CoPilot GPS Navigation Reviews

If I could give it negative rating I would . This guided us into a closed road with our 45 ft motor home and 25 ft trailer. A very narrow rd. There was also a rr track paralleling the rd and a few trains came along while we were trying to figure out what to do. Tried to back up into a rd that was crossing the track but it was uphill and we were blocking traffic as well as it would have left the trailer on the tracks if a train came along as there wasn’t a long distance and was onto the tracks as well. There was a narrow driveway with a ditch on both sides ahead and only because my husband has experience with tractors with trailers was he able to back in and get us out of there. If he had not been as experienced as he was we would have had to pay for a tow out of there, they would have had to unhook the trailer with the car and tow the motor home backwards then we would have had to have the trailer turned around and towed it back to the motor home to be hooked back up. After we did get ourselves out of there CoPilotGPSNavigation kept trying to reroute us back at which time we turned it off and guessed our way out of the town and back to the interstate. This took place because we relied on it to go from the campground we were at to the interstate. I am on a trial for CoPilotGPSNavigation and nowhere can I find out how to opt out so before you start your trial period find out how to get out of it first.

It seems they aren’t updating CoPilotGPSNavigation accurately. To start I was experiencing several incidences where CoPilotGPSNavigation did not recognize the address I entered and would give me another option nearby. But I could accept this, however there were several times using CoPilotGPSNavigation that it would freeze and not update. And unless I was paying attention I could have missed a turn or something important. In order to overcome the freeze I would have to force close CoPilotGPSNavigation and reopen/ load it. That’s a concerning issue with regards to confidence of the product. But my topper to canceling my subscription and deleting CoPilotGPSNavigation was the directions it gave me to get on the freeway to other night, it instructed me to turn left so I was in the left lane pulling 70’ of Coach and trailer . It wasn’t till I neared the point where there should have been a left turn lane that I realized CoPilotGPSNavigation is wrong and I was supposed to have been on the right side of the road 3 lanes over to a helix on-ramp. And it became clear this on-ramp system had been there for many many years. I was left with having to navigate through small streets and come back around. For me, A subscription based app focused on trust for driving directions, it was a fail on a gargantuan level. No go for me Copilot. You aren’t worthy.

I bought this years ago & was annoyed that my purchase didn’t count for anything when it moved to a subscription model. However, I need a reliable GPS on my phone for our RV travels. This isn’t it. On the first trip while using it Copilot directed us down a road that we should never have been on. I don’t blindly follow GPS instructions but neither Apple Maps nor my paper map indicated anything to raise alarms. After we turned into this narrow country road with swamp each side and no shoulders we reached a sign saying that there was no access for vehicles over 1/2 ton or longer than 20 feet. We’re 16 tons and 40 feet and there was no area to turn around. Backing half a mile down a country road to turn back into a busy state highway was great fun.
Copilot wouldn’t reroute. It kept telling us to turn back onto that road.
The second time, it routed us onto city streets that had low (very low, one was 9’) overpasses. Luckily, I picked up on that before we turned off. Then CoPilotGPSNavigation wouldn’t reroute.
Third & last time, I ran copilot concurrently with MapQuest, and ran Apple Maps on the iPad alongside. Copilot lost signal and ran around in circles, then tried to turn us around to start the route over. Neither of the others lost our position. Copilot is now uninstalled and I wouldn’t recommend it to any truck or RV driver.

I am a trucker and I've been testing this GPS for about 3 months now. I know it's not designed for trucks but I use it along my truck GPS anyway. I recommend it for anyone that's always on the road across the country , specially in places where there will be no data connection. You can set up a profile for an RV which can help avoid restricted roads, I've only had a couple of instances where it took me to a restricted road , but ultimately you should never rely 100 % on any GPS . I like very much the next-turn feature , it gives you enough time to be in the lane you're supposed to be in. i really love that since I'm driving a big rig, I've tested it in most cities and works fine. There's been rare cases where it has failed to warn me of lane changes. I like the map color themes and other info display features. One complaint that I have is the 3D mode is barely 3D, I wish it was tilted at a lower angle a little further to give a 3D feel, as if seeing further ahead. Overall this is a great app/gps for its full price, it works everywhere and it's very reliable. Thanks

Here’s what I’ve noticed after purchasing, using, and running this side by side with Google Maps. 1- The maps are outdated. For example, on the east coast there are large areas of freeway and highway that have changed their exit number (don’t know why) but this map shows the old number. Google shows the updated numbers. 2- more importantly, there were at least 2 instances where the map told me to take an exit that was incorrect. For example, it said “stay to the left and follow exit 6B when in fact I needed to take a cloverleaf hard right exit to get on to 6B. The illustration was incorrect and labeled the exit incorrectly. Got me in trouble twice which is why I keep Google maps on to double check the info. I bought CoPilotGPSNavigation to help guide my RV around low clearance bridges, etc. it has done that so far but with the correction help of Google. Overall not happy with CoPilotGPSNavigation and unfortunate that I paid for it.
Update-
Got a reply with a question mark at the end of a statement and a cookie cutter response. On the latest trip it kept routing me off the road to a small road that went right back to the road I was on. Wish I could just get my money back.

Way better than specific built truck gps’s sold at truck stops. Gets you into and out of cities, towns, etc on the truck route. Will not route on roads that are not legal for a truck, will not route you under bridges that aren’t high enough for your rig. Full customization available for hazmat, over height, over weight etc. best of all, it’s on the phone,(or tablet), you already have! If you update your device, just re download it to your new device for free. If you have bad or absolutely no cell coverage... doesn’t matter, this works off of the gps system so it’ll work anyway. Just like anything else, it isn’t perfect, I’ve found obscure, and/or new roads that wasn’t noted in the system, (and they have a way to submit that so it’ll be included in their next update), but 95 to 99 percent of the time, this gps will get you where you are going... legally. To many features to go through, but all are useful and rival what I used when I had a dedicated gps back in the day. SO GET IT ALREADY!!!

It took over four months to finally fix something that should have been a minor update as soon as customers where reporting the problem. Trimble needs to be doing a better job than that. A rendering problem on something that is inherently graphical is a show stopper. Most people pay a monthly fee for this software. I’ve been a long term user of their software and it’s going to take a lot for them to regain my trust after all the broken promises and delays. Hopefully the newest update doesn’t introduce any new bugs to the mess. Having said that, it’s nice that the broken features are back and functioning. When it works properly, it’s pretty much the best truck navigation available. You guys really ought to be using testflight to test changes with willing actual users before releasing updates that break existing functionality.

There are aspects of CoPilotGPSNavigation that I like. However, the main issue, and why I will no longer use it, is that it has failed multiple times to do the main thing that I got it for amd that is to avoid routes based on trailer length and height. I felt like it was worth paying the $30 for this exact feature. Otherwise, I could use Google Maps for free. This most recent time it took me right down the middle of the strip in Laughlin, NV. Come to find out, I could have stayed on a highway and avoided the tight space and traffic and been faster. Since being at this RV park I have noticed the highway route is what every other RV has taken to get here. After arriving my wife put the trip into Google Maps and it routed along the highway as well. It also often times doesn’t have the address I am looking to go to or the place by name. I could live with that, but I cannot live with it leading me on a route that is more dangerous/difficult due to our length. Again, this is supposed to be the whole reason to pay to get it. Disappointed that I wasted my money on this product.

I made the purchase and literally canceled the very next day. I was still charged for the year subscription. However, what I didn’t like is that it’s not compatible with Apple Car Play which is a must these days. The second thing I didn’t like is that it took me on a road that was closed due to construction and once I passed my turned due to detour it kept rerouting me through small streets that I didn’t take because my RV is too big for those turns. So I had to go back to google maps. I mainly downloaded it so I can plug my RV height and width and get routes that my RV could go on but if it doesn’t recognize closed roads and it’s not compatible with Car Play really not worth it. Another problem I encountered is my RV is 13’6” and it would not accept those exact measurements even though it has the boxes asking for exact height so I had to put 14ft to be safe but that means I may be missing on a shorter route due to improper height on app. Was thinking of asking for a refund but not sure it’s worth the hassle.

I juste came back from a trip I’ve made from Central Florida to Fort Sill in Oklahoma. I ised Co-Pilot for this trip and overall it behaved amazing. I LOVED the feature were you can find the next Rest Are ON YOUR ROUTE as we used them often. But if you don’t use rest areas you also have RV Parks and camping areas among a ton of other POI. In regards to what other people mentioned about taking you to places were you get stuck this is something EVERY GPS software does, is just a matter of common sense. I really hope the developers of Co-Pilot have the chance to keep developing this software in the future. Anothe feature I LOVED was thw fact that it tells you the amount of traffic in the upcoming 45 miles so you are ready before hand when that comes. Thank you developers! Keep up the amazong work you guys do!

Update: after contacting the developers I found that I did not lose my previous purchase as it appeared. I have checked several routes I travel both with my camper and without. CoPilot has performed better than using google maps! Google maps assumes I am in a car, CoPilot routes me on better roads for RV travel. In fact, comparing my known routes (google v. CoPilot), CoPilot was the only one who gave me reasonable travel directions. Google gave several back roads I know I can’t travel.

CoPilotGPSNavigation it’s self is ok and getting better.
I am very disappointed that I paid full price, over $60 last year for CoPilotGPSNavigation, and now it is being marketed as a free app with subscriptions. The subscriptions are significantly less expensive then when I purchased CoPilotGPSNavigation . I purchased CoPilotGPSNavigation for an RV and paid for one year of Active Traffic.... now this is less than half the price.

ALK Tech really owes its customers something for purchasing at the original price. If nothing else they should give a second year of the service to the account.
Also the customer service is very lacking. No where can I find a contact for the CoPilot service to ask these questions... only for the parent company that likely won’t lead anywhere.

I’ve used CoPilotGPSNavigation for around 10 years, always accurate, I swore by it and promoted it to others even purchasing the payed app. In 2019 I was traveling in North and south Carolina and it had a few glitches. I upgraded it to the RV version thinking it would correct the issue but it did not, not only is it wildly inaccurate it had me leaving the interstate to make a u turn and then right back on it for no reason at all. The “rv routing” had me on one lane roads in the middle of nowhere again taking me down a road to make a u turn for no reason and then right back on the road I was already on. I looked at Apple Maps and the routing copilot took me on was almost 100 miles out of the way by the time I had to back track and go the correct rout. I really liked copilot and hate that is changed to a mostly useless app. And yelp for a search engine is useless as well. I have to find what I’m looking for on google and then add the address. I am very disappointed

CoPilotGPSNavigation is fantastic in most ways. My two complaints are 1) this is not compatible with CarPlay so it doesn’t show up on my dashboard screen like Google Maps does. Instead I turn Google on with the volume muted and run Copilot on my phone with the volume on. This is sometimes confusing but much easier to glance at than the tiny phone screen.

My other complaint is I can’t share saved trips across devices. They are saved as files locally to my device so I can’t open it on my wife’s phone for when she is driving. I have to duplicate the trip manually.

For some reason Copilot rarely has truck stops by the brand and address shown on Google. This is usually okay to work around but I do find it odd.

We bought this for a road trip up the east coast since they tend to have low bridges and we were pulling a 44’ toy hauler. Despite knowing the length and height of our rv we were constantly taken off roads and put into situations that were very stressful and hard to navigate. We were even taken off of the toll parkway and then taken right back on requiring us to pay the $40 toll TWICE! I was navigated you take car only roads, off and back on the same roads multiple times, ridiculous! CoPilotGPSNavigation was extremely dangerous due to it not being able to go on our CarPlay. I often felt like I was blindly driving since it wasn’t safe to look down at CoPilotGPSNavigation. I ended up putting google on the car so I had some sort of direction. I’m super disappointed in CoPilotGPSNavigation. It did warn us of low bridges, otherwise it just added tons of unnecessary stress and cost us money!

Honestly, take down CoPilotGPSNavigation . Dissolve the company and all of you jump off of a bridge. How could you put out such a trash app? I use CoPilotGPSNavigation for work. I use a truck profile and this thing will ask me to bang a uturn on a divided highway. It will send me down a road and lead me to a bike path. It will tell me odd numbers are on the right when they’re on the left. It will have me take a left to get to a location when the address is to the right. It brought me down a road that led to a dirt road that led into someone’s driveway. It has brought me down a dead end as if the road continues. It will ask me to turn around safely in a culvers sack but then when I miss a turn on a main road it will lead me three or 4 miles away from my route to turn me around and bring me back. It doesn’t learn. It takes me out of my way instead of down the shorter route. It will take me down main roads instead of side streets where there are no restrictions. TRASH!

My wife & I traveled to Italy recently. Before we left the States I downloaded the map of Italy and identified our key destinations and the routes between them.

CoPilot worked perfectly our entire time in Italy. We did not need to use any cell phone coverage. CoPilot knew every little road we took & when we made a wrong turn it always led us back.

The only time CoPilot got confused was when we were in a big city with tall buildings around & my phone lost the GPS signal. That could happen with any GPS device, however, so I don’t fault CoPilot. Once my phone caught the signal, CoPilot was right there.

I particularly liked having the routes planned in advance. When we traveled off the beaten path, I could easily retrieve a saved destination and, bam, CoPilot would route us there. Easy-peasy.

Since we do not speak Italian, CoPilot gave us, me in particular since I did all the driving, a lot of confidence on the road. No need to have a road map open. No stress over asking, “Is this our exit? On what street do I turn? How do you spell that? Ack!” CoPilot gave us plenty of advance notice & clear directions. Whew!

I recommend CoPilotGPSNavigation.

I’m so disappointed in CoPilotGPSNavigation. I was looking for a good app for routing while driving an RV to make sure the roads were passable. CoPilotGPSNavigation was expensive for the RV subscription and quite honestly I will probably delete it in favor of Waze or just back to google. It beeps loudly and incessantly for often no reason. It often showed me off road when I was clearly on the road. When I needed it most at an intersection where I could choose several paths it froze completely and came back too late with the path I had chosen against and wanted me to back track to get there. It refused to show me the original path I had planned on. At that point I gave up and pulled out waze. I still can’t believe I wasted $30 on an app I don’t trust and probably won’t use again. Oh and beyond all that, the interface is incredibly non intuitive and hard to program a trip to begin with. Total waste of money.

This is my #1, go to truck navigation app for the last past 8 years. It’s very reliable about 90 percent accurate and get the job done. I understand other customers complaints but, nothing isn’t 100 % perfect. What matters is I like it, it’s reliable and it works for me. The key to using CoPilotGPSNavigation reliably is mainly how you program it in the settings. The thing I like mostly about CoPilotGPSNavigation is; I haul lots of oversized loads across the continental US. Which requires permits and very strict routing. I like the ability to pin drop accurately. And route myself according to how my permits requires me to run. I can go on and on how I appreciate and enjoy using CoPilotGPSNavigation but, for now, I will leave it right there.

I love CoPilotGPSNavigation very much because I travel in an RV so I trust it’s not going to take me through a low overpass but it needs an update and real soon because I haven’t been able to use since last iPhone update. It just keeps crashing whenever I try to enter a destination. It wasn’t a cheap app either so it’s not fair that I haven’t been able to use it on my last two recent trips. I still give it four stars because when it works, it works! Update it please!

UPDATE: Copilot finally contacted me and gave me clear and easy instructions to delete and reinstall CoPilotGPSNavigation and now it’s working like a charm again. Good customer service even though it’s a little slow.

I’ve been using CoPilotGPSNavigation for about a year and it has never issued a bad instruction. It’s multiple route to choose from and the traffic features are a real winners. The problem comes when you try to reach someone at the developer for tech support. They are slow to respond, don’t answer your question and leave you high and dry. My subscription is still with in the one year I paid for, but CoPilotGPSNavigation is back to basic mode and asking me to pay again. A simply fix for them, you’d think, but no. It’s been 3 days and now the weekend is here and I have no option but to repurchase something for which I’ve already paid. I rely on CoPilotGPSNavigation to assist me in safely and reliably doing my job and have communicated that to them, but have been ignored. So buy CoPilotGPSNavigation with the knowledge that you may be on your own.

Same problem again!! Absolute rubbish support!!!

We've been using CoPilot for several years now for a GPS while traveling in our RV - ever since Rand McNally abandoned their RV GPS app (we lost $99 on that one). When we bought CoPilot originally, it had several very nice features but when it was first sold off, the new owners (ALK?) unbundled many of the good features and we lost stuff we had already paid for. (Must have been taking lessons from the airlines.😆) Now that Trimble has taken over, our favorite features have returned and it looks like this is going to be a good iteration, as long as they don't get greedy. We give it 4 stars because we just got it and we're not sure how it will work in use but it looks good so far.

I have wanted an app like this for a long time. My job requires me to drive around at 14’8”. I gave CoPilotGPSNavigation a try, and I will not be purchasing the full version. However, if they would like my input I would continue to work with the developers for free.

1. I almost hit around 6 or 7 low bridges throughout the iron range of upper Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. CoPilotGPSNavigation did not have them marked. Thank god the state did, clearly a 14’2” bridge. Which litters all of us hwy 2 and us hwy 41. I would be as bold to say that most the bridges in the UP are 14’6” or lower at least. I was so busy I didn’t get a chance to flag them all. They should look into it.

2. The locations of where I was going were off by at least ten miles. I had to use google maps to get there.

3. Speed limits are off. It beeped at me for 30 miles of 55mph. CoPilotGPSNavigation has it as a 45mph. This was before I learned about the accucheck however so I didn’t get a chance to flag it.

The one good thing is: so far I believe it’s truck routes to be accurate at least. I was never on a weight restricted road.

After all is said is done, I would be open to helping the developers improve CoPilotGPSNavigation for free, but at this point there is no way I would pay money for an app that is basically a less accurate version of google maps.

Please improve low bridge feature for sure. Anything under 16’.

I originally bought CoPilot a few years ago to use while driving through Italy. It was a dream -it enabled me to falling back roads, drive without using cellular data and gave crisp voice directions which guided me through town by town.

Unfortunately, this new version is unusable. When I bought the new version for Spain and Portugal I found that the cost was $25, because I could not purchase a single country map. The new version is inaccurate (the red dot indicating where you are is constantly humongous around and almost caused a number of accidents as I swerved to take an exit at the last second). It does not contain Voice (unless you pay an additional $18) and is impossible to figure out. I am usually very good with technical matters, but this one continually eludes me. Simply said, I hate it! The old version was terrific and this one is worse than asking a two-year-old child for directions.

CoPilotGPSNavigation is so much more flexible than the other gps apps I’ve used! I love that I can control the look of CoPilotGPSNavigation , set my preferences, easily change routes,etc. HOWEVER, I don’t like that the routing instructions are frequently wrong and sometimes even dangerous! Yesterday in Philadelphia, it told me to take several turns that were the wrong way on one way streets. Then it tried to get me to drive past my exit, go a mile, make a u-turn and go back to my exit! When I ignored it and just took my exit, it kept trying to route me back until I got 10 miles up the road - then it gave up. I am using the latest version of CoPilotGPSNavigation and the latest update of the maps. In summary, love CoPilotGPSNavigation most of the time but very frustrated with some of the routing instructions.

CoPilotGPSNavigation is almost great, some have complained about things they could have fixed in settings, I say learn CoPilotGPSNavigation and it’s features/settings before giving a negative review. I am a pilot and use navigation programs for aircraft and they are excellent as you would expect, CoPilotGPSNavigation is close but still needs just a bit more work to make it a bit more user friendly. Making a rout you want instead of what the computer wants can be a challenge until you learn the idiosyncrasies of CoPilotGPSNavigation . For those who complain about it directing them to a closed road or a low bridge I say this is a driving aid, you are the driver, stay alert stay in front of your vehicle.

This is a great innovative flexible and easy to use navi app you don’t need to use your data connection but recommends to turn better accuracy which helps it coordinate but it’s not always accurate with directions but a lot of navi apps have them issues as well. One problem I noticed is when you want to search for a business or like a location it may not show up in search. But seems to be getting even better over the years. So for the price of $10 for voice turn instructions and the functionality and reliably I would recommend CoPilotGPSNavigation as current version!

I have used and bragged about copilot to my friends for years. However, this recent up grade is terrible. Not only was I forced to upgrade just when I needed to use CoPilotGPSNavigation off line, the conversion was complex and I had to re-enter all of my favorites individually as they would not transfer over. Then, and only then, did to learn that the find feature to access my favorites and other items is now a “premium”. Such a basic function now with the premium cost. Ugggg.

Now, just went to upgrade, so I could use the search feature. Only upgrade includes online access. The best feature of copilot was being able to navigate off-line. If I wanted to be online and burning through data why use this when Google maps and other online services are available. I think I’m done with copilot. Very sad.

Have not tried garmin but waaaaaaayyyyyy better than rand mcripoffnally. Only issue I have is eta is based off current time zone that Apple device is set to. Figure that out and subtract/add hours to figure true eta. I’ve had it run me down a non truck route in alabamy once. Other than that no problems and worth the cost. Dev seems to do regular updates. Could use crowd sourced ratings of truck stops/Wally worlds/ rest areas but it’s not a dealbreaker. Traffic updates are fairly reliable as are routes. Gj dood. It’s sad as can be that seemingly one guy can outperform rand McNally and all their billions of dollars. No joke!!!!