Garmin Explore™
Explore with a Garmin device
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Map, Track, Sync and Share Your Trek From Anywhere

For adventure seekers, explorers and outdoor enthusiasts, the Garmin Explore ecosystem offers a complete mobile navigation solution that — when paired with a compatible Garmin device¹ — lets you map, track and navigate your trek from anywhere with unlimited cloud storage.

Garmin Explore provides basic trip planning or viewing of maps you’ve preloaded on your device. Or you can use the mobile app to pair your smart device via BLUETOOTH®² technology with a compatible Garmin GPS device, so you can do and see even more.

Access Online Connectivity

Garmin Explore provides free online access to a wide range of additional capabilities. For example, you can download detailed topographic maps, color aerial imagery and other navigation aids directly to your mobile device. The maps and navigation data loaded onto your device can be used anywhere, anytime — even when you’re out beyond the reach of cellphone towers or internet connections.

Manage Your Collections, Tracks and Routes

Review and edit your waypoints, tracks, routes and activities in your library. Add them to a collection to keep all the recorded data from a certain trip together in one place. For example, if you’re taking a long trip, you can plan different waypoints, tracks and routes for each day of the trip and combine them into one collection.

Your Mobile Cloud Connection

The Garmin Explore app will send and store the waypoints, planned routes, GPS tracks and Garmin activities you've recorded in the cloud, allowing you to access and use that data on the Garmin Explore web site to plan or review your adventures. You can also sync your cloud-stored data with a compatible Garmin device. A Garmin account is needed to store your data in the cloud. Your activities (e.g., runs, walks, hikes, etc.) include data such as distance, pace, activity time, location, etc. that were recorded by your device.

More Off-grid Capability with inReach® Technology

Use Garmin Explore with your inReach enabled devices, such as the GPSMAP® 66i navigator and satellite communicator, to turn your mobile device into a true off-the-grid satellite companion. In an emergency, you can trigger an interactive SOS to the GEOS 24/7 emergency response team. Two-way messaging and LiveTrack location tracking via the 100% global Iridium® satellite network let you stay in contact globally. The Garmin Explore app allows you to access your phone’s contact list for easier messaging and sharing when connected.

What You Get with Garmin Explore

• Unlimited map downloads; access topographic maps, USGS quad sheets and more
• Aerial imagery
• Waypoints, tracking and route navigation
• High-detail GPS trip logging and location sharing
• Unlimited cloud storage of routes, waypoints, tracks, and activities
• Online trip planning

1. https://explore.garmin.com/appcompatibility

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3.4 out of 5

83 ratings in United Kingdom

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Good offline option

D.Adrian on

Good app to use offline to plan a route for Fenix watch. Easy to use Maps graphic could be better. It’s hard to see trails and lanes on the map. Hopefully Garmin will improve that and get some better graphics- something similar with the topo maps on the Montana 700

A technophobe

Following in AW’s footsteps on

Never thought I’d get my head around this piece of tech but with the help of YouTube videos I have. I’m officially up & running & am going to be safe on the Lake District Fells

Great companion for your Garmin devices

FrannyMX on

I have a Garmin Enduro 2 watch and this app is brilliant particularly for working with routes and saved locations.

Worst user interface - ever

Mustashraq on

Bought a Montana 700 and have had an utterly miserable time trying to download maps. I haven’t got a computer with the old USB cable to plug into.. so seemingly can’t do anything. I’ve bought the overseas maps on my laptop explore app.. but that doesn’t seem synched with my phone app.. And the Garmin help pages are clearly written by bots for bots. Wanted to take this out this weekend but.. So frustrated, appalling software, appalling customer service

Garmin Explore

Big Davey C on

Works quite well. Some sync issues at times.

Gpsmap 67

Malezyjczyk8k on

Super extra device, I use it in wide range ->from walk in the city, bicycle in forests and mountains and off road motorcycling. No need Power suply and no rain worries.

So much potential, so little delivered.

Boogle nonce on

This has untold potential. But unfortunately it delivers nothing. I don’t understand why a Company like Garmin, who are world leaders in this sector can think it’s appropriate to field an application this poor. It’s a genuine opportunity missed. I really really hope they sort this out.

Decent

Apoole2727 on

Easy to plan and conduct routes the functionality between watch and app is seamless. The display is easy to follow and it’s easy to make dynamic adjustments to your routes and get back on course.

A fantastic app for orienteering

scotthunter1 on

As a self confessed outdoor orienteering geek I think this app is brilliant. I use it to add and sync all of the tors of Dartmoor National Park to my Fenix 7S so I can easily navigate to waypoints when I’m out hiking without having to find them using the map on the small watch screen. The course creation feature is also really intuitive and allows you to walk, run or cycle the route via your Garmin device instantly. The collections feature allows you to easily manage and sync the geographical areas that you need on the day so you don’t have to scroll through hundreds of irrelevant waypoints and courses on your watch. The only negative is you can’t add waypoints using the British National Grid format but strangely you can do this directly on the watch and they will show on the app using standard coordinates. Such a useful app that unlocks the navigation capabilities of your Fenix watch. It makes your watch data easier to manage and facilitates navigation on the fly.

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outdoors adventures on

This is a brilliant watch, has so many tactical features, and much more. Really pleased with it.

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App Info

Category
Navigation
Languages
Russian, English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Dutch, Greek (modern), Danish, Hebrew (modern), Indonesian, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, German, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Thai, Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Finnish, French, Croatian, Czech, Swedish, Estonian, Japanese
Recent version
3.12.1 (2 weeks ago )
Released on
Oct 15, 2018 (5 years ago )
Last updated
3 weeks ago