What Komoot actually does
Komoot is a route-planning and navigation app built specifically for outdoor trips — cycling, hiking and gravel routes on detailed topographic maps — rather than generic driving directions. It's strong for planning and following those routes, especially once you've downloaded offline maps for the regions you actually ride or hike in, but the free tier is narrower than it first appears.
The core product
Routes can be planned from two places: the phone app or a browser-based planner, with the desktop planner generally easier for mapping out a long trip and the phone handling turn-by-turn voice navigation on the move.
Every account gets one map region free, with offline navigation, GPX export, and the ability to send a route straight to a connected bike computer such as a Garmin or Wahoo device. Getting started takes a few minutes to sign up and claim that free region; it takes longer only if you need to buy or unlock additional regions afterward.
What's new or notable
Beyond the single free region, Komoot sells additional regions or a worldwide map pack as a one-time purchase, or a Komoot Premium subscription at €59.99 a year that adds:
- Live tracking
- Route weather forecasts
- A multi-day trip planner that splits a long tour into daily stages
- Sport-specific map overlays
Over the past couple of years, Komoot has been tightening what stays free, pushing more features toward the paid Premium subscription rather than leaving them available via the older one-time map purchase — worth knowing if you're used to how the free tier used to work.
Who should use Komoot
Great fit if…
- You mostly ride or hike in one region — the single free region covers full offline navigation, GPX export, and bike-computer syncing at no cost.
- You want routes built for outdoor trips — the topographic maps and route-planning logic are designed around cycling and hiking, not adapted from generic driving directions.
- You're planning a multi-day tour and are willing to subscribe — Komoot Premium's daily-stage planner, live tracking and route weather are aimed exactly at that use case.
Skip it if…
- You travel or ride across many regions — the free tier's single region is genuinely limiting once you leave it, and extra regions cost money.
- You want live tracking or weather-on-route for free — those are Premium-only features, not part of the free tier at all.
- You're not willing to pay a recurring fee — Komoot Premium is a yearly subscription on top of (or instead of) the one-time regional map purchases, and the free tier has been shrinking over time.
Pricing in detail
Komoot mixes a one-time purchase model for extra map regions with a separate yearly subscription for its more advanced features.
| Plan | Price | What's included |
|---|---|---|
| Free | €0 | One map region of your choice, offline navigation, GPX export, bike-computer sync |
| Additional region / world map pack | One-time purchase, price shown at checkout per region or pack | Offline navigation extended to the purchased region(s) or worldwide |
| Komoot Premium | €59.99 / year | Live tracking, route weather forecasts, personal collections, multi-day trip planner, sport-specific map overlays |
Where it falls short
- Only one free region — anyone who regularly travels or rides outside a single area will hit the free tier's limit quickly.
- Key features are Premium-only — live tracking, weather along a route, personal collections and the multi-day trip planner all require a paid subscription, not a one-time purchase.
- The free tier keeps shrinking — Komoot has moved more capability behind the recurring Premium subscription over the past couple of years rather than the older one-time-purchase model, so what's free today may be less than what was free previously.
Privacy & data
Komoot needs location access to track your position during navigation and to record a route you're following, and offline maps for a purchased or free region let core navigation work without a live connection once downloaded.
Komoot is a German company, so it operates under GDPR for its handling of rider data.
We did not find a detailed public breakdown from Komoot of exactly how long ride and location history is retained or shared with third parties beyond what's needed for features like live tracking (which, by nature, involves sharing your position with whoever you're sharing the live link with), so we're not asserting specifics on retention we couldn't verify.
How we checked this
This entry is based on Komoot's official Premium page (komoot.com/premium), checked on 2026-09-04, which lists the features included in Premium versus the free tier, plus the €59.99-a-year Premium price and the one-time regional/worldwide map purchase option. We did not plan or ride a route ourselves as part of this check, and the Premium page did not list an exact price for individual regional map purchases, so we describe that as a checkout-time price rather than inventing a figure.