komoot - hike, bike & run

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About komoot - hike, bike & run

Turn your next ride, hike, or run into an adventure with komoot. Get inspired by tapping into shared community knowledge and recommendations, then bring your adventures to life with the easy route planner.

PLAN YOUR PERFECT HIKING, MOUNTAIN BIKING OR ROAD CYCLING ADVENTURE

Get the route perfect for your sport—be it smooth asphalt for your road bike, singletracks for your mountain bike, silent cycling paths for touring or natural trails for your hikes. Plan down to the last detail with at-your-fingertips info like surface, difficulty, distance and elevation profile.

TURN-BY-TURN VOICE NAVIGATION

Never take your eyes off the road with turn-by-turn voice navigation: your precise, down-to-the-inch verbal navigator that doesn’t distract you from your surroundings. Keep your eyes firmly on the adventure in front of you and navigate with ease, even on small trails or in the woods.

OFFLINE MAPS FOR OUTDOOR ADVENTURES

Download your planned outdoor adventures and save topographic maps with one tap. Navigate the outdoors even when the internet is down or unreliable. Differentiate hiking paths, MTB singletracks or paved roads, terrain and land cover at a glance.

BROWSE HIGHLIGHTS: THE KOMOOT COMMUNITY’S FAVOURITE PLACES

So you can decide on the destination of your next adventure at a glance, see Highlights on the map. From peaks, parks, and points of interest, to singletracks and sandwich shops, these places or segments, showing up as red dots in the planner, are the spots other users think you should check out. And if you’re in the know, you can recommend your own to the community in turn and inspire others to visit your favourite places, too.

TELL YOUR STORY

Track your rides and hikes with GPS. Add photos, Highlights and tips and build your own personal adventure log that’ll store your favourite experiences—forever. Save them for private use or share them with the komoot community to receive likes and comments and to inspire fellow outdoor folks. Follow your friends and like-minded explorers to keep up with their outdoor adventures.

BE A LOCAL EXPERT. BECOME A PIONEER.

Contribute photos, tips and Highlights to the community and show you’re a local Expert. Earn more upvotes than in any else for your sport in your region and become the Pioneer!

SEAMLESS SYNC ACROSS EVERY DEVICE

Whether you prep like a pro on your desktop or plan a route on the go, komoot automatically syncs your routes, tracked adventures and photos across all devices, including your smartphone, desktop, iPad and Apple Watch. Use a Garmin or a Wahoo? Simply download the komoot for Garmin app in the IQ Store and sync your profiles via Garmin Connect, or connect your komoot and Wahoo accounts to share Tours with the ELEMNT and ELEMNT BOLT.

EXPERIENCE KOMOOT FOR FREE

When you download komoot, your first region is free—forever. To expand the areas in which komoot has your back, conveniently choose between single regions, region bundles or the World Pack to access offline maps and turn-by-turn voice navigation wherever you go.

APPLE WATCH

Take a quick glance at your Apple Watch to get directions, distance, and speed in real-time—right on your wrist.

APPLE HEALTH

You can connect komoot to Health to ensure your data is always up-to-date. Automatically share your time and distance data for komoot hiking, cycling, and running activities with Health.

“Komoot does for hiking and biking what Apple does for hardware: makes it easily accessible and fun to use.”

— Cult of Mac

For support and tips, please visit help.komoot.de

MORE INFORMATION

Komoot uses background audio service for voice navigation messages.

Komoot requires a GPS signal for directions, Tour recording and speed in real-time.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Is komoot actually worth it anymore?

Been testing komoot for the past month after my usual apps started feeling stale. You know the drill - AllTrails for hiking, Strava for rides, switching between apps like some kind of digital nomad. komoot promises to handle everything in one place. Mostly delivers, but man, there's some stuff you need to know before jumping in.

Four weeks of actually using this thing

Started with the free region around my area (you get one free, which is nice). First ride out? Got completely lost. The app sent me down what I thought was a bike path but turned into someone's driveway. Classic.

Week 2 was better. Finally figured out the interface isn't trying to be clever - it just... is. The route planning makes more sense when you stop fighting it. Type in where you want to go, pick your activity (hiking, road cycling, mountain biking), and it actually suggests decent routes. Not always perfect, but decent.

The voice navigation honestly surprised me. Usually keep my phone in my pocket while riding, and the turn-by-turn actually works. "Turn right in 50 meters" comes through clear, even with wind noise. Though it did tell me to turn left into a lake once. That was fun.

By week 3, started exploring the social features. The "Highlights" thing where people mark cool spots on routes? Actually useful. Found a hidden waterfall trail someone marked that wasn't on any other app. The community stuff feels less competitive than Strava, more about sharing actual adventures.

The pros and cons

How it stacks up

What the internet says

Reddit's having a field day with komoot's recent changes. Found a 200+ comment thread on r/bikepacking where old users are defending it while newbies call it overpriced. The kicker? If you bought regions before February 2025, you're grandfathered in. Everyone else needs Premium to sync with devices now.

EMTB Forums has a 50-page discussion about connection issues with e-bikes. Turns out the Kiox 300 disconnects randomly and won't reconnect without internet. That's... not ideal when you're miles from civilization.

App Store reviews sit at 4.7 stars from 5,800+ people, but scroll to recent ones and there's a cluster of complaints about the new subscription model. One guy said he paid for world maps thinking it was forever, then boom - features locked behind Premium.

Twitter actually shows the developers responding to issues, which is rare. Saw them help someone recover data last week. Points for that at least.

My honest verdict

Here's the thing - komoot's really good at what it does. The route planning beats most apps, turn-by-turn nav works great, and the community features add genuine value. But that recent acquisition by Bending Spoons? They fired 85% of staff and jacked up prices. Classic investment firm move.

If you're already using multiple apps for different activities, komoot might simplify your life. The $59.99/year stings, but it's still cheaper than Strava. Just dont expect major updates anytime soon with most of the dev team gone.

Would I keep using it? Yeah, probably. Already invested time learning the quirks, and it does save me from juggling three different apps. But if you're just getting started? Maybe wait to see if they actually maintain it or just milk it dry.