Best app with maps for the camino frances

[GFinch]

Hi everyone,

Finally after months of planning the time is drawing near. I embark on my very first stretch of the camino in 5 days time. I am feeling apprehensive and wondering if I will be able to do this...My training has not gone according to plan and I am hoping that stamina, good food and the fresh Galician air will be enough to give me wings.

I would like to ask seasoned walkers out there if there is a mobile phone app that they have used to walk the camino that they would recommend? I would like to have a map on my phone and I am hoping that the app will also point out the churches or other places of interest that are near the routes. I will be walking from Sarria to Santiago.

Thank you.

 

[trecile]

I really liked the Editorial Buen Camino app. The app is free, but each route guide costs a few Euros/dollars. The website is in Spanish, but you choose your own language for the app. It has offline mapping which enables you to see where you are on the trail at all times. Or, if you have strayed off the trail you can find the roads to put you back on it. It also lists all the albergues and some pensiones.

 

[Sparrow in Texas]

A brief reading of the website makes it appear that the app is updated frequently, perhaps even daily. For those who have used this app, does it tend to use a lot of data?

 

[trecile]

A brief reading of the website makes it appear that the app is updated frequently, perhaps even daily. For those who have used this app, does it tend to use a lot of data?

You download the guides so that you can use them offline.
When you connect via wifi or data the app will update.

 

[GFinch]

I really liked the Editorial Buen Camino app. The app is free, but each route guide costs a few Euros/dollars. The website is in Spanish, but you choose your own language for the app. It has offline mapping which enables you to see where you are on the trail at all times. Or, if you have strayed off the trail you can find the roads to put you back on it. It also lists all the albergues and some pensiones.

Thank you trecile, much appreciated

 

[Syncro]

Last year I brought a weighty Camino book but I had also downloaded TrekRight. Day 3, I ditched the book and just used the app which works great without cell service. It has every essential thing you need from distance between towns, albergues, gps, etc. I plan to use it again this year and skip the guide book. I swear, every ounce counts on the Camino and ditching my guide book made all the difference for me.

 

[trecile]

I used TrekRight for my first two Caminos, but I found the Buen Camino app to be superior.

 

[Syncro]

I used TrekRight for my first two Caminos, but I found the Buen Camino app to be superior.

Good to know!

 

[GFinch]

Last year I brought a weighty Camino book but I had also downloaded TrekRight. Day 3, I ditched the book and just used the app which works great without cell service. It has every essential thing you need from distance between towns, albergues, gps, etc. I plan to use it again this year and skip the guide book. I swear, every ounce counts on the Camino and ditching my guide book made all the difference for me.

Thank you for sharing

 

[Mark McCarthy]

I really like the MAPS.ME app which is completely free and the maps can be downloaded before you go. It has got the Camino Frances trail built in. https://play.google.com/store/apps/...er=mt_click_id=mt-xuhg85-1535819352-472097361

 

[Ungawawa]

I've just written a long article comparing the four most popular apps, which you can read here:
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...f-some-of-the-most-popular.58398/#post-669692

But the short answer is: for maps of the Camino Frances the best is Guthook Guides, and the worst was Wise Pilgrim. My opinions only, of course, but backed up by lots of reasons, if you read the full reviews.

 

[GFinch]

Hi H Richards,

I ended up using the buen camino, I found it very useful. Thanks for sharing

 

[Ungawawa]

Hi H Richards,

I ended up using the buen camino, I found it very useful. Thanks for sharing

It's a great all-rounder

 

[Xali1970]

AlpineQuest.
Full Version has multiple layers with hiking trails across the world, including the camino(s).

 

[JabbaPapa]

For Windows, there's a Czech app called Mapy.cz which is truly excellent -- if that same app existed for Apple and/or Android, it would certainly be my go-to, if I used such non-Windows devices ; and it would seem that yes it does.

It seems to map every single waymarked pilgrim route, even the most secondary, throughout the whole of Europe, plus what seems like all other officially waymarked hiking routes.

It will be of massive usefulness during my forthcoming crazy home-to-home pilgrimage in the first half of 2019 ...

Oh, and it's 100% free, at least in Windows ...

My mobile version is in Czech, but the desktop is in English, and I'd suspect that the Android and Apple mobile versions have also been made into English. But the Czech doesn't matter, because the essential map function is completely language-free, relying on map icons to provide the user with the desired info, including locations of churches and monuments and other notable sights ...