AllTrails: Hike, Bike & Run

AllTrails Review: A Huge Trail Library, With Offline Maps on a Yearly Bill

What's free, and why offline maps cost $35.99 a year

Without paying, you can filter trails by activity, difficulty and length, open pages showing elevation gain and estimated time, and record a GPS track in Navigate. Free accounts can also draw custom routes on the website. What matters once the signal drops sits in Plus: downloads of single trails, whole parks, or a custom map area of up to 500 trails; wrong-turn alerts; turn-by-turn cues that keep working on downloaded trails; voice navigation, added in September 2026; printed maps and 3D previews. Plus also removes the ads both stores flag on the free tier. Billing is yearly only, after a 7-day trial for newcomers. Check the current price in the app; it varies by region.

Wrong-turn alerts at 50 meters, and Live Share, the old Lifeline

Load a trail into Navigate, press Start, and the app warns you once you drift about 50 meters (164 ft) off the line, on the lock screen or on an Apple Watch; tapping the warning mutes it until you rejoin the trail and stray again. Live Share is the 2024 relaunch of Lifeline. Each outing gets a fresh link showing your position, route, mileage, pace, estimated finish time and cell-signal strength, and contacts can opt into SMS updates. It needs data: when coverage drops, viewers see your last recorded coordinates. For missing-person cases, the company releases account data only to law enforcement and aims to answer verified requests within 24 business hours.

Peak at $79.99: in-app Custom Routes, a backpacking planner and Outdoor Lens

Peak was announced in May 2025 and costs $79.99 a year in the US. Its headline is in-app route building; on the website, every account can still draw routes. Smart routing reshapes a line to be shorter, less steep or more scenic along OpenStreetMap paths, and a newer planner splits backpacking trips into days, with slope-angle and US public-lands map layers. Outdoor Lens names plants, fungi and insects from a photo, though the help center says it cannot confirm whether anything is safe to touch or eat. Strava's subscription also costs $79.99 a year but sells monthly at $11.99, and Komoot offers its maps as a one-time $29.99 World Pack. Check the current price in the app; it varies by region.

Who draws the trail lines, and who sees your tracks

Trail pages are moderated, but the dashed trail lines on the map come from OpenStreetMap, so fixes go there instead. New submissions are targeted for review within 5 business days for Peak members and 10 for Plus; free members wait as time permits. The terms disclaim any warranty of accuracy and put any reliance on the data at the user's own risk. In January 2023, England's Keswick Mountain Rescue Team was called out on consecutive days to walkers following the app's routes where no path existed. Profiles and content start Public, and public recordings feed the community heatmap. Play's data-safety form lists precise location as shared with third parties, and the privacy policy effective September 24, 2026 says ad partners may count as selling or sharing under state law.