Gaia GPS

This app used to work very well. But recently it sometimes prompts you to sign in, even when you are somewhere remote without or only poor internet. And the app will not work without the sign in. Use alternative app!

Used to be great, but the new forced accounts with questionable privacy policies are taking the app in a bad direction, with large price hikes to monetize the current user base. The high ratings you see are from before these changes.

De app werkt fijn, bediening is overzichtelijk. Er is een overdaad aan kaartmateriaal beschikbaar. De app is niet altijd stabiel, de Apple watch app werkt gewoon slecht. Er worden ook te veel emails verstuurd door Gaia GPS.

This was a decent app and I used it for a few years on premium subscription. But the price has tripled so I’ve looked elsewhere. There are plenty of alternatives that are a one-off purchase for a fraction of the cost like Pocket Earth and MapOut (my favourite) and TopoGPS.

Bought gaia 50% off to trie it. Works great on phone but the online maps loading time is an absolute nightmare. It’s awfully slow and working with it it’s impossible. Tried troubleshooting but servers are really slow. Too bad. Gaia has great potential but fails incredibly in online functionality. Gps accuracy is awesome and phone maps are great. Also battery usage is very little which makes it possible to hike for days on single charge. So far the good news. Found a terrible woke icon under settings. Canceled my subscription for this nonsense. Don’t want anything to do with people who push this terrible ideology. Sad because I really loved Gaia. Luckily there are a ton of other great apps to use. Bye bye!

While I was registering, the app suggested newsletters I could subscribe to. I preferred not to subscribe to any newsletter, but could not continue unless I subscribed to at least one, so I broke off the registration process and uninstalled the app. That was on Saturday, and I received one email to welcome me to the app, which I think is fine. However, Gaia has commenced sending me unsolicited e-mails daily: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Very much not appreciated. I have now used their link to unsubscribe and I hope they will respect that. I would’ve preferred not giving a score, since I cannot judge the quality of the app itself. However, I cannot leave a review without a score so it’s a 3/5 from me.

There or plenty of navigation apps that work fine when you have internet connection. This one too. However. If you hike in an area with no connection at all it’s a different story. You need to download the map of the area you’re interested in before you start hiking. Well, this somehow works. I was able to download maps and use them off line (test it: switch airplane mode on, gps signal is still received). However. During my hike I got used to restart the app often because it crashed or got very slow. Once I did that it worked fine. Downloading of maps is sometimes easy and songs it does not work properly. Overall. Clunky, unstable, but when everything is finally set it works. Putting in waypoints before my hike in this app is an option. But changing them is not really doable.

The product doesn’t feel finished. Navigation is unworkable. Folders in web version are extremely slow. No roadmap or communication on whats being worked on. Great potential, but a pain to work with. For $60,- a year, this is not ok. Changing to Garmin.

It wasn’t possible to navigate.

I have used this app for over a year now with premium subscription. Went traveling with it. Saved tracks, made routes organized everything. My conclusion in short. It’s too buggy. Menus keeps disappearing, need to restart. Lagging location on the map so you keep loosing track off road (yes always use location on). Syncing is a drama I use a Mac, iPad, two iPhones. Always trying to locate tracks/maps between devices. Kept using this app because of a lack of alternatives.