Visorando helps find curated route ideas and turn your smartphone into a recreational GPS, even offline.
Millions of people use the mobile app to explore paths worldwide.
📂 A WIDE CHOICE OF ROUTES
Find routes all over the United Kingdom, matching your own needs for free - whether it's a hike in the mountains or a stroll in the countryside, along the coast, into the woods or even in the city-even abroad. From a family walk to a strenuous hike, for a ramble on your doorstep or your next holidays, find what suits you best! Walk or cycle, choose your own activity depending on your location, the level and the duration you wish.
Each route sheet includes an OpenStreetmap map, a GPX, a step-by-step description, length, elevation gain, maximum and minimum altitudes, elevation chart, points of interests, level, weather forecast, and depending on user's contribution photos and reviews.
Find more than 26,000 curated routes available worldwide (more than 3,500 of which in English).
🗺️ LOCATE YOURSELF ON THE MAP AND LET BE GUIDED, EVEN OFFLINE
When you find the right itinerary, download it offline before leaving, then press the start button to follow the route. The GPS app will guide you even off the grid. You will be able to see your live location and your real time progress on the map. If you go off-track, an alert will warn you.
While moving, the actual route is recorded so afterwards you can share it, analyze it, compare it with the one plotted or simply walk it again later.
📱 PLOT AND RECORD YOUR OWN CUSTOMIZED ROUTE
Doesn't any of the route suits you? No worries, you can:
- Plot your own route, thanks to our route planner available for free from your laptop via our website (and from your mobile phone if you subscribed to Visorando Premium). When your route is saved on your computer, an automatic synchronization allows you to find it over all your devices (mobile phone, tablet) where you are connected with your Visorando account.
- Record a live route and follow your progress on the map (distance, duration, elevation gain, etc.). If you lose
yourself, you will be able to find your way back by following the route you just recorded.
- Import a GPX file
⭐ VISORANDO PREMIUM: Premium subscription to explore even further
We offer Premium Visorando during a 3 days trial period when you first register on the app. Then, you can subscribe for £5/month or £21/year.
Visorando Premium give you access to several add-on features such as:
- Access a collection of licensed topographic maps from your mobile phone: OS Explorer, IGN France, Swisstopo Switzerland, Belgium and Spain.
- Share you live position to reassure your loved ones
- Hour per hour, detailed weather forecast of your route
- Organize and create files to keep your routes in order
- And many more…
Manage your subscription and choose if you wish to have it automatically renewed or not.
⭐ OS EXPLORER MAPS: the reference for any outdoor lover
Users who subscribe to Visorando Premium have access to the OS Explorer maps 1:25,000 scale on mobile phone: it allows to precisely visualize, elevation, contours, details related to the terrain. It also offers much information related to tourist and leisure activities, and gather national trails and other public right of ways.
🚶 A QUALITATIVE CONTENT
Visorando is a participatory platform and community where anyone is welcome to share his/her own route. To ensure the quality of the route published, each submitted one goes through a process composed by several steps, where it is checked and edited by a team of volunteers and agreed with the author, before being published.
📖 MANUAL
A manual to help you use the mobile app is available here: https://www.visorando.com/en-gb/article-user-guide-how-to-use-the-app-visorando.html
- Reports: During a walk, you can now report events on your route to the community. These reports are collaborative
- Elevation source during the walk: You can now choose between GPS elevations or the elevations of the Digital Elevation Model
- Add popup to inform if too many downloaded maps
- Fix orientation bug in some situations
- Fix deeplinks issue on forum / rating links
- Reports: During a walk, you can now report events on your route to the community. These reports are collaborative
- Elevation source during the walk: You can now choose between GPS elevations or the elevations of the Digital Elevation Model
- Add popup to inform if too many downloaded maps
- Fix orientation bug in some situations
- Fix deeplinks issue on forum / rating links
- Reports: During a walk, you can now report events on your route (obstacles, technical passages, animals, risks...) to the community. These reports are collaborative, so you'll also find reports from other users.
- Elevation source during the walk: You can now choose between GPS elevations or the elevations of the Digital Elevation Model to be used on your current route.
- Fix deeplinks issue on forum / rating links
- Reports: During a walk, you can now report events on your route (obstacles, technical passages, animals, risks...) to the community. These reports are collaborative, so you'll also find reports from other users.
- Elevation source during the walk: You can now choose between GPS elevations or the elevations of the Digital Elevation Model to be used on your current route.
- Reports: During a walk, you can now report events on your route (obstacles, technical passages, animals, risks...) to the community. These reports are collaborative, so you'll also find reports from other users.
- Elevation source during the walk: You can now choose between GPS elevations or the elevations of the Digital Elevation Model to be used on your current route.
➡️ Improved design of the application's main menu
➡️ Better sync system of tracks
➡️ Added ability to apply geoid value to altitude
➡️ Added ability to view all maps already downloaded
➡️ Check battery saver
➡️ Added the ability to search a location on planner software
➡️ Fix units bug
➡️ Add popup to explain location permission requirement
Great walks ??⛰️☀️
➡️ Improved design of the application's main menu
➡️ Better sync system of tracks
➡️ Added ability to apply geoid value to altitude
➡️ Added ability to view all maps already downloaded
➡️ Check battery saver
➡️ Added the ability to search a location on planner software
➡️ Fix units bug
➡️ Corrections and other improvements
Great walks ??⛰️☀️
➡️ Improved design of the application's main menu
➡️ Better sync system of tracks
➡️ Added ability to apply geoid value to altitude
➡️ Added ability to view all maps already downloaded
➡️ Check battery saver
➡️ Added the ability to search a location on planner software
➡️ Fix units bug
➡️ Corrections and other improvements
Great walks ??⛰️☀️
➡️ Fix issue on wrong units in hike details / search / ...
➡️ New login and register screens
➡️ Ability to connect via Google / Facebook / Apple
➡️ New optimized interface for navigation on bike walks
➡️ Add arrows to indicate direction of a walk
➡️ Better downloads management
➡️ Add Map legend for OS Explorer maps
➡️ Various bug fixes
Enjoy summer walking ??⛰️☀️
➡️ New login and register screens
➡️ Ability to connect via Google / Facebook / Apple
➡️ New optimized interface for navigation on bike walks
➡️ Add arrows to indicate direction of a walk
➡️ Better downloads management
➡️ Fix wrong unit for UK users
➡️ Add Map legend for OS Explorer maps
➡️ Various bug fixes
Enjoy summer walking ??⛰️☀️
➡️ Add arrows to indicate direction of a walk
➡️ Better downloads management
➡️ Fix wrong unit for UK users
➡️ Add Map legend for OS Explorer maps
➡️ Various bug fixes
Enjoy summer walking ??⛰️☀️
? Improvements on hike or walk information grid
? New popups to disable battery optimizations, available in app settings
? Better map orientation chosen system
? Update translations
? Other bug fixes
Enjoy walking ?↗️⛰️
➡️ Position / Map screen: Improvements on Information grid
➡️ New popups to disable battery optimizations, available in app settings
➡️ Fix GPX files that not downloaded on some devices
➡️ Support for new walks sharing links
➡️ Fix green button "^" that disappears in some cases
➡️ Other bug fixes
Enjoy walking ⛰️?️
➡️ Position / Map screen: Improvements on Information grid
➡️ New popups to disable battery optimizations, available in app settings
➡️ Support for new walks sharing links
➡️ Other bug fixes
Enjoy walking ⛰️?️
Thanks to your feedbacks, we worked again on the screen related to offline walks and maps making it more understandable for everyone.
You will now find 2 tabs: WALKS / MAPS including lists of offline walks or maps. This screen is accessible from the screen 'Position / Map'; 'My tracks'; 'Walk details'
By clicking on a downloaded walk, you will directly access it.
In some cases, you will have to download some maps again.
Enjoy your autumn walks ⛰️☀️
- You can now update your search results using the "Search here" button as you move the map on the search results screen
- Improvement of external links management which open a walk in the app
☀️? Happy walks!
- Various fixes in the management of folder synchronization
- Added author types in hike search results
- Changed subscription popup for UK users
- Fixed "Forgot password" link for German and English users
- Updated Android libraries
- Miscellaneous
fixes - Specific fixes for smartphones running Android 6.0
☀️? Happy hiking!
- User profile unit support for scale bar on map screens
- Fixed a bug related to hiking reviews not appearing under certain conditions
New map download manager:
- The area to be downloaded is now more visual with a selection square
- Addition of a list to view the different areas of maps downloaded with the possibility of deleting or renaming an area
For a quick download, select a small area and connect to a WIFI network. Downloads take more or less time depending on the zoom level / the quality of the internet connection.
Beautiful hikes :)
- GPS optimizations for Android 12 support
- Optimizations of the synchronization of folders and tracks
- Addition of sorting filters for the display in the list of user tracks
- Correction of editing mode on the plotting software
- Bug correction of base maps on the search results screen
If you have any problems on Android 12, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Fixed the bug that prevented a GPX from downloading to its track folders
Better management of base maps following the new single subscription allowing access to all topographic base maps as well as the functionalities of the Visorando club.
Good hikes to all.
- Support for the new single subscription grouping together IGN base maps and Club Visorando functionalities
- Various fixes on the
Good Hikes base maps
- Support for the new single subscription grouping together IGN base maps and Club Visorando functionalities
- Various fixes
Good hikes
The units in the app are now the same as on your Visorando profile and are therefore no longer linked to the language of the smartphone.
To modify them, go to the Visorando website then to the "Software Settings" page.
Good hikes!
Good morning!
Several improvements and corrections on this update:
- Management of imperial units
- Addition of the possibility of editing a trace via the tracing software
- Better management of the zoom on the tracing software when the "auto" mode is activated
- Improved display of popups on tablet
- Better management of the loading of the hikes during a search
- Better management of the synchro of the tracks
- Various fixes and improvements
Happy hikes to all!
Various bug fixes following your feedback. Thank you and good hikes!
Various bug fixes following your feedback. Thank you and good hikes!
Better management of background map downloads
Various optimizations and corrections
- Test position sharing now via the Club Visorando trial (Go to visorando.com to activate your Club trial)
- Addition of the hiker charter in the "Help" section
Various corrections:
- During a track recording and after a pause, the track did not systematically resume on some smartphones. Now corrected.
- Better management of the round position point (blue when a position is found and active, gray if it is not precise or not defined)
- Correction of the default zoom of the map on the form of a hike
New Club Visorando subscription: Enjoy exclusive advantages such as real-time location sharing with your loved ones during your outings. Go hiking with peace of mind!
Optimization of the location search
Addition of subscriptions to OS Explorer maps (United Kingdom)
Improvement of the map recording screen (hike files)
Recordings exceeding 20 hours completed automatically
Addition of minimum and maximum altitudes on the altimetric profile of the hikes
Bug fixes
Better readability of the data in the Record Summary grid and the hiking sheets
Adjusted the frequency of appearance of IGN pop-ups in search results
Fixed a bug when viewing recorded maps via the screen Position / Map
Better readability of the data in the Record Summary grid and hiking sheets
Adjustment of the frequency of appearance of IGN pop-ups in search results
Correction of a bug when consulting recorded maps via Position / Map screen
Addition of the opening of links (urls) of hiking files copied from the website
Opening of the default mailbox after successful registration
Correction of a bug refocusing the hike on the map after consulting the Reviews
Correction of a display bug of pop-ups presenting offers from IGN maps
Correction of minor bugs
Improved button layout on maps
Added popup that detects battery optimizations (for Samsung & Huawei)
Fixed a bug when opening links by the application
Shop: addition of subscriptions to IGN TOPO Belgium maps
Settings> Base map: new choice "IGN TOPO (Belgium), selected by default for devices whose language is configured as" French (Belgium) ". This does not apply if the default basemap has already been manually changed.
Possibility of defining a corrective value for the altitude of the GPS (Parameters screen)
Possibility to identify yourself in the app via the link validating the registration
Full screen mode / Split screen by simply clicking on the map
North map at the top by clicking on the simple tracking
Addition of the average speed in the summary grid
New choice of default base map: OMS bike
Simplification of the recording of maps in Position / Map
Reinforcement of the recording of tracks
Various fixes
Addition of tabs on the search page
Addition of start / end buttons on the map (trail monitoring)
Management of favorites directly in the lists (via a click on the star)
Removal of the inefficient search by title
Removal of the automatic map saving when setting favorite
Change of date format
Correction of various bugs
Maps of hiking files and recording in full screen by default
Addition of the date of personal hikes in the lists and in the details of the sheets
Increased readability of the map buttons
Correction of a bug when launching the recording of tracks
Before updating from a version 2.xx of the app:
- Synchronize your data so as not to lose them (requires a Visorando account).
- Cards saved with the old version will no longer be accessible, so you can clear the cache from the app settings.
- Make your SD card the default memory of your device to store the maps saved with the new version.
After update:
- Do not forget to re-identify yourself to find your data.
Lots of new features in this version!
Advice before installation:
- After updating, you will have to identify yourself again: remember to synchronize your data so as not to lose them (requires a Visorando account).
- Cards saved with the old version will no longer be accessible, so you can clear the cache from the app settings.
- Make your SD card the default memory of your device to be able to store maps saved with the new version.
Textual correction
Popup of attendance replaced by a clickable icon (plot)
Improved maintenance of the recording of traces
Fixed a crash when launching a track
Addition of a perimeter generation tool on the "Position / Map" and "Start a track" maps.
The default radius is 1km, corresponding to that authorized under national confinement.
Change of access to IGN maps for devices with Android 4.4 (Kitkat)
Correction of the choice of applications installed using "Go to start" for devices running Android 5.1 (Lollipop)
Modification of urls for return to visorando.com
Correction of a bug causing some old devices to crash when launching the application
English version (automatic depending on the language of the device)
Addition of details of the elements in the cache management
Change of the display format of the durations in "My Tracks"
Maximum distance interval (between 2 recorded points) increased to 200m instead 500m
Various small improvements to the interface and textual content
Various bug fixes
Fixed various bugs that could cause crashes
Corrected access to IGN Maps for devices running Android Kitkat and earlier
Adding MAPS.ME to the choice of navigation applications (Go to start)
Adaptation of the bird's-eye distance unit in the results list
Moved the app's rating popup
Bug fixes for display and data in the hike summary page.
Showing the difficulty of the hikes in the list of results
Modification of the Summary tab on the hiking sheets:
- Grouping altitudes and elevations
- Difficulty display
- Guiding to the starting point (works with Google Maps and Waze)
RGPD compliance
Baseball setup bug fix
Correction of the error in the price of the quarterly IGN offer
Classification of traces reviewed Window to disable the power saving mode Fixed ride sharing Changing the move icon to make it more discreet
Several problems have been fixed, especially when recording a trace. The 'GPS Accuracy' setting has been removed. IGN licenses are evolving: now the cache is unlimited, even without the additional cache option. Cache management has been reviewed. There are now two caching modes: - by zone as before - simply by consulting the map It is possible to specify the zoom level cached. And it is also possible to view the tiles in cache.
IGN key update
Fixed various bugs Establishment of the Copyright IGN - 2016 label on the IGN basemap.