Maptrails2026.12 - App Store

Maptrails is a modern map browser that packs an amazing experience for hiking, hunting, orienteering, or just enjoying your time outdoors. Only Maptrails offers full featured apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac.

The app comes preconfigured with a large selection of built-in maps in topographic, nautical, and aerial imagery styles. Save places as map markers that sync between your devices over iCloud. It is easy and fun to measure distances and draw paths on the map, or use Look Around to see street level imagery at any address.

Maptrails Pro one-time purchase unlocks a professional grade feature set. Add your own maps and data layers from standard APIs, and bring in GeoJSON, GPX, IMG, KML or Shapefile data. You can even draw notes directly on the map using touch or pencil!

Maptrails makes it easy to plan your upcoming hike by letting you download map tiles for offline use, view up-to-date weather forecasts, or draw tracks on the map and save them to GPX files. During your hike, record the route to a GPX track or workout in Health app, and graph out its speed and altitude data.

For hunters, integration with Oma Riista lets you import hunting areas using area code. Share your current GPS location with a private group of other Maptrails users.

Build your own dog tracker by installing separate Beacon app to another device and pairing it with Maptrails. Its position can then be tracked on the map in Maptrails.

Maptrails Pro one-time purchase unlocks full functionality
. Use folders to organize tracks and markers
. Attach images to markers from photo library
. Track other devices with Beacon app installed
. Import hunting areas from Oma Riista service
. Get weather forecast for targeted location
. Draw notes on map using touch or pencil
. Import tile maps from web using browser
. Download map areas for offline use
. Share your GPS location with groups
. Draw tracks on map and save as GPX files
. Import GPX files and view them on map
. View workout routes from Health app
. Record workouts and export to GPX
. Add Vector Tile, Tile Map, WMTS and WMS maps
. Add GeoJSON, GPX, IMG, KML and Shapefile map layers
. Get new features in future versions

If some map available via open data APIs is not yet included, or you want to make your maps available in Maptrails, please email me at feedback@freshbits.fi. Also follow on Instagram at @KartastoApp.

This app has been built by one developer as a hobby project during many evenings and weekends. Please be nice and take this into account when giving feedback.

Icon symbol credit to Wolf Böse (Creative Commons).

Version History • KML files exported from Google My Maps with a network link now import correctly.
• Various bug fixes and improvements. 2026.12 1d ago • Tapping place names in topographic or OpenStreetMap vector map opens its Wikipedia article.
• Adds a map legend for the topographic and OpenStreetMap maps. Tap the map's attribution text to see what each symbol, line and fill means.
• Vector map labels are now shown in the app's language where available.
• Refinements to symbols and fill patterns in vector map rendering.
• Fixes performance regressions in map rendering on Apple Watch.
• Fixes road names flipping upside down while zooming on Apple Watch.
• Various bug fixes and improvements. 2026.11 Oct 2 • Allows pulling down bottom sheet to dismiss it. The sheet now also animates at 120 fps.
• Adds a camera to attach photos to markers without leaving the app.
• Adds a new waypoint editor to specify name, icon and notes while recording GPX track.
• Allows assigning color for all tracks in a folder using context menu action.
• Record Track shortcut now stops and saves the track it started.
• Adds a search field to the WMS, WMTS and WFS layer lists.
• Various bug fixes and improvements. 2026.10 Sep 21 • Adds support for iOS 27.
• Improves bottom panel gesture handling.
• Fixes track recording showing metric units when nautical or imperial was chosen.
• Various bug fixes and improvements. 2026.9 Sep 16 • Adds Measure from Here on Apple Watch.
• Adds Get Directions Here on Apple Watch, handing the place to Maps for walking directions.
• Improves data sync between iPhone and Apple Watch apps.
• Improves battery life while using Apple Watch app.
• Improves the translations in all nine translated languages.
• Fixes a crash on iPhone when selecting tracks or workouts.
• Fixes a crash on Apple Watch when choosing an area to download offline.
• Various bug fixes and improvements. 2026.8 Sep 11 • Adds Hillshade, a worldwide relief layer that brings out the shape of the terrain over any map. Add it to your Layers list, then adjust sun direction and altitude.
• Faster launch and more reliable iCloud syncing if you have saved a lot of markers.
• Refines the look of the new topographic vector map.
• Fixes zooming the map with Digital Crown right after opening Watch app.
• Various bug fixes and improvements. 2026.7.2 Sep 2 • Adds Hillshade, a worldwide relief layer that brings out the shape of the terrain over any map. Add it to your Layers list, then adjust sun direction and altitude.
• Faster launch and more reliable iCloud syncing if you have saved a lot of markers.
• Refines the look of the new topographic vector map.
• Fixes zooming the map with Digital Crown right after opening Watch app.
• Various bug fixes and improvements. 2026.7.1 Aug 31 • Adds Hillshade, a worldwide relief layer that brings out the shape of the terrain over any map. Add it to your Layers list, then adjust sun direction and altitude.
• Faster launch and more reliable iCloud syncing if you have saved a lot of markers.
• Refines the look of the new topographic vector map.
• Fixes zooming the map with Digital Crown right after opening Watch app.
• Various bug fixes and improvements. 2026.7 Aug 29 • Adds attachments to markers: photos, PDFs and other files, synced between all devices using iCloud Drive.
• Allows changing symbol of every marker in a folder at once.
• Long press on the map on Apple Watch to navigate to that spot, with a line, a bearing and a distance.
• Improved GPX track recording status on Apple Watch that you can drag to the size you want.
• Fixes asking permission for heart rate data on Apple Watch.
• Various bug fixes and improvements. 2026.6 Aug 21 • Adds over 8000 Lipas hiking, skiing and cycling routes and 1000 areas as map layers, browsable by category and by distance from the map.
• Adds tapping a track, route or other line on the map to open its info panel.
• Improves elevation gain to match the figures hiking watches report.
• Keeps ten times more detail in imported GPX tracks, and draws long tracks much faster.
• Various bug fixes and improvements. 2026.5 Aug 8 • Adds recording of GPX tracks to Apple Watch app.
• Adds downloading offline maps to Apple Watch app.
• Adds label size, road labels and appearance settings for vector maps in Apple Watch app.
• Adds GARS, GEOREF and Maidenhead (QTH) coordinate formats.
• Various bug fixes and improvements. 2026.4 Aug 4 • Adds a topographic vector map with the most accurate map in Finland, modeled after the familiar style of the NLS topographic map.
• Adds support for vector tile maps and layers. They load faster, use less data and are pixel accurate. Vector tile maps let you adjust label size, hide road labels and switch to another color scheme in dark mode. They also work on the Apple Watch.
• Adds over 100 data layers you can add to your map. Shelters and shacks from the Finnish Lipas database are just a tap away.
• Adds the ability to reorder track points, so you can rearrange previous points into a different order and fix mistakes while drawing tracks.
• Adds support for Liquid Glass, the new iOS system look. 2026.3.1 Jul 31 • Adds a topographic vector map with the most accurate map in Finland, modeled after the familiar style of the NLS topographic map.
• Adds support for vector tile maps and layers. They load faster, use less data and are pixel accurate. Vector tile maps let you adjust label size, hide road labels and switch to another color scheme in dark mode. They also work on the Apple Watch.
• Adds over 100 data layers you can add to your map. Shelters and shacks from the Finnish Lipas database are just a tap away.
• Adds the ability to reorder track points, so you can rearrange previous points into a different order and fix mistakes while drawing tracks.
• Adds support for Liquid Glass, the new iOS system look. 2026.3 Jul 31 • Fixes performance issues in loading map markers and layers.
• Fixes performance issues related to management of offline tiles.
• Fixes performance issues due to resolving photo attachments.
• Fixes performance issues caused by fetching workouts.
• Fixes missing permission request to access photos. 2026.2 Jun 9 • Fixes freezing on launch when there is no access to Photo Library. Thanks Ilkka for helping me fix this one! 2026.1.1 May 2 • Estimated arrival times on course line.
• Allows adding waypoints to current location during track recording.
• Adds a toggle to switch between precipitation amount and chance in weather screen.
• Adds option to show magnetic declination for current location.
• Adds new coordinate formats.
• Prevents zoom with double tap during track drawing.
• Various other bug fixes and improvements. 2026.1 Mar 12 • Bug fixes and improvements. 2025.7.2 12/16/2025 • Parse bounds coordinates from GeospatialPDF files.
• Small bug fixes and improvements. 2025.7.1 12/01/2025 • Adds support for Garmin IMG layers. This allows viewing data such as hunting areas offline. Find hunting area IMG files at eraluvat.fi. Shows all points, lines and areas included in the IMG file.
• Fixes issues when showing info of areas by tapping them.
• Fixes issues when zooming when tapping on map areas.
• Changes default value of compass true north setting.
• Updates all dependencies. 2025.7 10/14/2025 • Adds support for KML layers. Shows all points, lines and areas included in the KML file.
• Improves marker iCloud database syncing. 2025.6.2 07/31/2025 • Adds support for KML layers. Shows all points, lines and areas included in the KML file.
• Improves marker iCloud database syncing. 2025.6.1 07/30/2025 • Adds support for KML layers. Shows all points, lines and areas included in the KML file.
• Improves marker iCloud database syncing. 2025.6 07/30/2025 • Map markers are now stored in an iCloud synced database that can store much more favorite places. 2025.5 07/19/2025 • Maptrails is now localized to 11 languages: English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish and Swedish. 2025.4 07/12/2025 • Autosaves recorded GPX track at 1 minute intervals. In case recording is interrupted (e.g. empty battery or crash), the autosaved file is saved in Tracks folder on next launch.
• Includes physical features (e.g. mountains and rivers) in search results.
• Adds new categories for marker icons.
• Fixes crash when coordinates conversion fails.
• Other bug fixes and improvements. 2025.3 06/26/2025