Maptrails 2024.11.1

Maptrails is a modern map browser tailored for hikers, hunters, orienteers, and outdoor enthusiasts looking to enhance their time in nature. The app boasts comprehensive support across Apple devices, including the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac.

The free version includes a diverse selection of built-in maps featuring topographic, nautical, and aerial styles. Users can conveniently save locations as markers that seamlessly sync across their devices via iCloud. With intuitive tools for distance measurement, path drawing, and street-level imagery through Look Around, the app ensures a holistic map experience.

Upgrading to Maptrails Pro via a one-time purchase unlocks a professional-grade feature suite. Users gain the ability to personalize maps with additional data layers from standard APIs, as well as integrate GPX, GeoJSON, or Shapefile information. Furthermore, the Pro version facilitates direct note-taking on maps using touch or a pencil.

Planning hiking expeditions is simplified with the ability to download map tiles for offline usage, access real-time weather forecasts, and save tracks as GPX files. During hikes, users can record routes as GPX tracks or workouts in the Health app and analyze speed and altitude data visually.

For hunters, integration with Oma Riista allows seamless importing of hunting areas via area codes. Additionally, users can share their GPS location securely with fellow Maptrails users within private groups.

A novel feature within the app is the capability to create a personal dog tracker by pairing it with the separate Beacon app on another device. This facilitates real-time mapping of the dog’s position within Maptrails.

The one-time purchase for Maptrails Pro offers enhanced functionality:

• Organize tracks and markers in folders
• Attach images to markers from the photo library
• Track additional devices with the installed Beacon app
• Import hunting zones from Oma Riista service
• Obtain weather forecasts for targeted locations
• Create hand-drawn notes on maps via touch or pencil
• Import tile maps from the web browser
• Download map areas for offline use
• Share GPS location with groups
• Create tracks on maps and save them as GPX files
• Import and visualize GPX files on maps
• Access workout routes from the Health app
• Record workouts and export them as GPX files
• Add Tile Map, WMTS, and WMS maps
• Add WFS, GeoJSON, and Shapefile map layers
• Receive new feature updates in future versions

If any map available through open data APIs is missing or to include your maps in Maptrails, feel free to reach out via email at feedback@freshbits.fi. Follow updates on Instagram at @KartastoApp.

The app has been developed by a single developer as a passion project over numerous evenings and weekends. Kindly consider this when providing feedback.

Credit for icon symbols goes to Wolf Böse (Creative Commons).