Rother: Hiking & Maps

Bergverlag Rother GmbH

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About this app

Easy route planning and recording with premium maps and over 15,000 tested tours by professional hiking authors. All Rother tours are now fully available in English.

Here comes your reliable companion for the next hike!
With us there is no mess of useless tours, but only tour suggestions from professional authors - tested and regularly updated. With our maps from qualified cartographers, orientation is easy. For beautiful and safe outdoor experiences.

The Rother App is developed and published by Rother Bergverlag, known for reliable hiking guides.

FREE OFFLINE MAPS
You can download our hiking and biking maps for free and use them offline. You can also plan your own routes and record your adventures.

GET ALL TOURS AND MAPS
You have the choice: Unlock individual guides or get them all in the low-priced Gold subscription. This gives you access to all tours from Rother, all premium maps from freytag & berndt, Swisstopo and the satellite map. You can save tours and locations in your own lists, so you can keep track of everything.

EASY TOUR SELECTION
Do you want a leisurely tour today or are you looking for a challenge? Are you looking for a child-friendly hike? No problem: easily filter tours according to your preferences, such as length and difficulty.

HIKING MAPS
Topographic maps in many zoom levels and satellite map. With our premium maps you get the finest cartography from freytag & berndt and others like Swisstopo, BKG, SHOCart, CNIG or Kartverket.

GPS NAVIGATION
While hiking you can always see your location and the track of the tour.

OFFLINE USE
Simply download the map for the desired area and go hiking without an internet connection.

ROUTE DESCRIPTIONS
Reliable tour descriptions and all information about requirements, refreshments, etc.
In a slideshow with photos of the tour you can see what to expect.

PLAN YOUR OWN ROUTE
Route planning with Rother is very easy and understandable: enter your start and destination and we will show you the way - on foot or by bike.

ROTHER GUIDES
You can also get our popular Rother hiking guides. Each guide contains around 50 tested tours by proven area experts.
There are more than 200 guides available for the most beautiful hiking regions worldwide - also for the Way of St. James and long-distance hiking trails as well as for winter (ski tours, snowshoe tours).
If you already have a book from us, you can import the GPS data into the app for free, but not unlock the corresponding guide for free.

ABOUT ROTHER BERGVERLAG
Rother Bergverlag is Europe's most important publisher of hiking guides. The authors are proven area experts who stand for a considered tour selection and the highest quality. All tours are professionally checked in the editorial office.

Ratings and reviews

So far many tours are missing in the gold version. For example in France, the tours in Normandy, the Loire Valley, Burgundy or Ile de France are all missing. You will find Brittany or Northern France, but not those four. So I'm guessing it's gonna be the same for other countries, and a big percentage of the tours you see in books are still missing. I guess they will be adding them progressively, but they should tell you beforehand... Also the map zooming is very slow and buggy...

Dissapointed with the new version. Great that it is now in English, but it has lost some functionality: Tour numbers are gone, but references inside description are still with number. No way to know whic tour it is; Elevation profile does not allow to follow it on the trail (other apps let you select a specific point on the elevation profile and it shows you where that is on the trail); Arrows to indicate direction of tour have disappeared, annoying; It can never find any tours on the region

Really bad: you purchase a book, download the maps on your phone and each time you want to organise another hike, the app pretends you have nothing downloaded. When it does work, if you are in a zone without mobile connection, you cannot use the map.

What’s new

Better and faster performance, optimized display - we have technically renewed the app.