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Garmin Explore™
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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

2. The Bluetooth word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Garmin is under license.
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3.84 out of 5

391 ratings in United States

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Firmware updates are stupid hard

JonStirling on

Updating the firmware on your device should be easy. Not here. Who’s idea was it to push the customers to another app, which is not clear on how use or what it’s for even? Product manager: This is the 21st century. It’s time to step up your game.

Fine, but not the best

Assdfgr on

Tools for making routes and courses are not as good as others on the market. You should be able to create out and back trails with a single button push. This app makes it frustrating because it auto-selects your previous waypoints. Also, it would be great to create a course by selecting pre-existing waypoints. You cannot re-order waypoints. You need to put them in the correct order. If you miss one, you need to delete everything after the point you missed and recreate your course. Map overlays are limited. No real-time satellite or snowpack data. Overall, CalTopo and Gaia are definitely better. However, you need this app to fully integrate with your Garmin Watch.

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Lrivera23 on

Excellent tools

Maps

Oakley17$ on

Need to update satellite image.maps are old!

I wish CarPlay was added to this app

cam38648 on

I’m enjoying the app so far. User friendly for the most part. This app needs to have CarPlay accessibility. I hope it comes soon. 👍👍

Easy to Pair

Yelapa06 on

Very easy to. Pair. I love the Mini2 with auto updates without connecting to a computer & access to all my contacts I have had a InReach of some model since 1914 with Delorme. The Mini2 is by far the beat version to date. I am a Garmin fenatic. Feniz 7X. Dog tracking collars etc

Snap to path functionality is broken

sldoskocil on

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So frustrating!!

zmcqueary on

Omg, why can’t I EVER pair with these apps?! Inreach Mini 2 NEVER pairs with these Garmin apps..I can pair direct thru my iPhone’s Bluetooth settings but never with the app. I give up!

Very good

JP barot on

Very good excellent

Great value and adequate functionality

Blackrock50 on

It works quite well. Mostly intuitive interface. Satellite imagery is quite out of date. A zoom larger than 300 feet would be nice. Track plots are slightly erratic but that’s probably the collar GPS units themselves. Overall nice system.

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Keywords

garmin smartlink, outdoor maps, garmin approach, garmin iq, garmin kids, garmin face it, garmin tacx, garmin mobile connect, connect iq, garmin watch face

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App Info

Category
Navigation
Publisher
Garmin International
Languages
English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek (modern), Hebrew (modern), Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Chinese, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Recent version
3.12.1 (2 weeks ago )
Released on
Oct 15, 2018 (5 years ago )
Also available in
United States, Germany, Canada, Italy, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Russia, Australia, Netherlands, Poland, Norway, Hungary, Switzerland, China, Sweden, Taiwan, Japan, Ukraine, Austria, New Zealand, Finland, Chile, South Africa, Greece, Belgium, Indonesia, Czechia, Romania, Turkey, Denmark, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Portugal, Singapore, India, Malaysia, Israel, South Korea, Vietnam, Argentina, Peru, Ireland, Thailand, Ecuador, United Arab Emirates, Philippines, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Egypt, Kuwait, Algeria, Dominican Republic, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Nigeria
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