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just Wondering if this is a good app for mountain biking,I've downloaded it and had a go at trying to create my own ride and it did seem a bit of a faff when I started including way points.I mainly wanted a app that I could use on my phone for navigating a ride instead of buying a garmin as I'd only use it when abroad like finale ligure for two weeks a year if that.I also can't find any suggested tours on komoot,like on Trailforks where it will come up with tours other people will have uploaded.Or is it possible to use trail forks for navigating on my phone.Any advice much appreciated.cheers
It depends on the area and how many MTB trails have been added. It's also worth making sure that your activity is set to Alpine Mountain Biking as the regular mountain biking option only seems to want to put you on trails graded for all abilities.
I personally like it. Been using it a lot since moving to a new area and not knowing any of the local trails. I upgraded to the Premium version so I could use the mtb specific map and that has helped by showing good spots of trails.
As said, depends how popular the area is but I’ve found some good routes from other people that I have then been able to replan from my location.
I’ve found it the best app to date for being able to replan an existing route, change the start point and trim the route to suit etc.
I have used Komoot to plan some routes and then uploaded them to my Fenix6 works great. Agree it can be a pain to create a circular route but after a few try’s it usually comes good.
It's an odd business model, I think the rout planning side of it is great and free, but the mapping is OSM (i.e. free everywhere else) but is the bit you pay for.
Komoot works much better for big days out, e.g. you can pick an area, set a start point and a cafe stop and a few way-points and let it plan a big XC / Gravel / Road / Sustrans route depending on the settings. If you want more "mountain biking" you need a bit more nuance, so you need to know which direction the trails work best in etc and a map won't always tell you that.
I think its great for planning and really easy to use. The really good feature is to follow other users and copy their routes.
I think the business model works OK. Yes, you can plan a route for free and if you don't mind following it on the app on your phone and have a reliable data connection you could "get away" without paying. But if you want to use maps offline or export a GPX to your GPS device then you need to pay. You can get one region for free, but you soon realise that you need others and it's priced so that you might as well just buy the world. What I'm not sure of yet is the value of the premium subscription service.
I'd agree that it works better for road/gravel than MTB. I use it a lot for "gravel" rides, which tend to be 40-60 mile loops from home. It's very easy to pick home as the start, some random point as the "destination" then just add points that you want you visit until you have an interesting loop of the right length. Changing from road to gravel to MTB gives (slightly) different routes too, which is fun.
For MTB I'll either use Trailforks or more often just plan by hand using the OS maps app combined with trailforks or strava to identify interesting segments. But Komoot does seem to be getting better for off-road stuff as it gets more users.
FYI i downloaded the first free region and then ignored a few emails asking me to upgrade to all regions. After about two weeks i got an email dropping the all region price to £20. Its certainly worth it to be able to download the gpx and use them on whatever device i have.
I use cycle.travel to plan my routes. Very easy to use and export tracks to other apps but not an app itself unfortunately. Not an issue for me as Id hate to plan a route on my mobile phone rather than big pc screen.