Routes app icon For trail runners & hikers

Know the trail before you get there.

Detailed offline trail maps and smart route guidance on Apple Watch and iPhone, built for long days a long way from cell service.

Download on the App Store Free to download · Subscription required
Routes recording a run on iPhone, with grade-colored route and trail map Routes map on Apple Watch
New in 1.5

Your run, right on your Lock Screen.

Record a run with just your iPhone, or bring your watch and mirror the run to your phone with Use Phone Location. Either way, a live map of your route and your stats come along on the Lock Screen, and in the Dynamic Island when you’re using another app.

  • Record workouts on iPhone, no watch required. Routes picks up heart rate from compatible headphones like AirPods Pro 3.
  • Live map, distance, climb, and heart rate at a glance.
  • Wander off course and your Lock Screen tells you right away.
  • Start a run with the iPhone Action button.
  • Just Go: head out without a route and Routes will map it as you go.
Routes Live Activity on the iPhone Lock Screen, showing a route map, elapsed time, distance, climb, and heart rate
On the Lock Screen
Built for the long haul

Lasts as long as you do.

Routes is tuned hard for battery life, so it’s still going at the finish line of a 100k. Leave your phone in the car, or bring it along and let the two work together.

24+ hrsmeasured battery life on Apple Watch Ultra 3
0 barsneeded, once your maps are cached
1 pressof the Action button to start

Need even more? Turn on Reduce Sensor Use, or Use Phone Location to let your iPhone handle GPS.

Routes on Apple Watch Ultra, 41 miles into a 100k Workout stats at the same moment: 9 hours 37 minutes and 41.4 miles in, with 24.8 miles to go
Offline maps

Every trail, even with zero bars.

Routes renders beautiful topographic trail maps at full fidelity on your wrist and in your pocket, and keeps them there for when the signal drops out.

  • Unlimited worldwide offline maps on Apple Watch and iPhone.
  • Trails, parks, contour lines, streams, lakes, water sources, and trail markers.
  • Maps for your routes download automatically and sync to your watch when you pick one.
  • Connect Strava and we’ll cache maps where you already run, no route required.
The Rancho Cañada del Oro loop on an offline topo map on Apple Watch The same route selected on iPhone, with its elevation profile
Weather along your route

The forecast for where you’ll actually be.

Set your flat-ground pace and Routes works out when you’ll reach each part of the course, adjusting your pace for every climb and descent, then shows the forecast for that place at that time.

  • Temperature plotted against your elevation profile, start to finish.
  • Glyphs show the dominant condition for each hour, including forecasted thunderstorms.
  • Slide to set your pace and see when you’ll finish.
Weather forecast along a route, plotted over elevation
Route tracking

See the climb coming.

Routes understands the shape of your course, so it knows where you are even on figure-eights, repeats, and out-and-backs, and shows what’s ahead before you get there.

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  • Grade coloring shows how steep each stretch is at a glance.
  • Future Window lights up the next half mile, so you know which way to turn and how soon the next hill hits.
  • Off-route alerts tap your wrist the moment you stray.
  • Out & back detection draws both directions side by side, each with its own grade coloring.
Grade-colored route on the Apple Watch map Grade-colored route on iPhone
Off-route alerts

Never lose the trail.

Miss a turn and Routes tells you right away, with exactly how far off course you are, on your wrist and on your Lock Screen.

  • A tap on your wrist and a banner showing how far you are from the route.
  • The Live Activity on your Lock Screen shows it too, so a glance at your phone is enough.
Apple Watch showing an “81 ft from route” banner over the map The iPhone Lock Screen Live Activity showing “81 ft from route” during a trail run
And so much more

We sweat the details, so you can sweat the climbs.

Nearby routes first

Open Routes at the trailhead and the routes that start near you are right at the top, on your iPhone and your watch.

Hike, run, or trail run

Each route remembers how you like to do it: Hike, Trail Run, Run, or Walk.

A truer track

A new location smoother keeps your recorded line on the trail, even under trees and in canyons.

Strava, both ways

Pull in routes from the Strava Route Builder and upload finished workouts automatically, even after a dead zone.

Compatible with Strava

Bring your own GPX

Import a GPX file from any site or app, from race courses to your club’s Saturday loop, and reverse any route to run it the other way.

New in 1.6

Made for iPhone Duo.

Unfold for the big picture: your route fills the inner display, with its elevation profile and weather in a column alongside. Routes pushes controls to the right edge, maximizing reachability and vertical space.

Routes on the outer display of a folded iPhone Duo, showing the Quicksilver 50k route and its elevation profile
Routes on the inner display of an unfolded iPhone Duo, with the Dog Mountain Loop on the map and its elevation profile in a side column
Made for Apple devices

Right at home on your iPhone and Apple Watch.

Routes is built with Apple’s own frameworks, so it works the way the rest of your devices do.

The finish

Celebrate every finish.

Cross the line and Routes throws a little party on both devices, with your time, distance, climb, and pace, and the whole elevation profile of what you just did.

Apple Watch celebrating a finished trail run with confetti: 14.3 miles and 4,448 feet in 2:12:55 iPhone celebrating the same finished trail run with confetti over the map, with its elevation profile

Hit the trail with Routes.

Free to download for Apple Watch and iPhone, so you can bring in your routes and look them over.
Recording workouts and following a route on the trail require a Routes subscription.

Download on the App Store