Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to RouteScout – A bike routing app that lets you love or hate hills
Hi HN, I’m a high school student in Seattle who loves riding hills. I found that route makers like Google Maps get you from point A to B on a bike, but they don’t give you fun routes. So i made my own RouteScout lets you: - Control the surfaces (never gravel or dirt with a road bike!) on the route - Indicate your preference for hills (I LOVE or HATE hills gives you different routes) - Prefer routes with bike lanes and cycling paths and roads made for bikes. - Filter types of roads (big roads gone!) - And when looping around it won’t take you back on the same exact road on the way back…
RouteScout is a bike routing app that generates enjoyable cycling routes based on user preferences. Unlike standard mapping tools, it lets cyclists control road surfaces, specify hill preferences, prioritize bike lanes… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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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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Routeshuffle▲250Create random exercise routes, made by a 15 year old runner
2018 · routeshuffle.com · its alternatives →
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Running route planner for round-trips amongst greenery
2020 · trailrouter.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · flattestroute.com · its alternatives →
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Footpath▲194Plan exact travel routes with the trace of your finger 🗺️
2018 · footpathapp.com · its alternatives →
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Remap understands the environment around every road and brings the best together into a route that’s a joy to follow, safer by design and shaped around you.
Aug 2026 · remap.earth · its alternatives →
- 7SH
Over the past week I built a project to let people self-host an entire maps stack so they don't have to send data to the big G. Right now it includes a base map, geocoder and directions server. Currently only bicycle directions are supported, and I'm only hosting tiles for Seattle because I'm unemployed and can't afford to host data for the whole planet. Check it out! https://maps.ellenhp.me/ https://github.com/ellenhp/headway Ultimately I'd like to really focus on transit routing (not implemented) but I'll probably throw a driving mode in there too.
2022 · maps.ellenhp.me · its alternatives →
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TravelAnimator▲536Turn Google Maps URLs into stunning map animations.
Jan 2026 · travelanimator.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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Easily hit your 10K steps with our dynamic route generator
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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UrbanCyclers▲83App and social platform for boosting cycling in cities
2017 · cyclers.app · its alternatives →
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Traili Map▲17Bike route planner that prioritizes official bike trails
2024 · trailimap.com · 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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Advanced tools and features for Google Maps routes planning
2024 · gmaps-extended-routes.pages.dev · its alternatives →
- 17IB
I made TripGeeks, a website where you create and share travel itineraries. Would love to hear any feedback you might have. Thanks!
2024 · tripgeeks.app · its alternatives →
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Plan hikes, share trip reports, map routes, and browse photos from the trail.
2012 · wenthiking.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · random-roads--edwardcunningh2.repl.co · its alternatives →
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I invite you to try a planned feature for 1.0 which is now in a usable shape. It allows you to heavily customize the existing vehicle profiles without any Java knowledge. And not only per-request but also for the CH and …
2020 · discuss.graphhopper.com · its alternatives →
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Footpath 4▲103Map routes with your finger, get turn-by-turn directions
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Take your bike and find your own path down mountains.
2017 · lonelymountains.com · its alternatives →
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Offline topographical maps and crowdsourced trail guides
2019 · wikiloc.com · its alternatives →
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Also compare
- Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails alternatives
- Routeshuffle alternatives
- Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature alternatives
- Flattest Route - A web app to help you avoid hills in SF alternatives
- Footpath alternatives
- Remap – bike routing that builds loops from the best roads, on-device alternatives
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