Komoot Alternatives: 7 Apps Worth a Look

Komoot spent fifteen years as the default answer to "what do I plan a ride or a hike with" across most of Europe. Founded in Germany in 2010, it grew to tens of millions of users on a model people genuinely liked: buy the maps once, keep them forever.

In March 2025 it was acquired by Bending Spoons, the Italian company behind Evernote, WeTransfer and Meetup. Reports at the time put Komoot's headcount at around 150 and the layoffs that followed at up to 85 percent of staff within the first weeks. The founding team, including CEO Markus Hallermann, is no longer involved. Bending Spoons has since shipped a redesign, which went live on the web on 15 September 2025, and says it has made more than fifty changes to the product since taking over.

That is the reason "Komoot alternatives" started getting searched, and it is worth being clear about what it does and does not mean. The app still works. The maps you bought are still yours. Nothing has been taken away from you today. What changed is that the people who built it are gone and the company that owns it now has a well-documented pattern of moving acquired products toward subscriptions. Whether that is a reason to leave is a judgement call, not a fact, and this post is not going to make it for you.

The question that decides this

Before you look at a single alternative, answer this:

Do you want to plan where you are going, or record where you have been?

Almost everyone answers "both" and almost nobody means it. Komoot is a route planner first. Its whole value is the moment before you leave: you draw a line, it turns that line into a sensible route using community data, and it talks you through it. If that moment is the reason you open the app, you need another route planner, and the list below has three good ones.

But a large share of Komoot users never really plan anything. They record. They open the app at the start of a walk, close it at the end, and the value they get is the accumulating archive of where they have been. If that is you, a route planner is the wrong category entirely and you have been paying for a feature set you do not use.

Sort yourself first. The list makes much more sense afterwards.

What Komoot still does well

Worth stating, because alternatives lists rarely bother.

Its automatic routing is still the most forgiving in the category. You place a start and an end, pick a sport type, and it produces something rideable or walkable without you knowing anything about the terrain. Competitors make you work harder for a comparable result.

Its community tour data is deep, particularly in German-speaking Europe, and that data is the actual moat. A route planner is only as good as the paths people have already proven, and Komoot has fifteen years of them.

And the pricing structure remains unusual: individual regions and the world package are one-time purchases rather than a subscription, with Premium sitting on top as an optional annual plan. Prices move and get discounted, so check the store rather than trusting any figure in any list, this one included.

The alternatives

1. Outdooractive

The most direct replacement, and the one most former Komoot users land on. A German company, comparable community tour database, and noticeably better map material for alpine terrain, including official alpine club maps.

Best for: anyone who wants Komoot's job done by a different company without lowering their standards. The trade-off: the interface is denser and less friendly to a beginner. Komoot's simplicity was a real feature and you will notice its absence.

2. Bergfex

Strong in Austria, Bavaria and South Tyrol, with solid topographic maps and a free tier that covers more than people expect. It also does the weather and conditions side properly, which matters more in the mountains than route drawing does.

Best for: alpine walking and hiking in the DACH region on a smaller budget. The trade-off: coverage and community depth fall off outside its core region.

3. Locus Map

The power-user option. Rather than serving you pre-made tours, it hands you control of map sources, layers, offline storage and tracking behaviour, and expects you to build the setup you want.

Best for: people who found Komoot too automatic and want to plan routes themselves. The trade-off: a genuinely steep learning curve. If you liked Komoot because it made decisions for you, you will hate this.

4. OsmAnd

Open source, built on OpenStreetMap, with extensive offline map support and a free tier that is usable rather than decorative. It is the standard recommendation when someone wants out of the commercial ecosystem entirely.

Best for: offline navigation and independence from any one company's roadmap. The trade-off: the settings are famously overwhelming and the routing is less polished than Komoot's.

5. Organic Maps

The simplest thing on this list. Offline OpenStreetMap navigation, no account, no tracking, no subscription, no attempt to be a social network.

Best for: people who realised the only Komoot feature they used was offline maps. The trade-off: it is not a tour platform. There is no community route database and no meaningful planning tools.

6. AllTrails

The largest trail database in the world by some distance, with reviews, photos and conditions on nearly every marked route. Stronger in North America and the UK than in continental Europe, where Komoot and Outdooractive still lead.

Best for: finding a specific, well-documented trail near you. The trade-off: most of what makes it worthwhile sits behind the paid tier, which is a subscription, which may be exactly what you were trying to leave.

7. Fogbreaker (ours)

The honest positioning first: we are not a route planner and we are not trying to become one. If your answer to the question above was "plan where I am going", close this section and use Outdooractive. We will not do that job, and a post that pretended otherwise would waste your afternoon.

We are for the other answer. Your city starts hidden under fog. Walking is the only thing that clears it, and what you end up with is a map of the ground you have actually covered on foot, street by street, rather than a folder of saved routes you meant to ride. On top of the map sit XP, levels, daily streaks and a friend leaderboard, because the thing that gets most people out of the door is not a better route, it is a reason to take a different turn.

The overlap with Komoot is genuinely small, and it is worth naming precisely: if you are a Komoot user who never plans, whose recorded tours are just a log, and who mostly walks rather than rides, then the archive is the part you value and this is a better-shaped tool for it. If you plan every weekend ride in advance, we are not a substitute for anything.

Best for: clearing your own city on foot, with progression and friends. The trade-off: no route planning, no turn-by-turn navigation, no cycling support, and we cannot import your Komoot history. Free on iOS and Android, with optional in-app purchases that are never required.

On the data question, since it is part of why people are moving: Fogbreaker is built by Teratis Solutions GmbH, a German company. Your data sits on servers in the EU, it is GDPR compliant, we do not sell it or share it with third parties for advertising, and you can delete your account and everything in it yourself at any time. If you want the longer version of what walking apps collect and why, we wrote that up in what walking apps know about you.

Quick comparison

So which one

• You plan routes and want the closest equivalent. Outdooractive.
• You walk in the Alps and want to spend less. Bergfex.
• You want control over every layer and setting. Locus Map.
• You want out of commercial platforms entirely. OsmAnd or Organic Maps.
• You mostly wanted offline maps. Organic Maps, and you are done.
• You never actually planned anything, you just wanted the record. Fogbreaker, or one of the other options in how to see a map of everywhere you have walked.
• You are annoyed but the app still does what you need. Stay. Genuinely. Switching route planners costs you your saved tours and your muscle memory, and "the owner is now a company I dislike" is a real reason but not an urgent one.

One practical note before you move anything. Export your Komoot tours as GPX files first, while you still have an account in good standing and before you make any decisions in a bad mood. Nearly every app on this list imports GPX. Fifteen years of recorded routes is not something you want to discover you left behind, and it takes an evening at most.

If what you are really after is a reason to walk somewhere you have not been rather than a better way to plan the same loop again, that is a different problem and we wrote about it in how to find new walking routes.