Comparison · updated 2026-10-31
TourTrax vs Komoot
If you are looking for a Komoot alternative, the useful question is not which app has more in it. It is which one is built for the trip you are taking, because these two are different shapes.
Komoot
A route, found and followed
A route planner and navigator, worldwide, with a very large community marking the good bits. Strongest when the question is where to ride on Sunday.
TourTrax
A tour, planned and ridden
The unit is the tour: days, where you sleep, what you carry, who is coming, and how you reach the start without flying. Then the same tour on the bars, routing offline.
Where Komoot is better
Worth saying first, because it is true, and because a comparison that only flatters its author is worth nothing.
- Community Highlights. Years of riders marking the good bit of a lane, the bench with the view, the café that opens early. That is accumulated, not built, and nobody catches up with it quickly.
- Maturity. A decade of polish, a large team, and deep integrations with the hardware most riders already own.
Where they differ
| TourTrax | Komoot | |
|---|---|---|
| What you make | A tour: dated days, overnight stops, a kit list, the people coming, and the journey to the start | A route, or a multi-day route plan |
| Splitting it into days | Automatic, by riding time rather than distance, with places to stay found along the line and a rest day where it fits | Multi-day planning, with stages chosen by the rider |
| Getting to the start | Train and ferry chains across Europe, planned as part of the trip. Driving and charging stops as the alternative | Not part of the product |
| Planning with other people | Invite riders, agree dates together, star routes, share a kit list, split the costs, send updates to a group chat | Share a route or a collection |
| What it will cost | A budget for the tour that shapes which overnight stops get suggested | Not part of the product |
| TourTrax | Komoot | |
|---|---|---|
| Ordnance Survey | Explorer and Landranger, on the web and on the phone, cached for the day ahead | Not offered |
| National survey maps abroad | The official state mapping for the country you are in, not a global style sheet: IGN in France and Spain, swisstopo, TopPlus in Germany, basemap.at in Austria, NGI in Belgium, Kadaster in the Netherlands, ČÚZK in Czechia, Kartverket in Norway and Geoportail in Luxembourg — the sheets a local would carry | Komoot’s own cartography, worldwide and consistent |
| Surface | For the numbered networks, added up from the surface tags on the route’s own OpenStreetMap relation, including where each unpaved stretch starts and ends. Elsewhere, read along the line | Way type and surface breakdown on every route |
| The routing engine | Valhalla, on OpenStreetMap data, running on our own server rather than a hosted API. That is why the dials below exist at all, and why a busy afternoon cannot rate-limit your route | Their own routing, on OpenStreetMap data |
| Where the map questions are answered | Our own Overpass server. Asking OpenStreetMap what a way is made of, or what is near the line, goes to a machine we run, so the surface figures and the places along a route do not depend on a public mirror being up | — |
| Offline routing | On the phone itself: a wrong turn in a valley with no signal still gets an answer, because the routing is on the device rather than the route being cached | Offline maps for navigation |
| Routing you can tune | Avoid hills, keep a night ride on lit roads, and a gravel profile that takes the unpaved option when it is near the line rather than detouring for it | Fixed sport profiles |
| Building a route | Draw, import, snap to the network, crop and rejoin, propose variants and splice in the ones you choose | Draw and edit, with sport profiles |
| TourTrax | Komoot | |
|---|---|---|
| Before you set off | A brief for the day: the forecast read at each kilometre at the hour you will actually be there, so a headwind is a headwind rather than just wind, rain arrives with a window, and a finish after dark gets said out loud. Cafés and water along the line are marked open or shut against your own arrival time. Paying adds a works search on the roads you are using, quoted with its source or left out altogether | — |
| Turn-by-turn | Spoken cues, a warning when you leave the route, and a way back to it | Spoken cues and off-route warning |
| What gets announced | Set per kind of place and per channel: a lock-screen notification, a spoken line, a card on the screen, each chosen separately for cafés, water, campsites, historic places and the rest. Nothing has to shout at you for you to get the one thing you wanted | Turn cues only |
| Riding together | Opt in and the others on the tour appear on your map as coloured dots with their initials, and how far along the route each has reached. Share to see, so nobody is followed who has not agreed, and a position older than three minutes is dropped rather than shown as though it were current | — |
| Head units | GPX, TCX and FIT per day or per route, and a day pushed straight to a Wahoo | Direct sync with Garmin, Wahoo and others |
| Weather | Along the route at the hour you will be there, for the tour and for the day | Weather on the route |
| Battery on a long day | A low-power mode per activity that relaxes GPS, dims or sleeps the screen, and will drop the map altogether for a data-only read-out. It also comes on by itself: dimmed at twenty per cent or when the phone gets hot, the full endurance screen at ten, and a tap to peek back at the map for ten seconds | — |
| Emergency | An offline screen with your position, the local emergency number and the nearest A&E | Not offered |
| After the ride | A log book with your photos, the weather you rode in and your notes, written up and printable as a book | Recorded tours, photos, and Highlights you add |
| Strava | Rides you record go up to Strava. Past activities come back the other way into the log book, with their photographs, and each one is matched against the pictures you took on the phone so the same photograph does not land twice | Completed tours sync to Strava |
| Route guides | Ninety-seven written by a Cicerone guidebook author, crediting and linking the organisations whose routes they are | Community route collections |
Editing tools, side by side
TourTrax has two places you can change a route: the builder, where you draw and rebuild it, and the route page, where you adjust one you are about to ride. Both are listed, because which tool sits where matters when you are deciding whether a planner can do what you need.
| Editing tool | Builder | Route page | Komoot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Click to draw, point by point | ✓ | · | ✓ |
| Choose the routing profile — road, gravel, MTB, walking | ✓ | · | ✓ |
| Drag the line to send it through somewhere else | ✓ | · | ✓ |
| Undo and redo | ✓ | · | ✓ |
| A to B, with alternatives offered | ✓ | · | ✓ |
| Loop from a start point and a distance | ✓ | · | ✓ |
| Import a GPX | ✓ | · | ✓ |
| Snap an imported track to the network, so every leg becomes re-routable | ✓ | · | · |
| Straight-line legs where nothing is mapped | ✓ | · | · |
| Hike-a-bike legs, routed on foot and cued as a push | ✓ | · | · |
| Reverse the route | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Move the start or the finish | ✓ | ✓ | · |
| Trim the start or the finish | ✓ | ✓ | · |
| Select a section, on the map or on the elevation profile | ✓ | ✓ | · |
| Crop to that section | ✓ | · | · |
| Simplify a section — drop its control points and re-route the ends | ✓ | · | · |
| Crop, then route on to where the route finished | ✓ | · | · |
| Copy a section out of another route | ✓ | · | · |
| Join two routes end to end | ✓ | · | · |
| Variants — propose an alternative stretch and splice in the ones you keep | ✓ | ✓ | · |
| Elevation profile with gradient and surface | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Surface and way-type breakdown | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Search an area for cafés, water or camping and add what you find | ✓ | ✓ | · |
| Avoid hills — route round the climb rather than over it | ✓ | · | · |
| Night-safe — keep an evening ride on lit roads | ✓ | · | · |
| Duplicate someone else’s route into your own copy | · | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cue sheet, and a printable roadbook | · | ✓ | ✓ |
Our two columns are taken from the code. Komoot's is marked only where we are confident; an unticked box means we could not find it, not that it certainly does not exist, and we will correct anything that is wrong on being told. Worth saying plainly: both planners work from the same OpenStreetMap data, so neither of us is claiming a secret map. The difference is the tools around the line, and what we do with the data — we run our own Valhalla and our own Overpass rather than renting either.
Price
| TourTrax | Komoot | |
|---|---|---|
| Free account | The planner, the route guides, tours, exports, ride recording, the log book and the iOS app. Two tours on the go, four routes to a tour, two starred routes | The route planner and navigation, with one map region included |
| Paid | £4 a month, or £30 a year | £59 a year |
| What paying adds | No caps on tours or routes, Ordnance Survey mapping, route variants, the roadbook PDF, the log book and written-up rides, costs and budget, charging stops on the drive | Multi-day planning, weather, sport-specific maps and other extras |
| One-off purchases | None | Map regions have historically been bought outright |
| Bring your own AI key | Paste an Anthropic key into settings and every AI feature runs on it: free, uncapped, and never behind the paywall, because you are paying Anthropic directly instead of paying us to | — |
Komoot's price was checked against their own site on the date at the top of this page. Their plans changed after the 2025 acquisition, so if you are reading this long afterwards, check komoot.com rather than trusting us for it.
Which one to use
- Use Komoot
- for finding somewhere to ride this weekend, for the community's local knowledge, and for a single route to follow and be done with.
- Use TourTrax
- for a trip with nights in it: which days, which beds, what to carry, who is coming, and how to get there and back without a flight.
- Use both
- and nothing breaks. Routes move between them as GPX, and plenty of riders will plan a tour in one and still follow a Sunday loop in the other.