Footpath Route Planner

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• Footpath Elite (Monthly) — $3.99/month
• Footpath Elite (Monthly) — $23.49/year ($1.95/mo)
• Single Route Pass — $1.99

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4.8 21941 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Fantastic GPX route planning app

   This app is absolutely fantastic for planning hikes. Even though we have used other online route apps, we've been looking for an easy to use route planning app for our phones that exports GPX route files for use with our favorite iPhone GPS software (GaiaGPS). Footpath does it seamlessly. We also upload the route files to fitness apps like RunKeeper where it tells us in advance how many calories our planned hikes will burn. Wonderful! Suggested future updates: add the ability to import existing GPX route/track files for easy sharing and editing (this is Footpath's most glaring deficiency in our opinion--right now you can only export routes to other apps); make it possible to easily move starting and mid-points of a route you want to edit (right now you can only edit an existing route by deleting segments of the route starting at the end until you get to a fork or turn you want to explore and then continuing along a new path from there); and it would also be great if your routes were automatically saved to a personal account on a website maintained by Footpath so they could be more easily managed and exported to your favorite GPS and fitness apps. All that said, Footpath is pretty awesome as is and has already benefited us greatly by giving us the ability to quickly and easily plan and execute our weekly hikes anywhere we are whenever we have a couple minutes. Thank you!

   comabereni · 30 Aug 2026

2. 5/5Tried them all and this is the one for my bike touring/camping

   I have paid for and used about all of them for creating a route and adjusting on the fly but, this is the one. Only this app, not OSM, not Naviki, no Guru Mape, not Here, not Garmin, not Google, not Apple… and probably some others I am forgetting do what this app can do and is what I went through all the other apps looking for. At least in the USA only this app easily allows you to connect dedicated bike paths by simply clicking on the OpenCycleMap where you want to go. When you have to venture away from your planned route its interface makes that effortless. Draw with your finger and it will snap to the road and favor bike friendly. If the app snaps to something that you don’t want, click on the eraser until and draw that segment against. So on the side of the road or trail you can create a new plan in less than a minute. Here is the second best thing. It has unrivaled import and export features. More formats and more options to share.

   Chief_lee_visceral · 30 Aug 2026

3. 3/5Disappointing

   First and foremost, this review is strictly for my use case: I wanted a GPS voice navigation app that would run in the background on my Apple Watch while I use the Stryd app to track my running. Footpath is designed to allow this when setting it to "use with other workout app." However, after testing it out what I've learned is that the two apps don't play well together. First I upload or create my route in Footpath, then I go out for my run. Footpath is supposed to stay in the background, give voice turn by turn directions, and send notifications to my Apple Watch. The voice directions work fairly well, prompting me where to make turns. However, the notifications throw everything off. When the notification is dismissed, it often switches to the Footpath app from the Stryd app. When that happens, Stryd loses access to the GPS data it needs and all of my run data gets screwed up. In short, this app is exactly what I need on paper. In reality, it doesn't work as designed (at least with my configuration). After testing a bit further, I think the two will work together if I turn off notifications on my Watch display from Footpath and just listen to the voice alerts. That's better than nothing and still helpful. If I get lost, I can pause my Stryd app workout and switch to Footpath to look at the map. Better than nothing, but hopefully I'm able to find a better solution. Maybe Footpath can work out the kinks, but I'm guessing I'm a niche audience. One last note: take the voice navigation with a grain of salt. Sometimes it misses turns, telling you to continue straight on a road when you’re actually supposed to be turning.

   ChrisG1029 · 30 Aug 2026

4. 3/5Could be good, but not for my needs

   I feel bad rating this too low because I did not use it for very long. However, that is because I started to get genuinely upset with it. It seems that it would be great for legitimate trails, city streets, etc. However, I had great difficulty getting it to stick to actual suburb roads. At one point it decided I should take a nice detour and bike through the pond. When drawing a simple path with a stylus, it thought it would be fun to throw in a few circles. Additionally, it did not give me sufficient editing abilities. On one trip I tried to map, it had a random straight line going through a woods. I attempted to erase it so I could shift it over, but it just kept reappearing in a different, equally incorrect location. It also completely ignores a popular footpath. The “snap to map” is somewhat a useful, and certainly an innovative feature. It just needs some love. I could see this working on longer trips that need less accuracy, but for my suburban 10 mile excursions it brought nothing but anger. For now, I’m going to stick to drawing vauge lines on a map, and finding out the mileage later. TLDR: I can see it’s applications and situations it could be good in. It just is not at all conducive to my biking or running excursions.

   HelenB4 · 30 Aug 2026

5. 2/5Offline failure in remote wilderness

   I have (by time of posting HAD) a paid footpath membership with route downloaded for offline use in remote wilderness. Did some one day testing and all seemed fine. Not great at doing turn by turn in areas with lots of trees and steep topographic terrain, bit this is likely limitation of receiver on device - iphone 13 pro) . Not a deal breaker. What was a deal breaker was on day two of multiday wilderness trip, with iOS and app having been update just prior to trip, app continually failed to open while I was several hours away from fast internet. Tried restarting phone, to no avail. I had to switch to backup map and compass for navigation along with offline Google maps for some topo info. Footpath only began working again when I could connect to faster itnernet and update app. That's unacceptable for a paid navigation app touting offline capabilities. It cannot fail like that. For me, I want an app that allows hands free turn by turn navigation telling me where to go right, left, or straight, with indications for markers I leave for potable or non potable water all of which I can just listen (with say one earbud inserted) through hands-free 95% of the time without looking at or holding the device. This is not that.

   heijamie · 30 Aug 2026

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4.6 9492 ratings · Google Play

1. 5/5

   great app, easy to use and very handy

   Will .Pendered · 28 Aug 2026

2. 5/5

   Aplicación práctica y excelente

   Brayan Castillo · 28 Aug 2026

3. 5/5

   great app. Easy to use and makes planning my morning walk a breeze. kinda fun too! you can play with different routes.

   Kendrick Taylor · 28 Aug 2026

4. 1/5

   rubbish

   Leigh Grealis · 28 Aug 2026

5. 3/5

   average.

   Epau 974 · 28 Aug 2026

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