RouteYou - walking and cycling

RouteYou BV

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About this app

With the RouteYou app you receive access to a wide range of routes in your area for recreation, sports, or learning about new places. We chose our selection from more than 8.5 million available routes throughout the world.

SMARTWATCH WITH WEAR OS
Note: The Wear OS app does not support starting routes or offline navigation. These features are only available in the RouteYou smartphone app.

Use your smartwatch with Wear OS as a helpful tool while navigating. Start a route from the RouteYou app on your smartphone and receive turn-by-turn directions on your smartwatch. Track additional stats such as your speed, distance covered, and remaining distance. The smartwatch functions only as a companion to the RouteYou app on your smartphone. For all other features, use the RouteYou app itself.

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CHOOSE YOUR FAVORITE ACTIVITY
Cycling and walking routes are the most popular, but you'll also find plenty of other verified routes on RouteYou for your mountain bike, racing bike, gravel bike, or antique car. In addition, Route You also offers routes for horseback riding, rollerblading, or an excursion on the water with a boat, canoe, or kayak. RouteYou is your ideal partner for your favorite outdoor activity

PLAN YOUR OWN ROUTE
With our powerful route planner, you can easily create the most beautiful routes directly in the app. Whether you’re hiking, cycling, or enjoying a city trip, choose your distance and surface type (paved or unpaved). We create a route tailored to your activity, and with plenty of customization options, you can make it exactly how you want. Want to stop at a cozy café or take a break at a stunning viewpoint? Add stops effortlessly and enjoy a route fully customized to your needs. Try it today and start your adventure!

DISCOVER
Would you rather discover the available recreational routes for a specific place or area? Just zoom or pan to the location, or look up an address or region. You can do this for anywhere in the world. As you search for the perfect route, you can filter according to distance, score, and features such as reduced-traffic, unpaved roads, whether there are cobblestones, and much more. Have you found the ideal route? Then you can start navigating your route right away, or save it in your bookmarks for later.

NAVIGATION
Our app flawlessly navigates you along every route. Thanks to our turn-by-turn navigation, you will never get lost again. If you activate the voice navigation, then you never have to divert your eyes from the path and you can be certain that you are always following the right route. While navigating you can follow the route on the map or on your smartphone's lock screen. Our smart widgets ensure that you receive the next instructions in time. For extra information, you can turn the elevation profile on and off as you wish.

PLACES OF INTEREST
Do you want to rest for a while on the patio of a nice restaurant? Are you a fan of culture? Are you looking for a romantic spot? The routes are enriched with practical and informative places of interest. Discover nature and landscape, culture and heritage, recreation and tourism, infrastructure and transportation, hospitality and services – from parks, rivers and castles to museums, beaches, public transport, hotels and cafés – everything that completes your route and experience.

Ratings and reviews

Miserable navigation experience. The app sounds promising, but you can't pick your own routes. It also acts funnily in the approach to turns -- it looks like you still have a way to go, then all of a sudden you're at the turn -- very easy to miss your turn. It's also inconsistent in auditory warnings for turns, so you constantly have to watch the map. Which is unsafe in traffic and kills the enjoyment of your route. And having to have the screen bright enough to see drains your battery.

It's like your browser but with ads and way more complicated. It does everything your browser does but worse. On top of that, you need an account for it to 'work'. And even If you managed all of that, the app will ask you to install the app -from within the app whilst complaining the currently set language is not supported. Just open your route directly in the browser on full screen, that actually works like charm. It seems to me they got the hardest part right and made an app for the sake of it

I use apps like this to publish routes which have been posted to my blog, for wider public consumption. This one, like several others, adds in computer-generated analysis that is both inaccurate and meaningless, and to add insult to injury then attempts to score both the route and the creator. The base maps are not very good either so all in all I wouldn't use it for any trip of my own.

What’s new

• Routes rated 3 stars or higher are now easier to discover.
• Community photos are now shown on the map.
• Improved search and route planner reset.
• Performance and stability improvements.