Best GPS Navigation Apps (Top 6)

In this video, I share my favourite GPS apps for hiking, cycling, running, backpacking, camping and being outdoors on-roads or off-road trails.

Keep in mind this isn't a video review, I'm simply giving an overview and it's best you download and test each app yourself. Links are below for everything mentioned in this video, good luck on your next adventure!

0:00 - Introduction
0:51 - Windy Maps
3:28 - OsmAnd
6:26 - Komoot
10:00 - AllTrails
11:42 - Google Maps
16:32 - Gaia GPS

Links
Osmand+ Android (Affiliate Links)
Osmand
Osmand Contour Line Plugin

TheOneGoodRoad - Instagram

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[Komma]

Be very careful with Google Maps! The planed route will disappear once your phone has no Internet connection for a while. I was in the middle of the woods, in between hills with no reception. I needed to check which path to take and was greeted with "Not connected to the Internet". After that the planned route will not be displayed anymore until your phone reconnects. This is really bad if you plan to rely on it.

[Mc.Scrumpy]

Google maps has been completely flaky with me lately. It's been sending me everywhere but the location I want

[jenna]

I don't want to use the annoying voice navigation talking through my music and phone calls and would rather use a simple beep or sound alert and look at the screen to know what turn or exit is. Google Maps sound/beep alert only makes a noise AFTER I miss my exit or turn and it is re-routing. There is no option to have it just make a beep sound BEFORE I turn or go on an exit and can quickly look at the screen. What is the point of the beep alert only when it is

[idontremember]

I think Google maps has some good features but they haven't upgraded their maps since they first started, and the fact that they tried to get me to drive my truck off a cliff.

[samjohnson]

Thanks. I'm thinking about going to cell gps from garmin on my dualsport. Quite helpful. Sam.

[gtb]

I looking for tracking. Drive and walk somewhere to find my way back.
Like a Vista gps.
Cheers

[KickAssets]

Which one would you recommend if I would like plan a trip and have it record where I went so that I can show people later in a youtube video. Also which one can record the route I use over a trip or is that even possible? So 2 routes...planned route and actual used route

[dadduorp]

Is there a GPS app that you can input the Lat & Long coordinates and then guide you there?
I own 15 acres in a dense forest area that I have the property boundary coordinates to, but I’d like to be able to FIND them using GPS. All the apps I have only show me where I’m at not to where I’d like to go.

[marcospiridon]

Hey! Nice review! btw do you have an app to make your android nav buttons so thin?

[rambl]

I don’t find the info I need. We hike in the boondocks in our area and would like to know how we can mark the truck position and save the route we take so we can come back to the truck.

[PeakandAbyss]

Hey mate, do you reccomend any apps for importing GPX files and then following them? Cheers

[AdyShort]

Ride with GPS, great route mapping tool

[mikeholley]

holy shit what a fingernail mate! thanks for the vid though.

[Tintoycar]

When you start your route do you switch off 4G?

[herpingsuriname]

Which app would you reccommend to do expeditions with? I used Viewranger in the past but its gone over to Outdooractive which has very low quality maps avaialble. Im in need of highly detaild maps of elevations, creeks etc. Plus i'd like to put in POI with different icons... cant find anything like viewranger... I've been collecting data with viewranger for years, really sucks thats its gone over to Outdoor active and quality got alot worse... I hope you can help me out!

[tash]

FML! I just can't find a Google alternative in the US that is not affiliated with And optimally I want a Maps app that I can import my Google Maps saved places so I don't lose them And I certainly wouldn't want to make a list of all of them and go one-by-one and search for the mall and save them all again in a different app. I guess. Apparently there's no escaping the grip of Google and their evil plan for us.

[tash]

I downloaded and tried to use OSMAnd and all I got was a blank screen. It wants me to download the whole area of Oregon and I don't want to do that, I don't have that much space on my phone to spare. And anytime I try the search option and search for something that I know is nearby it tells me that there is nothing of the sort anywhere nearby. I just can't understand how to use it at all.

[belvinef]

Is there an app that can read aloud the various locations I bypass as I drive by?

[shlumpgod]

Is apple maps really the only one that shows stop signs and traffic lights?