Best Hiking Apps Compared

In this video, I compare the five most popular hiking apps to find out which one is the best (Alltrails, Wikiloc, Gaia GPS, ViewRanger, and Kamoot.) I compared them in six different categories: free versions, paid versions, map quality, offline navigating, battery consumption, and trail availability.

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[hikefuntw]

Thanks buddy. Very useful info sharing. I myself using both Wikiloc & Gaia. Awesome combination.

[VirtualTurtleGames]

Fantastic comparison overview! Thanks!

[moorejl]

Good overview, I will have to check these out.

[AEfernal]

I have to mention something Alltrails can do, if you have a trail open and click "navigate" it starts the trail and follows your path. But once you start it, your phone can follow you hiking in airplane mode. You can have the whole trail working in airplane mode all for free and it will show you live updates on where you are on the trail. I dont know if thats a mistake, but I can do a whole day hike in airplane mode and only use like 15% battery and it will follow my progress and show where I am on the trail. so while you cant technically download the map, if you start the navigation and then turn off your cell service it will stay active and is basically a live map of the trail. I do trails in Canada for reference.

[SeasonalParadise]

Super, super useful thanks. I was wrapping myself in knots trying to figure out which was the better option for me. You have brought great clarity.

[sridharvajapey]

Excellent Presentation. This gave me a lot of ideas. I'm planning on going on trails that don't exist and also multi-day multi-week treks, camping along the way. The conclusion I took away is that I need Kamoot. I do need to play with the tool because I want to upload my trails somehow so that others can benefit. If you have any thoughts on this please let me know

[Sinrumboporelmundo]

Muchas gracias por el vídeo! Personalmente sigo prefiriendo los gps de montaña a los móviles. Gran vídeo!

[simplymad]

Here in Germany, Komoot is very popular. They have constantly developed the app over the last few years and the web interface in the browser is great for planning your tours. Maybe you should try it again. And I don't work for Komoot and have no other relationship with them. 🙂

[MarlonMoralesA]

muy interesante el video, desafortunadamente por lo que ví en los comentarios de la playstore muchos usuarios se quejan de que hayan descontinuado la app de ViewRanger y que la hayan cambiado por la nueva

en definitiva toca seguir con Wikiloc y GAIA GPS y trabajarla de forma combinanda

[Jonathannie]

Thank you buddy. I use all trails its a great app thank you for telling me that you can use it on a computer :)

[peterszarvas]

Often I need to plan a short route to know, how many km, where to go... so I prefer Komoot over Alltrails. Also like their map style.

[robs]

Lots of good information. And the plant is back!

[grivaivana]

Hey, tan you very much for this video, it is usefull really! If you ever some to south east Serbia, let me know, we''ll hike without those apps !

[AllThingsConsidered]

AllTrails doesn’t seem to be updated. Trails that are no longer passable show as good trails and other trails that have been added in a certain area are not listed. Even if the trails status has changed years ago, AllTrails doesn’t reflect this

[rambl]

Excellent presentation, thank you. We like to hike in the boondocks of our area and go ‘cross country’ through them… There is no cell coverage here. I need a simple app that works offline, allowing us to pin the position of our vehicle and track the path we took so we can return to our vehicle. What would you recommend?

[DeltadronesBr]

I use Wikiloc to download maps and insert into my GPS.

[martinegoldenbeld]

Hi Oscar, I've tried Wikiloc which I thought was very user-friendly. I have a motorcycle tour company and I provide my routes through Wikiloc. But recently found out that even though my lists are set to Private, people can still see my routes and download them. So my routes are not private at all. So I've tried All Trails, but this app seems to work exactly the same as Wikiloc. My lists are Private, but my routes are still available to everyone. Obviously, I don't want that as I've spent a lot of time making those routes and it's my livelihood.
Do you know of any app that would actually make it possible to hide my routes? But still user-friendly for my clients and easy to organize for me?

Many thanks in advance!

[quandaledingle]

Dude you are concise and to the point. Take a like and comment

Also this video might be due for an update! Would love to learn about new apps

[nikosapostolakis]

thnx! unfortunately viewranger has stopped development and no longer works

[AdahyCseti]

ViewRanger was the best. Unfortunately, Outdooractive bought them and they switched off access to the app.. :(