Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Maptrails
Plan and record your trails
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Maptrails launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Offline topographical maps and crowdsourced trail guides
2019 · wikiloc.com · its alternatives →
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Hey guys, I built a route planner that is mostly focused on bike touring and using existing bike infrastructure. For each request you're shown what bike tracks/trails your route uses and can further explore them by showing them on map or going to the official trail route. The main idea for the app is to have a friendly and easy to use planner that would make heavy use of official bike trails data (mainly from OpenStreetMap) and make it easy to plan a longer trip using the best possible bike routes out there. Currently the app only works for the Euro region but I'm planning to add North…
2024 · trailimap.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! This is a trail companion web app (think AllTrails) I hacked together in a couple weeks time. I was inspired to create this project while training for an extended backpacking trip. My motivation was to create a UI tailored exactly to my liking, and to be able to track my progress along the trail without draining my battery. I also wanted to experiment with PWA technologies. I successfully used it on my five day adventure along the Knobstone Trail in southern Indiana, and even though it's web-based it hardly consumed any battery life on my old first-gen Pixel XL. It's set up currently…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MapHub allows you to create, share and collaborate interactive maps online.
2016 · maphub.net · its alternatives →
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Polarsteps▲131Automatically track your journeys on a stunning map
2015 · polarsteps.com · its alternatives →
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FATMAP▲88Global 3D map and adventure guidebook for the outdoors!
2018 · strava.com · its alternatives →
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I'm working on a GPS track visualizer for quite some time. It shines in hilly and mountaineous terrain (where a 3D view makes more sense), but it also offers quite a lot of Strava-like features (statistics etc.). You can upload your GPX and FIT files manually, or sync directly with Garmin, Coros and Polar. See https://cubetrek.com for the live app and check out some examples there. It's free and opens source. Also, anyone who likes to work with 3D visualizations (especially Babylon.js), let me know if you like to help polish this thing further.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ambulate was created because planning hiking trips using spreadsheets and various map solutions got chaotic. I wanted an app to manage and map multi day trip itineraries in the outdoors/backcountry. Features - Manage itineraries - Add activities and map markers - Add routes (upload GPX or plot by hand on map) - Desktop and mobile It is free to try (login using Google or create a user). Alternatively the slides on the home page give an idea of the UI. I'll appreciate any thoughts and feedback you care to share:)
2024 · ambulate.app · its alternatives →
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Scout▲184Travel planner that combines Google Maps and Sheets/Docs
2019 · scoutexplore.com · its alternatives →
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Track and visualize your hiking, cycling and running routes
2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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AllTrails▲103Explore over 50,000 trails, reviews, and photos. Share them…
2014 · alltrails.com · its alternatives →
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Map Buddy▲71Discover, subscribe to, and create interactive maps
2022 · mapbuddy.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, jvaclavik here from OpenClimbing team! We are thrilled to release version 2.0 of our fully opensource/opendata climbing guide. Based on OpenStreetMap for map-data and Wikimedia Commons for images, we created a (hopefully) user-friendly app which completely uses these open databases, thus contributing data back to commons. We designed a simple and powerful notation for drawing climbing routes directly over the Wikimedia pictures: - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikimedia_commons:pa... Check out the release article for a ton of new features, or go…
2014 · openstreetmap.org · its alternatives →
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Initially built Google Maps to GPX functionality as could not find a decent option at that moment. Later developed more tools for GPX processing - merge, split, strip, trim, etc. Also GPX route planner to create GPX files from scratch. The goal was to keep everything straight to the point: no registration, no payment, just tools that work and easy to use.
Jul 2026 · gpxfile.pro · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, My co-founders and I have been building GridTravel, a free iOS app for planning and sharing travel routes with turn-by-turn GPS nav. We just launched yesterday after App Store approval. We're three 21-year-old cofounders and best friends since middle school. We built GridTravel after years of frustration navigating new cities on every trip we took together. The idea: most people either search Google for "top 10 places to visit in…" lists or go on social media to get inspiration on where to go. GridTravel is built around user-generated routes — actual paths someone walked, that you…
May 2026 · gridtravel.app · its alternatives →
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We built Maptoolkit.org - a free, production-grade vector maps service built on OpenStreetMap and MapLibre. Map rendering and tile hosting have historically been either expensive (Google, Mapbox) or complex to maintain yourself. (Plus: Their maps are car-focused.) Our maps feature max data zoom 15, global hill-shading, 3D terrain, contour lines, water depths, and specialized styles (like Hiking, Cycling, Winter). No sign up or API keys required. You can use it like this: ``` const map = new maplibregl.Map({ container: 'map', style: 'https://styles.maptoolkit.org/summer.json',…
Jul 2026 · maptoolkit.org · its alternatives →
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