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

Good weather encourages us to want to enjoy nature, especially in spring, and for this there is nothing better than practicing the trekkingone of the healthiest activities for it 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 routes that we can do in our surroundings or on our weekend getaways.

Wikiloc

Wikiloc

We start with Wikiloc which for many professionals and mountain enthusiasts is best hiking app. It has more than 32 million routes from all over the world that have been published by their almost 10 million users.

the app of Wikiloc allows us discover which route to take through 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 record our routes to share them with its community of users, in addition to seeing the distance traveled, the average speed, the time in movement or the positive slope. It has offline maps.

Wikiloc is from free download but if we want to have the outdoor navigation and its sound alerts that notify us that we have gone off the route, among other extra features, we have to pay Wikiloc Premium whose price is €9.99 per year or 4.99 euro every three months.

Wikiloc Outdoor GPS Navigation

  • Developer: Wikiloc Outdoor
  • Download it at: google play
  • Price: Free with in-app purchases
  • Category: Maps and navigation

Komoot

Komoot

We continue with Komootwith one of the most downloaded hiking applications by users from all over the world, although it does not have as many routes in Spain as Wikiloc, but it is a good alternative to make new routes and record our routes.

Komoot It has the advantage that we give away voice guided navigation for a small region of the map, so if we go hiking in our area there will be no need to pay. Then we can buy regions from 3.99 euros to 19.99 euros that costs the whole world.

 

Komoot: hiking and biking

  • Developer: komoot GmbH
  • Download it at: google play
  • Price: Free with in-app purchases
  • Category: Health & Wellness

Gaia GPS

Gaia GPS

We continue with Gaia GPS the 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, record 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 extra functions, we will have to pay 28.93 euros per year.

Gaia GPS (Topographic Maps)

Gaia GPS (Topographic Maps)

  • Developer: TrailBehind Inc.
  • Download it at: google play
  • Price: Free with in-app purchases
  • Category: Navigation and maps

GPS Viewer

GpxViewer

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

If we want to be able to record routes and have offline maps, in addition to its seven-day weather forecast, we will have to buy the GPX Viewer Pro version, whose price is €4.99.

GPS Viewer

GPS Viewer

  • Developer: Vectura Games OÜ
  • Download it at: google play
  • Price: Free with in-app purchases
  • Category: Navigation and maps

AllTrails: Hiking Trails Bike Trail Running

alltrails

With AllTrails This is another very good application to discover routes around the world and with different filters to adjust the search to the difficulty, distance, slope or rating. In addition, its free version includes the guided navigationin addition to saving your routes.

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

AllTrails: Hiking Trails Bike Trail Running

AllTrails: Hiking Trails Bike Trail Running

  • Developer: AllTrails, LLC
  • Download it at: google play
  • Price: Free with in-app purchases
  • Category: Health & Wellness

outdoor active

outdoor active

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

Outdooractive: Hiking

Outdooractive: Hiking

  • Developer: Outdooractive AG
  • Download it at: google play
  • Price: Free with in-app purchases
  • Category: guides andThe 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 the tracks of the routes of the National Parks, Greenways, the stages of the Camino de Santiago or Camino del Cid.

    The application Maps of Spain is from the creator of OruxMaps GP (4.19 euros). It could be said that Maps of Spain is the free version of OruxMaps.

    Maps of Spain

    Maps of Spain

    • Developer: National Geographic Information Center – CNIG
    • Download it at: google play
    • Price: Free
    • Category: guides and

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