The Villages® App
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The Villages® App reviews
4.6 out of 5, based on 12,954 reviews.
What people like
- Essential for getting around in a golf cart.
- Shows lots of local events and activities.
- Interface is simple and easy to use.
What they complain about
- Voice directions are choppy and hard to hear.
- GPS accuracy is poor and often wrong.
- It sends you down unsafe or wrong roads.
Best place in the world to THRIVE
Love The Villages more every day I live here!!
Wouldn’t connect to golf rout.
If I ever was upset with sorry or Alexa or any other AI map services I would owe them an apology after using this app. The app wouldn’t connect to golf rout. Had to rely on visual follow of route. Family lives all over the Villages. Unless you have done a route several times you wouldn’t know as it’s not clear or lit where golf cart trails or bridges are. It’s easy to to end up on a street only intended for cars or circle around parking lots looking for the entrance/exit I was pulled over after realizing I missed the golf cat entrance of my intended destination, but I also realizing there was no alternative to make a uturn or correct my current course. I was delayed, humiliated, and harassed by a serif all due to simply attempting to venture to another section of the Villages to meet up with family whom live in a newer section I wasn’t familiar with.
More filters please
Could you please add additional filters to the calendar? Indoor, outdoor and allow the user to pick a specific recreation center. As is, you have to scroll through pages that you’re not interested in. I just want to see what’s going on at maybe three of them. Or check where I’m headed for fun options. Can you add golf cart directions to the disc golf course at Hogeye please Thanks!
Not accurate
Please make it better. As a new person driving a golf cart it often gets me lost. Can you update it and make it precise?
GPS works well until it doesn’t!
The GPS for golf carts frequently is very confusing because the verbal instructions don’t align with the screen instructions.
Golf Cart Requirement
Couldn’t get around without the app
GPS is buggy.
The vehicle icon can’t keep up or is inaccurate. Can only navigate from current location.
Better Details for Golf Cart Route
The
Signal
It is becoming unreliable. Sometimes not getting signal
Sketchy
Not always there when you need it. Needs to be CarPlay accessible.
Usually good not today
I was looking for directions to Barnes and Noble and ended up in a residential area. Usually works fine but not today.
WellPoint homeowner
Can’t use with car play
Turn warnings
This app is very good however doesn’t do a great job with providing enough notice prior to turns
Nice app except for satellite map directions
We were on a lifestyle stay .App is nice but when I was looking for Bell Glade I had to know to go to championship golf course list to find it . Then when following directions on multiple days the satellite wouldn’t keep up. Then we would miss the turn . Another day it took us the wrong way . App needs refinement .
Sent down one way wrong way
Not super accurate and slow. Puts you through parking lots instead of direct roads. Parking lots are more dangerous than roads. Sent us down one way ramp to tunnel at the Saddleback Rec center.
Keeps me from getting lost
Best app to get around in the villages.
Not working well
Choppy voice navigation on my Apple Car Play
Golf cart option for Apple Car play
Love the app for events and local info. I would really like to see Apple CarPlay support added so navigation and local features could be used safely while driving or riding in a golf cart.
Briarwood golf course
Lousy directions and difficult to hear.
GPS needs fine tuning
It would be nice if the GPS would be clearer on directions, zoom in and out, map & pointer adjusting with directions. Also clearer notations for golf cart only or not allowed routes
GPS Performance
It takes a little while to get used to, it was initially confusing. One of the tricks was the yellow lines are automobile lanes, so you can see when you’re running parallel or crossing the car traffic through a tunnel. Just a note, that sometimes the GPS can be about 20 yards off from your actual location.
GPS
Very unreliable and instructions don’t always make sense. Example: told us to turn right on O’Dell Circle and when we did, wanted us to make a U-turn. 🤷♀️
Paths
Great directions on the golf cart path. Would like bike path directions or a good map
Was fine, but now crashes on first green screen
The app worked fine for me on an iPhone 15 for over a year, but this week it no longer loads. It freezes on the first green screen that says “The Villages”. Same on my wife’s iPhone 15. We have both uninstalled the app and reinstalled it from the App Store, but to no avail. Developers please fix the app!!!
I’d expect nothing less than perfect from the villages!
Great app. User friendly. Simple interface. I come to visit my parents annually and like to take the wife out or take the kids to play or swim and without the golf cart gps from this app I’d be lost! But it’s more than gps, it shows you in great detail all that the villages has to offer! Love the app, love the villages!
Can’t get there from here
Driving from Saint Catherine to a UPS store. You cannot drive your golf cart to the UPS store. on warm Springs
Good App, Great with minor updates
Enjoying the app however being a developer as well I would suggest some small improvements. For the Calendar option enhance the filter by adding: Select multiple locations and types “Where”option add hours filter please. Example: I want to search for Yoga classes at 3 different recreation centers for next week that are offered between 6-9 pm. Love the layout of the app.
The villages Florida
This is where I want to be
GPS
Needs major work to help you find your way around.
Verbal notification are problematic
Verbal notifications are choppy and the times not provided
Golf app
Perfect app very accurate
Doesn’t Talk When driving
The app doesn’t speak the direction
Great until IOS 15.5
Really enjoy using this App but since the last IOS update on my iPhone 11 the app is unstable and keeps crashing.
Great App!
Easy to use!
Hard to Follow
The speech is completely broken up. Suggestions? I hesitate to pay for the app if this is what it is like.
Map View
The App has been really useful during our visit and has gotten us everywhere we need to go! Wish it had a map view of the activities so I could see how close to me the activities are located.
Slow updates
No distance for next turn. Slow response on updates. Some multi modal paths no recognized as appropriate options.
The Villages® App FAQ
- Is The Villages® App free?
- Yes. The app is free, in all 5 countries it sells in, and it sells nothing inside it.
- Does The Villages® App have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- What are the best alternatives to The Villages® App?
- ecobee (4.8 from 238,755 reviews), Home by ShowingTime (4.9 from 17,131 reviews) and Nice G.O. (4.7 from 10,119 reviews).
The Villages® App download
Last updated 10 months ago.
The Villages® App sells in 5 countries. It was released 10 years and 8 months ago, on 12 Jan 2016. It holds a 4.6 rating from 12,954 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
How much does The Villages® App make?
Third-party estimates for the last 30 days, worldwide — not the store's own figures, which Apple publishes for nobody.