When comparing Komoot vs Avenza Maps, the Slant community recommends Komoot for most people. In the question“What are the best offline GPS navigation apps for Android?” Komoot is ranked 13th while Avenza Maps is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose Komoot is:
Komoot offers data on road/trail type, elevation, etc. which allows for user to find plan out their trips and prepare for the current conditions.
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Pros
Pro Find conditions before setting out
Komoot offers data on road/trail type, elevation, etc. which allows for user to find plan out their trips and prepare for the current conditions.
Pro Excellent routing for outdoor sports
Komoot is geared towards those that do outdoor sports such as hiking or cycling by displaying common known trails as well as user created ones that are shared on the platform.
Pro Very detailed official local maps
Supports official maps published by park services, etc, which often have more details than any other map available.
Pro Save placemarks
Pro Records GPS tracks
Cons
Con No offline re-routing
Offline GPS will tell you when you have left your tour (and approximately what direction it is in), but cannot re-route without internet connection. Which can be inconvenient for those that deviate or get lost.
Con Cannot use SD card
Even though the maps are free of charge and some of them are official park maps without copyright issues, the app still refuses to store them on the SD card, so the map storage tends to take up far more internal flash memory than any other app.
Con Map search is awful
Searching for map files is very frustrating as the map search only shows the center point of each map as a pin, so you can't see whether the map includes a point you're interested in, and since there are usually many historical maps of the same location, they produce many pins appearing on top of each other. You have to download each one and open it in order to see what it will look like, rather than previewing them in the live display. Good overview maps will appear as pins in random locations, while there will be tons of topo map tiles everywhere else
Con Only shows one map at a time
It supports USGS topo maps, for instance, but if you walk off the edge of one, you have to manually load the adjacent map, which is a hassle. It would be nice if, like other apps, you could select "USGS topo" as the map source, and it would automatically show whichever specific map your location is currently near the middle of (since the USGS maps have margins and legends, etc.)
Con Only supports local maps
You need to plan ahead and download a map for each park or region you're going to visit before you go offline.