ownership; a hollow leaf means Canadian roots but control that is foreign, mixed or unconfirmed. Almost 600 brands, each with a source, and you can turn it off.
Bilingual by design
The app speaks your phone's language, English or French. Both were written from the first day rather than translated in afterwards, so neither one reads like an afterthought. The search box is the one place that stays bilingual, so you can type in either language without switching anything.
Traffic, closures, speed limits
Snow on the 400? You'll know before you're on it. Your route is drawn in green, with the slow stretches in yellow and closures in red, so a glance tells you where the trouble is.
Is it even open?
Tap a search result to see the place before you commit to driving there: opening hours for the week, whether it is open right now, wheelchair access, drive-thru, patio, Wi-Fi, phone and website. Or skip it and go straight to directions.
Find a plug, not a pin
One tap finds gas, charging or parking around you rather than anywhere with a matching name. Charging stations list what they actually offer, down to the connector type and the kilowatts.
No account, no history
No sign-up to use the app. Saved places live on your phone, and the service runs in Montréal on a Canadian data centre.
Where we're at
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Shipped
Build 34: addresses that were there all along
Three of you wrote in to say the app could not find an address you had lived at. It could not, and for three different reasons — none of them that the address was missing. Plus a version number in Settings that has been lying since the first build.
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Build 30: the map, the routes, the search and the voice are ours
The largest change the beta has had. Maple Maps stopped renting most of what it runs on — the map is drawn from OpenStreetMap on a machine in Québec, routes are worked out there, search answers from ten and a half million Canadian places, and the voice is one we make ourselves. Plus three days of your emails, a voice you can hear in a moving car, and closures from four cities the provinces do not cover.
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Shipped
Build 18: sixteen fixes, and a map you can read
The biggest batch yet, and almost all of it came from two days of your emails. Larger text and colour-blind-safe route colours, directions that read the way the voice sounds, and a long list of things that were quietly wrong.
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Shipped
Build 17: a LOCAL badge for independent shops, and the emails of a single day
Independent shops get a red LOCAL badge, starting with Edmonton and Calgary. Then ten fixes from one day of your emails, arriving in your own driveway among them.
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The beta is open
Testing is under way on iPhone and Android. Far more people signed up than we planned for, so invitations go out in waves rather than all at once. Leave your email and we will get to you. Unsubscribe any time.