It is in beta and I am one person, so it has bugs. I build it with heavy use of AI assistants and test it on real phones. It is GPLv3 so it can outlive me, and I will never charge money for it.

So it's a vibe coded map app that just asks Google for traffic data? you might as well just use Google maps in your browser if it's that big of a deal for you

At the SOTM they announced they are working on traffic time integration, i don't think we have already a date for the release. Minute 15:40 https://www.comaps.app/news/2026-09-14/comaps-at-state-of-the-map-2026/

some people on lemmy were posting about magic earth https://www.magicearth.com/

it's not FOSS but it uses OSM.
we tried it for about a year. Navigation is better but we didn't need "traffic calculation". I'm sure others who are still on it would have better feedback about it.

It may be your degoogled solution 🤷

I'm a little late to this, but since you asked for what the CoMaps community thinks, I'm going to answer this question from two viewpoints: as an occasional contributor to the project, and as an end-user. (The contributor statement is not an official statement from the project; it is solely my opinion.)

As a contributor, not really much to say here. We sometimes chat about these vibe-coded alternatives in Zulip, and to me it's just another vibecoded app.

As a user? They're most definitely violating Google's copyright by using their (likely copyrighted) data, unlike e.g. NewPipe which is using YouTube videos that Google does not own the copyright to. I'll leave it to Alphabet to decide whether to sue (or not sue) Vela's devs. But personally, as a user, I'd be wary of an app like this. Besides the copyright grey-area, the whole point of switching to a FOSS app is to de-Big Tech, not remain tethered to Google. Plus, because it's vibecoded, I'd just ignore it anyway.