Introduction

To assist my readers in choosing a good phone-app for following and discovering hiking trails on their own I have evaluated a number of apps during about a half year. The chosen apps are:
- Locus Map; that is the app that I was using most during my hikes before I started this evaluation
- AllTrails
- Gaia GPS
- Wikiloc; that is the app that I used when I started to register my hikes
The results are shown below. If you want to skip the details and immediately want to jump to the conclusions you can click here after clicking Read more to display the full article.
Availability of the apps per kind of phone
- Locus Map is only available on Android phones / tablets
- AllTrails is available on Android and Apple phones / tablets
- Gaia GPS is available on Android and Apple phones / tablets
- Wikiloc is available on Android and Apple phones / tablets
So only Locus map is limited to Android phones. No disadvantage for me because I am using an Android phone, but definitely a big minus for Apple phone users.