WirelessMoves: CoMaps Privacy and Location Sharing Done Right
October 7, 2025
The CoMaps Team
Media Coverage
WirelessMoves —
"...let’s have a look at how private and offline CoMaps actually is. From a privacy respecting maps app, I expect that the app doesn’t spill my location to anyone on the network, including potential project servers. So that’s my baseline here.
To find how CoMaps behaves, I traced my network traffic while CoMaps was running. The result: After an initial one time download of the maps I needed, there was no further network interaction by CoMaps itself. Nothing on startup and also nothing while being used. Very nice, but let’s dig a bit deeper:"
7 October 2025 | CoMaps for Android - Part 2 - Privacy and Location Sharing Done Right