Outdooractive: Hiking Trails

Outdooractive AG

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About this app

The Outdooractive App for all smartphones, tablets & Wear OS is the perfect companion for hiking, cycling, biking, walking, running, and other outdoor activities. With the app, you can find and plan routes & trails around the USA with ease. Go Pro and get access to exclusive features like maps from Utah USGS® (os maps).

Excellent in-class outdoor trail maps:
Enjoy a high-resolution display of all maps and at all zoom levels thanks to our state-of-the-art vector technology. Our digital summer and winter layers are based on OpenStreetMap, and Pro and Pro+ members can also benefit from many other outdoor gps maps, such as the os maps from Utah USGS®. All of that is there to help you enjoy outdoor activities like hiking, cycling, trekking, running, walking, biking, & mountain biking MTB any day of the year.

Outdoor Route & Hiking Trails Planner:
Our Route Planner lets you easily plan and create all trails & routes based on your preferences. You can add text and photos to these, publish them within the community or share them privately with friends. You can also import and export GPX files as required. You can plan all trails and routes for any activity you are excited about, like cycling, trekking, hiking, walking, MTB or any other outdoor activity.

Recording your own Tracks & Trails:
The tracking functionality allows you to record all your own tracks & mountain bike trails to include duration, distance, altitudes, and an interactive altitude profile with outdoor GPS

Navigation:
The navigation function with speech output lets you navigate comfortably from A to B on all trails & routes. Enjoy hiking, cycling, trekking, walking routes & more with our GPS navigation with speech output.

Smartwatches with WEAR OS from Google:
Save offline maps to your watch and use it in standalone operation, letting you leave your phone at home. Record tracks and upload them directly to your account. Works without a data connection.

Global Hiking Trails Database:
Discover inspiring trail guides from tourism agencies and the community. Then, navigate with confidence and our outdoor GPS on your next hike, run, cycle, trekking & walking routes, backpacking trip, or outdoor adventure.

Outdoor Challenges:
Challenges are a fun way to motivate yourself to be more active. Earn achievement badges, win prizes, and reach your goals by using the app to record all your outdoor activities like trekking, hiking, cycling and walking routes.

Exclusively for Pro members
Add a Pro subscription and get all the latest offline maps from Ordnance Survey® (os maps), providing accurate information about hiking and cycling trails, protected areas, and details about many other outdoor activities with our outdoor GPS.


Go anywhere: Outdooractive Pro works offline without mobile and data signals. Access satellite imagery, and with our unique Outdooractive map, you’ll get over 30 activity trail networks and official topographic offline maps from across the world with the following providers:

Utah USGS; France IGN; Germany BKG; Austria BEV; Spain CNIG; Italy; Netherlands PDOK; Norway Kartverket; Switzerland swisstopo; Denmark Kortforsyningen; Sweden Lantmäteriet; Finland National Land Survey; New Zealand Land Information; Great Britain Ordnance Survey Landranger & Explorer; Japan GSI and Global Map

BuddyBeacon:
Safety first: Share your real-time location with all friends and family. Be safe and enjoy hiking, cycling, walking routes, trekking and more.

A Global Outdoor Travel Guide:
Helpful filters and our powerful search functions help you not only find all trails but also places of interest, accommodation, and events. Our global outdoor travel guide supports you while hiking, cycling, walking routes, trekking and more.

If you have questions or suggestions, please visit https://www.outdooractive.com/en/helpcenter/

Ratings and reviews

This forced replacement for Viewranger is terrible. It is designed for use in Europe (Germany) it has no information about US trails. Has only one option for type of maps to use, from time to time stops recording without notifying user, and can't be used offline. Why would anyone replace a good app(Viewranger) working well in the US with one that is flawed and is designed for use in Germany and force people to switch, then expect them to pay for it?

I've been fooling around with this app for over a year and man, do I miss Viewranger. The interface is about as intuitive as a schematic for a super collider. Eg: How about a quick, simple way to save a single waypoint from the map screen (like your car or the boat launch), then a quick, simple way to navigate back to that WPT? Nope, can't do it, unless you start tracking FIRST?(!!) Has to be the most complicated, frustrating outdoor nav app out there. Sure wish Gaia worked on my watch.

This is the app you're looking for if you want a GPS tracking map displayed on your smart watch (for free). I tried all of the other popular and recommended apps and none of them seem to have this feature, which I think is the most important feature of a wearable navigation app. For that reason alone, I rated this a 5/5, but the app also has a great interface, all the data you'd want, and many other great features. It does not have as good of a trail/route database as Alltrails.

What's new

In this version we fixed some bugs and made some performance improvements.
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