Magic Earth
www.magicearth.com
Where smart navigation meets open roads. Privacy first, by design.

I just found out that the latest upgrade of magic earth no longer works in the car, it now requires a subscription. Still works on the phone, but having it in the car display is just better.

So is there an alternative that does what waze/magicearth does that you know of? I’m thinking about the real time traffic and hazards update mostly.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 day ago

    it now requires a subscription.

    I think that’s wrong. I only see a one-time payment on https://www.magicearth.com/pricing . 1 year fee of 6 Euro, then 15:

    That said, they might shoot themselves in the foot with this. For those who don’t know: The company’s business model is or used to be to sell their services to car infotainment and similar industries. The free version for phones was their way to gather a big user base that contributes traffic and incident data.

    Maybe their industry customer base collapsed. I don’t know but with this move there is serious risk they’re chasing away users and therefore the quality of the data decreases.