Garmin Explore™

Garmin Explore™

By Garmin

  • Category: Navigation
  • Release Date: 2018-10-15
  • Current Version: 4.5.1
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 343.87 MB
  • Developer: Garmin
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 16.0
Score: 3.80623
3.80623
From 578 Ratings

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, the Garmin Explore® app and your compatible inReach® technology-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

  • Failed When I Needed it Most

    1
    By C Fazio
    Update: the app is even worse after new updates. It crashes constantly, the new ui is a serious downgrade, and can’t rely on this app the way I used to (it’s completely unreliable now). The app is usually good but logged me out while I was in the wilderness and required me to have cell service/internet connection to log back in. This left me without access to the app and the resources it provides (messaging and navigation) for 5 days while trekking through the mountains. If I didn’t have a paper map I would have been completely without navigation. There is no reason an app designed to be used in places without cell service should log you and out and require cell service/internet once you have logged in and registered your account and satellite device with it. I used to view this product very highly but now I cannot trust this tool knowing that it can leave me stranded. For a company and product that you are supposed to trust with your safety this is unacceptable. (I reached out to customer support about this issue and have yet to receive a response a week later. For a complete failure of their product, Garmin has shown zero concern.)
  • It works… but a bit clunky

    2
    By Hahaappuser
    I mainly use this to upload .gpx files to my library so I can navigate MTB trails when it’s something new and I’m unfamiliar. Uploading gpx file is easy, but syncing it to my watch takes forever!! Mainly because the “sync” wants to sync all of my past activities.. which I don’t care for. Let me choose what to sync please
  • Explorer is awesome

    5
    By Bowhuntermike
    Love it
  • Subscription Locked

    1
    By Carter Bond
    Old useful features are removed, and put into “new”features that are locked behind paywall. After paying 100s for a watch this is crazy, probably will be my last Garmin Device.
  • Crash Report

    1
    By ………………>…..
    After the May 8 update, the app no longer opens. Not even for an instant. Immediate crash.
  • Perfect

    5
    By igloo89
    Love you guys
  • Not great off grid

    2
    By CosJap
    I just finished a 9 mile run in the Frozen head state park near Knoxville. It was close enough to society that I wasn’t really nervous, but I went a mile off course because I thought my location was updating on the map. It wasn’t updating for some reason. It was also paired to my remix epix so not sure why it wouldn’t update! So frustrating. I was able to just relay on the map on my watch and put the phone away. I’m also very confused about why I need this app and what time supposed to do with it.
  • Good stuff

    5
    By Zander59701
    Been using Garmin as a geo for decades. Good overall
  • Great Experience

    5
    By ges1951
    I used my Garmin inreach mini2 for a rescue in remote southern Utah. Great response time and a good result.
  • Wow

    5
    By SkeeterDickChaney
    Love this app! Saved my bacon a few times.

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