Alternatives to Mapy.com
Map service with world search, hiking and cycling trails, city maps and route planning. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Mapy.com
Map service with world search, hiking and cycling trails, city maps and route planning.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Mapy.com.
Google Maps
Google's map and navigation service with live traffic, transit directions and Street View.
Google Maps is free with live traffic, transit directions and extensive business listings, but has less focus on marked hiking and cycling trails.
Komoot
Route planner and outdoor navigation app for hiking, cycling and mountain biking with community routes.
Komoot generates sport-specific hiking and cycling routes with turn-by-turn navigation and community routes, but requires an account and some features are paid.
OsmAnd
An open-source offline map and navigation app based on OpenStreetMap, for driving, cycling and hiking.
OsmAnd is an open-source app with fully offline OpenStreetMap maps and routing for driving, cycling and hiking, though it has no web planner.
Locus Map
An outdoor navigation app for hiking, cycling and geocaching with offline maps and route planning.
Locus Map is a configurable outdoor navigator with offline maps and routing and detailed route planning, but iOS only gets a Lite version.
CoMaps
A community-led fork of Organic Maps offering offline OpenStreetMap navigation with a focus on privacy.
CoMaps is free and open source, with offline OpenStreetMap routing and an outdoor mode showing trails and contour lines, on Android and iOS only.
MAPS.ME
An offline world map app for Android and iOS with route planning and travel discovery features.
MAPS.ME offers downloadable offline maps for the whole world with route planning, aimed more at travellers and travel discovery than marked hiking trails.
Outdooractive
An outdoor platform and app for finding, planning and following hiking, cycling and winter sports routes.
Outdooractive covers hiking, cycling and winter sports with route suggestions from guides and trail wardens, strongest for Europe, and is listed as free.
Wikiloc
A trail-sharing platform and mobile app for finding, recording and following outdoor routes with GPS.
Wikiloc relies on tens of millions of community-shared trails across around 80 activities with free offline maps, while several navigation features require Premium.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Mapy.com as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
AllTrails
A trail guide and mapping service for finding, planning and recording hikes, rides and runs.
Mapy.com shows marked hiking and cycling trails with route planning on web and mobile, with trail detail strongest in Europe and some paid features.
Bikemap
A cycling route planner and bike computer app with a large library of community-shared routes.
Mapy.com shows marked cycling and hiking trails with route planning on web and mobile, and its trail detail is strongest in Europe.
cycle.travel
A cycle route planner that favours quiet lanes, cycleways and traffic-free paths.
Mapy.com covers marked cycling and hiking trails with outdoor route planning on web and mobile, with detail strongest in Europe and some paid features.
Gaia GPS
Outdoor mapping app with topographic and satellite layers and offline maps for hiking and off-road trips.
Mapy.com adds a web version with marked hiking and cycling trails and route planning, with trail detail strongest in Europe rather than North America.
OpenStreetMap
A collaboratively edited world map you can browse, search, route on and edit in a browser.
Mapy.com adds marked hiking and cycling trails and mobile apps for outdoor route planning, strongest in Europe, with some features paid and closed source.
OpenTopoMap
A free topographic web map rendered from OpenStreetMap and elevation data.
Mapy.com adds marked hiking and cycling trails, route planning and mobile apps, but is not open source and some features are paid.
Plotaroute
A web route planner for walks, runs and bike rides with auto-routing and GPS export.
Mapy.com combines route planning with marked hiking and cycling trails and has Android and iOS apps, though its trail detail is strongest in Europe.
Ride with GPS
A cycling route planner and navigation app with a large shared route library.
Mapy.com adds marked hiking and cycling trails and route planning across web and apps, with trail detail strongest in Europe and some paid features.
RouteYou
Web platform for finding, planning and downloading cycling, walking and motorcycle routes for GPS devices.
Mapy.com offers marked hiking and cycling trails and route planning on web, Android and iOS, with its strongest trail detail in Europe.
Trailforks
A crowd-sourced map of mountain bike trails with trail conditions and ratings from riders.
Mapy.com shows marked hiking and cycling trails with route planning on web and mobile, with trail detail strongest in Europe.
Waymarked Trails
A web map that shows signposted hiking, cycling and riding routes drawn from OpenStreetMap data.
Mapy.com also shows marked hiking and cycling trails with route planning and mobile apps, but is proprietary and some features are paid.
