AllTrails: Hike, Bike & Run

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About AllTrails: Hike, Bike & Run

Find your way outside with the 2023 iPhone App of the Year

Whether you hike, bike, run, or walk, AllTrails is your companion and guide to the outdoors. Find detailed reviews and inspiration from a community of trail-goers like you. We’ll help you plan, live, and share your outdoor adventures.

AllTrails offers more than a running app or fitness activity tracker. It’s built on the idea that the outside isn’t a place to seek, but rather a part of us all. Custom route planning helps you search for dog-friendly, kid-friendly, stroller-friendly, or wheelchair-friendly trails, and more.

◆ Discover trails: Search over 450,000 trails around the world by location, interest, skill level, and more.

◆ Plan your next adventure: Get in-depth trail info, from reviews to conditions to GPS driving directions — and save your favorite trails for later.

◆ Stay on course: Stick to your planned route or chart your own course with confidence when you navigate on the trail.

◆ Grow your community: Celebrate outdoor adventures and find inspiration by connecting with trail-goers like you.

◆ Share your outdoor adventures: Easily post trails and activities on Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.

Discover trails that fit your nature. Trails for workout planners, hikers, walkers, mountain bikers, trail runners, and casual cyclists. Whether you’re pushing your limits or pushing a stroller, there’s something out there for everyone. Let AllTrails help you find it.

► Do more outdoors with AllTrails+ ►

Spend less time figuring out where you want to be, and more time enjoying where you are. With offline maps, wrong-turn alerts, and extra safety and planning features, your annual subscription gives you more tools for more adventures.

◆ Search by distance from you to find the closest trails.

◆ Stay informed with live route planner details like air quality, pollen, and light pollution.

◆ Unplug completely or pack a backup with printed maps.

◆ Download offline maps ahead of time and track your GPS location, even with no cell service.

◆ Keep loved ones in the loop with Live Share.

◆ Prepare for the hills ahead: Follow topo maps and trail maps in 3D.

◆ Focus on the view, not the map, with wrong-turn alerts.

◆ Get satellite weather with real-time map details.

◆ Record your activity with stats and photos of your favorite hiking trails.

◆ Stay on track: Automatically export your records to the Apple Health app.

◆ Give back: AllTrails donates a portion of every subscription to 1% for the Planet.

◆ Explore ad-free: Remove occasional ads by subscribing.

Whether you’re geocaching in a national park, browsing bucket-list mountain bike routes, or planning a trail run to clear your head, AllTrails+ makes the great outdoors even greater.

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Is AllTrails still worth downloading in 2025?

You know that friend who knows every trail within 50 miles and somehow remembers which ones turn into swamps after rain? AllTrails wants to be that friend, except it covers 450,000+ trails worldwide and fits in your pocket. After Apple crowned it iPhone App of the Year in 2023, I had to see if it lived up to the hype.

Spoiler: it's complicated.

Three weeks of muddy boots and wrong turns

Downloaded AllTrails after my usual hiking buddy moved away. First hike, picked what looked like an "easy" 4-mile loop near my place. The app said 2 hours. Took me 3.5 hours and I nearly turned back twice because the "gentle incline" was basically a wall of rocks.

That's when I learned AllTrails' dirty secret - the difficulty ratings are about as reliable as weather forecasts. One person's "moderate" is another person's "call the helicopter." Started reading the actual reviews instead of trusting the rating. Game changer.

Week two went better. Found a waterfall trail through recent reviews (someone posted pics from 3 days earlier showing the water was actually flowing). The offline maps saved my bacon when I lost signal halfway up. That wrong turn alert? Literally stopped me from wandering into private property. Worth the subscription right there.

But then came the update. That new 3D Recap feature everyone's raving about? Cool to watch your hike replay like a video game, sure. But it ate 500MB of data for a 3-hour hike. Found this out the hard way on a camping trip with limited data. The bot-only customer support couldn't help disable it. Still salty about that.

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How it stacks up

What the internet thinks

Reddit's r/hiking is basically at war over AllTrails. Found a 200+ comment thread where people either defend the $36/year price or call it highway robbery. The kicker? Students get 3 months free with some discount code nobody mentioned in the app.

The data-eating 3D feature has its own hate thread. One guy on r/Ultralight calculated it would cost him $50 in international roaming charges for a week of hiking. The workaround (turn off cellular for the app completely) defeats half the purpose of having it.

MacRumors forum users discovered you can email GPX files to yourself as plain text if the export breaks. It's tedious but it works. Why this isn't built in properly? Nobody knows.

Checked the recent App Store reviews - they're bombing it with 1-stars since the Peak subscription launched. People who paid for Plus feel cheated because features got moved to the more expensive tier. The developer's copy-paste responses aren't helping.

My honest verdict

Here's the thing - I'm still using it. Despite the annoyances, despite the data-hungry updates, despite difficulty ratings that seem picked by a drunk GPS. Because when you need to find a dog-friendly trail with parking that's under 5 miles and has a view, nothing else comes close.

The free version's honestly enough if you hike popular trails near cities. But if you're heading anywhere remote, you need Plus for offline maps. Just don't trust it blindly. Read recent reviews, check the photos, and always bring a paper backup for serious hikes.

Is it perfect? Hell no. Is it better than getting lost? Absolutely.