Changelog

What's new in OffTrail.

Every release, in plain words. Newest at the top.

1.14.1

June 2026

The new Navigate screen — choose how to ride.

Navigate. One screen to start any ride: Follow GPX, Free Ride, Go to Location — tap the destination on the map or type GPS coordinates — or Round Trip, a loop of whatever distance you like. Record mode lives here too.
Routes that stay out of your way. Generated routes and loops are saved under Files → Track to instead of piling up on Home — and when you reach the end, a quick 👍/👎 tells us how the route was, so we can keep making them better.
Our own routing service. Track to and Round Trip routes are now computed through OffTrail's own routing endpoint — more robust, and faster to recover when the network wobbles.
Handlebar remotes. Pair a Bluetooth remote and map its buttons to zoom, recenter, drop a waypoint, lock the screen or auto-zoom (Settings → Controllers).
Clearer markers. Start, finish and waypoints with their proper icons and sizes — including each waypoint's own symbol in the next-waypoint strip.
More offline. Essential points of interest and named peaks now work with no signal, and the off-road map covers more countries (Brazil, Indonesia and more).
Lighter and smoother. Long tracks render faster, the map auto-recenters after a pan once you're moving, and the battery lasts longer on long rides.

1.13

June 2026

A robust Off-road map, two trip computers, and downloads that look after themselves.

Off-road map mode. A clean topographic look — muted woods, blue water, a clear track web — with named summits and a thinner track line so the trail underneath shows through. Open and ride.
Trip A & B. Tap the speed to open two independent trip computers: max and average speed, distance, and moving vs stopped time. A selector switches between them — Trip A resets itself after a long break, Trip B only when you say so.
Line thickness. Pick thin, medium or thick for any track or recording, right next to the colour.
“Base” map & smarter Satellite. The detailed map is now called Base, and Satellite falls back to your last map the moment you lose signal.
Downloads that look after themselves. A map download now resumes on its own after you close the app or lose and regain Wi-Fi — and no longer makes the app stutter while it runs.
Smoother navigation. The line from your position to the track now glides with you, plus a broad performance and stability pass.

1.12.2

June 2026

United States & Australia — our own maps.

USA, state by state. Every US state now has OffTrail's own dense off-road map — the full trail, path and track network, not a thinned-out version. Download just the state you need for offline use.
Australia. Australia joins too, as a single offline pack — mainland and Tasmania, with the complete off-road network.
Online, the new maps light up automatically wherever you ride; offline, pick your state (or Australia) from Maps to download it.
More countries. Austria, Finland and Lithuania get OffTrail's own maps too — and from now on new regions can arrive without waiting for an app update.

1.12.1

June 2026

Circular routes — pick a distance, get a loop.

Loops on demand. New in Track to: pick 50, 100 or 150 km and OffTrail builds a round-trip off-road loop that starts and ends where you are. Not feeling it? Tap “Another loop” for a different ride.
A clearer Track to. Generated routes now frame the whole track on screen — like a preview — with the satellite layer one tap away.
Lock screen rotation. New in Settings: pin the app to portrait or landscape so it won't flip while it's bar-mounted.
A calmer screen lock. Locking now hides the system bars so wiping rain or mud off the glass can't trigger anything; the unlock moved to a tidy corner; and auto-lock reliably releases when you stop.
User Guide. A link to the full guide now lives in About. Plus a round of fixes.

1.11.0

June 2026

Our own maps, offline by country — and a screen you can lock on the move.

Our own maps. OffTrail now serves its own maps — a denser off-road trail network where we've mapped it (starting in Portugal), a cleaner satellite layer, and faster, more reliable tiles.
Offline maps, one file per country. Download a whole country's map as a single file and navigate with no signal — simpler to grab and lighter on storage than before.
Lock the screen while you ride. Lock it with a tap, or let it lock automatically once you're moving, so wiping rain, dust or mud off the glass never nudges the map. A long-press unlocks. Turn auto-lock on in Settings.
Plus: recenter snaps back to the zoom you were using, the secondary map controls tuck into a tidy Tools button, and a round of fixes.

1.10.0

June 2026

More tracks per file, a smoother group ride, a sharper HUD.

Multiple tracks in one GPX. Import a file with several tracks and OffTrail now keeps them apart — each as its own coloured line you can show or hide, all under a single entry. Tap a sub-track's dot to recolour it. No more separate routes flattened into one tangled line.
Group ride, smoother. Join a session with a short 6-digit code, see everyone live on the map, and sessions now end cleanly on time — no more being left in a group that's already over.
A sharper ride HUD. Zoom in further for tight turns, speed sits front-and-centre, today's temperature moved to the top corner, and the +/- buttons grey out at the zoom limits.
Plus: the multi-track work carries through the preview, the mini-map and the ride map, and a round of fixes.

1.9.2

May 2026

Read the map over satellite, keep every route, buy a coffee.

Satellite, with labels. The satellite basemap now keeps place names and mountain peaks on top of the imagery — so you always know where you are, even off the tarmac.
Your Track to routes, saved. Every route you generate with Track to is now kept automatically under Files. Come back to a plan, preview it, share it, or ride it again — nothing's lost.
Buy me a coffee. OffTrail is free and built by one rider. If it's been useful out on the trail, there's now an optional tip jar — in About and on the home screen. No subscription, no unlock, nothing gated.
Plus: a track imported on mobile data caches its map area once you turn on cellular downloads, your position stays centred when you toggle the satellite layer, and a cleaner, more consistent stats card on track previews.

1.9.1

May 2026

At home on every screen — iPad included — and a tidier way in.

OffTrail on iPad. The whole app now lays out for iPad — portrait and landscape, from the iPad mini to the big Pro — instead of stretching the phone screen. One window, comfortable reading widths, and a ride screen sized for the larger canvas.
Sized right on smaller iPhones. Text, buttons and cards now scale to the screen, so an iPhone SE, mini or an older model no longer feels blown up and cramped.
Files, in one place. Your automatic ride History and your Rec recordings now live together under Files, with a single switch between the two.
Record Mode, one tap from Home. A Rec switch sits right on the Home header — flip it on to lay down a named track, off for a normal ride. No more digging through Settings.
Light, Dark, or System. Pick the app's look in Settings, the same way you pick the language — follow the device, or lock it light or dark.
Tidier distances. Past 100 km (or 100 mi) the decimal drops away, so the number stays clean at a glance.
Import that just opens. Picking a GPX no longer flickers or opens twice — the file picker comes up once, cleanly, on iPhone and iPad.
Plus a broad pass of visual tidying and the usual fixes.

1.9

May 2026

Point at where you want to go — we'll find the dirt.

Track to. Long-press anywhere on the map and OffTrail plots the best off-road route to that point, favouring trails and dirt over tarmac. Before you commit you see the whole line with its off-road/on-road split and its elevation profile; tap "Let's ride" to follow it like any other track.
Off-road or on-road, at a glance. Every track now shows how much of it runs off-road versus paved — a colour bar on the preview and in your ride history splits the route into off-road, on-road and the odd unsure stretch, with the off-road share called out up front. Worked out once when you import and kept with the track, so it's there instantly next time, even with no signal.
Sharper dirt on the map. Trails, forestry roads and rally pistes read more clearly on the basemap, so the line you're following stands out from everything around it.
Plus the usual polish and fixes.

1.8

May 2026

Record your own tracks — and never lose a ride.

Record Mode. A recorder you start and stop yourself, separate from the always-on ride history. Lay down a clean, named track as you ride, with the breadcrumb drawing live on the map, speed front and centre, altitude and temperature up top, and a pulsing dot so you always know it's running.
A Rec library of your own. Tracks you record land in a new Rec section on Home — rename them, preview them, share them, or promote one back into a riding slot. Kept out of the way of your automatic ride history.
Waypoints with icons. Drop and edit waypoints while you record, and give each one a symbol — start, finish, danger, slow, fuel. Symbols are read from and written to your GPX the standard way, so they survive a round-trip through gpx.studio, a Garmin device, or another app. Pins wear the matching icon in OffTrail orange.
Never lose a ride. A recording in progress is now saved to the phone as you go. A flat battery, a crash, or closing the app mid-ride no longer costs you the track — reopen and it's right where you left it, still recording or paused, exactly as it was.
Lighter recordings. Tracks now keep about one point every 20 m instead of every 5 — the same line on the map, a fraction of the file size.
Longer battery on long days. The map lets go of GPS and the compass the moment you leave the app, and a group ride stops pinging while you're in the background — real savings on an all-day mounted ride.
Smoother with a full library. Opening Home and coming back from a ride stay fluid even with several big GPX tracks loaded.
Wrong-way, smarter. On a loop or an out-and-back that shares a line, OffTrail no longer calls "wrong way" when you're actually on course. The alert sound is now opt-in.
A tidier Home. The nav row — History, Maps, Group, Rec — now fits cleanly even on smaller iPhones.
Plus steadier recording throughout and the usual round of polish and fixes.

1.7

May 2026

Smarter offline downloads, and a group ride that knows everyone's name.

Offline downloads, reworked. One country downloads at a time — the rest wait in a tidy queue instead of fighting for bandwidth. Downloads keep going in the background and pick up on their own when Wi-Fi is back. Tap "Wait for Wi-Fi" on the cellular prompt and OffTrail parks the download, then starts it for you the moment you're on Wi-Fi.
The Maps screen, sorted. Everything is grouped into Downloading, Downloaded and Available, so your library reads at a glance. A track that sits inside a country you've already downloaded now shows as covered — no second download needed. And while a map is downloading, the screen stays awake so a big pack finishes without the phone locking out from under it.
Pick exactly the region you need. Large countries are split into regions, each with an honest size shown before you commit — no more guessing whether a download is 200 MB or 12 GB.
A download that drops Wi-Fi just waits. Lose signal mid-download and the row turns a quiet "waiting for Wi-Fi" instead of a red error — it resumes by itself when you're back online.
Group ride knows everyone. Riders now show up by name in the group list (initials still mark the map), and a rider's name stays put even after they close and reopen the app. The Home button gives a slow pulse while a session is live, so you know it's running.
Switzerland joins the curated offline maps.
A smaller location arrow, if you'd rather the indicator sat lighter on the map — in Settings.
Plus a fix for a rare launch crash, steadier offline detection, and polish throughout.

1.6

May 2026

Reverse a route. See the whole group on the wrist of your eye.

Reverse a loaded track. Tap the new circular button on a track's preview — or long-press the track on Home — and OffTrail flips the route end-to-end so you can ride it the other way. A small arrows-loop badge shows up next to the name on Home whenever a track is currently running reversed; tap again to walk it back. No new files to manage, the same slot, the same colour.
Group Ride mini-map turns into a live radar. Every rider in the session shows up as a coloured dot on the mini-map; teammates that leave the map's frame become small chevrons on the edge pointing exactly where they are. Tap the panel to fit everyone on the main map; tap again to land back at the zoom and orientation you had.
No two riders share a colour. The host stays brand orange and every guest's slot is now assigned from the current roster, so no two riders ever read as the same colour on the map or the panel.
Track preview keeps your zoom. The preview no longer re-zooms itself after the initial fit — small but it makes "look at the whole route, then pinch in to study one section" finally work.
Home opens cleanly. No more flash of the empty hero before your tracks appear on cold launch.
Three more regions. Ukraine, Israel and Japan join the curated offline maps.
Plenty of polish across the preview screen, the reverse button's behaviour on smaller devices, and the right-rail layout in landscape.

1.5.1

May 2026

Group Ride join links, and a tidier ride screen.

Group Ride share links open the app reliably. Tapping a Group Ride invite from Messages now hands you straight into the session, even on the latest iOS.
One consistent "Ride" button. The track preview and the home screen use the same wording and the same mountain glyph for the CTA, so the muscle memory carries over.
Right rail fits every iPhone in landscape. The locate / layers / fit-all / zoom / mini-map column now sizes itself to the available height — full-size, glove-friendly buttons whenever they fit, gracefully tightening only when they don't.
Smaller polish across the map rail and the ride screen.

1.5

May 2026

Your ride, now on your wrist.

OffTrail on Apple Watch. A glanceable companion on your wrist — distance to the finish, your next waypoint, and off-track and wrong-way warnings, with a haptic tap so you can keep your eyes on the trail instead of the phone.
Mini-map. Toggle a schematic overview of the whole track onto the ride screen — see where you are along the entire route at a glance, without zooming your main map out.
Elevation profile. The track preview and your ride history now chart the climb — the shape of what's ahead, or what you just rode.
Sturdier GPX handling. Editing a waypoint no longer risks dropping routes or other data the original file carried.
One more region. The United Arab Emirates joins the curated offline maps.
Plenty of polish across the ride screen, the previews and the map.

1.4

May 2026

Mark up your tracks — and catch a wrong turn.

Waypoints you can edit. Long-press the map to drop a waypoint, or tap an existing pin to rename, move or remove it. Your marks are saved with the track.
Wrong-way alert. Ride a track against the direction it was recorded and OffTrail warns you — so you catch a wrong turn before you've gone far off course.
Swipe to delete. Swipe left on any track on the home screen to remove it — no menus.
Smaller fixes across the home screen and the map.

1.3

May 2026

Group Ride, sturdier and clearer.

Group Ride survives app-switching. Your session stays live until it expires or you leave — even if you check another app mid-ride.
A colour for every rider. Each rider gets a distinct colour on the map and roster; the host stays brand orange.
Offline maps over cellular. A new opt-in toggle, in Settings › Storage.
Cleaner first launch. Straight to your tracks, no onboarding wall.
Visual polish across Home, the track rows and the About screen.
A discreet recording dot on the ride screen — plus dozens of small fixes.

1.2

May 2026

Look before you ride.

Track preview. Tap any track on the home screen to open it on the map, read-only — the whole route, the start marker, and for recordings the duration, moving time, max speed and altitude range. Hit "Let's ride" to head out on it.
Rename & promote. Rename imported tracks straight from the home card. Promote a saved recording back into a home slot with one tap.
Navigate here. Long-press the map, or tap a track's start marker, to hand off to Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze.
Today's weather. The top chip shows the current temperature plus today's forecast high and low for where you are.
Distance from the start. On a free ride with no track loaded, the stat slot counts the distance you've covered since you set off.
A colour per rider in Group ride. The host stays brand orange; every other rider picks up a distinct colour, matching on the map and in the roster.
North-up compass. The locate button shows a cardinal-North marker when the map is locked north-up, so the orientation reads at a glance.
Cleaner map: two basemap styles — Trails and Satellite Off-road. Looped tracks spread their start and finish markers so the loop reads clearly.

1.1

May 2026

Polish pass after the first real-world rides.

Direction-aware user indicator. The dot on the map now points where you're heading, not just where you are. A coloured halo wraps the indicator in the same colour as the track you're following — handy when you have several tracks loaded.
"See all riders" button during a Group ride. One tap zooms the map so every rider in the session fits on screen, plus you.
Smarter off-track guidance. Within 500 m of the track, a dashed line points the way back. Beyond 500 m, the off-track pill grows a chevron pointing at the route relative to your direction of travel — so "track is ahead" means up, "behind you" means down.
Faster Ride entry. Tapping "Let's ride" now opens the map at your location immediately, instead of panning across the world from the track bounds.
Auto-zoom polish. Speed-based zoom transitions are snappier and stay in sync with the user dot — no more lag on slower phones.
Various small tweaks: slot 7's track colour shifted to fluo chartreuse so it doesn't blend with the forestry-road overlay on Satellite Off-road; the off-track pill drops the redundant "from trail" suffix; map-style swaps no longer hide the connector line for a beat.

1.0

May 2026

First public release. The whole point of OffTrail, in one app.

Offline GPX navigation. Import up to 5 tracks, each with its own colour on the map. Tap "Let's ride" and the app follows you along the route, with off-track alerts when you drift.
Offline maps by country. Pre-download Portugal, Spain and more so the basemap stays sharp where signal disappears.
Four basemap styles. On-road, Off-road (terrain emphasis on dirt + forestry), Satellite, Satellite Off-road.
Group ride for up to 8. Share a QR code, riders join over Apple iCloud, everyone sees everyone's initials on the map. No accounts, no third-party servers.
Ride recording. Every ride is automatically saved as .gpx. Share with friends, import into another app, or just keep the log.
Speed-based auto-zoom. The map zooms out as you accelerate, in as you slow down — hands stay on the bars.
Three languages. Portuguese, Spanish, English.
No accounts, no cloud, no analytics. Everything you import or record lives on your phone. We never see it.