By Pinkbike.com
Trailforks is a trail database & map with over 500,000 trails. Users can contribute data and then local trail associations have the control to approve & curate the data. Get 7 unique days of free app use, then upgrade to Trailforks Pro to unlock the map world-wide. Otherwise continue to use the map in your local area for free. App Features: - The largest database of mountain bike trails in the world, including thousands of biking related POI's - Offline trail maps and info. Region updates are incremental and fast - See your GPS location on the map, for trail navigation - Record your GPS location during ride creating a track - Display trail & route elevation profiles and 'scrub' along them to see the location on the map - View local routes that users have created - View trail logs from users and discover how to explore a new trail - Automatic trail routing from your location (or nearest parking lot), to the trailhead of your choosing - Sync and view your saved plans from http://www.trailforks.com/ridelog/planner/ - Follow race course routes including colored stages and checkpoints - Lookup region & trail info including routes, photos, videos & more - Use your phone’s compass to orientate the map in the direction you’re facing - View trail status & reports! Always be informed of up-to-date trail conditions & closures - Submit trail reports & conditions from the app, including taking photos of trail issues - Support the areas you ride, by donating 'Trail Karma' - View nearby bike shops on the map, quick links for directions or phoning the shop - View trails on map color coded by popularity - Mountain biking heatmap! - View custom worldwide topo maps designed for outdoor trail activities The Trailforks app is your mobile companion to the http://www.trailforks.com website. It allows you to download offline trail maps for use on your rides! Terms of Use: https://www.trailforks.com/about/legal/ and https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
The new update makes the app useless to people who don’t pay. I can’t look at trails or location without needing to pay. Used to love this app especially when trying to discover new trails but I can even look a trails rating without having “TrailForks Pro” shoved down my throat.
Love using it, would be nice if you could interface with an Apple Watch.
Ever since outside came on board I’ve been having nothing but problems. Wish there was some competition
Discover feature doesn’t work anymore. Also when I try to show an area on the map it keeps zooming back to my current location. Fix it !!!!
Love the maps and function, but lack of Apple Watch development is forcing me to go elsewhere.
The data has always been spotty but with more info being gated less people contribute. No longer worth the rough UI if it can be avoided
My favorite thing ever about Outside Mag and everything they own is showcased with this app. Let’s preach up and down our platforms about how outdoor sports need to be made more accessible to everyone and more affordable to the less fortunate and let’s make everyone who enjoys outdoor sports feel guilty for not being a minority BUT!!!!!…..oh you need to pay us a subscription to read about it and also pay us a subscription to find where you are on a map in the woods. Absolute clowns, these people.
Happy to take your money but can’t even provide a support contact email. Account issues? Too bad!
Good luck doing anything besides recording a ride. The app is way overloaded with functions that do not work. You will spend hours on the simplest tasks to no avail, like cropping your avatar as it only displays the top left 16th of whatever photo you choose regardless of size, while the crop box stays frozen in time. Uploading trail photos is a nightmare as the app randomizes the photo information despite your input, and correcting it is nearly impossible. Forgetting to stop a ‘public’ recording will leave a track directly to your house, and when you crop that part out for privacy, it will reappear the next time you open the app, so you must delete the entire recording. Regardless of your chosen region, when you click discover, the app will display trails that are thousands of miles away, and you cannot even narrow it down to your state. I could go on and on as I have spent countless hours over the past few years trying to get the hang this super janky software. My IQ is not low. Sorry trailforks, I don’t think people are looking for a brain aneurism in exchange for a mountain biking app. I have contributed a lot to trailforks btw, and it’s been a painstakingly slow or unsuccessful process. Our time is too valuable to be wasted on this dysfunctional software. Trim the fat, and simplify the process trailforks, it’s that bad. I am guessing the people claiming trailforks as a must have are not contributors or trail builders.
I see potential in this app, but when ever I try to select the area that I live it, it sets me in British Columbia, which is not my area. And when I do go to my area the Go Pro button pops up. What am I doing wrong?