AllTrails alternatives

Why people look for an alternative to AllTrails

AllTrails is the best app there is for finding a trail, with more trails, reviews and photos than anyone. People look elsewhere when they want something it doesn't do well:

• Planning your own route. Custom routes are free on the AllTrails website, but creating and editing them in the app needs Peak, at $79.99 a year. Members reported in 2025 that in-app route building moved from Plus to the new Peak tier, and some called it a bait and switch.
• Going off trail. AllTrails is built around the trails it lists. Linking trails into a new loop, crossing an unnamed ridge or heading somewhere without a trail is not what it's for.
• Terrain and land. Slope angle, public land and private land ownership are all Peak-only layers.
• Crowds. The trails with the most reviews get the most visitors. If you'd rather find a quieter route, a good map helps more than a popular list.

If you mostly hike popular trails and like the reviews, AllTrails Plus at $35.99 a year is good value, and you may not need to switch.

The alternatives

Goat Maps: best for planning your own routes

Goat Maps is a map and a route planner for people who'd rather work out the route themselves.

• Price: $29.99 a year. Topo and satellite maps, public land, slope angle shading, track recording, waypoints and GPX import and export are free.
• Better than AllTrails: an in-app route planner for less than half the price of Peak, hand-drawn off-trail segments, free slope shading and public land, private land ownership, and satellite imagery from the last couple of weeks.
• Not as good as AllTrails: no trail guides, reviews or photos, no turn-by-turn directions or wrong-turn alerts, no weather, and no Android app yet.

Goat Maps vs AllTrails in detail.

Gaia GPS: best for a big map catalog

Gaia GPS has hundreds of map layers, turn-by-turn guidance and apps for Android, Apple Watch and CarPlay.

• Price: $59.90 a year, or $89.99 with Outside+.
• Better than AllTrails: route planning in the app with Premium, far more map layers, and snap-to-trail routing that works offline.
• Not as good as AllTrails: a much smaller set of trail guides and reviews, and a busier interface.

Goat Maps vs Gaia GPS.

onX Backcountry: best for curated adventures with land maps

If you like being told where to go but want more than a trail list, onX Backcountry has guidebook-style Adventures, ski lines and climbs on top of land ownership maps.

• Price: Premium is $29.99 a year, Elite is $99.99.
• Better than AllTrails: avalanche and ski tools, public land with Premium, and route building with Premium.
• Not as good as AllTrails: fewer trail reviews, and private land needs Elite.

Goat Maps vs onX Backcountry.

Komoot: best for automatic routing and cycling

Komoot plans a route along mapped paths for you and talks you through it, and it's very popular with cyclists and in Europe.

• Price: one free region, then regions from $3.99 or the world for $29.99, paid once. Premium is $59.99 a year.
• Better than AllTrails: free route planning anywhere, one-time map purchases, and strong bike support.
• Not as good as AllTrails: fewer reviewed trails in the US, and no terrain or land layers.

Goat Maps vs Komoot.

Outside the US

Wikiloc has a huge library of routes recorded by its users, especially in Spain, the rest of Europe and Latin America. Premium is $19.99 a year.

Which should you pick?

• You want to plan your own routes, especially off trail: Goat Maps.
• You want the most map layers and use Android or an Apple Watch: Gaia GPS.
• You want curated routes with avalanche and land tools: onX Backcountry.
• You ride as much as you hike, or hike mostly in Europe: Komoot.

Many people keep AllTrails for ideas and use one of these to plan the trip.

Moving from AllTrails to Goat Maps

AllTrails exports one file at a time, in dozens of formats. Pick GPX Track, not GPX Route: AllTrails' own help notes that GPX routes turn every point into a waypoint on some devices.

Export from AllTrails

• Recorded activities (website only): click your profile icon > Show profile > Activities > open the activity > the ⋯ menu above its title > Download route > GPX Track.
• Custom routes and maps: on the website, Saved > Custom routes & maps > open the map > ⋯ > Export route file > GPX Track. In the app, it's Saved > Lists > Custom routes & maps > open the map > ⋯ > Export route file.
• A trail you want to keep: on its page on the website, click Hit the trail > Export map file. In the app, open the trail > ⋯ > Export route file.

There's no bulk export in the app or on the website. AllTrails will email you a copy of all your account data if you make a privacy request at privacy.alltrails.com, but it can take up to 30 days, and AllTrails doesn't say what format it arrives in. For most people, exporting the activities and routes they care about one by one is quicker.

Import into Goat Maps

1. In Goat Maps, open the My Data tab and create a new project called something like "From AllTrails". Make it the active project, so everything you import lands there, together and easy to hide with one switch.
2. Tap + in the top right and choose Import GPX File, then pick the file. You can also open a GPX file from Files, Mail or AirDrop and choose Goat Maps.
3. If you exported a lot of separate files, put them in one zip file first (select them all in Finder on a Mac, or in the Files app on iPhone, and choose Compress) and import the zip. Goat Maps imports every GPX file inside it.

Importing is free, so you can bring everything across before deciding on a membership. The import guide has more detail.

What doesn't come across

Photos, reviews and the trails you saved to lists stay in AllTrails. Lists aren't files, so to keep a saved trail, export it from its trail page as above.