Outdoor route planning website and app

Komoot

Komoot is an outdoor route planning, navigation, and activity platform for hiking, cycling, running, bikepacking, and other adventures.

Core use

Plan sport-specific outdoor routes, navigate them, record activities, and share tours.

Map base

Komoot support says its maps are based on OpenStreetMap data with komoot features and algorithms layered on top.

Common activities

Hiking, road cycling, mountain biking, gravel riding, running, touring, and outdoor exploration.

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What Komoot is

Komoot is a route planning website and mobile app for outdoor activities such as hiking, cycling, running, mountain biking, and bikepacking. People use it to discover routes, plan trips on a map, follow turn-by-turn navigation, record completed activities, and share outdoor recommendations with other users.

Route planning

Komoot's planner lets a user choose a sport type, starting point, destination, and waypoints, then review distance, elevation, estimated time, surface details, and route shape. Routes can be adjusted manually by moving points or dragging the route line, which helps riders and hikers balance speed, scenery, terrain, difficulty, and access.

Routes and activities

Komoot separates planned routes from completed activities. A saved route is something a user plans for the future, checks for distance or elevation, and can later navigate. A completed activity is a route that was actually recorded or followed, often with photos, statistics, and a profile entry after the trip.

Community discovery

The site and app use community knowledge to help people find places and route ideas. Highlights, recommendations, shared collections, photos, and public tours can make local knowledge visible to visitors, while privacy settings let users decide what parts of their own profile and activity history are public.

Why it matters

Komoot matters because outdoor navigation is different from ordinary point-to-point driving directions. A good hiking or cycling route needs to care about trail access, surface type, elevation, difficulty, scenery, traffic exposure, transport links, and the user's activity. Komoot packages those concerns into a planning workflow that is easier for many people than reading raw map data alone.

Limits and cautions

Outdoor route planners are decision aids, not guarantees. Map data can be incomplete, trails can close, weather can change quickly, and a route that is legal or mapped may still be unsafe for a specific person, bike, season, or time of day. Users should check local rules, conditions, equipment, battery life, offline access, and personal ability before relying on any planned route.

WHOIS domain data

Data pulled: May 19, 2026View current WHOIS record

Domain: komoot.com
IP address: 3.162.112.113
Registrar: Amazon Registrar, Inc.
WHOIS server: whois.registrar.amazon
Referral URL: http://registrar.amazon.com
Created: October 30, 2008
Updated: September 25, 2025
Expires: October 30, 2026
Nameservers: ns-1115.awsdns-11.org (205.251.196.91); ns-655.awsdns-17.net (205.251.194.143); ns-240.awsdns-30.com (205.251.192.240); ns-1965.awsdns-53.co.uk (205.251.199.173)
Domain status: clientDeleteProhibited; clientTransferProhibited; clientUpdateProhibited
Contact privacy: Registrant and technical contacts are listed through Identity Protection Service on behalf of the komoot.com owner.

Key concepts

Routea planned path with waypoints, distance, elevation, surface information, and navigation details.
Activitya completed outing that was recorded or followed and can include statistics, photos, and notes.
Highlighta recommended place or route detail contributed or surfaced for discovery.
Offline mapmap or route data saved in advance so navigation can continue with limited signal.

Website features

Sport-specific route planning for hiking, cycling, mountain biking, gravel, running, and touring.
Distance, elevation, estimated time, surface, waypoints, route adjustment, and navigation support.
Community discovery through shared tours, highlights, collections, photos, profiles, and recommendations.

Common misconceptions

Komoot is not only a fitness tracker; planning and navigation are central parts of the product.
A generated route is not a safety guarantee; local conditions and user judgment still matter.
OpenStreetMap-based routing does not mean every path is current, accessible, or suitable for every sport.

Open questions

How should outdoor apps balance scenic, adventurous routing with conservative safety guidance?
How can community route data stay useful without exposing private homes, sensitive trails, or fragile environments?
How much AI-assisted planning should users trust before checking terrain, weather, access, and local rules themselves?