Trace Your Path.
Find Your Roots.

Advanced routing for gravel, road, trail, and on-foot adventures. Analyze surfaces, check elevation, monitor wind and weather, sketch straight lines, or build multi-day trips—all in one place.

Beta Europe only  ·  Active development — rough edges expected
Tired of planning? Get inspired on JustGo

Powerful Route Intelligence

rooot combines routing precision with environmental data to help you plan the perfect ride, run, hike, trek, or staged trip.

Smart Routing

Powered by BRouter and OpenStreetMap data — precise routing optimised for every activity profile.

Surface Analysis

Know what's under your tires. Visualize paved vs. unpaved sections.

Interactive Elevation

Synchronized elevation profiles with route-aware weather and wind overlays to anticipate every climb.

Weather Integration

Check forecast, precipitation, and wind speed along your route with Open-Meteo data.

Straight Line & Multi-Day

Plan direct start-to-finish lines when you want raw bearing only, or split bigger adventures into multi-day stages.

rooot route planner interface showing elevation profile and surface analysis

Tailored for Your Motion

Dedicated cycling and on-foot profiles, straight-line mode, and assistance modes — pick the one that fits how you move

Cycling
On Foot
Community

Routes are Better Shared

rooot is more than a planner — it's a growing map of collective knowledge. Share routes, leave notes, discover hidden gems left by other riders and hikers, and turn individual routes into bigger staged journeys.

Share Any Route

Generate a link or QR code for any planned route — no account needed to view it.

Personal Highlights

Pin your own spots — viewpoints, water sources, cafés — and optionally share them with the community.

Notes & Ratings

Leave notes and star ratings on any point of interest. Photos welcome.

Tour Recordings

Record your rides and hikes, review stats, and export to GPX to keep your adventures logged.

Multi-Day Planning

Chain stages into bigger trips, keep days organized, and plan longer adventures from one shared overview.

Looking for inspiration?

Browse curated route packs on JustGo — our companion platform for discovering and sharing adventures across Europe.

Import & Export

Your Routes, Your Data

Bring your entire history from Komoot, Strava, or Garmin in one go — and export everything back out as a ZIP whenever you want. No lock-in.

Looking for an alternative to Komoot, AllTrails, Outdooractive, or Strava route planning?

rooot focuses on open map data, detailed route analysis, GPX ownership, and flexible planning for cycling, trekking, hiking, straight-line, and multi-day trips without locking your routes into one platform.

Komoot alternative AllTrails alternative Outdooractive alternative Strava route planner alternative
Komoot recommended

Komoot doesn't offer a built-in bulk GPX export, but the free open-source tool komoot-takeout downloads all your tours as GPX files in one go.

  1. Go to github.com/nevvkid/komoot-takeout
  2. Follow the instructions to download your tours as a ZIP
  3. Upload the ZIP to rooot
Strava

Request a full data export from Strava — activities are included as GPX or FIT files inside the ZIP.

  1. Open strava.com → Settings → My Account
  2. Click Download or Delete Your DataRequest Your Archive
  3. Download the ZIP when ready, upload to rooot
Any GPX Source

Works with Garmin, Wahoo, Hammerhead, Sigma, and any GPX-compatible device or app.

Upload individual .gpx files or a .zip containing multiple files — all imported directly into your route library.

Ready to switch?

Hundreds of routes imported in seconds. Drag, drop, done.

ZIP archives Individual GPX files Elevation & stats preserved Duplicates allowed
Create Free Account

Free account required to save routes.

Want to leave? Take everything.

Export all your saved routes as a single ZIP of GPX files — one click, no questions asked.

One ZIP, all routes Standard GPX format No lock-in
Export All GPX

Sign in to export your routes.

Powered by Open Source

Building on the shoulders of giants. rooot wouldn't be possible without these amazing projects.

We commit 20% of our revenue to financially support these open source initiatives — because great software deserves to be sustained.

OpenStreetMap

Valhalla

BRouter

OpenLayers

Overpass API

Nominatim

Django

Open-Meteo

Bootstrap

Chart.js

htmx

Flutter

PostgreSQL

Pricing

Free core planning. Simple support.

rooot stays usable for free. If you want to fund routing and hosting, support it with a Stripe-backed yearly contribution or a custom one-time beer-money amount.

Feature Overview

What you get for free vs supporter access

A public feature table on the landing page, so pricing and capability scope are visible before signup.

Full support overview
Feature Free Supporter
Route Planner Included Included
All Routing Profiles Included Included
Elevation & Analysis Included Included
Weather Overlay Included Included
GPX Import & Export Included Included
Sync (Web ↔ Mobile) Included Included
Collections & Favorites Included Included
Community Features Included Included
Multi-day Planning No Included
Group Live Position (Mobile) No Included
Map Add-ons (Cycling/Hiking/MTB) No Included
JustGo Route Generator 3/day Unlimited
Price Free CHF 15 / year

Support payments run through Stripe. If you want to say “hey cool dev keep on, I spend some beer”, you can choose your own amount on the support page.

Why support?

  • Keep rooot independent
  • Cover server & routing costs
  • No ads, no tracking, no bullshit
  • Fair pricing, no complex tiers
“Use it for free. Support it if you love it.”
rooot mobile
Android iOS — coming soon
Mobile App

Take rooot on the Road

The rooot mobile app is under active development — offline maps, turn-by-turn navigation, straight-line planning, and live recording are all in the works. An early Android APK is already available for testers.

  • Offline map tiles — in development
  • Turn-by-turn navigation
  • Straight-line planner mode
  • Route recording & GPX export
  • Multi-day trip flow — expanding
  • iOS — in development

APK download requires a free account.

FAQ

Common Questions

rooot is a free web-based outdoor route planner for cycling, gravel, MTB, bikepacking, trail running, jogging, trekking, hiking, and walking. It provides interactive elevation profiles, surface and way-type analysis, wind-aware weather forecasts along your route, straight-line planning, point-of-interest discovery, GPX export, and multi-day trip planning. An Android app with turn-by-turn navigation is also available.

Yes — the core rooot planner is free to use. Route planning, elevation analysis, weather integration, GPX import/export, sync, collections, and community features stay on the free tier. Supporter access currently unlocks multi-day trip planning and premium live group location. The support model is intentionally simple: a suggested Stripe-backed supporter contribution of CHF 15 / year, plus a custom one-time “beer money” amount if you just want to support development and routing costs.

Dedicated profiles for City Bike, Road Bike, Gravel, MTB, Bikepacking, Walking, Jogging, Trail Running, Hiking, and Trekking, plus a straight-line planning mode for direct start-to-finish routes. Assist modes overlay on top: E-Bike, S-Pedelec (up to 45 km/h), Stroller (step-free, avoids rough terrain), and Exoskeleton (enhanced hill and stair access).

Currently Europe. Map data comes from OpenStreetMap, routing from BRouter and Valhalla, and weather from Open-Meteo. More regions are planned. The app is in active beta development.

rooot uses BRouter as its primary routing engine — specialised for bicycle and pedestrian routing on OpenStreetMap data. Valhalla provides surface and way-type segment analysis. Elevation data is overlaid to show climbs, total ascent/descent, steepest gradient, and route-timed weather including wind. A dedicated straight-line mode can also draw direct start-to-finish lines without routed paths.

Yes. Export any single route as a GPX file from the web planner or mobile app. You can also export all your saved routes at once as a ZIP file from My Routes — useful if you want a full backup or are switching platforms. Import works the other way: upload individual GPX files or a ZIP from Komoot, Strava, or any GPX-compatible device to analyse elevation, surface type, and navigate turn-by-turn.

An early-access Android APK is available for registered users — it includes turn-by-turn navigation, live route recording with GPX export, straight-line planning, and offline map support. Multi-day trip support is expanding, and iOS is in development.

Your Route Starts Here

Free core routing, with simple supporter upgrades for multi-day planning and live group location.