Garmin Explore™ Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience45.8% of reviews
Neutral11.2% of reviews
Negative experience42.9% of reviews

~ Based on 962 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Garmin Explore™

Is Garmin Explore™ Safe?

Garmin Explore™ appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Garmin Explore™ is 84/100.

This assessment is based on 1,103 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.2/5.

Safety Analysis

78.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
16.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,103 App Store ratings for Garmin Explore™.

Is Garmin Explore™ Legit?

Garmin Explore™ appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Garmin Explore™ is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Not reliable

I gave a try to the app 2 years ago. Canceled my subscription because of many bugs making the app not reliable. Just tried again thinking after 2 years the app should be on top. Went for a run after downloading the area where my route was planned. Downloaded the route on my Fenix and planned to use the app as a test. After 3 km the app freezes. I closed the app , re open it, worked again for a couple of minute then freezes again. I finished my run with my reliable Fenix watch. … and deleted the app
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View Activities Older Than 7 Days Update

I used Garmin Explore to view all of my past activities together on the map. It was a great personal heat map. The new update removes that ability, while making it as a feature. It has also crashed multiple times since the update.


Edit: Thank you Garmin for listening to customers and offering an option for either the updated functionality (that removed functionality for my use, as per my original review) or the previous functionality allowing users to view personal heat maps of their prior routes.

Explore is great to see what routes you have previously taken, allowing you to choose paths less taken by yourself in the past and explore new areas.
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Response from developer

Hi, we are working on an update to allow activity recordings to be displayed as points or lines, along with some other map display improvements. We'll release that as soon as possible, I wanted to share here to let you know we heard your feedback. -Chip Noble, Product Manager, Garmin

Great Activity History

Thanks to Garmin for fixing the activity history. This app works brilliantly for storing all your old activities and reviewing them on a heat map and the new filtering controls are great. Combined with Garmin Connect and the seamless way that all the activities on your watch are automatically uploaded with no user input required, this is now a brilliant easy to use and data rich combination.
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Response from developer

Hi, we are working on an update to allow activity recordings to be displayed as points or lines, along with some other map display improvements. We'll release that as soon as possible, I wanted to share here to let you know we heard your feedback. -Chip Noble, Product Manager, Garmin

Latest Update Has Ruined a Brilliant Feature!

Absolutely gutted with the latest update to Garmin Explore. One of the best features was being able to see all my previous GPS activities displayed together on one map, with the ability to tap individual routes and view the activity details.

I’ve spent months building up over 200 running activities, using the map to see which roads I’ve explored and which ones I’ve yet to run. It was a fantastic feature and one of the main reasons I used the app.

Now, with activities older than seven days no longer automatically displaying their full routes and now all I have is a big clump of dots at my home where I start all my runs, that functionality has effectively been taken away. Having to manually select over 200 individual activities just to restore something that previously worked perfectly is ridiculous.

Please Garmin, listen to your users and bring back the option to display ALL activities on the map simultaneously. At the very least, give us a simple toggle to enable it.

Such a disappointing and completely unnecessary change to an otherwise excellent app. Please bring this feature back!
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Response from developer

Hi OlliNono, please hold off on setting the Show On Map flag for every activity recording, we're working on an update to give control over showing as points or lines. We'll release that as soon as it's ready, sorry for the frustration. -Chip Noble, Product Manager, Garmin

Good app, but requires some improvements

Good app for managing routes, tracks, and waypoints. Also useful with non-mapping navigation devices, It would be very helpful to be able to transfer fit files as well, to overcome the limitations of GPX files.

Très bien jusqu’à la dernière mise a jour

Avant cette dernière mise a jour toutes mes traces synchronisées apparaissaient sur la carte, la navigation était facile et il était très facile de retrouver mes anciens parcours pour récupérer les données gpx. Aujourd’hui la quasi totalité de mes parcours a disparu, aucune trace n’apparaît et avec le nouveau système de sélection il est très compliqué de s’y retrouver parmis le peu de trace qu’il me reste. Et bien sûr aucun moyen dans les menu de choisir l’affichage que l’on préfère pour revenir à la version précédente. Très deçu de cette nouvelle mise à jour…
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Response from developer

Hi, we are working on an update to allow activity recordings to be displayed as points or lines, along with some other map display improvements. We'll release that as soon as possible, I wanted to share here to let you know we heard your feedback. -Chip Noble, Product Manager, Garmin

3D

Solo falta visualización en 3D para navegar.

When you add personal heat map like in Strava?

When you add personal heat map like in Strava?

User Friendly

Useful

Маршрути

Прибрали маршрути записаних активностей і тепер на карті відображається тільки декілька останніх, відповідно орієнтуватись по своїй тепловій карті маршрутів тепер неможливо. Найгірше оновлення

Will not sync

The latest update has resulted in the sync function not working properly - will only sync two activities. The app has to be cleared from memory and the process repeated.
App now forces activities older than 7 days to be displayed only as icons with no switch to show the full track.
Still no multiple delete function (if some are inadvertently deleting their data, add another ’are you sure’!).
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excelent

o aplicatie excelenta pentru drumetii , bikepacking si aventuri in zone izolate.

改悪

アップデートしたら、軌跡が表示されなくなりました。各ログをタップして表示させる設定を選ばないといけません。
軌跡をデフォルトで表示できるようにしてもらいたいです。

Dernière mise à jour

Tout mes tracé ont disparu et je dois les faire réapparaître un à un il faut une option pour tout monter… perte de temps

Great to see all my history

No!!! Latest update has removed all the older past activities, so you no longer see a heat map of all your activities. Only clusters of icons to represent them. Please return to the old format or add a setting that can toggle between the two layouts!

Great to see all my previous activities recorded on my Garmin watches presented on a n interactive map. Provides a great complement to Garmin connect.
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Great

Great & Easy to use. I push OS maps to the Explore app and to the GPS unit. The website shows activity and I keep separate from my Garmin Connect content.

Saweet product

Pretty amazing product, I am super impressed that I can message my little woman whenever I am, the plan could be a little cheaper but I understand the times we are in.

View Activities Older Than 7 Days Update

I used Garmin Explore to view all of my past activities together on the map. It was a great personal heat map. The new update removes that ability, while making it as a feature. It has also crashed multiple times since the update.

Béta ?

Pour un bug corrigé combien de nouveaux apparaissent !!
Sous IOS 27.0.1 je viens de perdre tout mon fond de carte avec mon historique de traces cumulées depuis 4 ans donc j’attends un correctif rapide de votre part et surtout il faut tester vos mises à jour et les stabiliser avant de les rendre dispos au téléchargement.
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Pezzi di mappe non visibili

Come dovrei usare una applicazione che vende mappe ed ha parti di mappe che rimangono bianche per evidenti bug?