My Favorite Backpacking Map and GPS App – AllTrails – Review
My Favorite Backpacking Map and GPS App – AllTrails – Review
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Today Luke is reviewing his favorite backpacking/GPS app which is called AllTrails. This is what he personally uses for his adventures and has been in testing for a full year now.
Link : https://www.alltrails.com/
Cost : Free limited Version ; $2.50 a month, $30 a year, Lifetime $100
This is my second year of using this app and I was able to renew for $20 thanks to a promotion email which I received.
Available on : Apple and Android – I’ve only used it on IOS so I can’t comment on the Android part.
Who this is for : Hiker, Backpacker, Trail Runner, even Mountain Biker
This is an extremely popular app for a good reason; it’s awesome!
On IOS alone it has an average rating of 4.9 with over 67K+ ratings!
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Hi Luke, thanks for the review! I use Gaia and Earthmate for Garmin inReach. Looks like a fun app I may need to give it a try.
I bought the pro version and tested it yesterday after watching this review . It’s just what I was looking for. Thanks for putting this on Youtube.
Well done and very informative.
Thank you for your review. Found it to be fair and useful.
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Great review.Thank you. What are you using to shoot your videos. They are awesome.
I use this App too! Love it!
Thank you, this was helpful
Great. Gonna try, but doesn’t this remove some of the joy of discovery? Wanna run from a few wild boars or grizzlies even. Feel alive! 😉
Great review but I wouldn’t pay the life time price has your not guaranteed future support or updates has there will not be any guarantee the company will be about in the future….thanks for this
About to upgrade to Pro for my move to Denver…love this app, thanks for the video!
Thanks – I’ve used the free version this app until now – sounds like it’s well worth it to upgrade to PRO.
“Two is one and one is none!”
You spelled Guthook a weird way.
Thanks man. Great review for a great app !
If you are out of cell range, is there a compatible GPS unit that can be tied to Alltrails so that your position will still be updated. I am considering adding the Garmin Explorer and associated hardware, but would rather keep it simple. Please advise or post link to same
Why can’t see the check in button? Yes it is a pro edition paid for till May 2019
I like Gaia too
Very well done review. Thank you. Now a new subscriber. Hubby and I will use this weekend.
Out West in the National Forests they miss many trails. Just a heads up. Sure it will improve.
Excellent video thanks. I use the ramblr which is pretty similar to the one you are using.
Thank you for sharing this app info. Great review!!!!
Great review, thanks for sharing
Hi, this sounds like a great app but I need help choosing handheld garmin device. I have my choices narrowed down to the Foretrex 601, or the eTrex 32x. I want to use my gps device for hiking, city exploring, light geocaching, and mountain biking and I need something that uses AA or AAA batteries and that is rugged and I figured that if anyone knew about these devices it would be you. Thank you in advance for any advice you could give me and thank you for letting me know about this awesome app, it is great as long as your phone battery lasts 🙂
Great review. I like All Trails and I have used it but the one I use the most is GPS TRACKS. It gets a 4.7 rating on the app store and it is so easy to use. Thanks for the review.
"i have no idea" lol
I have been through a few apps now, viewranger so far is my favorite. seems to run the smoothest out of all of the ones i have tried
Great review. Thank you
Do you use this instead of a GPS only device?
Great video. Good job. You should get a kick back from all trails.
Hi Luke I typically only section hike the AT and for that I use Guthook which is a fantastic App. Sometime ago I did download the AllTrails app but never used it. I am planning to use it for some upcoming hikes in the NJ Pine Barrens. Thanks for a great review.
No doubt, Gaia GPS is the best.
Thank you to ALL of the technicians who invented the smart phone! Great review, Luke. I love this app and others I use for planning adventures. All Trails is my favorite (android version) along with Guthook, GAIA, WAZE and there’s another one I use but its name escapes me. It provides several useful tools such as a compass, flashlight, etc. Before the advent of smart phones I had to do mountains of research to find information, directions, maps and so on even just to plan a simple hike. My first few years of hiking maps actually were hand-drawn from our family’s set of encyclopedias, either Collier or Britannica. Some of you out there are probably saying WTF?! For decades I used reference materials at home, local libraries and stores like Dick’s to acquire information. Now I pick up my S10e, go to All Trails and within seconds I have nearly all the information I need. Did I ever thank the technicians who invented the smart phone?
Thanks for a great review….Can you talk about using Lifeline? It says others can watch your progress. I’d love to hear you directions on Lifeline.
The rating was not "53"…that was the number of people who completed a rating. The number of stars is the average rating.
so just to be clear. If I pay for the pro version I will be able to use the gps on my phone and follow myself on the trail in the app when I don’t have service. correct?
I have used Galileo pro for the last two years for hiking/backpacking, also AllTrails. Great apps
Thank you!! Thank you!!!. I have been researching and researching like crazy trying to find trails in my area. I couldn’t find much of anything. I was becoming very discouraged. Then….in one fell swoop….i find this video. I downloaded the all trails app. BAM!! Suddenly it listed all these trails around me. The biggest surprise was about a trail I had been hiking which was 2.5 miles, the longest I could find, was actually 5.5 miles. The map showed where I had been missing out. LOVE IT!!. Thank you so much for posting this. It is extremely helpful.
The trail line on the screen is too narrow. Wish it was more bold. Is there a way to download area maps, not just one trail at a time? The user interface is clearly focused on ‘one trail at a time’ which is not good for my type of trips.
Gaia GPS will automatically charge me through Apple each year unless I let them know not to charge me within 24 hours of being charged. Who is going to remember after a year. I won’t be getting a membership from them. I will try AllTrails,
I have been using Alpine Quest (for android) for some years now, and it has all the features i ever heard about that can be found on a GPS app or device (except sending SOS messages and SMS in places without regular mobile network coverage, which i think you only find on GPS devices, and not GPS apps…). Its a relatively cheap (maybe $20) one time purchase (none of that "subscription" stuff), and have a pretty decent selection of maps to choose from. Including a bunch of the "Google Maps" (which i think is the only one that is NOT downloadable), various Bing Maps, open topography maps, hikebike map, and various other maps. You can also "layer" several maps, and choose the opacity, so you have your favorite map as a base, and add other layers like "terrain", "heights", "hillshade layer", or "slopes". There is also a "track recorder" function which enables you to record the trail you are on, and export it as a GPX file or whatever, so you can store them for later, or share them with friends. If you use the track recorder, it will show how far the trail is, as well as all kinds of detailed information about the speed and elevation…
Can you use this app to map trails that have not yet been added?
FYI….If you subscribe to the free app, almost every holiday you will get an offer via email for a year subscription for $14.99.
Use AllTrails and Guthook
Best review of the app i’ve seen. Thank you
Thumbs up for this review. I first downloaded the app Trailforks but had trouble figuring it out and couldn’t find a useful Youtube tutorial. I’m a total newby. After listening to this review I downloaded "AllTrails" and I was instantly up and running. Thanks.
Anyone using openstreetmap.org open source maps?
I read there was a way for the app to notify you if you go off the trail, is this true?
Excellent review sir.
Brilliant app 👍