You like the outdoors and you are thinking of entering the ‘world’ of hiking, or you are passionate about walking, but you are not sure how to optimize or better monitor your routes. Luckily, apps can also help you meet your activity goals beyond basic information like your mobile step measurement.
These apps are great for discovering new hikes, planning your hikes, tracking the ones you’ve done, analyzing your results, and much more. They have a large number of possibilities for athletes and lovers of nature activities.
Wikiloc, the essential
This is one of the classics for all those who go hiking, since it allows you to discover millions of routes around the world and orient yourself much better on them. It is practical when you are walking, but also to organize a meeting or think about where you want to go next time.
You will have free offline maps so you don’t get lost at any time, even if you run out of Internet, and live monitoring sharing your activity with family and friends. Make your mobile a perfect GPS navigator and take advantage of its full potential.
It is not only useful for hiking, but also if you practice running, cycling, MTB, kayaking, skiing and up to 80 types of activities.
AllTrails, thousands of routes around the world
This is a complete app in which you can discover more than 400,000 routes , follow your progress and always stay on the right track on your hiking trails. It will allow you to be inspired to know what your own activity is or it will serve as a physical activity monitor.
You can search for routes near you filtering by distance , know the last minute details that matter to you or use the maps offline, among many other possibilities.
Komoot, with voice-guided navigation
This is an app with which you can plan your routes in detail, discovering where you want to go. It is perfect for walking, running or cycling, or even hiking on natural paths or landscapes. It has voice-guided navigation with topographic maps without Internet connection and much more.
It adapts to each route and joins you in a community where you can find places, share your story, inspire others and much more.
Geo Tracker, complete GPS tracker
This is an app in which you can go any route without fear of getting lost , use other people’s route, mark important points on your way, locate points on the map and much more. You can even share your achievements in colorful screenshots on social networks.
It is a complete GPS tracker that can work with Google and Open street Maps. It provides you with multiple statistics so that you have all the information about your routes, with detailed graphs.
Strava, social network to share your routes
It is a social network where you can follow all your physical activity , in which everything related to your training is saved so that you can easily share it and have more information about your routes.
It’s perfect for hiking and other activities, allows you to move safely, sync favorite apps and devices and much more. It also has extra functions if you upgrade to the paid premium version.
