A lightweight, open-source Android background utility that intercepts Apple Maps web links (maps.apple.com) and automatically redirects them to Google Maps.
Set it up once, and it works invisibly in the background.
🔗 Website & Privacy Policy: goork.de/mapflip
- 🔄 Automatic redirect – no manual copying or pasting.
- 👻 Invisible operation – intercepts links at the system level without showing a map-viewer screen of its own.
- 🗺️ Full query support – handles search queries, GPS coordinates, addresses, and navigation directions.
- ⏸️ Pause mode – easily pause the redirect for 1 hour, 8 hours, until tomorrow, or indefinitely.
- 🎛️ Quick Settings Tile – pause and resume directly from your system notification shade.
- 🔒 100% Privacy Friendly – no internet permission required, no trackers, no ads, no data collection.
- 🌍 14 Supported Languages – English, German, Danish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish, Turkish, and system default.
- Install MapFlip.
- Open the app and tap "Open Settings".
- Enable link forwarding (under Open by default / Standardmäßig öffnen) for
maps.apple.com. - Done! Every Apple Maps link will now open directly in Google Maps.
- Google Play: Get it on Google Play
- F-Droid: Currently in review (Merge Request !45011)
- GitHub: Direct APK download from Releases
The project is split into two build flavors:
play(for the Google Play Store, includes a rate button and a promo-card).foss(for F-Droid and GitHub Releases, fully independent of Google services).
Build the FOSS release APK locally:
./gradlew :app:assembleFossReleaseRun unit tests:
./gradlew :app:testDebugUnitTest- Kotlin & Jetpack Compose (Material 3)
- Min SDK 26 (Android 8.0), Target SDK 36
- Zero external dependencies beyond AndroidX
Distributed under the MIT License.
© 2026 Daniel Notthoff – notthoff.org