CoPilot live is updated and continues 30 day free trial offer

I've been using CoPilot since last August (bought it right when TomTom and Navigon were at their peak prices, so yes, a major purchase factor for me was price).

I too have had my share of complaints about it...

- outdated map information
- wrong directions
- glitches taking me 40km in a direct line where no road existed
- sometimes the best route is not suggested
- no volume control for the voice

They offer a 45-day map guarantee; you email them with details about where it's wrong and within 45 days it will be in the update. I have yet to use it (namely because by the time I get home, I forget), but for the glitch I experienced their tech support was very good at assisting me to get it resolved (it took waiting for an updated version for it to clear up).

For the price, I'm VERY happy with it. It's fast and reasonably efficient and given the strides they've made since last August, I'm happy enough to stay with it and update for better features in the future.

I've used this app for many years, in the USA and in Europe. The USA maps are the companies own, and not NAVTEQ or another standard and more frequently updated map provider. While there have been of course some notable deficiencies in the maps, I think the updates quickly make up lost ground. I REALLY wish they would move to NAVTEQ or some USA standard. They use it in Europe.

I like the new update addition of LIVE SEARCH for free. This is a great feature (one of the DASH features that most companies are now integrating) forget out of data POI's, if you have a data connection you have the latest info.

I would really like to see more options for traffic data. On the 30 day trial app, there is a click button for 4.99$ a month traffic info. I'd like to see something like 2.99$ or 3.99$ a month for those times when I am in another city, state and need immediate insight into local traffic patterns.

For the price point, one simply cannot beat Copilot

CoPilot is awful. Completely outdated maps - 6-8 years outdated, I mean - and a user interface that is so ugly that I don't want to use it. MotionX's Drive is much nicer for 99 cents and you get the benefit of updated maps, but I found myself sufficiently annoyed at it's lack of live traffic updates en route to a destination that I'm switching to the Tom Tom app. You get what you pay for, unfortunately, and that's no much. If you only want turn by turn directions, these cheap apps will do it for you, but if you need traffic coverage and you want a professionally laid out app, you'll have to pay for it.

I use CoPilot exclusively (chose it because of the price). There still may be a few bugs/limitations (that gabe listed above), but I have to say the update did fix the major lag issue. It seems to start up and find the directions in about half the time as before. Local search has also worked for me.

It did tell me to turn the wrong way on a one-way street in downtown Austin before the update. I've yet to try the same drive again to see if the new maps fixed that.

Another major drawback for me is that my FM transmitter causes interference with the GPS signal, so if i try to use it to listen to music/voice directions, the directions go wacky. I didnt realize this was an issue, but many of you are probably saying, "duh"

They continue in the same tradition of overstating their updates. Almost all the new features do not work. Despite their directions to reset the license and reactivate (which only enable the button for clearturn), no clearturn and laneassist is displayed during navigation. The only new feature that works as advertisd is local live search. The music fading is touch and go. Sometimes lowers the volume of ipod at start of copilot, sometimes it works fine.
Do not get fooled by the cheap price. You get what you pay for!

i used it on a trip this past weekend from falmouth, mass. to d.c. and back, with a stop in NYC. it does a pretty good job and the directions are good. it didn't always give the fastest route, though. but it does the job for the price.

the worst thing about the app is its poor contacts integration. you can choose addresses from your contacts, but then you still have to go through the "choose zip", "choose street no.", choose house no." menus...the benefit of the contacts is that the street no., house no., etc. is filled in for you. i want to be able to choose a contact and then be done with it. having to go through the whole destination rigamarole is stupid and copilot needs to address this problem.

i didn't use POIs that much, but the few times i did, it found what i was looking for. i'm not sure how far the "on my route" radius is, because it took me 5 miles off the freeway to find a store when i asked for stores "on my route." oh well.

i bought this last year and am fairly happy with it. it works when i need it to and i don't use it every day. if i were going to use a GPS on a daily basis, i would still buy a dedicated one. but for occasional use, it works well.

I like the UI for this app better than MotionX GPS Drive, but overall it's inferior. The directions it gives are often inefficient, and several times it instructed me to make an illegal turn (or impossible turn, because of dividers). It does also crash a lot. Price is the same, get MotionX GPS Drive