Gaia GPS: Mobile Trail Maps

Gaia GPS: Mobile Trail Maps

By TrailBehind

  • Category: Navigation
  • Release Date: 2017-05-22
  • Current Version: 2025.9
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 119.91 MB
  • Developer: TrailBehind
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
Score: 4.7698
4.7698
From 31,465 Ratings
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Description

Welcome the warm weather with the ultimate collection of hiking trails and camping sites around you – Gaia GPS. Find amazing adventures with topographic maps while spending less time looking at your phone. Explore with map layers, weather condition updates, GPS navigation, hill-shading and hiking maps. Discover local routes or map your own trail and share online. Whether you’re looking for hiking trails, off-roading routes, backpacking, or public land, discover with Gaia GPS. Find backpacker trails or offroad routes with the help of Gaia GPS. Make the wilderness your backyard with the best hiking, backpacking, and backcountry navigator – all in one. Navigate routes with offline navigation, weather reports, GPS coordinates, camping sites and distance tracking features to help you explore. Cruise through a popular backpacking route, hiking trail, or walking map with GPS navigation tools to guide you. Download the premier outdoor activity app featured in publications like the New York Times, Washington Post, and GearJunkie. BACKPACK OR HIKE • Hike the largest collection of trails and routes available on Gaia Topo, the ultimate backcountry navigator. • National parks or scenic hiking trails – Discover new outdoor routes waiting to be explored • Backpacking from base camp all along offroad hiking trails and back again is easy with breadcrumbs • Distance tracker with altitude and elevation monitoring for every activity • Travel easily to trailheads with connections to directions CAMPING COMPANION • Explore different camping sites and navigate to them conveniently using GPS coordinates • Discover campgrounds across national parks, forests, and scenic landscapes ROAD TRIP PLANNER MADE FOR YOU • Offline maps: RV travel is easy with offline maps that track your location, even when far from cell service • Discover camping sites, parks and route conditions seamlessly to help you prepare OFFROAD ACTIVITY PLANNING • 4x4 & overlanding adventures are easy to record on Gaia GPS • Activity tracker and route planner make trekking, hiking, and backpacking offroad trails simple • Maps, routes, and waypoints displayed on Apple CarPlay SKIING AND SNOWBOARDING • Discover ski slopes and cross country skiing trails around you with best-in-class topographic maps • Know weather conditions with ski resort information and Nordic trails from OnTheSnow EXPLORE THE WORLD LIKE A PROFESSIONAL • GPS coordinates help explore while creating routes and tracking progress • Share your data with clients to improve Gaia GPS • Access the full NatGeo map collection 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 adventures. Enjoy GPS navigation, countless hike trails, and more 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

  • Avoid this app

    1
    By Gary-Goo-69
    Just a cash grab. $60 a year subscription is totally ridiculous for a hiking app. Look around folks as there are less expensive and better apps out there. This is pure greed on the developers part.

  • Latest update

    1
    By Prs174
    Can no longer get to home. Indicates “ unknown error. Try again”. No luck

  • So laggy

    2
    By vidicious
    It would be an excellent app if it worked as intended and expected at all times. The latency and caching issues are bad. This app had failed me numerous times in the backcountry despite pretrip planning and downloading. I have to fall back on a different app every time. I appreciate the developer response but after six years and a variety of devices and resets, I think Gaia may just be trying to do too much at the expense of being 100% reliable when needed. Backcountry is not a time for these issues.

  • Good support

    5
    By jpfrancoeur
    They do a good job supporting the app should you need it.

  • Using too much battery in background

    3
    By Cordova34567
    The app uses too much battery in background even the phone is not being used.

  • Worthless app for Apple Watch

    1
    By wc21
    This app is dysfunctional and worse that it was 10 years ago for people who use Apple Watch while hiking. Starting a hike on the Watch does not automatically start it on the phone and vice versa. Really bizarre. Stats displayed on Watch are senseless since the labels are not visible, a known bug. All Trails is far superior to Gaia GPS. To boot, Gaia has dramatically increased subscription fees while providing an app that was more functional 10 years ago. So sad. Also it is much more difficult to generate links and show hikes with photos. Cannot even do this with older hikes.

  • Won’t sync

    1
    By panicrev555
    For the life of me I cannot get my track from my phone into the database so that I can view it on my computer. Automatic sync is enabled. I pay for premium and am feeling a different app when my subscription comes due. Gaia GPS frustrates to no end.

  • Bought App Years Ago

    1
    By Chance2009
    I paid full price for this app years ago but now that they’re a subscription model I no longer have access. Wish I could still use the service I paid for.

  • Tremendous

    5
    By Lucchese
    These Gaia GPS mapping products/services and navigational tools are absolutely incredible. This whole package is so fantastic - I can hardly believe it exists. We've tried several others and they aren't even close. Congratulations to the Gaia GPS team with this tremendous product and service. Absolutely incredible

  • Stop making private data public!

    1
    By Mr. Sourdough
    Update for September 2025. The developers of this app continue to be total slimeballs. A track I recorded last summer in a very remote location in Alaska, which had been set to private like all of my data, suddenly appears as a public track under a different username about a year later. I know it is my track because it follows my route precisely, and it even kept the name I called it. This occurred to numerous other tracks from 2024. Many of my friends tracks that were also set to private are magically appearing in the public data under different pseudonyms. This app should be pulled from the Apple App Store as the developer has exactly zero respect for private data. Original review: I have been a paid user of Gaia for many years. Especially since Outside bought the app, there seems to be a surreptitious move to switch users’ data from private to public when major app updates are rolled out. They actually go into your settings and switch your default from private to public without warning you (well, maybe it’s buried somewhere at the bottom of the license agreement legalese). I find this behavior loathsome and scummy. Why not just share my password while you’re at it? Some of us have hunting and fishing spots we don’t necessarily want to share with the world. Is that really so hard to respect?

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