Gaia GPS: Mobile Trail Maps

Gaia GPS: Mobile Trail Maps

By TrailBehind

  • Category: Navigation
  • Release Date: 2017-05-22
  • Current Version: 2025.1
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 120.75 MB
  • Developer: TrailBehind
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Score: 4.7825
4.7825
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Description

Whether you’re out in the snow or exploring scenic hiking trails and amazing offroad routes, Gaia GPS has you covered. Spend less time looking at your phone and more time taking in the snowy landscapes with the newly redesigned app. Backpack, overland, discover campgrounds and skiing routes, or explore breathtaking hike trails thanks to Gaia GPS. Make the wilderness your backyard with Gaia GPS. Enjoy the best hiking app, road trip planner, and backcountry navigator – all in one. Reach your next summit out on the snow with offline maps, GPS coordinates, and distance tracker features to help you explore the world around you. Cruise through popular ski tracks or hike trails confidently with GPS navigation tools to guide you through national parks and nature routes. Download the premier outdoor activity app featured in publications like the New York Times, Washington Post, and GearJunkie. BACKPACK OR HIKE • Hike trails and running routes are available on Gaia Topo, the ultimate backcountry navigator. • National parks or backcountry trails – Pave your path out on the snow with nature routes waiting to be explored • Access the full NatGeo map collection • Backpack along offroad hiking trails & back to base camp with breadcrumbs • Distance tracker with altitude and elevation monitoring for each activity BE READY FOR SNOW SEASON • The Gaia Winter base map is designed for winter activities and works well with other winter layers • Know current conditions with ski resort information and Nordic trails from OnTheSnow • Skiing, snowboarding, and more – chase the snow with curated snow mobile trails • Find the perfect snow with Snow Station and Snow Forecast map layers • Ski reports help tackle any adventure safely with Slope Angle and Avalanche Forecast layers ROAD TRIP PLANNER MADE FOR YOU • Offroad travel is easy with GPS coordinates • Offline maps: RV travel is easy with offline maps that track your location, even when far from cell service • Road trippers can prepare with available parks, route conditions, and activity tracker features OFFROAD ACTIVITY PLANNING • 4x4 & overlanding adventures are easy to record on Gaia GPS • Activity tracker and route planner make navigating trails offroad simple • Follow ski tracks or create your own routes on the fly with snap-to-trail route building • Maps, routes, and waypoints displayed directly on Apple CarPlay EXPLORE THE WORLD LIKE A PROFESSIONAL • GPS coordinates help explore the wilderness while creating routes and tracking progress • Mark ski tracks, hike trails, routes, & campgrounds • Share your data with clients & fellow guides to improve Gaia GPS ELEVATE YOUR OUTDOOR ADVENTURES WITH GAIA GPS PREMIUM WITH OUTSIDE+ • Access 300+ maps including NatGeo Trails Illustrated, Private Lands, weather forecasts, and more • Offline maps to download anytime. • Weather, terrain, and safety features • Access the Trailforks GPS biking app • Expert-led online courses on Outside Learn • Premium access to award-winning films, shows, and live TV on Outside Watch • Unlimited digital access to Outside Network's 15 iconic brands including Outside, Backpacker and National Park Trips. Explore the world with Gaia GPS to guide all of your wintry adventures. Enjoy GPS navigation, skiing features, and countless hike trails with Gaia GPS – your perfect outdoor companion. SIGNUP • Gaia GPS is part of the Outside Network. Create an Outside account to access the app. TO MANAGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION: • TURN OFF auto-renewal: https://support.apple.com/kb/ht4098 • Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will be charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period. • Your Apple App Store Account will be charged at confirmation of purchase. • Privacy Policy: https://www.gaiagps.com/company/privacy • Terms of use: https://www.gaiagps.com/company/terms_of_use

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Reviews

  • Bye bye Gaia

    2
    By F Toyota
    I’ve been a loyal paid user for years, but the app’s performance and functionality have steadily declined. Bugs, slow updates, and a lack of meaningful improvements have made it frustrating to use. Unfortunately, I won’t be renewing my subscription and will likely switch to another platform. Disappointing to see such a decline in what was once a great app.

  • What Happened?

    2
    By Wavy Cap
    I had been a happy, paying user for years. Now the app freezes and stutters leaving it nearly useless for me. Until these issues are fixed, I would highly recommend against using the Gaia app, especially as a primary navigational tool.

  • Great app; needs Live Activity

    4
    By jblundy
    I love this app and use it regularly as a professional mountain guide. Setting up routes online and having them available in the app (you can plan routes in the app too) is fantastic. Public links for routes make it easy to share the trip plan with my clients, too. The one big thing missing is Live Activity support on the Lock Screen. I swap to Pedometer++ precisely because of its map via a Live Activity on the Lock Screen. I'd rather use Gaia where all my routes and tracks are already stored. It's so handy to have that auto-centering view on the Lock Screen to just make sure you're on track without going through the trouble of unlocking the phone to go into the full app. Extra handy in winter because I don't need take off my gloves to just glance at the Lock Screen. Pedometer++ only shows the Live Activity while you're tracking. I'd prefer an option to start the Live Activity regardless of if I'm tracking. As long as I can have my route displayed on the map and it centers the view on my current location, I don't always need the track (which can burn precious battery life).

  • Has gone downhill lately.

    2
    By Ken Z2
    Used this for years. It’s gotten worse. Much worse. App crashes every third time I load it. I have a premium acct which works on the laptop but it fails to acknowledge or load my map layers on the app. New trails that have been officially opened for YEARS now are missing/not updated. Super disappointed. It’s far worse than it was 5+ years ago.

  • Dangerous to use

    1
    By Oh_My_Goodness
    When you use an outdoor map, you want it to open quickly to your location. Maybe you are standing outside in a storm. Maybe you are on a train and want to know the nearest landmarks. Both of these require you to see your location on the map quickly. However, that is no longer possible. Even if you have offline maps downloaded, you now have to deal with a screen trying to make you use the outdoor social media that nobody has any interest in. So being in the middle of nowhere, which is where Gaia once shone, the app is virtually useless. You just have to try to bypass the social media screen. Who wants social media forced on them in their outdoor map? Put it in a different app. At least let us hide it and opt to turn off data for it so that the app can be useful for route finding outside again. ETA in response to developer: I contacted support before writing this review, and they were spectacularly unhelpful.

  • Not Compatible with Apple Watch Ultra

    1
    By Trayzeus
    I loved the route creation capability of this app, but without an Apple Watch integration it’s useless to me. I spent a week troubleshooting with their tech support only to get this message at the end: “Please be advised that the current Gaia GPS Watch app is not compatible with the Apple Watch Ultra. We hope to upgrade it at some point, but I don't have a timeline for this project.” That would have been good to know before I wasted all that time and frustration on troubleshooting.

  • Privacy Settings Changed Without Notification

    1
    By elliotthoppe
    Outside changed the default privacy settings for all activities to public without notifying users. That is heinous. You should not trust this company with your data since it was purchased by Outside.

  • Great Overall

    5
    By T Adventures
    I use Gaia to track my offroad rides. I find the interface intuitive but still with plenty of features. Works great for me.

  • Not great for Central Europe

    2
    By aileverte
    I am very disappointed and wish I hadn’t subscribed: I did so via Nat’l Geographic and don’t see how to cancel / request a refund. I was hoping to have access to some decent physical maps of the world: the Nat’l Geo maps cover only select US regions. The other maps available in Gaia Premium don’t have the marine and coastal features a good old 1980s atlas would have provided - the names of only some harbors, bays are available. Not all streams are properly labeled. Never mind names of beaches (e.g. I find the Sicily map very lacking). In Central Europe, place names often just skip over the letters with diacritics, so e.g. Wrocław does not become Wroclaw (converting to a base letter is acceptable) but Wrocaw!! There are hundreds examples of this: some names, esp. in Czechia, where place names may contain multiple such characters in a row, might lose as many as 3 letters, making the words totally unrecognizable. This makes the maps completely unusable for me.

  • They blew it!

    1
    By Bos4737
    I have no interest in a social media aspect, so goodbye Gaia!

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