# Wegwiesel

> Wegwiesel (iPhone/iPad app by Thomas Peterson.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wegwiesel/id6762087629 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Thomas Peterson](https://appshunter.io/developer/1892849983)
- Category: Navigation
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 13.0 · 26 MB
- Languages: German
- Released: 2026-04-21
- Data updated: 2026-07-02
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wegwiesel/id6762087629/reviews.md

## What is Wegwiesel?

Wegwiesel is a lean, ad-free route planner for cycling, hiking, running and driving. Plan tours, navigate offline, record your rides — no account, no tracking, no subscription. ONE PLANNER, MANY PROFILES • Cycling: road, gravel, trekking, MTB, e-bike • Hiking: easy, sporty, mountain — with SAC T1–T6 grading
• Running, car (130 km/h), car with trailer (80 km/h)

OFFLINE-FIRST
• Map tiles are cached automatically — anything you've looked at is available offline
• Offline maps menu to pre-download viewports (zoom 8–15)
• Real offline router with a pure-Dart A* core and trekking profile, clean fallback to BRouter
• Saved routes work fully without a network

LIVE NAVIGATION
• Phone turn-by-turn with spoken voice (German + English)
• Map heading-up or north-up, ETA shown as clock time
• Automatic re-routing when you drift more than 50 m off course
• Apple Watch companion: next turn, distance and remaining time on the watch face — phone stays in the pocket

RECORD YOUR RIDE
• GPS tracking with live stats (distance, speed, ascent, calories)
• Pause/resume, GPX export when done
• Crash-safe — every 10 points are flushed to disk
• Share your live position: 12-hour link, no account

HIKING & BIKEPACKING
• Prominent hiking difficulty preset, prefer-waymarked-trails toggle
• Stage planner with sunrise/sunset, weather forecast and automatic overnight suggestions
• Pause recommendations: one picnic spot or shelter every 1.5 h of walking
• Bikepacking mode with camping, water, shelters and train stations in the POI search

DISCOVER ROUTES
• Public route library: publish your tours with one tap
• Filter by distance, proximity and search term
• Heatmap overlay shows where the community rides

SURFACE & MAP
• Route colored by surface type (asphalt, paving, gravel, unpaved, offroad)
• Elevation profile with hover sync, 6 color modes
• Hillshading overlay for terrain context
• Sights along the way with Wikipedia thumbnails

EXPORT & DEVICES
• GPX export for any bike computer
• Push routes via Bluetooth straight to the Garmin Edge (custom Connect IQ app)
• Hand off to the Wahoo Companion app (Bolt/Roam/Ace)
• Import tour URLs (e.g. Komoot tour links)

FOR ATHLETES
• FTP test segment finder: matching climb or flat segments in a radius, scored by test type (20-min, 8-min, Ramp, Sweet Spot)

WHAT WEGWIESEL DOESN'T DO
• No tracking cookies, no ads, no user profiles
• No subscription, no in-app purchases
• No forced cloud sync

Wegwiesel is a free project by a cyclist for everyone who heads outdoors. Feedback welcome.

Based on BRouter and OpenStreetMap.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 2.4.6 — 2026-06-27

EV charging (the headline theme)
- Real ad-hoc charging prices right at each station — €/kWh from the official AFIR / Mobilithek feed (10 operator feeds, ~26,000 charging points), instead of just an OSM hint.
- Live availability: free / busy / out of service per station; busy ones are pushed to the bottom in the charging-stop planner, with the cheapest free one preselected.
- Selectable charging stops with per-station cost and a total charging cost for the route.
- Charging-card tariffs + wizard: pick your own charging card per stop (EnBW S/M/L, ADAC, Maingau, EWE Go, Shell, ad-hoc) and see the approximate cost — home-network price vs. AC/DC roaming plus blocking fee.
- New: "Find free station" button in EV mode → a list of nearby free charging stations (~12 km, sorted by distance: distance · number free · €/kWh · kW); selecting one pans the map to it.

Routing
- Your last-used routing profile is now remembered and restored on launch.

Fix
- Added the INTERNET permission to the release manifest (Android release builds had no network access without it).

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Store release notes (short, EN) — to paste

 • EV mode: real ad-hoc charging prices and live availability (free/busy) shown at each station
 • Charging-card tariffs with a per-stop assistant, including cost estimates
 • New button: list of nearby free charging stations
 • Selectable charging stops with total charging cost for the route
 • Your last-used routing profile is now remembered
 • Fixed a network-access issue (Android)

### 2.4.0 — 2026-06-05

**Major update since 1.8 — Wegwiesel now works offline, lives on your wrist, and packs new tools for hikers, bikepackers and athletes.**

ON YOUR WRIST
• Apple Watch companion: next turn, distance and remaining time on the watch face — phone stays in the pocket

OFFLINE-FIRST
• Map tiles are cached in the background — anything you've looked at is available offline; offline maps menu with storage limits
• Saved routes work without a network: full geometry and turn hints stored locally
• Real offline router with a pure-Dart A* core and trekking MVP, clean fallback to BRouter on incomplete data
• Bidirectional A* search: long day-trips roughly twice as fast as before

HIKING & BIKEPACKING
• New running profile and the hiking profile is no longer beta
• Easy/Sporty/Mountain difficulty presets, prominent SAC T1–T6 grading
• Pause recommendations: one picnic spot or shelter every 1.5 h of walking
• Bikepacking mode with camping, water, shelters and train stations in the POI search
• Stages planner with sunrise/sunset, weather forecast and automatic overnight suggestions

LIVE NAVIGATION
• Voice navigation: spoken turn-by-turn (German + English) at 500 m / 200 m / now phases
• Record your ride: GPS tracking with live stats (distance, speed, ascent, calories), pause/resume, GPX export — crash-safe (flushed every 10 points)
• Share your live position: 12-hour link, no account, no tracking
• E-bike profile with pedelec-tuned travel times + charging-station POI category

DISCOVER ROUTES
• Public route library: publish your tours with one tap
• "Discover routes" screen with distance / nearby / title filters
• Wegwiesel heatmap: red overlay shows where the community plans routes

HARDWARE INTEGRATION
• Hand off routes to the Wahoo Companion app (Bolt/Roam/Ace)
• Improved Garmin Edge sync
• Import tour from URL: paste a Komoot tour link to load the GPX directly

TRAILER & CAR ROUTING
• Trailer profile with time-proportional cost factors — primary roads now rated similar to Google/ADAC (no forced motorway detours)

ATHLETE TOOL
• FTP test segment finder: searches for steady-climb or flat segments in a radius, scored by test type (20-min, 8-min, Ramp, Sweet Spot)

POI CONTEXT
• POI photos: image= / wikimedia_commons= tags and Wikipedia tags show thumbnails in the POI sheet
• Train station as emergency-exit POI, shelters and picnic spots for hikers

PLUS
• Decluttered menu: a "Route sources" pill next to the A-B / Round-trip toggle
• Various stability, performance and readability improvements

### 1.8.0 — 2026-05-11

Großes Update mit neuem Design und vielen neuen Funktionen!

  NEUES DESIGN
  • Aquarell-Wegweiser-Icon (Wegwiesel = Wegweiser) — passt zu Bike, Wandern und Auto
  • Helles Cream-Theme statt Dark Mode, im Tageslicht besser ablesbar

  GARMIN EDGE: DIREKT SENDEN
  • Routen werden per Bluetooth direkt an die Edge geschickt — wie bei Komoot
  • Eigene Connect-IQ-App „WegwieselSync" auf der Edge nimmt die Strecke an
  • Funktioniert auf iPhone und Android

  NAVIGATION AUF DEM TELEFON
  • Turn-by-Turn direkt auf dem Handy, mit Norden- oder Fahrtrichtung-Ansicht
  • Auto-Reroute bei mehr als 50 m Abweichung
  • Voraussichtliche Ankunftszeit (ETA) als Uhrzeit
  • Geglättetes Heading — kein Karten-Zappeln mehr

  NEUE PROFILE FÜR AUTO
  • „Auto" (max 130 km/h) und „Auto mit Anhänger" (max 80 km/h)
  • Bevorzugt Autobahn und Schnellstraße statt Schleichweg

  SMARTERES ROUTING
  • Zwei Alternativrouten zur Hauptroute (wie Google Maps), per Chip umschaltbar
  • Auto-Wegpunkte werden automatisch auf die nächste befahrbare Straße gezogen — keine „target island failed"-Fehler mehr bei
   Pins hinter Schranken

  SUCHE ENTLANG DER ROUTE
  • Tankstellen, Einkaufsmöglichkeiten und Sehenswürdigkeiten finden — sortiert nach Routenkilometer, mit Abstand zur Strecke
  • Mit einem Tippen als POI zur Route hinzufügen
  • POIs reisen mit der Route in Share-Code und GPX-Export

  PLUS
  • Diverse Stabilitäts-, Kontrast- und Lesbarkeits-Verbesserungen

### 1.4 — 2026-04-26

Höhenprofil komplett neu
  - 6 Farbmodi auf der Profillinie: Steigung, Oberfläche, Straßentyp, Rauheit, Tempolimit, Routingkosten
  - Reicher Tooltip mit Distanz, Höhe, geglätteter Steigung, kumuliertem Anstieg, Straße, Oberfläche, Rauheit,
  Tempo
  - Pinch- und Scrollrad-Zoom, Drag zum Pannen, Lock-Button, Reset-Button
  - Wegpunkte als gelbe Marker am unteren Rand
  - Höhe per Drag-Handle anpassbar, persistent gespeichert
  - Auto-Vereinfachung mit Warn-Icon bei langen Routen

  Roundtrip-Planung
  - Vier+ A/B/C/D-Anker (3 + 1 pro angefangene 10 km) auf der Strecke
  - Anker frei verschiebbar — Runde wird neu berechnet
  - Beim Ziehen erscheint ein gelbes Polygon, das die Form zeigt
  - Sperrzonen werden auch beim Roundtrip respektiert

  Karten-Erweiterungen
  - Höhenschummerung (ESRI World Hillshade) als 4. Overlay
  - Transparenz-Slider für alle Overlays (Standard 50 %)

  Routing
  - GPX-Import: bestehende Tracks laden via "GPX importieren" im Hauptmenü
  - Sperrzonen: Bereiche per Tap auf der Karte markieren (Radius 50–5000 m), werden bei jedem Routing umfahren
  - Pro Profil eigene Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit einstellbar (5–40 km/h)

  Fixes
  - Tooltip im Höhenprofil wird nicht mehr unten abgeschnitten
  - StatsBar-Zeitanzeige berücksichtigt jetzt die eingestellte Geschwindigkeit

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-02.*