I have used this app only once and had a fantastic walk in Essex with it. (Update: three times, and three good walks.) However, it is very strange that almost every time you open it, you have to wait most of a minute while it does things like “updating group walks”. If I am just following a route I don’t need that, but it does not seem possible to turn it off. If you are on an unfamiliar route so that you have to check the directions frequently, this app is frustrating to use.
Update: this problem is much worse when you have only one bar of signal .. which happens often when you are the countryside (eg rambling). My solution is that before starting the walk, I take a screenshot of each page of the instructions (usually 4-9 pages). Then I only need to look in my photos, and not wait for this app’s slow launch.
Also, there seems to be no way to submit errors (on the walk I did today, the hyperlink for the starting point sent me to a different location in google maps, 4.3 miles from the correct place). Fortunately I knew this was wrong.
Also, too bad there is no way to record one’s own notes for a walk so that if you look at it some time later you can review your impressions etc from the first time.
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