TomTom Western Europe App Reviews

Update V1.4 - Traffic worked in the meantime, took TT several weeks to figure out my problem until they deleted my TT profile. Now I updated to V1.4 and amongst all the nice advertised benefits TT did not mention that they raised the daily HD traffic from 99c to 1.99US. Nice try, TT. One star less again... HD Traffic update 2. 16 hours passed and still no activated traffic. Needless to say I requested a refund from TT but do not expect that will be any faster. HD Traffic update. Back to one Star. Bought traffic and it keeps saying that traffic is being activated now for one hour. This must not be! Worthless if I want to buy one day as I need this NOW and not in one week. Update v1.3: finally all it needs. Also traffic but that is way too expensive. 65 bucks for one year?!? That is Close to what the whole app costs!! Traffic for the US is 20 bucks and that would Be what I am willing to pay for that service. Update for v1.2: Text to Speech is only available in English UK after I found out that I have to select a computer voice. Where are the other languages promised in the App description? Scrolling through my list of languages English UK is the only computer voice. Lame, Tomtom. Not really getting any better. With 1.1 the signal is stronger in towns and narrow streets, addresses are now accepted from my contacts (well, tried 1 so far but at least that finally worked), the display/map is not so sluggish anymore while driving and did not tend anymore to vane left or right, TomTom kept it straight in my direction.

I can no longer use Mapshare due to your updated privacy policy. What a joke! People, DO NOT buy this app. TomTom are now giving away your personal info to 3rd parties. Make sure you read their privacy policy.

Hello this is a total rip off I cant search because it requires internet access so its going to be costly if I use with my sim

We land in Munich from South Africa and drive down to Rome,Pompei.Asisi,Venice, Innsbruck and back to Munich and the Tom Tom work fantastic. It was the best investment for our three week tour. Danie

Purchased this app from iTunes for use in Portugal. Never got it to work. It just endlessly searched for a signal. Ended up using MapQuest. I wanted a refund. iTunes referred me to TomTom and, guess what, TomTom referred me to iTunes. DO NOT waste $90.

I was skeptical of iPhone-based navigation apps for a long time, but I broke down and bought this one before a recent trip to the UK. Wow! I was impressed. The maps were accurate; I hooked the iPhone up to the Aux port in the car, so the voice directions were amazing; the speed limit indicator was invaluable; the routes were accurate and easy to follow in almost every case. Overall, this app provided a great experience. The only criticism I have is the ability to interact with the map manually - the "pinch to zoom" feature is very jumpy and hard to use. But since this is really only necessary when looking something up on the map, and not in navigation mode, its not that big of a deal.

Always says no GPS update since I ran the last update. Jeez pls fix and u get 5 stars! Otherwise give me my money back.

I recently visited France, Italy, England, and Ireland and needed a GPS solution that did not require a data connection (cant pay $19.97 per megabyte - thanks AT&T). This app found everything I threw at it and gave great instructions, particularly for roundabouts which many from US do not encounter on a daily basis. The walking directions were a serious life-saver in the big cities when we needed help finding things. The GPS acquisition was extremely fast on the iPhone 4S, even with cellular data turned off. The only complaint is that it was hard to determine the direction you are facing at the start of the walking route. The app takes a guess, but does not use the iPhones compass to show where you are "aimed" (e.g., like the Yelp app does). We often had to just start walking until it updated the screen and then adjust from there. Even without a data connection, the offline POI database was surprisingly able to find the majority of what we needed. It had trouble with a few addresses but this is to be expected of any GPS app - no maps are perfect or completely up-to-date. Overall, I would recommend this app to anyone traveling to (or living in) Western Europe.

Last year I sent my Florida registered car to Europe and this nav worked ok. The problem is most of the navs including this app takes you the longer way even if you choose the shortest. I need the google maps to view shorter ways around. This app needs a full map like google maps.

Yesterday my husband and I took the Tom Tom Western Europe app for its first outing on a round trip between Perugia and Pisa, Italy, on an iPad 3 and couldnt be more pleased with its accuracy and ease of use. I especially liked the lane information window that popped up at exits and junctions. Also much appreciated is the ability to switch between the close-in view and those that cover a wider area. We have a Tom Tom Go 720 which about to be retired in favor of the iPad app. Tom Tom doesnt supply any documentation, but a PDF user manual can be downloaded (couldnt do a copy and paste here - do a Google search to find it). Since I wasnt sure if the app was any good, I downloaded only the Western Europe map set rather than the app for all of Europe, but am now regretting this decision. Tom Tom should offer current users the option of adding additional countries at a nominal charge.

Need to be able to paste in copied numbers rather than trying to tediously write them in, no?

Purchased the app for a vacation in the Netherlands and Belgium. The problem is that the voice wont work! We tried everything with the settings in the app and iPad. In all settings locations the volume is on. Except on the map in the lower left corner the lips have a line through them and we cant find a way to fix this. We are very unhappy considering the expense of the app. We are MotionX sunscribers in the U.S. and have never had such a problem with MotionX.

I have used the USA app and really like it. I purchased the Western Europe one for a trip I was taking through Southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Being used to how TomTom works at home made this app a perfect choice. Works identical so I wasnt learning a new GPS app and trying to drive too. Everything was spot on, the routes and rerouting worked perfect! I never write reviews but felt compelled to write this because it made my driving in Europe so easy. We put 1500 miles on our car in two weeks and never had any issues with the TomTom.

Ten days exploring Sicily, cities by the sea and farms and hills in the middle of the country. TomTom WE was great, showing us every single little way.

Unless you know the GPS works on your iPad, do not buy this app. Even then, I would use caution. It does not work! Not sure where the problem lies, but I will be asking for a refund. I gave it 1 star, but would have given it zero if I could have. Actually, it turns out that your IPhone works pretty well as a guide, at least in Italy. Luckily we had that to rely on, but it did use up a bit of my data plan allowance. Another issue, is that when you enlarge the map (this does work if you are connected to wifi, but you cannot use it to drive anywhere), names of cities disappear. Say you find a city and want to zoom in in it. City and street names will disappear. And it always seems to be the one you were looking for more detail on!

Im using the Tomtom Wester Eruope with-out-a-hitch. Sure, there are a few small things I would like to see changed, but most problems I have had have been fixed with help from the formums. I really enjoy the Advanced Route planning tool. I use this App on an iPhone 4 with a RAM mount on my Motorcycle. I can detail exactly which road I want to take. I wish there were a few more waypoints, but I can stop for a few minutes to plan the next few waypoints. The only thing I really dont like, right now, is how the map "blinks" to black during map browsing zoom/move refreshes. Also, I would like to point out; some of these reviewers giving one star need to read the Apps Details before dropping $50 on one application.

Bought it for a trip to Italy... and it never worked. It only locates you if you have WiFi or 3G. But if you are planing on buying this an use it while driving in Europe (without paying $$$ for international data) you are wasting your Money.

As others state, dont buy unless planning on using your data plan as well. I bought it for my Ipad for a trip to Amsterdam, but as soon as I got in the car, there was "no GPS connection". If I wanted to use google maps (which I ended up using instead on my cellphone) I would not had spent $50 plus on a useless navigation app. Waiting for refund.

Expect to get in a lot of trouble with this app. You will get lost, miss turns, take far more time than the trip should take, location marker bouncing all over the place - it was surreal in Rome and totally unusable. Anyone doing a class action suit against this company I am on board. The only good thing that can be said is that the other GPS apps I have used are equally awful.

If you had an iphone 4 and the TomTom Car Kit (which has the "real" GPS chip and yes it costs $100), it works 100% of the time with out fail and is perfectly accurate. Spent 3 weeks top to bottom in Italy without error and no delays. But if you are a cheap scap without the Car Kit, it relys on the telephone towers and because the iphone 4 processor is sooooo sloooow if you loose the tower it can take a long time for the cheap GPS chip in the iphone to find itself. The iphone 5 with much faster processsor is not prone to this. However the iphone 5 does not fit the CarKit and requires a slight mod of the CarKit to attach the phone and utilize the "Real GPS chip" and bluetooth feature. I have done this with my new phone and it works perfectly. Went from San Jose to Palm Springs to San Diego and back without error.