--- title: Mapbox Mobile Reviews meta_title: 'Mapbox Mobile Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 23 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Mapbox Mobile works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 23 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-21' parent_category: name: Mobile Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/mobile-development --- # Mapbox Mobile Reviews **Vendor:** Mapbox **Category:** [Other Mobile Development Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-mobile-development) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 23 ## About Mapbox Mobile An open source SDK for pixel-perfect vector maps on iOS and Android. Maps render at the speed and smoothness of a video game. And it's free to start developing. ## Mapbox Mobile Reviews ### 1. Map tool for real Android and iOS programmers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aleksei J. | Java Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** The library contains everything we need to draw different objects, rotated overlay images, or popup message windows above the map they provided. Also, you can apply different styles to the map, and change the properties of the objects on the map. You can use not only standard MapBox maps but also integrate OpenStreetMap maps, by example. You only need to know the proper URL of the map tiles server. **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** Official documentation could be wider and deeper. Although Mapbox provides docs with help of practical examples. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox Mobile:** sometimes it could be a lack of necessary examples, but Mapbox provides the necessary minimum. **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used Mapbox in Android native development. It allows me to create a stable Java application, that shows maps with different interactive features. Draw shapes and figures, calculate the distance between objects in real time, show alert modal popups. ### 2. Mapbox ui is very good **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajan K. | Android Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** Mapbox ui is very good, but size is very much , so increase the size of app other wise mapbox is more attractive and easy to use **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** size of the sdk of mapbox is really dislike , other wise its very nice **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox Mobile:** decrease the size of mapbox sdk **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** community of mapbox is not like google map ### 3. Awesome **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos R. | Desarrollador Unity 3D & Angular, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** I never seen apps like this before, I totally recommend to download it!, the fast use when your open the map and the customization with the website, the great API compatibilty I recommend like a user and developer, like developer it's very easy to create apps I created like 10 apps with maps using only Mapbox **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** sometimes my phone are warming but not all time, but I would like that the documentation of the API can be more specific and updated, for example I develop apps in Unity 3D, but i found more information in Web and Android that in Unity 3D **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox Mobile:** The recommendation it's that you can develop any app that you can, this tool have a lot of options and setting to custom your apps and make that professional look and feel, I've worked from 3 years old with Mapbox in my company and I recommend it **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** I replaced google maps to use it, because Mapbox Mobile have a better presition with my location, this is a new experience to use apps not only the traditional, and the most impressive to the website manager it's that you can personilze your maps and put that look and feel that you need for your app, like developer it's very easy to use and implement into my apps that use geolocation what I love it's the native and hybrid compatibility to the time to develop ### 4. Beautiful looking maps with tons of customization. It's good but could've been great though **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** 1. There are tons of map styles available with Mapbox 2. It’s very easy to customize the map tiles 3. Beautiful base maps that can be modified via click-editing 4. Extensive documentation It's very easy to get started, all you have to do is get an access token and a style URL from Mapbox, and you're good to go. **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** 1. It might be too complex to use for simple projects 2. The learning curve is steep 3. Pricing **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox Mobile:** 1. Layout your requirements and your budget first and in most cases Mapbox turns out to be a good choice 2. There is a steep learning curve so beware of that 3. Mapbox is available on all platforms so it's a one-stop-shop for all of your map requirements **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used Mapbox in building two things 1. An AR application that showcases the junk/pollution in outer space. 2. In a geo-spacial analysis on a map interface. Benefits: 1. Mapbox has plugins ready for engines like Unity and Unreal. 2. With Mapbox JS it's very easy to build maps on a web application. 3. Mapbox supports other web graphic libraries like deck.gl or even kepler.gl which is an excellent geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets. 4. I like how clean the map design turns out in the end. ### 5. Mapbox makes it very easy to plot a list of geolocations on map with detailed custom banners **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raj t. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** It's open source and documentation is detailed and have almost every example to showcase all features of mapbox **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** It is not available as a framework specific library, if you want to use mapbox in web you have to import jquery as a dependency **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my project I required to plot all nearby garages with their own logos and extra information like phone number text address pincode contact person name, using mapbox it was very easy to create those custom banners for geo tags, so it become easy to showcase garage identity on map using mapbox once the user selects any of these garages then we required to get user location user can either select their current location any continue or they can search a specific location using an input bar which provides suggestions based on user input from the mapbox REST APIs I also needed to restrict the search functionality to a specific geoboundries it was possible using mapbox REST APIs after getting the text based address I needed coordinates of selected location to plot it on the map for that I used Mapbox's reverse geo-coder API ### 6. A very good attempt, lot of postives **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ganesh K. | Senior Associate Experience Technology, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** Mapbox is one of the largest providers of custom designed maps for websites and mobile apps. Their service is used by GitHub, Pinterest, Foursquare, and other popular companies. And Mapbox moves with the times, offering advanced features such as geospatial mapping and augmented reality (AR). The majority of data Mapbox uses is openly available, and Mapbox supports a community of volunteer mappers. They often provide the freshest updates, including fast-changing location data. Mapbox data sources include OpenStreetMap (OSM), USGS, Landsat, Natural Earth, and OpenAddresses. Mapbox offers many tools to help you integrate maps and other Mapbox online web mapping services – such as Directions, Geocoding, and Static Images – into a mobile app. In order to keep the Maps SDKs for iOS and Android small, Mapbox provides different APIs for interfacing with Mapbox web services: the Mapbox Directions API, Geocoding API, and Static Images API. **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** Relatively weak coverage. There are many places where Google has better coverage than OSM based services. The reason for this is mainly the fact that Google Maps gets continuous updates. In India and Israel, for example, Google Maps will be a better option. **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are looking for something which solves our three requirements of 1. Extremely customizable interfaces 2.Satellite imagery and 3.Search functionality. ### 7. A platform: capable to diversify **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohsin R. | Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** I have used Mapbox for one of our biggest client's project in Sweden. Even though I was new to Mapbox, the Documentation & platform, Data sets, tiles, designing part, and Api were so easy to understand and implement. A dedicated technical support system also gives a significant edge as compared to other platforms. I have also used Mapbox Api in my final year project and in my personal portfolio. **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** The only thing that I realize is, the application becomes a bit slow when we add large number of data. **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** My task was to show all the real-estate properties owned by Vasakronan, SWEDEN on the map, and apply filters to sort them on the fly. I achieved that by using built-in functions provided by Mapbox. ### 8. Perfect tool for developers! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tessa J. | Associate Quality Assurance Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** As a developer, we rely heavily on proper documentation when reviewing tools to implement in our software. Very well documented. **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** It's still very much new and not so widely used, therefore, many solutions to problems won't be found online. You can always try to contact support though. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox Mobile:** Compare it to other map services and you would see for yourself! **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using a synchronized map across web and mobile platforms. We wanted to have the ability to customize maps to our liking and Mapbox Mobile helps greatly in that arena compared to other map services. ### 9. Mapbox for Android **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** Vision SDK offers a nice AR view while driving that’s not too distracting. One example is the the persistent arrow shown on the road which points to the destination and appears under vehicles on the route as to not obstruct the driver’s view of any vehicles in front. **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** There is a learning curve, at least for our team, getting the Kotlin tester code to work. **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used Mapbox to solve common safety issues with car fleets by tracking the current leader car. We got the most benefit from the Navigation SDK when polling for the leader car’s destination. ### 10. Good for UI UX **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhruv M. | XR Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** AR Features and Map direction and Map API **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** Mapbox not providing good feature in AR for auto-world scale map orientation issue **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** I solved some AR network related project. We implemented AR network to debug problem in AR. ### 11. Mapbox offers the best tools and tiles in the market. Satellite resolution is amazing. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Monica G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** Mapbox is easy to implement, offers great resolution and is very well documented. Also, it is super easy to customise map styles. **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** The website is not intuitive. It can be confusing for new users to navigate the documentation and really discover products, styles and tools. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox Mobile:** Definitely a great solution when developing an application that performs spatial analysis and needs great map tiles. **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Mapbox to developed a data collection application demo for a grassroots organisation. ### 12. Mapbox navigation is the awesome feature **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madhuri T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** I have used Mapbox for 3 navigation projects. I super liked the leaflet use with Mapbox for styling and customized map layout. **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** One thing which is missing there is customized clustering. Please add that. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox Mobile:** Yes 100 percent recommended because no other opensource in market available wit these much of features. **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have resolved the offline mapping issues. I liked the styling feature and beautiful map view which mapbox provides. ### 13. Highly customizable maps SDK **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roland Y. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** - Very good documentation - Quick support on Github - Highly customizable - Works on all platforms **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** - Migration from other sdks could take a while - Sometimes important issues are not resolved in time **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** Showing maps of sales points in an android app, showing user current location, navigating users to a sales point. Used a lot of custom styles for the maps. Mapbox resolved our issues with supporting different locales for the maps in the app. ### 14. Mapbox is too Interactive, User Friendly and More Customizable. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sharad K. | React Native Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** I like the most the way of cusomization in styles. **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** Not really dislike any thing but the documentation for specific platform can be more elaborative. E.g React Native. **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** Identify the location and places more clearly or easily using the customization. ### 15. It's the best Map SDK, however it lacks the landmarks from my country ie. Nepal **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunim . | Junior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** The documentation is great and is best when I am working on the web. It's great and I love the experience, and the community is there to guide me on the nuances. **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** Since I work with react-native more often, direction mapping is something that is painful. **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** Majorly including the local seller that and unlisted on the internet or virgin locations yet to be explored. ### 16. Is a very good app :) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** It is an application in which you can create the online map to personalize it as you wish. it is very easy to use by anyone and gives you an edge over the phone. **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** Everything is amazing ñothing to disslike **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox Mobile:** I suggest it to everyone as an application because it is very helpful and easy to use **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of the main benefits is that it can be used offline whenever you need it. ### 17. mapbox mobile review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kamlesh S. | Software development engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** Clean UI, some features are better than Google maps **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** I am from India, most of the roads not covered by mapbox **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing happy journey by giving future info to users about weather condition while travelling ### 18. Short experience but a usefull one. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** I like the simplicity that offers in the developer. **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** I don't like how inaccurate it is when I use it for positioning of an 3d object using GPS **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox Mobile:** It worths to try it! Very easy to use. **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have solved problems regarding AR location based applications ### 19. Best Map API provider for iOS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** Mapbox provides rich and easy to use functionality **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** Very buggy and use a lot of memory. Fix them please **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use mapbox in our app to show different layers and geometries ### 20. Web or mobile, you can't go wrong with Mapbox **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** The variety of maps available and the ease of development. **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** Maps created in older versions of Mapbox might break when updated to the latest platform. **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating easily accessible maps maps for all platforms has become a breeze. ### 21. Custom map **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** Drag and drop GUI. Generous free limit. Customizable **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** Cannot update map layers using codes. Lack of template designs like it used to **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox Mobile:** Yws. Migrate from google map **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** Interactive geospatial analysis ### 22. Alternative online solution for geographic information systems **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francis Carolina L. | Geográfo, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** What I like most is that you already have preloaded information, you will never start a map from scratch. There are many map styles that you can configure. The app as such, is light, installs very fast, does not stay stuck, is synchronized excellently with the version you are editing on other devices, at the moment. You can count or verify data while you go to work. It has an interface very similar to the one you use on your desktop, so you do not have to waste time to learn how to use it. **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** I can assure that the app works very well, however, personally, I like to work and visualize my data on a PC or any desktop with a large screen. I have vision problems, so visualizing small letters on a screen of my mobile phone is difficult. You can always adjust the scale and display larger objects within the map. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox Mobile:** I recommend Mapbox Mobile, because it is one of the most stable and light options that you can have on your mobile or tablet.. It does not give errors, it's quite efficient. I recommend it above all for quick queries in your map styles, or to view tilesets or datasets, first my phone does not allow it (it is not so fast) and secondly in my opponent, there are many details that you can not appreciate very well. **What problems is Mapbox Mobile solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the organization where I work, is a national governing body of Geography and Cartography, many times, I have to visit local organizations to dictate inductions and workshops and not always can take all the necessary equipment for this task, that is why mapbox Mobile is a perfect solution for these situations, you can carry all the information you need in the cloud, easy, fast, simple and without problems. ### 23. Mapbox Mobile is the best solution for mapping in mobile apps **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Mapbox Mobile?** Using Mapbox Mobile for mobile development is a no brainer. Mapbox has developed a far superior product and the features that it offers is second to none. **What do you dislike about Mapbox Mobile?** Mapbox Mobile is so vast that it can be a little daunting to jump in to. But the support is there and there is a lot of online help for it. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox Mobile:** Don't let the size intimidate you. 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