Gaia GPS: Offroad Hiking Maps

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3.1
19K reviews
1M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Plan trips and stay safer in the woods, with Gaia GPS.

Join hundreds of thousands of backpackers, hunters, offroaders, mountain bikers, backcountry skiers, firefighters, guides, and other serious outdoor adventurers and professionals that use Gaia GPS for work and play. Hike, hunt, and offroad with the best topo maps and outdoor navigation tools.

►► The Best App for Topo Maps

Gaia GPS has been showcased in Apple's "Your Verse" stories, and covered in countless major publications, from Outside and TrailRunner, to the New York Times and FOX News TappedIn.

The name Gaia (guy-yuh) comes from Greek mythology - she is the Goddess of the Earth, or Mother Nature.

►► Maps

• view easy-to-read, modern maps, with fast and beautiful rendering

• explore historic and classic print maps (NRCan, USGS, USFS, IGN)

• download worldwide topo, road, and satellite maps

• search for hiking trails, parks, natural places, and addresses, and tap features on Gaia Topo to get more info

►► Sync and Back-up

• sync your tracks, photos, maps, and waypoints to all of your devices

• keep your data backed up, effortlessly

• share trip plans, and collaborate on shared folders

►► Map Tools

• record tracks, waypoints, and take geo-tagged photos

• import and export GPX and KML files

• customize coordinates types (Decimal, Degrees/Minutes/Seconds, Degrees - Decimal Minutes, UTM, and MGRS)

►► Membership Levels

Free Level - You can use Gaia GPS for free. You'll be limited to the default map source, and you won't be able to download maps for offline use.

Member Level - As a Member, you can download a worldwide catalog of topo, road, and satellite maps.

Premium Member Level - As a Premium Member, you also get access to these map sources:

• NatGeo Trails Illustrated
• ESRI World Satellite Imagery
• France IGN
• SwissTopo
• US Private Land Ownership (owners and addresses for parcels)
• US Hunting Layers, including GMUs, public land, and fires
• US NeoTreks Topo
• US Motor Vehicle Use Maps (MVUM)
• Hill-shading, contour lines, slope angle, and other overlays
Updated on
Apr 24, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.0
18K reviews
John Seiler
February 27, 2025
This used to be a good app. I am a premium member, and I can not log in anymore. I have contacted support. They are asking for a screenshot shot of my account. Every time I send it in, they block the image and tell me the email was empty. They just keep sending me the same email asking for a screenshot of my account. Broken record. Support tells me my account does not exist, but if I try to recreate the account the app says my account exists. Such a shame.
45 people found this review helpful
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Outside, Inc.
February 28, 2025
We apologize for any inconvenience. We’ve already responded to your inquiry. Please reply to the ticket for us to further assist you. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Max Molello
January 21, 2025
Welp, see ya later. Sad to see it go from 5 stars to 1. This used to be my favorite apps and one of the most valuable. Now I can't even trust it to work online, let alone offline where I truly depend on it in the backcountry. Random sign outs, login prompts, maps won't load, more and more behind pay walls. I feel bad for recommending it to so many people in the past. Way to ruin the best phone maps ever.
89 people found this review helpful
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Outside, Inc.
January 22, 2025
Thanks for your feedback. We’d like to know the details of the problem you mentioned. Please send the details or screenshot to https://help.gaiagps.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. We'll pass it along to our development team and see if there is any way we can improve it.
Leaning Towards
August 31, 2024
The new login is useless. Who/what is Outside? I've never heard of them, have no need for them, and I thought the app had been hacked. What's wrong with logging into the app itself? Just creating needless problems and confusion. I can't find a function on the map to center where I am now. Every other map-based app does, why not this one? I won't be renewing my subscription when it comes up next week.
98 people found this review helpful
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Outside, Inc.
September 2, 2024
This doesn't seem right. We want to take a closer look at this for you. Please send a note to https://help.gaiagps.com/hc/en-us/requests/new so we can connect.

What’s new

This one's a mixed bag of fixes and tweaks!
- Trail guides now come with a proper disclaimer — no surprises here!
- Toyota icons are back to full strength. No more ghost icons.
- Track privacy now actually saves (what a concept!).
- "Delete" is now "Archive" — less scary, same effect.

Happy adventuring!