YOUR KEY TO THE GREAT OUTDOORS

Find, plan and share adventures with KOMOOT.

There’s no point fighting it, the digital age is here and it’s not going anywhere. And while we’d never suggest anyone headed into the mountains without a good old-fashioned printed map and compass, the endless advancements in smartphone technology have made them incredibly useful tools for planning, navigating and sharing your outdoor trips.

And it isn’t just the phones themselves that are more cutting edge than ever before – so are the apps you can download to power your trips. Komoot is an app designed by adventurers, for adventurers, which originated in Germany and has gone on to become one of the world’s most used and trusted planning tools for outdoor adventure.

You can search Komoot’s extensive routes database for detailed guides to follow, plan your own trips in the app or on your computer, pick out local highlights to explore, and view all of the key stats for your walk including ascent and descent profiles, distances and times, and inch-by-inch terrain information.

And gone are the days when you’ll need to worry about phone signal to keep your navigation features going while you’re out walking, because all of the key features work offline. Maps and routes can all be downloaded and saved to your device, so they’ll work no matter how remote the area you’re exploring is.

Komoot is also a key partner of the Trail 100 – our very own hand-picked bucket list of the 100 UK mountains we believe everyone should climb in their lifetime. You can view detailed route information and interactive digital maps for each peak on the Trail 100 list in Komoot, then use the app’s unique turn-by-turn navigation to help you climb them.

But how does it perform in the great outdoors? The app’s taken a serious thrashing recently from six Trail readers, and here’s what they had to say about it.