Offline Kruger National Park map, GPS navigation & wildlife field guide
Kruger Nav is an offline map and turn-by-turn navigator for Kruger National Park, with a field guide to 863 animals. The map, the routing and the guide are all on your phone, so they work with no signal, no data and no roaming.
It is built for one park only, by one person who knows it.
OFFLINE MAP AND NAVIGATION
The whole park's road network, rivers, camps, gates, waterholes, picnic sites, hides and viewpoints: 478 places in all, with every rest camp mapped down to its buildings.
• Turn-by-turn directions worked out on your phone, no signal needed
• Keeps you inside the park, prefers tar to gravel and stays off restricted roads
• Knows which roads are closed before you set off
• Press and hold anywhere on the map to drive there
• A chime before each turn, so your eyes can stay on the animals
GATE TIMES
Opening and closing times for every entrance and camp gate, month by month, with a live open or closed status and a countdown to closing.
WILDLIFE FIELD GUIDE
863 animals: 527 birds, 132 mammals, 85 reptiles, 46 insects, 43 fish and 30 frogs.
• How common each one is in Kruger, and the best time of year to see it
• Diet, habitat, behaviour, size and conservation status
• Where in Kruger to look, with bird atlas maps for 489 birds
• Local names in Afrikaans and nine other South African languages, all searchable
• The SA National Tree List: 1,625 trees, searchable by the number on the park's tree signs
YOUR SIGHTINGS
• Log a sighting with its time and place, and see it on the map
• Mark the animals you've seen before, and keep a life list and a trip list
• Choose to hide a sighting's map icon after 1, 2, 3 or 7 days
• Shade the roads by animal density to see where sightings are most common
PLAN A DRIVE
Start from one of 42 ready-made drives from the 12 main rest camps, or build your own.
• Several stops, with time spent at each
• Arrival times based on your own driving speed
• Save routes and share them with your group
THE LANDSCAPE
Switch on rainfall zones, river catchments, vegetation and geology, and tap any area to read what you're driving through. Change the map's colours and layers, and save your own map styles.
ALSO INCLUDED
• Search for places, animals, roads by name or number (H1-7, S100), the nearest petrol or picnic site, or coordinates (DD, DMS or DMM)
• Phone numbers, booking links and facilities for the camps and gates
• An offline library of 2,999 Wikipedia articles about the park
• Illustrated guides to animal spotting, sighting etiquette and Kruger's history
• Sunrise, sunset, moon phase, UV index and a multi-day weather forecast
• Store your Wild Card details and export a PDF card
• KML and KMZ import and export
• Road and closure updates arrive over the air, without an app update
• Kilometres and °C, or miles and °F
YOUR DATA
No ads, no analytics and no tracking. There is no Kruger Nav account. For the weather forecast, the app sends your position rounded to about 5 km. If you choose to sign in with Google, your sightings, saved places, routes and Wild Card details are copied to a private app folder in your own Google Drive so they reach your other devices. You can use the app without signing in.
GOOD TO KNOW
Live location and navigation need GPS. Most phones have it; some Wi-Fi-only tablets don't. Weather, road updates and Google Drive sync need an internet connection. Everything else works offline.
Kruger Nav is an independent app. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by SANParks. Always follow road signs, gate times, ranger instructions and official park notices.
Nouveautés
A big update that brings the app in line with the iPhone version:
• Field guide with 863 animals, plus 1,625 trees
• Log sightings, trips and your progress
• Optional backup and sync with Google Drive
• New vegetation map, paper finish and scale bar
• Share routes by link or name
• Search results open the full info card
• Tidier screens, better dark mode and large text