Polaris®

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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.5 2932 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Can’t ride without it!

   Great overall app. We’ve put over a thousand miles through this app, and I love the ability to see where we’ve been, even if it’s not tracking on a known trail or with a signal it tracks your path you’ve traveled. If we get lost, we can alway backtrack on our route. Only 2 things I would change: 1) When you press “stop” when tracking a ride, have it verify you want to stop. It’s a bumpy ride and I’ve gone to adjust my view of the ride and accidentally stopped tracking the ride. And once you do, there is no going back. 2) Be able to plan a ride and follow the trail like a car GPS does.

   Fitmomma1984 · 31 Jul 2026

2. 2/5Missing basic features that would make it great again

   App won’t rotate upside down: My phone (and a lot of others) are mounted upside down on the A-pillar so that that the charge cable goes up, and into the Polaris wire management hole inside the top corner of the roll cage. App used to rotate upside down many versions ago but they put a stop it it. If you mount your phone horizontally and want to use the app in landscape mode you’ll loose nearly all your options. Landscape is nice to get a better lay of the land nearby me, but it restricts so many of the basic options that are available in portrait. When my device is in its holder and I’m running down a trail it’s a pain to pull over and get out of the way, take the device out of its mount turn it vertically just to perform the actions I need then mount it all back up horizontally again. Please fix this, it’s been happening far too long now. Back when this app first came out this was not an issue. For some reason they also removed this feature. Summary: I don’t understand the need to keep us in portrait mode or prevent the app from working upside down. Those are simple things that are easy to fix and improve the user experience. All my buddies have a Polaris and these simple missing features prevent them from wanting to use it — even though the group ride feature is so nice to have. I’m still hoping one day these long standing issues are fixed so we can enjoy this app again. Until then I recommend using a different GPS app for your rides.

   UncleJerm76 · 31 Jul 2026

3. 1/5No offline map download option or it’s buggy

   I used to love this app but can no longer download offline map regions. The only option is to ‘Choose Map Area’ and doing so just takes you to the map screen, allows you to zoom in or out on an area and take a screenshot they call a “map”. If you zoom in tight enough for trail numbers or FS road names then the screenshot is of a tiny area. Zoom out to capture the whole trail system and no labels. I haven’t tried but I assume this means when riding it’s not interactive either. There used to be a feature to select from a list of trail systems and download actual data for an interactive map. Considering that 90% of US Forest Service Area I ride in has no cell coverage this app is now useless. This could be a bug but, if so, has been ongoing through several updates for months. Tried to provide bug feedback on app website and their form closed out in the middle of typing so, this is my feedback.

   Remag.A · 31 Jul 2026

4. 1/5Was awesome now worthless- please fix

   I have to used this app for years and recommended it to many people. Offline feature was a life saver. Recently app is ridiculous. Doesn’t work at all. I have used it on many phones but have used it on my current iPhone 8 for at least the years. Has suddenly stopped working. Went riding in st George Utah a few weeks ago and downloaded offline map of the area. Needed to rely on the app to find our way back as I have done on many rides but this time the app only showed an arrow on an extremely basic map, no roads or trails. App eventually just kept locking up, was worthless. Had to just pick our way home by trying different trails. App is useless. Was riding in an area with full cell coverage today and so couldn’t even find my location in the parking lot. Said gps signal was too weak. Went from one of the best to just something taking up memory on my phone. Need to find another option at this point.

   D0529 · 31 Jul 2026

5. 1/5Unusable This Year

   I have used this map for years and had good luck with it. Heck, even relied solely on it for many trips. Whatever changed this year has made it unusable. Very slow to load but the biggest issue is the offline maps. Again, they have worked for years but now they are worthless. We ride in a lot of remote areas where cell coverage is spotty at best. Went to pull up offline map that said took 500MB of space and nothing. Just a picture of the region. No trails, nothing, can’t zoom. Had to rely on a good ol compass. This app would have left us stranded. Looking at snow checking a sled this year again but if this is the same mapping software used on the sled, I’ll be foregoing the PIDD. In summary, can’t trust it anymore and left us stranded. I’ve resorted to other mapping software now. Hopefully they can fix this because I used to enjoy the app. Disappointed. Whatever money Polaris saved switching mapping software wasn’t worth it.

   SarahWags · 31 Jul 2026

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