Outdooractive. Hike and Ride

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:
With a glance at your Smartwatch, you get information about your GPS position on the map. You can record tracks, get tracking data and navigate along routes. Use the app tile to easily access nearby routes.

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

Long time Viewranger customer. Very disappointed with the lack of functionality in this new app. Such a backwards step I'm now looking for an alternative even though it means I will lose all my tracks, routes and history since 2012. Edit: can no longer use other opensource maps, including in other countries. Viewranger even had piste maps! Also cannot share or link to the 3D version as before. Presumably now need to pay again to access what I used for years on Viewranger as a Pro subscriber.

Great route planning for different activities and the choice of map layers and overlays is great, but it's so disappointing that you are killing off Viewranger - I used to use both, but now can't buy or subscribe to new maps in Viewranger so have to use Outdoor Active for everything. While you've transferred the gimicky features of Viewranger we've lost a lot of basic functionality. 1. No +/- buttons for zoom. It sounds like a small thing, but pinch zoom is a nightmare with gloves or in the rain. 2. The line of a route or track is fat enough to cover the map detail underneath and there is no easy way to hide it to see if I'm supposed to be on a road, path or neither. Viewranger had a thinner line that could be easily toggled on or off to see the map detail. 3. Maps sometimes take forever to load, even on a fast connection - Viewranger seemed to have better servers. 4. I can't choose which topo map I want to use. If I'm close to a border then I get a strange patchwork of maps from the different countries making some scales unusable. This is a real problem in the Aosta region of Italy where I see a mix of Swiss, French and different Italian maps jigsawed together. 5. Viewranger gives UK grid references, this doesn't (or it didn't last time I was in the UK). 6. Viewranger makes it easy to find the altitude of any point, this only shows the altitude at my current location. If you could reproduce these features of Viewranger this would be the perfect outdoor navigation app, but as it is it leaves me and many others craving the app we've lost.

Extremely disappointing. Features that were free in viewranger are now premium. This might be ok if the app was an improvement, but it's actually significantly worse. The only free map is terrible and not being able to see multiple routes on it makes day to day planning on hiking trips (comparing routes...) a pain. You don't get your altitude on the homepage map either. I noticed a lot of platitudes in the replies to other reviews. I just want IGN maps back on Viewranger, or I'll look elsewhere

What's new

With this exciting update we have made it easier to record tracks and turn them into the great memories you'll be proud to share with friends & family!
Are you someone who loves to hike, cycle & run? Swapping between track activities has been made simpler for you.
Pick the statistics that you want to see during track recording with our customizable display.
Not sure what to name your track? No problem! We will help you with suggested names.