The May 2024 Organic Maps update with bookmarks and tracks sorting by name, better paved/unpaved paths colors, GPX import fixes, drive-through, and many other changes

Organic maps looks beautiful, osmand is kinda bland

OsmAnd may have lots of features but it's heavy and clunky. Organic Maps on the other hand is quite light and very fast. If you don't need the some features OsmAnd has, Organic Maps is a way better experience.

It is way way lighter weight and is overall a better experience. I use osmand for routing because the voice is much better tuned (OM just says barely-useful things like "turn left" instead of "turn left at Broadway". I think both have their uses. If the voice was better I would use OM exclusively.

Both are great but I find Organic better for searches and has a simpler UI (so a good replacement for google maps) but OsmAnd has more technical features and better for using offline, importing GPS tracks etc. I use Organic maps in the car and OsmAnd for hiking, cycling and sharing GPS coordinates.

What are some reasons as to why I would want to use this over, say, OSMAnd?

Osmand isn't fully free software. Some parts are under CC Non-Commercial license that forbids derivatives to make life harder for potential forks: https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/blob/master/LICENSE#L39 That's both against the Open Source Definition and Free Software.

I use both all the time. Organic Maps rendering and navigation feels snappier, even with 2.5D support, and less cluttered, but since I do contribute to OpenStreetMap, OsmAnd is unmatched for editing and access to power tools like up-to-date data, GPS tracking, PDI editions, etc.

Unfortunately, in my country the map is not as complete as the proprietary options, so, using OsmAnd is more practical for me. As a regular user, though, I'd prefer Organic Maps.

Take StreetComplete with you when you're out and do pokemon-style quests while at the same time improve the map of the area you're in.
It's very fun and quite addictive, and the data you're providing is open source so it's not free labour for some huge company.

If the maps in your area are incomplete, you have the power to change that by editing OpenStreetMap. Organic Maps updates its maps about once a month by pulling data from OpenStreetMap.

Define "up-to-date"?

You could try: https://transportr.app/

if you're in one of the areas it covers, Offi is pretty solid Offi https://f-droid.org/packages/de.schildbach.oeffi/

Citymapper is also not bad but the coverage is v limited and it's not open source

Bus routes should be there. But it does not do routing for buses if that is what you are after?

Komoot uses openstreetmap, yes. Organic maps is a different client for openstreetmap.

Yes it works on android auto in my car anyway