Garmin Explore™

Garmin Explore™

By Garmin

  • Category: Navigation
  • Release Date: 2018-10-15
  • Current Version: 4.3.1
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 304.94 MB
  • Developer: Garmin
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
Score: 3.7
3.79928
From 558 Ratings
Free On itunes

Description

OFF-GRID NAVIGATION When paired with your compatible Garmin device(1), the Garmin Explore app lets you use your mobile device for outdoor navigation, trip planning, mapping and more — with or without Wi-Fi® connectivity or cellular service. SEARCH TOOL Easily locate geographic points — such as trailheads or mountain summits — associated with your adventure. STREAMING MAPS For pre-trip planning, you can use the Garmin Explore app to stream maps when you’re within cellular or Wi-Fi range — saving valuable time as well as storage space on your mobile device. Download maps for offline use when venturing outside cellular range. PAIR, SYNC AND SHARE With Garmin Explore, you can pair your smartphone or tablet with your compatible Garmin device to sync and share data for off-grid adventures. Use downloadable maps for navigation anywhere. EASY TRIP PLANNING Plan your next trip by downloading maps and creating courses. Specify your start and finish points, and automatically create a course you can sync with your compatible Garmin device. ACTIVITY LIBRARY Under the Saved tab, review and edit your organized data, including your saved waypoints, tracks, courses and activities. See map thumbnails to easily recognize your trips. SAVED COLLECTIONS The collections list allows you to quickly find all data related to any trip — making it easy to sort and locate the course or location you’re looking for. CLOUD STORAGE The waypoints, courses and activities you’ve created will automatically sync to your Garmin Explore web account when you’re within cellular or Wi-Fi range, preserving your activity data with cloud storage. A Garmin account is required for storing your data in the cloud. LIVETRACK™ With the use of the LiveTrack™ feature, loved ones can follow your location in real time(2) and see data such as distance, time and elevation. 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. When used with your compatible smartphone and the Garmin Explore® app or when used with your compatible inReach-enabled Garmin device. 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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Reviews

  • Overlander sync

    5
    By Shiuski
    Working well!

  • Counterintuitive, but slowly improving.

    2
    By janetito_2
    I use explore strictly to transfer waypoints and courses drawn on my phone to my Garmin while offline. I am grateful to be able to do this offline, but wish that Explore were more intuitive for this purpose. Explore has “collections” which isn’t very intuitive for my purposes. Meanwhile, when I go to sync, I have two options: Sync everything or sync a specific collection. What I would like to do is to just add a new waypoint or course to my device after I draw it. The problem is that I can either “sync everything” (which takes half an hour because then we have activities and other stuff syncing that I don’t need to sync (that is what Garmin Connect is for)… or I can sync a “collection”. Unfortunately, the process of organizing your collections to sync is quite tedious. For example, if you check the new course to be uploaded but forget to check the other ones that were already on your device, the app will delete all of your old waypoints from the device! Now, they have renamed collections to “saved” which is better from a nomenclature standpoint, but if all you want to do is get a course or waypoint transferred to your device, it is still too many steps. Perhaps there is another use case for this app, and it performs well for that purpose? For my purposes, it is klunky. There is a ConnectIQ app called grouteloader that is also super klunky, but it actually works better for this purpose. I hope that Garmin will eventually either improve Explore or write a standalone app that makes transferring waypoints and courses to the device a swift and easy process.

  • Not that great!

    3
    By RJHiking
    My saved waypoints keep disappearing from my collections and I have to constantly put them back. I've had a couple saved collections just disappear. Offline maps is slow and not all waypoints display. I've had to use ONX Hunt last few times we hiked in an area with no cell coverage. ONX Hunt is much better and similar in price. Until bugs are worked out on this app we will not be using it.

  • Used to be great

    1
    By Sad Runner 5Ever
    This app used to be AMAZING. You could seamlessly make a map and transfer it to your Garmin device. This was particularly useful in the backcountry for navigation purposes, and great for planning trail runs. With the updated app, it is near impossible to create the routes that I once could create with ease. When you click on a point to route along a trail, the app creates some awful 21.7 mile route between two points on a map that are only a quarter of a mile apart. As much as I’ve tried, I can’t get it to cooperate. While you may disable the “snap to route” feature and make manual points, this is tedious and the mileage is generally off. Garmin, please restore Explore to its former glory.

  • Opens then closes

    1
    By OBrien.33
    Unusable after the last update. Once I click on it to open, I see the map for a quick second then it automatically closes. No way of getting the info from my Alpha 300 to my phone now.

  • Doesn’t work

    1
    By ljslonghorn
    I was using the app with my alpha 309i but this past month it won’t stay open I have redownloaded it several x but you click the app and it pops up then vanishes . It used to work fine now just nothing.

  • Could be better

    3
    By just_some_person
    New map system has up to date data. Method of saving offline maps is pretty janky. Also. Should have ability to toggle on and off features -businesses -trails -“trees” Would be nice to force trails (or other features) to populate regardless of zoom level. Let user toggle things off if it’s too busy. Also, would be really nice to trim events like in Garmin Connect. I get so frustrated when my hike has a 20 mile car ride home at the end because I spaced on stopping my watch.

  • App Crashes with my Tactix® 8 – 47 mm

    1
    By Dudley Rodriguez
    This app never crashed with my Instinct 2. Now that I upgraded to a Tactix® 8 – 47 mm, and I sync the watch with Garmin Explore, the app crashes and doesn’t do anything and freezes. Does anyone have the same issue with Tactix® 8 – 47 mm?

  • Explorer is awesome

    5
    By Bowhuntermike
    Love it

  • Crashing

    3
    By JacksonC33
    Worked fine for a while now it crashes everytime I open the app. Even after I deleted it and downloaded again after I BT my alpha 200i to it, it crashes. Also needs a way to delete all tracks at once.

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