Gaia GPS Classic App Reviews

Ive used the program for 3 months now and it has worked great.

Ill admit, Im not a big fan of where the whole i-generation is moving. If I never sent a text again and Id feel better for it. In fact, if I could get away with it, Id toss my iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro, and even my watch into the river, but then youd call me i-unemployed. Id rather be wandering through the woods on some new adventure than asking Siri to guide me to the closest Starbucks. I take that back...Id toss everything except my iPhone with Gaia installed. The combo rocks, especially now that you can use the iPhones GPS receiver in airplane mode. If youre considering buying a new handheld GPS device, reconsider. Gaia does it all and then some. Like I said, Id rather be wandering through the woods...but knowing exactly where Im wandering makes it all the better. If I lost my iPhone today, Id have a replacement in hand tomorrow, if for no other reason than Id want my Gaia back. What more is there to say?

Finally a mapping app that isnt a hassle!!!

Ive been using this in my Side X Side on an iPad mini 4 and it has been great. Its one of the easiest I have found to save offline maps with too. Very happy with this app.

I use several mapping and navigation apps for hiking. Gaia is by far the most useful because of the broad base of map files that can be downloaded and saved offline.

I have been using this app every day for a few years to track walks, jogging, skiing and hiking. Couldn’t do without it. I appreciate the developers excellent support, just keeps getting better! Easily worth the price just for the downloadable maps!

I travel in places with absolutely no cell service and this app is fantastic in those areas. The variety of maps that can be used is useful. Worth the money.

Who needs a GPS when you have the Gaia app! Best money Ive ever spent on a app!

My go to mapping app; I love it. I use it for reference and browsing, and in the air; I do not hike with it. Features that I particularly like: Works with external GPS (Dual) Imports/exports gpx files Shows track statistics Easy to switch between multiple really cool base maps (historic, satellite image, VFR charts) Download maps so you dont need a network There are some interface issues, particularly with saving tracks and arranging them in folders, that are not obvious and that I have not pursued.

my goto app for mountain biking and hiking. excellent for people who do solo. Navigation is a breeze, its as accurate as garmin unit as long as your using iPhones with barometric sensor such as iPhone 6 and on.

If I can use it anyone can !!!

I have been using GaiaGPS for a year to map my mule riding trail adventures for my blog muletrail.com. Using a Mophie battery to extend time, my iPhone makes the track & I can simultaneously photograph the excursion. I find this the best of the many GOS tracking programs I have experimented with. It is reliable, accurate, and interfaces easily with GoogleMaps. I recommend GaiaGPS to all my equestrian friends.

App freezes when trying to load downloaded maps. Have to restart phone to reset app. Cool features if it worked. Initially, after a couple of weeks they fixed it. When it works, it works wonderfully. I would recommend it when it is working to anyone. Awesome for back country snowmobiling and skiing.

Accurate and user friendly. Tested next to my Garmin Oregon and it performed well. It does drain the iPhone battery, so if you use this as your sole navigation tool on multi day treks I would recommend a quality solar charger for the phone.

Feature rich, but crashes, interface is buggy. Occasionally loses data during crashes. Great app when not frustrating you to death. App MUST stay open & in front while downloading maps (very slow, do overnight). Offline mapping is such a great capability. If my fav iHikeGPS supported more non-USA Topo maps I never would have discovered GAIA gps. But I was headed for an offroad Baja Mexico trip (Dec 2015) and had to look elsewhere for offline topo maps. I used the free open hiking maps even though this was mostly a driving trip. iPhone 4S was in airplane mode with wifi turned on; which saves battery by disabling cellular (none there anyway) but lets GPS work. Because I bought & brought & used Gaia gps the entire trip, I felt confident and did not worry about being lost. That is fantastic, whether you have a good sense of direction or not. It is fun & useful adding notes & photos to waypoints. In use Gaia is mostly good to great. Mostly. I had numerous problems with the app crashing (several times a day), so I learned not to do certain things. Such as; First save your route without any changes, then come back and edit the name later. I lost a couple of track logs learning this because the app crashed as I edited the unsaved track name. :-( Do not tap on the icon of multiple way points or the app may crash. Instead zoom in until you can tap just 1 waypoint. Taking an in app photo may crash it. To be fair, I saw that problem with other apps too. I was running iOS 8.4.1 on an iPhone4S during that dec 2015 Baja trip. I have iPhone 6S now, iOS 9.1.x. Tapping into a waypoint may kill the menu bar. Difficult (but usually possible if you keep trying everything) to return from that menu-less screen without force-quitting the app. Even with all of these problems, I mostly enjoyed using GAIA (when it wasnt crashing) for both motorized travel, day hikes, and short walks. It has so many awesome features. I did not import custom maps, but I am excited about that feature & looking forward to doing that. I really hope the GAIA GPS Dev team makes a better effort to achieve more solid code & interface details, because that is all that is between them and a really super awesome app that I could recommend highly.

All the superlatives in recent reviews are so well deserved. Every iPhone user could benefit from app to make your iPhone so much more fun and useful. It just needs GPS - no cellular or WiFi signals needed. Last week easily tracked my flight from Atlanta to Sacramento and I could identify the national parks, cites, towns, etc. visible from my window seat. Also continually shows exact altitude and speed of aircraft, etc. Using it walking and hiking is really motivating - can see exactly where you walked and track distance, exact elevation - accurate to 1/100th of a foot in comparison to a surveyors stake I saw on walk yesterday. Buy it and dont look back.

Iphone GPS chip is pretty comparable to the handheld gps units ive had (Garmin) in california mountains with no cell reception, so I see no advantage to using a separate GPS unit when you ready have a smartphone you will be carrying, and which has a much, much better screen. Gaia enables this with a very good interface and great topo maps, and you spend $20 instead of $400+ (because of Garmins monopoly in the standalone gps space). Wonderful product and what tech innovation is all about!

Ive been using this app for a couple years now. I returned today to leave a review because they just redid their website and - well - its awesome. You can publish your tracks along with photos of your hikes and they display on the map. You can share a link to show friends and they can see exactly what/when/where youre talking about. The developers and front end team have really pulled off an amazing user experience. Well done (Im a front end developer and avid hiker so I can really appreciate the work theyve put into this app). Thanks.

This app is great! Super useful for any backcountry enthusiast. Very simple and fairly quick to map. I highly encourage this app for anyone who wants to adventure and be efficient in the backcountry.

I have been using this app all around the world. Great offline terrain navigation, and even urban to a certain extent. Love the different layers! We hike, we bike, we orient and pin our urban locations for general reference. Countries visited and hiked using Gaia: Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Ecuador (including the Galapagos), Colombia, and all around the USA.