Reviews for Footpath Route Planner

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20 reviews

Review by Steve Conlon
(5/5) May 27, 2022

This is exactly what I had hoped for in an app. I paddle in the middle of nowhere so to speak and I am not only new to this area but 68yrs old. I do carry a phone with a tracker turned on but I’ve been afraid to venture upstream to who know where. Knowing […]

Review by Daniel Smith
(5/5) October 1, 2020

Very good app – highly recommended. Stable, easy to use to plot a route, save it and export to preferred format (gpx etc). Paid for the yearly membership as I make routes for my local cycling club, yes there are other map making tools out there, but this works perfectly on a phone and is […]

Review by Bob DG
(4/5) July 29, 2025

Fabulous walking app for planning and checking your route. I have paid version for OS maps, which are extremely useful. It does have an annoying habit of guessing your route unless you zoom in when plotting a route. That’s why I haven’t given 5 stars.

Review by Peet Dafook
(5/5) September 4, 2025

🔶️ATTENTION USERS: Be sure the app location setting/permission & your phone GPS to “precise”,or you will only record Time but nothing else.🔶️ This is my favorite Route Planner. Easy to use, no hype. FYI If your route is “snapping” to the wrong trail simply turn off the “snap to” feature and manually trace that section, […]

Review by J M
(3/5) June 27, 2022

The app is lightyears ahead of everything else when it comes to route planning etc. I purchased it, but kind of regret that I did now. I planned a route out, tested it, but there’s only a dark theme for the navigation…which makes the app unusable during the day for me. I checked the documentation […]

Review by JenR Old
(5/5) June 6, 2023

I’ve been using this app on and off for over a year and subscribe to the premium version to add multiple routes it’s priced just right for my budget. Footpath Route Planner is a wonderful tool to get me out of my sedentary funk. I like to plan routes the night before. Its no nonsense, […]

Review by Yotam L
(2/5) August 24, 2021

There’s no way to edit existing routes, and editing a new one isn’t vert easy. The app refuses to let me make a route without a loop (the beginning & end is ALWAYS the same). The interface is very confusing to me and not very intuitive.. very much so after you save a route- because […]

Review by Orinoco Womble
(2/5) June 7, 2021

Hold on a cotton picking minute….. Great idea to quickly plot a route, glad i signed up. Plotted a route,saved it……. And then, I can’t follow it,can’t see individual turns and can’t use the voice turn system….. Unless I pay monthly installment,why would I do that if I don’t know if the app is any […]

Review by Christopher Anderson
(4/5) April 14, 2025

Dropped a star, as trying to make a route map for walking, half way through the line would not continue down some steps ( but they are marked on the map) , instead the line jumped to a path going in the opposite direction, then doubled back to the bottom of the steps, a route […]

Review by Sky Wickenden
(4/5) August 14, 2025

This is my favourite walking app. Quick to load and not a memory hog. Subscription is reasonably priced. Lots of great map options. love the public rights of way overlay in the UK. Dropping a star because the OS maps – which is one of my main reasons for subscribing – are often very slow […]

Review by Matt Mills
(5/5) July 5, 2025

initial experience is good over a known 20 mile route on the North York Moors. I’m planning to use this instead of my os maps subscription for my upcoming Wainwright’s c2c in August however I have a few small reservations: the 24 hr time limit on downloaded os maps is a concern – could do […]

Review by R Dub
(5/5) November 16, 2024

It’s everything I wanted in a route planner for hiking. Simple and reasonably intuitive. The map itself is very accurate and the GPS accuracy is excellent. (looking at you, google maps….) Being able to draw routes with your finger straight into the app saves having to map on PC and export to phone, although you […]

Review by Amanda Bryan
(5/5) August 25, 2024

My first introduction to Footpath was using it to create 2 weeks worth of walking tours around London. It worked so well! I adopted it when I decided to start running. I enter the route before each race and in the last fun run I did, I was the only one from my group that […]

Review by Elizabeth Brown
(5/5) June 26, 2021

The free version is perfect for what I need. (looking to plan out walks/bike rides that are specific distances in order to hatch eggs in Pokemon go). it does exactly that in a very easy to use format. The app has lots of helpful options for users that pay an annual fee. Normally I hate […]

Review by Brian Corliss
(5/5) September 3, 2022

I downloaded Komoot to plan running routes on my phone and after about 15 minutes of it producing the most absurd routes imaginable, I had to just delete it and try another. Found this app and had accomplished my goal within about 2 minutes. Super intuitive and easy to use. Highly recommend if you’re just […]

Review by Eric
(3/5) October 6, 2023

The app is OK, not greatest thing but not the worst. We do have the premium version for turn by turn directions. It sometimes will not navigate me correctly when doing repeats around blocks (it cuts me short by one lap). I haven’t seen a decent upgrade in over a year where functionalities were added. […]

Review by Rob Oliver
(2/5) June 11, 2022

Pros: Nice interface for route planning IMO. Cons: Can’t navigate w/o “elite” version. Can’t save or track route, can’t even count steps or mileage without an account – too much dependence on the cloud in general for my tastes. This version uses 25MB. Not bad, but most valuable features are unavailable. Map data depicts lakes/ponds […]

Review by dp PSU
(5/5) May 21, 2024

Simple, easy to use, does precisely what I hoped it would do. I’ve gotten a couple of timeout hiccups, but when I zoom in and/or make shorter entries, I have no problem at all. I particularly like that there are in-town trails on this, too, so I can venture off of my streets into a […]

Review by Trale Chiropt
(5/5) August 17, 2023

Probably the best route planner I’ve used. The path drawing is by far the most seamless I’ve seen, and five paths on the free version is very nice. I’ve been planning routes out for dog walking, as well as trying to get a sense of what routes are like before leaving the house, since I’m […]

Review by t ega
(3/5) September 15, 2023

(this for free version) Ok app, easy to use and good for tracking runs. My main issue is it will occasionally jump distance, meaning it thinks I’ve gone further than I did. Several times I’ll be about 4 minutes in and it will notify me of my first mile; I’m in decent shape, but not […]