MapQuest: Get Directions

MapQuest: Get Directions

4.60
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V10.16.0
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100M+

App Information

Version 10.16.0
Content Rating Everyone
Android Required 7.0
Updated Apr 20, 2026
Developer MapQuest
Price Free
Category Maps & Navigation

Description

MapQuest: Get Directions is intended to reduce setup time and leave more room for using location, route, or outdoor movement data. It should feel most relevant to people who need geographic guidance or activity data while away from a computer, although newcomers can get started with the obvious action and return to optional controls later. The current listing supplies the practical details used here, while unconfirmed options are deliberately omitted. Location or mapping options appear in the description, so the application may adapt data to a place or route. A brief trial of the central function should reveal whether the interface suits the user’s expectations. MapQuest: Get Directions will make the strongest impression when using location, route, or outdoor movement data can be completed without unnecessary detours. This mobile tooleal is practical: bring up it with a purpose, finish a useful action, and come back only when it is needed again.

Key Features

This is not a case where more menus automatically mean more value; the better options are the ones people can find again without thinking. For MapQuest: Get Directions, the design needs to make using location, route, or outdoor movement data manageable during both a quick visit and a longer session. Someone who expects to use it regularly will probably care more about quick access and remembered choices than about rarely opened preferences.
  • Forecast details or current conditions are included in the description for weather-related planning.
  • Users are able to bring up the application for a single task and return later without committing to a lengthy setup.
  • Search is mentioned as a way to reach specific content without browsing every section manually.
  • A layout that lets new users explore one section at a time.
  • A focused starting point for using location, route, or outdoor movement data.

Pros & Cons

For someone whose habits match the application, convenience can outweigh a modest learning curve; for everyone else, the same focus may feel restrictive. The practical tradeoffs are less cumbersome to notice after one normal session: speed, interruptions, account prompts, and the amount of effort needed to resume later.
  • Pros: A phone or tablet can keep the central activity within reach during travel, breaks, or everyday routines.
  • Pros: New people can get started with a basic action and discover additional controls over time.
  • Pros: Store data can help users compare the current release with older versions prior to installing.
  • Pros: A clearly defined activity makes the application less cumbersome to evaluate prior to spending much time on setup.
  • Cons: The complete feature set may not be available offline or without additional account and purchase requirements.
  • Cons: Performance can vary with storage, memory, operating-system build, and network quality.
  • Cons: Users returning after a long break may need to learn a revised layout.

Functions

The functions become clear once the application is used for one ordinary job from beginning to end. For this app, the workflow should keep returning the user to using location, route, or outdoor movement data. Confirmation screens are worth reading when the action affects saved material, an account, a purchase, or another person.
  • Allow location access only when the map or route feature needs it, and decide on precise access only if necessary.
  • Enter a specific term in the search field, look over the results, and narrow the wording if too many items appear.
  • Choose the correct location, check when the forecast was updated, and compare hourly and daily views when available.
  • Check the available choices and select the option that relates to using location, route, or outdoor movement data.
  • Locate the primary section prior to exploring menus that are not needed for the current session.

How to Use

Use the verified Google Play listing provided for the Android build. The instructions stay with verifiable setup actions and stop short of an invented in-app workflow. Use the wording shown on the phone or tablet, since store layouts and permission prompts vary by system build.
  • Step 1: Open the recorded Google Play listing for MapQuest: Get Directions on the Android phone or tablet where it will be installed.
  • Step 2: Verify that the application name and icon match MapQuest: Get Directions. Because the developer is not recorded in the current data, do not guess it; use the listing itself to verify who publishes the application. Also read the operating-system requirement and make sure the phone or tablet is supported.
  • Step 3: Check the visible store text for updates, pricing, privacy, and the product description; do not fill in an absent detail yourself.
  • Step 4: Tap the store’s Install or Get control and wait until the verified store finishes downloading and installing MapQuest: Get Directions.
  • Step 5: Open MapQuest: Get Directions from the phone or tablet’s app list or home screen. Use the first screen to learn the basic direction prior to adding an account or personal data.
  • Step 6: When the application asks for access, connect the request to the visible task prior to choosing Allow.
  • Step 7: Open with with one feature described in the store listing and follow the labels presented inside the application. Complete a small test prior to using meaningful files, payments, or private data.
  • Step 8: Return to the same verified store for updates. Check any new permission request prior to accepting it, especially after a major update.

User Reviews

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Steven Ladwig
Apr 27, 2026

Extremely hard to edit contacts, will not save new addresses and you can only have 1 name for any 1 place, very disappointed.

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Rick Rhoney
Apr 22, 2026

Read it all. I love this app. Better than any orther mapping system. I wish they would come out with a GPS. That is what I said in 2019. My opinion now? It is awful since the update. One of the worst.

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Pat McCarthy
Apr 25, 2026

genuinely delightful

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Oscar
Apr 27, 2026

The Gulf of Mexico is REAL!

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Michelle Grooms
Apr 27, 2026

it's great it works great keep doing amazing things 😂

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Joe Cote
Apr 24, 2026

"follow the highway" stupid app took us through some backroads on a trip from ky to vt. 40 miles at 35 and 45 mph. almost lost in NY. and i cannot shut the stupid thing off its killed my battery to 16 percent running in the background overnight

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Jill Rose (Crazy Beagle Mom)
Apr 27, 2026

Horrible graphics and user interface. I'd hoped it would've been easier to customize routes than Google Maps but it's not and is just worse overall. I used to use Mapquest's website back in the day before the current smart phones and it looks like nothing has been updated since in the app or site. It's horrible .

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David Griest
Apr 27, 2026

no help, hard to save directions

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A Google user
Apr 25, 2026

wrong directions

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9mmWaffle
Apr 23, 2026

only using it because im hoycotting google. This app always opens to a full view of the US, and when you search a location, it wont zoom in to the place you searched. Search randomly breaks and will repeatedly say "something went wrong"