The seven best applications to plan your hiking routes with your Android mobile

The good weather makes us want to enjoy nature, especially in spring, and for that nothing better than practicing hikingone of the healthiest activities because it is full of benefits.

And to go hiking, our Android device will become your best ally, since thanks to its applications we can discover hundreds of courses that we can do in our environment or during our weekend getaways.

Wikiloc

We start with Wikilocwhich for many professionals and mountain enthusiasts is best hiking app. He has more than 32 million routes from all over the world which were published by their nearly 10 million users.

The app of Wikiloc he allows us find out which route to take thanks to its “Explore” section, and with the help of its filters, we can find the route that best suits our needs, such as distance, slope or difficulty. It also allows us save our routes to share them with its community of users, in addition to seeing the distance traveled, the average speed, the travel time or the positive slope. He has offline maps.

Wikiloc comes from Free downloadbut if we want to have the outdoor navigation and its sound alerts that inform us that we have left the route, among other additional features, we must pay Wikiloc Premiumwhose price is $9.99 per year or 4.99 dollars every three months.

Komoot

We continue with Komootwith one of the most downloaded hiking applications by users around the world, although it does not have as many routes in Europe as Wikiloc, but it is a good alternative to create new routes and save our routes.

Komoot It has the advantage that we offer voice-guided navigation for a small region of the map, so if we hike in our area there will be no need to pay. Then we can buy regions from 3.99 dollars up to 19.99 dollars it costs the whole world.

Gaia GPS

We continue with Gaia GPSThe only topographic map app compatible with Android Auto, so you can use its free guided navigation to navigate dirt roads that other GPS navigators may not include.

Gaia GPS It has a section to discover popular routes, save our routes or manually create our routes from the mobile so that later your GPS, your voice, guides us along the chosen path. Of course, if we want offline maps and other additional functions, we will have to pay 28.93 dollars per year.

GPX Viewer

We jump to GPX Vieweran application which, as its name suggests, is a GPX, KML, KMZ AND LOC route viewer, allowing us to modify the metadata of tracks, routes and waypoints. This free app stands out in its detailed statistics. The app will mark our location on the map so we can see if we are on the route or have left the route.

If we want to be able to save routes and have offline maps, in addition to its seven-day weather forecast, we will have to purchase the GPX Viewer Pro version, the price of which is 4.99 dollars.

AllTrails: Hiking Trails Cycling Running

With All trails It is another very good application to discover routes around the world and with different filters to adjust the search to the difficulty, the distance, the slope or the classification. Moreover, its free version includes the guided navigationin addition to saving your routes.

To be able to download maps, off-road notices, air quality filters, pollen filters and the removal of advertisements, among others, you will have to pay 29.99 dollars per year.

outdoor active

We continue with outdoor active, the mountain app that absorbed the popular ViewRange. The application, in addition to allowing us to discover routes, also allows us to manually plan our routes or save our routes.

Its free version includes guided navigation, but if we want to save routes and use its topographic maps offline, we will have to checkout and pay 29.99 dollars per year.

IGN – Maps of Europe

Finally, we end our selection with Maps of Europethe official and completely free application of the National Center for Geographic Information, offering us maps of National Geographic Institute.

The application is a viewer that allows us to open and save tracks in GPX, KML and KMZ, with support for IGN’s WMS and WMTS map services. It works offline and includes shortcuts to download tracks from the routes of the National Parks, Greenways, the stages of the Camino de Santiago or Camino del Cid.

Application Maps of Europe is from the creator of OruxMaps GP (4.19 dollars). You could say that Maps of Europe is the free version of OruxMaps.

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