Garmin Explore™

Garmin Explore™

By Garmin

  • Category: Navigation
  • Release Date: 2018-10-15
  • Current Version: 4.6.1
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 352.05 MB
  • Developer: Garmin
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 17.0
Score: 3.85945
3.85945
From 619 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

  • Greed Corrupts

    1
    By Gymrat34
    Garmin has become a greedy cash grabbing company adding subscriptions to their over priced hardware. Shame on Garmin!

  • Works as expected

    5
    By Flat_Top
    Great product

  • Grateful hiking

    5
    By Gerald0o7
    Easy to use

  • V4.6: Not liking the “new” icon/visual styles, map rendering issues

    2
    By SpectorNS2A
    The “new” icon styles in v4.6 are now not bold enough (too wispy) and get lost visually. The old icons were much better, bolder and easier to see. The coloring of everything as far as map detail goes is now too pale and difficult to clearly distinguish the map details. Some large waterways/channels (Southern California, Long Beach area, specifically: the Dominguez Channel) are no longer visible with land now in their place. This is a bad update with no improvement with map rendering and display. Please revert back or allow the user to choose which style to use.

  • BAD UPDATE

    1
    By DuckHeroMB
    The user interface is so much more difficult to navigate and read. I used to love this app because it was so similar to a paper map, but I cannot stand this. The app doesn’t even function right now.

  • The interface

    4
    By emiliodelgado91
    The interface looks to older

  • New UI is better. App still needs work.

    3
    By oatlad
    The newer versions of this app are much more intuitive than previous versions. It’s easier to manage layers and the offline download also makes more sense. There are still problems, though. Downloads are generally slow - I’ve verified this on multiple networks and against Speedtest results so I can only conclude Garmin is serving this data up without using a CDN or it’s not working properly. Compounding this problem, offline downloads stop downloading when you switch apps. So you have to keep the Garmin app open for sometimes 30 minutes straight just to download a 5gig map. Device management is still iffy as well. I was unable to get my connected device updated for two days. There was several minor versions behind, but no matter what I did, updating from or checking the app settings, nothing would get the device to update. Overall, device connectivity and sync is still an issue in this version. This is a large app, so it’s understandable to have some bugs. But this is also a lifeline in the backcountry, so having it be rock solid is not just a matter of convenience. Overall, this is a good major update, I would like to see more development in the app less focus on new money-making features until It’s stable

  • Good App, Useless Website

    2
    By iChris36
    You are restricted to only four map types on Garmin Explore website: Topo, TopoActive, Aerial, and Road, making the website absolutely useless for actual planning.

  • 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

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