Offline on-device route planning

Plan hiking and biking routes fully offline, computed on your device. Routing never touches a server — your start, stops and destination stay on the phone.

Before you start

The region’s routing data must be downloaded. It’s pulled automatically with the region; a region row in Data → Regions shows either “Routing works offline” or “Add offline routing” with its size.
Routing tiles are shared across regions, so if you already have a neighbouring area’s tiles they’re reused.

Do this

Tap Plan a route (on the Map tab, or use the Routes tab).
Set the Start (defaults to My location), optionally Add stop, and the End — tap the map or search for each.
Pick a Profile: Hiking (trekking), Hiking (mountain), Mountain bike, Gravel bike, Quiet roads, or Road bike.
Optionally turn on Optimize order to reorder your stops, then tap Plan.
The confirm sheet shows distance, ascent and an estimated time, with Start and Send to Watch.

Options & toggles

Send to Watch relays the planned route to a paired Apple Watch for the heading-up compass (see the Watch guide).
Different profiles favour different surfaces — e.g. Quiet roads avoids busy traffic for cycling, while Gravel bike and Mountain bike prefer tracks and trails.

Good to know

Routing runs 100% on your device, never on a server. If the routing tiles for an area aren’t downloaded, planning stops with a “Download routing data” button — it does not silently fall back to an online service.
The estimated time is derived by the app; the routing engine itself carries no duration, so treat the estimate as a rough planning figure.
This plans a route to anywhere offline. It is not an emergency auto-reroute or a rescue service — carry proper navigation and judgement (see Terms).

If something’s off

“No route found” offline → the routing tiles for that area haven’t finished downloading; add offline routing for the region while online.
Route hugs roads you’d rather avoid → switch the profile (e.g. from Road bike to Gravel bike or Quiet roads).