User Guide

• 1 · Import a track. Open the Tracks tab and tap Import GPX to pick a .gpx file. It loads with its own colour.
• 2 · Tap Ride. The map fills the screen with your track on it and a live HUD on top.
• 3 · Ride. OffTrail keeps you on the line, calls your turns aloud, warns if you drift off-track, and records the whole ride automatically.

No track yet? Open the Navigate tab and pick Round Trip for a loop of a set distance, Pick on map to route to a point, or search a place up top.

OffTrail opens straight onto a full-screen map with your position on it. Along the top and bottom sit everything you need:

• Search bar (top) — find a place, address or coordinates without leaving the map.
• Menu (≡) — Files, Maps, Trip, Events, Groups, Sync, Settings and About.
• Three tabs — Map (just the map), Tracks (your loaded tracks), and Navigate (every way to set off).
• Tracks tab — up to 5 loaded tracks, each with a coloured dot; the eye shows or hides one, the ⋮ menu renames, recolours, reverses, shares or deletes it. Import GPX and Clear all tracks live here too.
• Ride — the big accent button that starts your ride.
• Right rail — locate, basemap and zoom controls.

The Tracks tab holds your loaded GPX tracks. Tap Import GPX to add one, then Ride to follow it.

• Each track carries its own colour so several stay legible on the map at once.
• Multi-track files — a GPX with several tracks stays split into sub-tracks under one entry instead of a tangled line. Expand it to show or hide, or recolour, each one on its own; the group still counts as a single track slot.
• The eye hides a track without unloading it; the ⋮ menu (or a long-press) opens rename, recolour, reverse, share and delete.
• Tap a track in the Navigate tab to be routed to its start first, then onto the line.

Open the Navigate tab to pick how you want to ride:

• Route type — choose your vehicle and whether to favour trails or roads (see below).
• Home / Work — save two favourite places for one-tap routing.
• Pick on map — drop a point anywhere and route there.
• Round Trip — a circular loop of the distance you choose.
• Points of interest — route to the nearest fuel, food, water and more.
• Tracks (to the start) — pick a loaded track to be routed to its beginning, then follow it.

Or just follow a loaded track directly with Ride — no route needed.

The Route type selector at the top of Navigate shapes every route you build:

• Off-road motorcycle — favours trails, paths and dirt for a dual-sport or enduro bike.
• Off-road 4×4 / SSV — wider tracks a vehicle can take.
• Road fun — sticks to sealed roads but prefers the twisty, scenic ones.
• Road fast — the quickest sealed route to your destination.

Off-road routes show the off-road / on-road surface split and elevation before you commit. Road types give you turn-by-turn with spoken guidance. Routing needs a connection; the maps and your tracks work offline.

Set a destination however suits you:

• Search — type a place, address or coordinates in the bar on the map.
• Points of interest — from Navigate, find the nearest fuel, water, food, viewpoint, shop, ATM, pharmacy, hospital or mechanic.
• Pick on map — drop a point and route there.
• Home / Work — one tap to your saved places.

OffTrail plots the route in your chosen vehicle profile — favouring trails over tarmac off-road, or turn-by-turn on the road — and saves it under Files → Track to. Search and routing need a connection.

From Navigate → Round Trip, choose a loop length — 50, 100, 150 or 200 km — and OffTrail builds a circular off-road route from where you are, back to where you started.

• See the whole loop with its surface split and elevation before you commit.
• Tap Ride to set off, or generate another for a different loop.
• Saved under Files → Track to, like any route.

However you start, the map fills the screen behind a clean heads-up display:

• ETA · speed · progress across the top, with the engaged track or destination.
• Off-track banner in the middle, with a bearing and distance back to the line if you drift — plus an optional wrong-way alert.
• Right rail — locate (north / course-up), basemap (off-road / satellite), zoom + / – / •••, and controls to lock the screen clean. With the default auto-lock, the screen locks itself while you're moving — rain and glove touches can't move the map.
• Surface rail — a slim vertical line on the left shows the track's surface segments in order (orange = off-road, navy = road) with a dot at your position, so you always know what's coming.
• Configurable cards — tap a corner card to choose its metric: speed, altitude, climb (D+) since you set off, ETA, trip, weather, compass and more.
• POI radar — during navigation a small chip shows the nearest fuel ahead with its distance; tap it to change the category.
• Recording runs automatically in the background — every ride is saved to History.

The map shows your basemap — off-road detail or satellite — once tiles have loaded online or from your offline maps.

Pick a Road route type and OffTrail switches into full turn-by-turn navigation:

• Spoken guidance calls each turn — junctions, exits and distances — so you can keep your eyes on the road.
• The next manoeuvre and the one after show on screen with their distances.
• Road fun seeks out the bends; Road fast takes the quickest way.
• Voice guidance can be turned off in Settings if you'd rather ride in silence.

Every ride is saved automatically to History. Beyond that, Record mode lets you capture a track deliberately — start and stop it yourself.

• Turn on Record mode in Settings (or from Navigate), then start your ride. The HUD gains a record card with ● Rec / Pause / Stop.
• The breadcrumb draws live on the map; pause to break the line, resume to continue.
• Drop waypoints as you go — start, finish, danger, fuel and more.
• Stop to name and save it; it lands under Files, ready to share or ride again.

Open Files from the Menu (≡). System folders plus your own collections:

• Favorites — the tracks on your map (the garage).
• History — the automatic recording of every ride. Rides under 100 m are discarded.
• Recordings — tracks you captured deliberately with Record mode, waypoints and all.
• Track to — the routes and loops you generated (places, Round Trip).
• Collections — folders you create to organise imports.

Rename, share the GPX, preview, or load one back onto the map. All stored locally.

• Join — select several rides and merge them into one track (History and Recordings). The result keeps the oldest ride's name and date, with the elevation stats recalculated.
• Delete many — the same selection mode deletes several at once, in all three lists.
• Previewing any entry opens the same full map preview as the garage — elevation, surface split and a share button next to Ride.

From a track preview, a ride in Files, or the garage menu, tap Share and OffTrail builds a story-ready card:

• Your line over a satellite map, with distance, duration and climb (D+).
• The three surface percentages — off-road, road and unknown — just like the preview.
• A vehicle badge (moto or 4×4) you can change or remove before sharing.
• A stamp that tells the story: "Let's Go!" on a plan you're about to ride, "Done!" on a ride you've finished.
• Rename the title, then share to any app — the card is a plain image.

Open Sync from the Menu (≡) to keep your tracks in step across two devices — handy if you run a phone on the bars and keep another in your pocket.

• On one device tap Create a sync code; on the other, Enter a sync code. Up to two devices.
• Add or delete a track on one and it appears — or disappears — on the other right away.
• No account — imported tracks sync through OffTrail's protected relay; recordings, routes and settings stay local.
• Needs a connection to sync; everything still works offline on each device. Sync, not backup — it's for convenience, not recovery.

Open Maps from the Menu (≡). It has two tabs:

• Offline — search and download whole countries (each shows its size) and ride them with no signal. These are OffTrail's own dense off-road maps — the full trail, path and track network. Re-download to refresh, or delete to free space.
• POIs — choose which points of interest appear on the map: fuel, food, water, lodging, viewpoints, peaks and more.

Maps also auto-cache as you browse.

Your track's map saves itself. When you import a GPX, OffTrail automatically caches the map around it so you can ride it with no signal. On Wi-Fi this happens silently; on cellular it asks first, with the estimated size; with no connection the card shows “map saves when you're back online” and it downloads the moment a connection returns. Choosing Always save on cellular — or turning on Downloads on cellular in Settings — auto-saves track maps on mobile data too. Whole-country packs are much larger, so they have their own separate authorization — a switch on the Maps screen.

Open Trip from the Menu (≡) for two independent trip meters — Trip A and Trip B — that tot up as you ride:

• Max and average speed, distance, and total, moving and stopped time.
• Keep one for the whole trip and reset the other per day or per leg.
• Each resets on its own; a trip also resets automatically after 8 hours idle.

Open Groups from the Menu (≡). Create a group to get a code, or Enter a group code to join. Everyone shows up live on each other's maps.

• Needs Wi-Fi or cellular. Sessions are ephemeral — nothing is stored, and they end on their own after the set time.
• Set your rider name in Settings so friends recognise you.

Riding an organised event that uses OffTrail? Open Events from the Menu (≡) and enter your registration code to join it.

• The event's tracks and any live information appear in the app for the ride.
• You only need a code from the organiser — nothing to set up in advance.

Plug into any Apple CarPlay or Android Auto screen — factory car unit or an aftermarket motorcycle display — and OffTrail appears with the live map, your garage, search and turn-by-turn guidance.

• Engage a track from the garage (or start Ride on the phone) and the car screen follows along, with the same voice guidance.
• The surface rail runs down the right edge while a track is engaged — the segments ahead and your position, same as the phone.
• Auto-lock screen (optional, in the car's Settings or the phone's): once you've been moving for a few seconds the screen locks against accidental touches — vibration and rain can't disturb navigation. One tap on the padlock unlocks; on Android Auto a double-tap anywhere works too. It re-locks by itself.
• The rail has voice mute, orient / recentre and zoom; Settings on the car screen holds the basemap, day / night and auto-lock.

Curious what hardware we ride with? See our field-tested displays at offtrailapp.com/devices.

Pair a Bluetooth remote and map its buttons to OffTrail actions — zoom, recentre, orient, drop a waypoint, lock the screen or auto-zoom — so you can control the map without touching it. Set it up in Settings → Controllers.

• A ready-made profile for the ARN Rally remote, plus a generic mode where you teach each button.
• Pair the remote in your phone's own Bluetooth settings first.
• Full details at offtrailapp.com/devices.

• Rider name for group ride.
• Language (English / Português / Español), appearance (light / dark / system) and units (metric / imperial).
• Record mode, screen rotation, the wrong-way alert sound and voice guidance.
• Auto-zoom, auto-recenter, POI radar and lock-while-moving — all on by default; each can be turned off.
• Lock screen while moving in CarPlay / Android Auto — the car-screen auto-lock (off by default).
• Controllers — Bluetooth handlebar-remote profiles — and downloads on cellular.
• Storage — how much space tracks, recordings and maps use.

OffTrail is free. If it's earned a place on your bars, there's an optional tip jar in About.

About also has the website, this user guide, contact, a share button and a link to rate the app.

When you open a new version, OffTrail shows a brief "What's new" with the headline changes and a link to the full changelog. Tap OK to dismiss — it won't show again until the next update.

See every release at offtrailapp.com/changelog.