r/komoot

I was hiking the mountains around "Parco dell'Antola" in Italy (Liguria) when I decided to go for a special route. You can check on the map: if starting from "Casa del Romano" you go all the way up you can reach "Monte Carmo" where three italian regions cross in a TRIPLE border. I arrived there... but it wasn't enough!

Was in that moment that I decided to save the route on Koomot in order to feel safe while hiking all alone in what was already afternoon: I decided to walk up to the other triple border, because going north one could surpass Liguria (and the border with Piemonte and Emilia-Romagna) and reach the border with Lombardia.

Lemme tell you.. that was a bad choice.

I found myself basically lost at 7pm while trying to go back to Liguria, desperately trying to find some kind of sign to return back on the route. I also encountered some cows, bulls and horses and injured multiple times my legs.

And here's where Komoot kicks in.

I remembered that I had downloaded the whole route and immediately thanks to the app I understood where I was and what path I should take (crossing the forest) to reach again the main road.

Probably I would have survived even without it, but a full night in those trees would have been at least inevitable.

THANKS KOMOOT!

The komoot route planner is excessively slow on desktop.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Login with user account
2. In top navigation click "New" , then "Plan New Route"
3. Optional: Open Network tab, see requests returning 504
4. Wait - UI elements will not load, map loads only partially
   Expected Result: Map and all UI elements load and tour can be planned
   Actual Result: Map partially loads, UI elements do not load, CORS errors, and 504 on certain requests.

Testsed on: macOs 26.4 (25E246) / Vivaldi 7.9.3970.60 / Brave 1.89.145

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Dear Komoot Team, you are doing a great job, but issues like this are not acceptable in prod.
Especially when pushing more and more Ads 😉

Ok, I’ve just upgraded to a paid sub so I can use multi-day trip planning. I’ve got a 3 month trip coming up, and I’m cycling for around 90 days. Two instant questions/ issues:

1. Max number of nights seems to be 70 with no way to change this? Or am I daft? Quite pointless restriction imo 🤷‍♂️

2. The app automatically breaks my 4000km trip into chunks based on the days I tell it I am alloying. So it’s created 70 short days. Not all of these are very well designed, so I edit them. As I extend the days it doesn’t change the following day…so eventually the planned days are getting stupidly short, and will eventually overlap. But I can’t see any way to just delete a day?

Hi, I want to switch from an Apple Watch to a Garmin watch. I like to use navigation on my Apple Watch - you just start a route in Apple Maps, and the AW automatically displays it on the screen.

I realize in advance that Garmin watches won’t be that simple. And besides, I want to buy a Forerunner 570, which doesn't have maps.

But I've read that Komoot Premium allows you to view detailed maps on Garmins that don't have built-in maps.

Before I buy it, could someone please explain how it works, whether it’s reliable, and how many steps are involved? For example, if I’m in an unfamiliar city and need to plan a route to a hotel from my iPhone, what would that process look like? I’ve never used Komoot, especially in combo with Garmin watches.

I’d definitely like to buy a Garmin Fenix 8 with maps, but they cost almost twice.

Quite a few things are currently going wrong at Komoot.
As an owner of the "World Map", I am not only being bombarded with ads for Komoot Premium, but I am now also seeing advertisements from "Bergzeit" — a retailer of outdoor clothing and equipment.
It is simply annoying.

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Let’s say I want to plan a ride and click the routes button. Why does Komoot show some random routes done by other people, but not my routes? I find it really hard to find my Saved routes? Why are they buried under my profile icon?

I do not really care about routes created by other members to be honest…

Auf einer Radstrecke von knapp über 300km spuckt mir Komoot ca 2800 Höhenmeter aus.

Wenn ich diese Strecke nun als GPX lade und in Garmin Connect importiere, dann zeigt es mir 1900hm an.

Dass die Tools leicht unterschiedlich berechnen, ok.

Aber das ist kein kleine Abweichung mehr.

Is das normal?

On android app, there is no possibility to see on past activies the history of speed, it's only available on browser.

On browser, when viewing a past activity (url like https://www.komoot.com/tour/123456/zoom ) There is no button to hide the traject. On android however there is the eye button.

On the same page on browser, there is the history of elevation, but not speed. On android it's also not shown.

There is also not the possibility to choose the different type of info : surface type/temperature/etc, which is available on urls like https://www.komoot.com/tour/123/edit

edit: also on android, during a tour, i see "moving time", but there is no way to see "elapsed time"

I was looking for a cool GPS app for when I take the bike, and I'm amazed with all the features and details that Komoot has.

But when trying to plan a route from my future home and work, it sends me to a dangerous tunnel I want to avoid.

Then on the cameback it sends me through a quite tall stairs because those are not registered on the app as stairs but as "singletrack" instead.

Going to any of those two points with the bike is a suicide.

I can add waypoints to try move it to another path but the app will try sending me there again because "its the most optimal".

Is there a way to add a "can't go there" point?

I've been routed over trails that are mountainbikeroutes multiple times. I navigate with the "sport" setting set on biking (not om moutainbiking).

These trails are narrow, steep but short hills, sandy, and absolutely not suitable for 'normal' (city) bikes. I do not want to be routed over them, ever.

There is no option for it in settings on the Android app. If I look at that trail in the app the road type says: single track and the underground says: unpaved.

How can I avoid or even disable being routed over these?

Edit to add: in the map it shows as a thick green line, just like any other bicycle path, or thin black line.

A few weeks ago I reported an error in navigation where I'm getting routed over a steep sandy pedestrian incline/decline while navigation is set to biking. In the map it shows as a thin black line.

Nothing happened with the report, I'm still getting routed over it.

Should I make more reports? It is not possible to edit the map by yourself, right?

^(This post is not related to the other post i just made about mountainbike trails.)

Hi everyone,

I just did a hike on Komoot and encountered a really aggressive dog that scared the shit out of me and even followed me for a bit. This was mainly due to the fact, that the path shown was going through or near a private property. How do I report this or warn others who want to do the hike? (There is no alternative path there, the only thing to do is try your best to get through a thick forresty area.

Komoot,
I think you guys are working harder than any app to improve, so I look forward to what you come up with.
However, have you emailed your own customer service? The AI bot is a dimwit, and conversing with it is very frustrating. I know the intent behind it, but it truly sucks.

In the past, highlights added as waypoints were displayed in a different color.
That was very good, but unfortunately, it hasn't been the case for quite some time now. They now have the same orange color as all other highlights. Especially in areas with many highlights, this makes it very difficult to identify and locate these specific waypoints, both in route planning and navigation.
It would be great if they were displayed in a distinct color again, perhaps simply a slightly darker shade of orange.

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I have seen a lot of updates on the Komoot app recently. I saw one of their latest included notes about improved battery life for the Apple Watch while using the map. So I decided to give it a test. I went on a two hour hike and wore my AWU3 and a Suunto Vertical 2. I just have a couple of observations that may interest some of you.

First, a huge problem my encountered. The start of my hike was in a location that did not have cell service. The Komoot app on my phone nor on my watch Wood open to load the route because I did not have cell coverage. However, I downloaded off-line maps on both of the devices. That is a huge oversight. That needs to be addressed immediately. I ended up just tracking a manual activity without loading any route to get it to work.

As far as battery use, here are the results:

AWU3
Hour 1 (Map screen open) - 11% battery used
Hour 2 (Data screen open) - 10% battery used
So it would appear that keeping your watch on the map screen or the data screen has only a 1% difference of battery life per hour.

Suunto Vertical 2
Hour 1 (Map screen open) - 5% battery used
Hour 2 (Data screen open) - 1% battery used
There is a much bigger difference between using the map screen and the data screen on this watch. If you’re someone that you know will always use the map screen, the Suunto Vertical 2 is about twice as efficient. However, if you don’t keep your watch on that screen, 1% per hour was an amazing result.

Is there any idea if or when map view for Wear OS will be released? I used to use Tizen and it was great! Now I am on Wear OS and it is working "okayish" with a workaround. However Wear OS by default has dark maps and that sucks!