# Goat Maps — Maps for Adventure

> Offline navigation app for outdoor adventures with custom maps and route planning. (iPhone/iPad app by Goat Maps, inc..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/goat-maps/id6499279582 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Goat Maps, inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1743038711)
- Category: Navigation, Sports
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 51 App Store ratings · 20 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.4 · 27 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2024-11-04
- Data updated: 2026-09-09
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/goat-maps/id6499279582/reviews.md

## What is Goat Maps?

Goat Maps is the next-generation navigation app designed for outdoor adventures. Built from the ground up in 2024, Goat Maps offers unmatched reliability and ease of use, perfect for all your adventures—whether hiking, backcountry skiing, kayaking, biking, or trail running.

No distractions, just adventure: Goat Maps is designed by real people who use it daily. We prioritize function over frills, so you'll never deal with pop-ups, intrusive graphics, or unnecessary social features.

Goat Maps combines cutting-edge technology with custom-designed maps to help you explore confidently, both on and off the grid. Download today and take your outdoor adventures to the next level!

▶ Key Features
• Offline Maps: Navigate confidently without cell service.
• Record Tracks: Track your trips and monitor your progress in detail.
• Advanced Route Planning: Seamlessly mix snap-to-trail, straight-line, and hand-drawn sections. Plan multi-sport and off trail routes with ease.
• Custom Topographic Maps: Designed for maximum readability, so you can focus on your adventure, not your screen.
• Multiple Base Maps: Switch between Topo, Satellite, and Hybrid views to get the perspective you need.
• World wide map coverage.

▶ Free Trial
Many features can be used for free, but offline maps and route planning require a membership, but a 7 day free trial is available.

▶ Feedback
For support, general questions or feature requests, contact us at support@goatmaps.com


EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://www.goatmaps.com/privacy

## Key features

- Offline Maps
- Record Tracks
- Advanced Route Planning
- Custom Topographic Maps
- Multiple Base Maps
- Worldwide Map Coverage

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Goat Maps Membership | $29.99 | per year |


## What do users think of Goat Maps?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Fast and speedy performance
- 👍 Clean and well-designed interface
- 🗺️ Precise tracking and navigation
- 💰 Good value for the price
- 🔋 Reliable offline functionality

**Cons**

- ❌ Lack of CarPlay support
- 🗺️ Limited map layers and customization options
- 📋 Incomplete feature parity with competitors

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Inconsistent icon and waypoint syncing from other apps

**Most requested features**

- Web-based route planning
- Expanded map layers (e.g., private land, geology)
- More detailed trail information (e.g., seasonal openings, surface type)

## Recent user reviews (10 of 20)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/goat-maps/id6499279582/reviews.md

### 5/5 — The best

*2025-10-20*

Just the right amount of features, love this app. Now my go to for outdoor activities.

### 2/5 — Uses way too much storage

*2025-08-17*

The only purpose in having an app like this for me is to have offline maps for offroading. But the smallest map tile available is a massive area, and worse, that tile happens to cut off part of the trail so I need two tiles. Over 1GB of phone storage needed to see 8 miles of trail is pure insanity. I regret paying for this app.

### 1/5 — Privacy issues. App uses your Apple email not sign-in email

*2025-06-15*

I downloaded the app, I did not subscribe. I tested the app and it crashed in 10mins of use. I contacted support via the app and it used my Apple Gmail address not the app sign email.

This to me, is a violation of my privacy. I have uninstalled the app and requested that my details be scrubbed from the company’s records.

### 4/5 — Solid Hiking App

*2025-06-02*

Downloaded and used the app to follow a WalkGPS course around Bobakine outside of Perth. Goat Maps worked well managed to navigate the walk and have a great day out.  Not sure why the only other review gave a one star  review, the app worked as advertised and was stable.

Pros: 
>Very easy to add and manage gpx files. Can’t talk to the any of the route planning features or tracking as I didn’t use them.

> Topo and satellite imagery where good enough for my purposes

> Course elevation was useful

> Stripped back and minimal UI

Cons: 
>Unable to rotate the map

> Map data and additional layers very US focused

> $50 AUD for a 12 month subscription seems pretty expensive. I just used the free trial to download the area I was interested in.


Wish list:
>Add notes, images and other information associated with a course.

>Custom POI support (water, food, shelter ect)

>Wish it wasn’t a subscription model for offline maps, would rather have a freemium model where you can download one or two regions for free and then any additional layers or regions you can pay a once off fee.

### 4/5 — Excellent

*2025-05-23*

Long time Gaia gps user. Good similar to the pre Outside Gaia but somewhat stripped down. I’m currently in the beta program and the quality is excellent. Will probably be a 5 star app when the cloud side is released.

### 5/5 — Fantastic

*2025-04-16*

This is already a great tool and leagues better than the popular app it replaces. Happily purchased a subscription and I look forward to seeing more features.

### 5/5 — Best navigation app

*2025-04-06*

Since fatmap has disappeared, and Gaia was taken over by Outside and turned to trash, I’ve been struggling to find an iPhone app that has the features that are important to me:
- user friendly, accurate maps with names that rotate as you rotate the screen.
- the ability to effectively plot new routes using just the iPhone,  featuring snap-to on roads and trails.
- slope angle and aspect layers for avalanche planning.
- access to the Sentinel satellite images for recent conditions.
- 3D mapping: at the time I wrote this, GOAT doesn’t have this feature yet, but the team is working on it.

I think this app is well worth the money and quickly becoming the most intuitive yet feature packed mapping app out there.

### 5/5 — Gaia Killer?

*2025-02-14*

After using this app, I find it checks all the boxes that I require except for one, and that’s the web-based planning capability that the publishers have indicated is arriving in the near future. For a subscription cost that is half that of Gaia GPS, Goat Maps, in my opinion, provides greater value and is deserving of serious consideration by those who want a planning and navigation tool without the baggage of social media and other distracting or redundant contrivances.

### 2/5 — Clean map, no CarPlay

*2024-12-12*

As far as mapping, Goat is clean and works. However, they do not support CarPlay and have no current plans to. For my own use case of off-highway driving using head unit, it fails compared to competitors. As such, I cannot recommend it (I prefer other apps for trails).

### 4/5 — Great potential. Not quite there yet.

*2024-11-17*

This shows great promise as an alternative to other paid map apps and the problems with those, but still lacks some critical things that Gaia offers. There’s no full-featured web interface for route planning (come on, route planning on a tiny mobile device screen is excruciating) and it completely lacks map keys (If they’re in there I haven’t found them yet and they need to be better exposed) and detailed information on trails such as seasonal open dates, road surface type, etc. Hopefully these things are in the works. The good stuff … so far no crashy bugginess and seems very speedy.  Haven’t tried it in offline mode, so verdict isn’t in on that yet. #following …

## Frequently asked questions about Goat Maps

### What does Goat Maps do?

Goat Maps is a navigation application built for outdoor adventures. It provides reliable and easy-to-use mapping features designed for activities like hiking, backcountry skiing, kayaking, biking, and trail running, with a focus on offline functionality and custom map views.

### What are the key features of Goat Maps?

Key features include offline maps for navigation without cell service, the ability to record and track your trips, advanced route planning with mixed drawing methods, custom topographic maps for readability, and multiple base map views like Satellite and Hybrid.

### How much does Goat Maps cost?

Many features of Goat Maps can be used for free. However, offline maps and advanced route planning require a membership. A 7-day free trial is available to test these premium features.

### What kind of adventures is Goat Maps suitable for?

Goat Maps is ideal for a wide range of outdoor adventures, including hiking, backcountry skiing, kayaking, biking, and trail running. Its offline capabilities and advanced planning tools make it suitable for exploring both on and off the grid.

### Can I use Goat Maps without an internet connection?

Yes, a primary feature of Goat Maps is its offline map functionality. This allows you to navigate confidently and access your planned routes even when you do not have cell service.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2025.11 — 2025-10-15

We are currently focusing on fixing bugs, and this update is mostly bug fixes.
Faster GPX imports - Large GPX files now import 10x faster  
Faster Route Display - If you have thousands of routes, you may have noticed they take a while to display on the map.  Now 10,000 routes will display in a few seconds.

### 2025.10 — 2025-10-06

● We’ve redesigned the My Data screens to play perfectly with the latest iOS and to be easier on the eyes.
• All actions are now in a single menu in the upper-right (no more scattered buttons).
• Extra space for your map = more focus on what matters.
• Room for future actions without clutter.
● Import files to directly to an existing folder, or to a project that is not currently the Active Project.
● Search within Projects or Folders - iOS 26 only.

### 2025.9 — 2025-10-01

This fall we are focusing on bug fixes. This update fixes several issues:
• Location marker not showing properly on the route navigation profile.
• Deleting a route was not syncing to other devices, now it does.
• Syncing is faster.
• Rotation is now locked when creating waypoints, because having the map rotate while creating a waypoint has unexpected results.
• Show more descriptive error messages when inviting someone to a folder fails.
• Many other bug fixes you won't notice, but we will.

### 2025.8 — 2025-09-11

Projects • Projects are a new way to organize your data.  You can share projects with other people, or join to projects created by others. The last update introduced projects, but based on feedback we have made some changes to the way they are presented, and added more help messages explaining how to use them.
Route Profile Improvements • You can now zoom in on the route elevation profile to see more detail.

### 2025.7 — 2025-07-16

This update fixes a bunch of bugs, but that is the boring part. The exciting part is 2 new features that we have been working on for a while:
● Projects → Projects are a new way to organize your data. You can share projects with other people, or join projects created by others.
● Bulk Operations →   Now you can select multiple items at once on the My Data Tab, then quickly delete, file them to a folder, or move them to a project.

## Apps similar to Goat Maps

| App | Rating | Price | Category |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Gaia GPS: Mobile Trail Maps](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gaia-gps-mobile-trail-maps/id1201979492) | 4.8 (32,155) | Free | Navigation |
| [onX Backcountry: 3D Trail Maps](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/onx-backcountry-3d-trail-maps/id1529165366) | 4.8 (6,340) | Free | Navigation |

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