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Marble vs Pure Maps: catalog facts
Marble	Pure Maps
Best for: Exploring geography on a desktop globe, in class or at home	Best for: Navigation on Linux phones and Sailfish OS devices
Free Free and open source from the KDE community.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Android	Linux
Zooms from a whole-globe view down to OpenStreetMap street level Place search with linked Wikipedia articles All 4 strengths for Marble Zooms from a whole-globe view down to OpenStreetMap street level Place search with linked Wikipedia articles Drag-and-drop route planning Extensible through plugins	Runs on Linux desktops, Linux phones and Sailfish OS Pluggable map, geocoder and router providers All 3 strengths for Pure Maps Runs on Linux desktops, Linux phones and Sailfish OS Pluggable map, geocoder and router providers Open source with long-running development
Mobile apps are Android only Behaves like an atlas and globe, not a full turn-by-turn navigator	No Windows, macOS, Android or iOS versions
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: LGPL-2.1	License: GPL-3.0-or-later
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Marble marble.kde.org Catalog checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Pure Maps github.com/rinigus/pure-maps Catalog checked October 1, 2026

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