Bruce joining the pay to play
No way I’m paying a subscription to learn about trails up here. Insane to ask for that. Hiking is supposed to be an affordable activity for anyone. Not a place to money grab.
Love this app
Love the tracking and updates on trail conditions. I’d be happier if I could track on the route I had created. Hopefully this will happen in future updates
Best app for Bruce Trail
Offline maps are fantastic plus you always have the latest trail changes at your fingertips. It would be great if the search would include the locations that I saved rather than having to click on the map again (hard to visually find the exact spot again). Another bonus would be elevation maps of selected sections, as I had with apps for hiking camino routes in Europe.
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Not perfect
Hard to find designated camping spots (I don't know if it's possible as I haven't figured out how) and there is no option for users to mark points of interest like water on the trail and whether or not it is flowing- makes planning and preparation very difficult compared to trails on farout
Essential Hiking Equipment
Having the app is as useful as having shoes on your feet when hiking the trail. GPS location doesn’t require a cel signal and timely updates allow for optima planning.
Poor experience
i’ve tried to create an account and login, but it just keeps spinning for hours. It’s hard to support a paid app as much as I want to support the Bruce Trail conservation efforts
🚶♀️
I love the app. Very helpful. I realize you can’t put businesses on as waymarks but big physical things such as ski hills would be helpful.
Love the trail, not the app
After the disaster transition from old app, discontinued shortly after I bought it, I finally decided to get the new one despite the subscription model, to get up to date maps and support the trail. It does not work, blank page, loading wheel, no map or anything else. Yet an other disappointment :(
Could be so much better
It’s an ok app as it show up to date changes. It lacks enough accommodation options and elevation options. Other apps are much better
Luv The Bruce!
Hard to luv this app. Not up to the standard that the cost would imply . Planning tricky without km markings, have saved hikes but I have not figured-out how to review these together on a map view .
Good stat but changes required to keep getting my $!
Good stat but changes required to keep getting my $!
Clunky app for tracking your hikes
While I support the Bruce Trail Conservancy, I do not recommend this app. The main issue is that it underperforms in the most important area it serves: to record your hikes and track your progress on the Bruce Trail. While you can record and save individual hikes, you can only view the hikes one at a time on the map. This means YOU CANNOT SEE where you've already hiked and where you still need to explore. You need a different app or method to combine your hikes to see how much of the Trail you've done. Also, YOU CANNOT SORT OR FILTER your hikes by region or date. They are always displayed in the order you recorded them. I've only accumulated a couple dozen hikes and scrolling up/down the list is already a problem.
A related limitation is that you can’t export your hikes as GPX files to use elsewhere, nor can you import hikes recorded in other apps. The app is a CLOSED SYSTEM. And if you discontinue your subscription, all of your stored hikes and routes become inaccessible. I really don’t like my data being held hostage in this way. Fine, discontinue map and trail updates if I unsubscribe, but at least let me keep my recorded hikes.
I do give this app one extra star for delivering I immediate updates, including trail notifications. But it’s so disappointing as a tracker that I can’t recommend it to anyone interested in exploring the Bruce Trail. There are better ways, better apps, to do that.
A related limitation is that you can’t export your hikes as GPX files to use elsewhere, nor can you import hikes recorded in other apps. The app is a CLOSED SYSTEM. And if you discontinue your subscription, all of your stored hikes and routes become inaccessible. I really don’t like my data being held hostage in this way. Fine, discontinue map and trail updates if I unsubscribe, but at least let me keep my recorded hikes.
I do give this app one extra star for delivering I immediate updates, including trail notifications. But it’s so disappointing as a tracker that I can’t recommend it to anyone interested in exploring the Bruce Trail. There are better ways, better apps, to do that.
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Clunky app for tracking hikes on Bruce Trail
While I support the Bruce Trail Conservancy, I do not recommend this app. The main issue is that it underperforms in the most important area you use it: to record your hikes and track your progress on the Bruce Trail. While you can record and save individual hikes, you can only view the hikes one at a time on the map. This means YOU CANNOT SEE ALL OF THE BRUCE you've already hiked. You need a different app or method to combine your hikes to see how much of the Trail you’ve done. Also, the app does not let you filter your hikes by region or date, nor sort them that way. I’ve only accumulated a couple dozen hikes and it’s already a problem. Moreover, the app doesn’t let you export your hikes as GPX files to use elsewhere, nor can you import hikes recorded in other apps. It’s a CLOSED SYSTEM.
The last straw for me came a week ago when I was using the app to record a hike. At some point it just stopped recording. There was no notification, no message asking me if I wanted to save my progress. The problem might have been that I used the app to give me a distance measure while I was hiking, so maybe it can’t do two things at once. In any case, 8km of data was deleted in a flash.
One final point: If you do a monthly subscription and then decide to discontinue for the winter, you LOSE ACCESS to all of your hikes, routes, and pins. The app gives you nothing until you restart your subscription. And since you can't export anything from the app, you're stuck.
I do like the fact that the app gives you immediate trail updates, including notifications of temporary closures, and also shows you places to park. For that I give it an extra star. But my advice to Bruce Trail hikers is to purchase either a print copy or download PDFs of the trail map, and track & manage your hikes using a more well established and reliable app (I use AllTrails). This app is not fit for that purpose.
The last straw for me came a week ago when I was using the app to record a hike. At some point it just stopped recording. There was no notification, no message asking me if I wanted to save my progress. The problem might have been that I used the app to give me a distance measure while I was hiking, so maybe it can’t do two things at once. In any case, 8km of data was deleted in a flash.
One final point: If you do a monthly subscription and then decide to discontinue for the winter, you LOSE ACCESS to all of your hikes, routes, and pins. The app gives you nothing until you restart your subscription. And since you can't export anything from the app, you're stuck.
I do like the fact that the app gives you immediate trail updates, including notifications of temporary closures, and also shows you places to park. For that I give it an extra star. But my advice to Bruce Trail hikers is to purchase either a print copy or download PDFs of the trail map, and track & manage your hikes using a more well established and reliable app (I use AllTrails). This app is not fit for that purpose.
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Subscription🤓
Makes you create an accciunt just to tell you that you need a subscription to access it so…
Club sections
Love the app. My only complaint is that it would be nice to have each of the 9 club sections on it
Happy with Appealing Map App
This is a great app everybody! You need this app if you’re planning hikes on the Bruce.
Easy to use!
Love using the BT app! It’s great to be able to know where to go when I’m looking for the nearest part of trail!
Notes section…
Like the app for the most part, but two issues:
1. I really want to be able to see km markings, like in the physical book.
2. If you type a few notes, and then go back to “view map,” the button has dipped below the screen area and can’t be tapped, so you have to go and delete your notes to be able to see the map. Not cool.
1. I really want to be able to see km markings, like in the physical book.
2. If you type a few notes, and then go back to “view map,” the button has dipped below the screen area and can’t be tapped, so you have to go and delete your notes to be able to see the map. Not cool.
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Good app.
Good app for planning a day hike. But it needs klm markings like the paper maps.
Maps are good but there are big glitches
Maps are clear but unfortunately third party trails are omitted, making it less user friendly.
Also I found that if you download all maps the app runs out of memory which results in your not being able to zoom in to sufficient detail when in the field.
My biggest beef is that every time you switch back to the app (from your camera say), it starts from the home screen instead of the map you had open. It updates all maps, you then have to scroll through the list of maps, find the map you want, select it, then open it and find where you are. That's an easily preventable irritant.
Also I found that if you download all maps the app runs out of memory which results in your not being able to zoom in to sufficient detail when in the field.
My biggest beef is that every time you switch back to the app (from your camera say), it starts from the home screen instead of the map you had open. It updates all maps, you then have to scroll through the list of maps, find the map you want, select it, then open it and find where you are. That's an easily preventable irritant.
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Recommended for End-to-Enders
This app is worth every penny for serious hikers of the BT: for planning hikes, checking progress on the trail, calculating distance, and more.
