Komoot is a route planner with turn-by-turn navigation. TrailTrackr skips the planning: it records what you walk, ride or run and stores it privately on your device.
Download in App Store See the comparisonKomoot focuses on planning routes and navigating them, with community highlights and region-based map access tied to a Komoot account. TrailTrackr is a different kind of app: a battery-efficient recorder for walks, hikes, runs, cycling, skiing and snowboarding on iPhone, Android and Apple Watch, with no account, no ads and no cloud upload.
| Komoot | TrailTrackr | |
|---|---|---|
| Main purpose | Route planning and navigation | Recording and logbook |
| Account | Required | None |
| Turn-by-turn navigation | Yes | No |
| Route planner | Yes | No |
| Recording activities | Yes | Yes, with background tracking and Apple Watch |
| Offline maps / regions | Region based, some paid | Not a map-download app |
| Map styles | Komoot maps | Apple Maps (standard, hybrid, satellite) or OpenStreetMap |
| GPX export | Yes | Yes, plus JSON backup |
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The two apps complement each other. If you plan elsewhere, you can still record the real route in TrailTrackr and keep the result as GPX.
There is nothing to unlock in TrailTrackr and no account to manage. You install it, grant location access and start recording.
Besides Apple Maps, TrailTrackr offers an OpenStreetMap-based map style rendered with MapLibre.
No. TrailTrackr records and analyses routes; it does not provide route planning or turn-by-turn guidance.
Komoot lets you export tours as GPX. TrailTrackr can import GPX files as tracks.
An Android version is in beta and coming to Google Play. See the homepage for the waitlist.