Issue Saving Tour
Everything worked slick with this app except at the final hurdle. In the process of saving a 30km bike tour it asked me to upload highlight photos and when I then granted permissions to access photos/camera, the tour details disappeared. At least the distance/time data had already transferred to my Health App but still, very disappointing to lose the comprehensive tour data including map in Komoot. This appears to be a bug.
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Pretty good routing west of Portland OR
The OpenCycle maps are pretty accurate for my area. I love the voice commands so I don’t have to look down all the time. There’s an issue if doing an out n back on the same roads though.
Since it’s using GPS, it should know I’m heading east and stop giving me the directions for heading west as well as the ones for riding east. It was contradicting itself in a constant loop my entire return route back which was very annoying.
Other than that glitch, it’s the best program I’ve found yet for planning a ride near me.
Since it’s using GPS, it should know I’m heading east and stop giving me the directions for heading west as well as the ones for riding east. It was contradicting itself in a constant loop my entire return route back which was very annoying.
Other than that glitch, it’s the best program I’ve found yet for planning a ride near me.
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Love Komoot
Great app. Best user interface. Love that I can upload rides from mission control.
Easy to use
Easy to use so far. Only used once.
Planning power
It is really handy to plan your hiking route in advance. It seems pretty accurate and it’s good to share your plans with your mates. I’ve found that the navigation was improved since last version, I haven’t test it properly the Apple Watch but it will be nice get a fast response to it when you are navigating. Well done!
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Excellent suggestions for running and trails. Less good for cycling.
When I am just looking for recommendations in an area that I am not familiar with, Komoot can find some excellent hiking trails and makes pretty good suggestions to stay away from cars while on foot. It does a good job tracking my progress even in offline mode so I do not need to use roaming data in a foreign country. It works less well for cycling: I have occasional trouble getting the map to follow my intended route (a loop on specific roads may require excessive waypoints), and I agree with others’ comments here—some suggested roads are heavily trafficked and would be unsafe.
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Free app ok, but don't pay for routes
After test-mapping a long trip route, I signed up for Komoot's lifetime full access to all maps, then plotted two long trips and saved them in my account. The trip routes were in my account for a couple weeks, then suddenly Komoot deleted my account entirely the day before I was leaving on one of the trips. Thinking it was just a bug, I re-signed up, but my routes and subscription were still gone. I wrote support, and got no response. Weeks later, Komoot responded that they never deleted the account, have no record of my payment, nor of me having created or saved any routes, and they refuse to provide a refund. Since they are not in USA, there is no way to compel them to fix the issue or refund my payment, and they seem to know that.
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Good, but flawed navigation
The basemap is very useful for navigating gravel and woods roads, however the navigation feature is all but useless because the display is locked on 100% of the time while using. This kills the battery in my iPhone 6s in just a few hours, rendering this functionality essentially useless. If Komoot added the super basic option of having the app go to sleep after a set amount of time and wake up for notifications, then I would give it a 4 or 5 star rating, but as is, I can only use the app in non-navigation mode. This is Still useful to place yourself on the map, but it’s soooooooooooo frustrating to not be able to use the very good navigation functionality.
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Feedback komoot app
Komoot served me well in a recent Bikepacking journey of five months in the USA. I’ve used komoot for about 7 years now and it’s my ‘go to’ app when I hike or bike.
What’s not working well is that komoot doesn’t read or see blocked trails. A few times I came to barbed wire across trails and was forced to detour. Also ended up in dry sandy washed in Arizona desert that were marked as trails.
Camping info and water sources could be featured a bit more too.
What’s not working well is that komoot doesn’t read or see blocked trails. A few times I came to barbed wire across trails and was forced to detour. Also ended up in dry sandy washed in Arizona desert that were marked as trails.
Camping info and water sources could be featured a bit more too.
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Use it locally and see how poor its route finding is...
... that’s it. It might be decent for throwing together a quick ride somewhere new (though, as a UI designer, it think it’s a poorly laid out interface), but as soon as you try to use if for local routes you see how poor its choices are.
I've tried for road biking and MTB/cyclocross. On road it will consistently send me down the busiest roads here in the Cotswolds, while other quieter options are all nearby and, off-road it’ll still regularly add road riding in all while missing some of the very best local climbing and descending routes available.
Try to add in waypoints to include these sections and, rather than intelligently seeing that, say, as a mountain biker, it would be optimal to link where you were previously with this new marker via that excellent Bridleway, it will fussily makes you ride past them on a road before doubling back to this new section and then doing a U turn back to the original poor route it had plotted for you. There’s no logic there.
Significantly better off with local knowledge for yourself at home, or via locals in the new area you’re checking out. This has had an enormous marketing push lately, but, in my experience, it is fundamentally floored at the one thing it should be nailing- finding A1 riding for you.
I've tried for road biking and MTB/cyclocross. On road it will consistently send me down the busiest roads here in the Cotswolds, while other quieter options are all nearby and, off-road it’ll still regularly add road riding in all while missing some of the very best local climbing and descending routes available.
Try to add in waypoints to include these sections and, rather than intelligently seeing that, say, as a mountain biker, it would be optimal to link where you were previously with this new marker via that excellent Bridleway, it will fussily makes you ride past them on a road before doubling back to this new section and then doing a U turn back to the original poor route it had plotted for you. There’s no logic there.
Significantly better off with local knowledge for yourself at home, or via locals in the new area you’re checking out. This has had an enormous marketing push lately, but, in my experience, it is fundamentally floored at the one thing it should be nailing- finding A1 riding for you.
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