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Remap vs Komoot: which route planner should you use?

Remap and Komoot side by side, with prices, limits, who should pick which and how to move from Komoot to Remap. Every Komoot figure links to its source.

By Remap · Published 17 October 2026 · 7 min read

Pick Remap if you want routes built for you from the roads around you, through the scenery you choose and matched to a style you set, with planning free and without limits. Pick Komoot if you hike, plan trips over several days, need offline maps, use Android or want routes synced straight to a Garmin, because Komoot offers all of these and Remap doesn’t.

Every Komoot figure below links to the page it came from, checked on 16 October 2026. What we say about Remap describes its web and iPhone apps on 17 October 2026, from our help pages, pricing page and the apps themselves.

How each one makes a route

Remap builds the route for you. It reads every road for its surface, traffic and terrain, then builds routes through the roads that suit the style you chose. A road you like can lose out when it’s busy, rough or steep for that style (How routes pick roads).

Komoot builds the route you draw. Its route planner guide starts with a start and an end point you pick, then waypoints you add, drag and reorder (Komoot route planner guide). Komoot then routes for your sport: “smooth asphalt for your road bike, singletracks for your mountain bike or plenty of gravel” (Komoot for Wahoo).

What Remap already knows about every road

Before you ask for a route, Remap has already read every mapped road and path in the world and worked out what each stretch is like to ride or run:

  • Scenery: whether it runs along the coast, beside water, through a forest or a park, or through a quiet part of town.
  • Traffic: how much traffic it carries and how fast that traffic moves, modelled for every road, not only where traffic counts exist.
  • Comfort: bike lanes and separated paths, mapped cycle routes, surface, hills and lighting.

When you ask for a ride or a run, Remap joins the best of these stretches into a route that fits your distance or time. In Explore you choose the scenery you want more of, free: coastal, waterside, parks, forest, cycle networks or quiet streets, with only the kinds your area has on offer. Before you go, the route shows the scenery it passes along its elevation profile and flags any busy, fast or rough stretches.

Side-by-side comparison

Remap Komoot
Plan routes Free, without limits, by distance or by time: 10 to 200 km (5 to 125 miles) for rides, 2 to 30 km (1 to 20 miles) for runs (pricing) Free in your first region, “free, forever” (App Store)
Paid plan Remap Pro, $59.99 a year in the US, with a 7-day free trial (pricing) Komoot Premium, listed at $59.99, $7.99 and $4.99 on the US App Store (App Store); $4.99 a month per BikeRadar
More map regions None to buy: Remap uses mapped roads and trails worldwide (home page) World Pack $29.99, welcome offer $19.99 (App Store)
Sports Rides and runs, each with its own styles; no hiking mode Hiking, cycling and running (App Store)
Tune the routing Styles you refine: road comfort, speed limits, bike lanes, surfaces, hills, intersections, turns, ferries, traffic and lighting for rides; surfaces, turns and lighting for runs Sport type, plus duration and difficulty estimates for e-bikes (route planner guide)
Voice navigation Pro, in the iPhone app; turn tones stay free With a region, the World Pack or Premium (App Store)
Route that follows your direction as you ride Just Go, in Pro Replan on the go and resync (Komoot for Wahoo)
Offline maps None to download; Remap needs a data connection to plan Regions, World Pack or Premium (App Store)
Trips over several days Not offered Multi-day planner, Premium (Premium)
Wahoo Pro: rides come in, saved routes go out as courses (Wahoo) Planned routes and recordings sync (Komoot for Wahoo); “Watch & device navigation” is listed in Premium (shop)
Garmin No direct sync; export any route as a GPX file for a device that takes one (home page) Free komoot app for Garmin (Garmin); “Komoot map on Garmin” is Premium (Premium)
Account Not needed to plan; a free account, with Apple or Google, saves, shares and exports (Your account) “Sign up for free” (features)
Where it runs Web and iPhone (iOS 26 or later); navigation and recording are in the iPhone app; no Android or Apple Watch app (App Store) iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android (App Store, Premium)
Community No feed, followers or library of shared routes 45 million users (Premium)
Rating New on the App Store, with no US ratings yet (App Store) 4.7 from 9.5K ratings on the US App Store (App Store); 4.8 from more than 300k on Komoot’s site (Premium)

The real limits on both sides

Remap

  • Voice guidance, Just Go, Explore Focus, unlimited saves and Wahoo sync are Pro. Planning, GPX export, sharing by link and Bluetooth sensors stay free (Remap Pro, pricing).
  • A free account shows up to 3 saved routes and favourite activities. The rest are kept, not deleted, and come back with Pro. Recorded activities aren’t capped.
  • Remap Pro is sold on the web and in the iPhone app (Remap Pro).
  • Navigation and recording are in the iPhone app, which needs iOS 26 or later. The web plans routes, shows your history and exports GPX. There’s no Android or Apple Watch app.
  • There are no offline maps to download, so you need a data connection to plan a route.
  • Remap doesn’t import route files, and Wahoo is the only device it syncs with. Any other bike computer or watch takes a GPX file you export.
  • Courses you make in Wahoo don’t come into Remap. Older ELEMNT, BOLT and ROAM models keep only your latest course, and the older ELEMNT companion app doesn’t list Remap courses. Indoor workouts stay on Wahoo (Wahoo).
  • Wahoo sync pauses while you’re not on Pro (Wahoo).
  • A road you like can lose out when it’s busy, rough or steep for your style. Change the style, or report the road if it came out wrong.
  • There’s no hiking mode and no planner for trips over several days.

Komoot

  • Only your first region is free. More regions, offline maps and voice navigation come from single regions, region bundles or the World Pack, $29.99 (App Store).
  • Multi-day routes, weather on route, 3D maps, Live Tracking and the Komoot map on Garmin are Premium (Premium). So are heatmaps and “Watch & device navigation” (shop).
  • New users need an active Premium subscription, “currently £4.99 / $4.99 a month”, to sync routes to bike computers and watches (BikeRadar).
  • You place the start, end and waypoints yourself (route planner guide).
  • The iPhone app requires iOS 17.0 or later (App Store).

Who should pick which

Pick Remap if you:

  • Want the route built for you rather than drawn, from the roads around you.
  • Care how the roads feel: traffic, surfaces, hills, bike lanes and lighting, all set in your style.
  • Want more coast, water, forest or parks on your rides and runs.
  • Ride and run, and want each to keep its own style.
  • Ride with a Wahoo and want every saved route to arrive as a course (Pro).
  • Want to plan without an account or a subscription.

Pick Komoot if you:

  • Hike, or plan trips that last several days.
  • Need offline maps, for example riding abroad without signal.
  • Want routes synced straight to a Garmin.
  • Want routes and Highlights from a community of 45 million users.
  • Use Android. Remap runs on the web and iPhone.

How to move from Komoot to Remap

  1. Open Remap on the web or on iPhone. You don’t need an account to plan (Your account).
  2. Pick a style. In Explore, tap Style and choose the one closest to the Komoot sport type you used. Rides and runs keep their own styles (How routes pick roads).
  3. Refine it. On the web, open Style and choose Refine beside it; in the app, tap Style, then the edit button. Set surfaces, hills, traffic and the rest the way you liked your Komoot routes (How routes pick roads).
  4. Sign in to save. Sign in with Apple or Google to save routes and keep your history (Your account).
  5. Move your Wahoo over (Pro). In Remap, open Settings and connect Wahoo under Devices. Every route you save goes to your Wahoo as a course, and your recent Wahoo rides come in, back to the day before you joined Remap (Wahoo). Komoot’s connection lives in the Wahoo ELEMNT Companion app under Profile, then Connections (Komoot for Wahoo).
  6. Rebuild your favourite routes. Remap doesn’t import route files, so build them again in Remap from the same start.
  7. Tell us where a road comes out wrong. Choose Feedback at the bottom of the Explore panel on the web, or Settings, then Feedback, in the app (Report a road).
  8. Check what you’d give up before cancelling Komoot. Offline maps, the multi-day planner and the Komoot map on Garmin stay with Komoot Premium. Remap Pro can be cancelled any time (Remap Pro).

More comparisons

Sources

Komoot figures, each checked on 16 October 2026:

Remap figures, checked on 17 October 2026: the pricing page, the home page, our help pages, the App Store listing (no ratings yet in the US; requires iOS 26.0 or later) and the Remap apps themselves. Remap makes Remap. Corrections are welcome at the address on our support page.

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