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Wikiloc - Trails of the World
Wikiloc Outdoor · 148,357 ratings · ★ 4.4
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Top complaints - extracted from 40 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"premium"
7 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "missing important features such as trimming a recorded route when you forgot to stop the recording before heading home. You can't edit the routes either so you can't remove wrong turns. Lastly for offroad use on MTB, gravel, dual sport moto…" - Olivier Magere
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"useless"
6 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I can't resume or finish a walk. Useless app." - Marlene Luce
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"maps"
5 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "sucks freeze constantly and looses all the maps and tracks u have saved I lost a few months of tracks .. terrible app" - Jason TheTraveler
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"google"
5 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not easy or intuitive to use. Cannot find my location on the map. Ended using Google maps" - Alejandro CR
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"without"
4 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Plan trail option is so dangers and badly made. I used it to make a trail that my friend and me will go. Train was 90% unmarked just forest and when we came to dangeres part there we hardly returend. Very dangerous to use. It used some trai…" - Dorijan Bertok
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"does"
4 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sign up doesn't work. app freezes." - Brian Burke
📋 All 40 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
sucks freeze constantly and looses all the maps and tracks u have saved I lost a few months of tracks .. terrible app
i cant seem to log in, the screen freezes everytime i come to the log in screen
Paywall. I chose the trial but still couldn't get to the trailhead using my phone. It could have been that my data connection was spotty but, I'm not looking to hike in the city. I now have to figure out how to cancel before I'm billed and It wasn't cheap either.
no use and a nightmare to escape from
Plan trail option is so dangers and badly made. I used it to make a trail that my friend and me will go. Train was 90% unmarked just forest and when we came to dangeres part there we hardly returend. Very dangerous to use. It used some trails form 2000's where is just random paint on trees without path. Database is very old trails dosnt exist with Plan Trail tool.
I've seen greedy, enshitified apps... Than I've seen wikilok.
Not easy or intuitive to use. Cannot find my location on the map. Ended using Google maps
now behind a pay wall , delete time
I can't resume or finish a walk. Useless app.
Yet another map app thst exists just to extract money. I downloaded app, downloaded maps (loads of space) granted lots of permissions (inc GPS) managed to locate a walk (without it showing my location...so by inspection) ... drive there, it showed the walk, but not my location, so i couldn't use the app. There was no signaland at thst point it demands i upgrade to premium, to show my own location (perfectly visible on G.maps). Luckily I was not somewhere unsafe. i will now uninstall.
gpx paywalled
hikes naturally lead to places where one doesn't have access to the online functions of the app, and the app wants you to pay in advance to use it in such a sensitive situation. i would feel exploited, and that's not a good feeling.
Unable to Delete Account
cant make account forces google how convenient
offline maps download didn't work. different WiFi's, multiple restarts. no download.
why oh why do I have to pay for premium to send a file to my gps. makes no sense.
listed a 48 mile hike and a 3.5 mile hike both as moderate. Also does not list Taiwan as an option. not reliable.
useless without paying subscription. You can't use it totally. unfortunately, the good application became SCAM :(
Basic features shouldn't be locked behind a premium subscription. It's scummy.
the worst
No offline maps for North India and the Indian Himalayas despite years of user requests. This is a huge region with millions of potential users, yet the developers have ignored it for no explained reason. It's extremely frustrating-I can't use Wikiloc offline in the Himalayas where there's no signal. Please prioritize this update so outdoor adventurers can finally rely on the app in remote areas!
I never could log in. It just spins and spins. I uninstalled the app several times, tried logging in with Google, tried creating a new account. Nothing worked so I uninstalled it.
The most annoying app. Turns itself on and off randomly with incessant notifications, even when not even looked at for months.
J'avais installé Wikiloc en 2020, utilisé et apprécié au point de passer plus tard à la version premium. Avec le temps, j'ai fait moins de randonnée et l'abonnement ne se justifiait plus. Je l'ai donc stoppé et suis revenu à la version libre mais elle ne permet plus rien. On peut chercher une rando, mais pas la suivre, c'est payant ! quand je pense que c'est la communauté qui a fournit, à titre gracieux, tous ces itinéraires, c'est honteux. Application désinstallée.
Yet another wretched app requiring sign up. Why? Immediate uninstall and good riddance.
everything behind a paywall and the app cant even show your location
You have to have the app running with the screen turned on. Otherwise the app stops tracking your route. I've tried every possible workaround and none of them solves this problem, so the app is pretty much useless on my phone.
love wikiloc and was premium for years, now went to use and not premium, but to be premium price is double, 9.99 € to 19,99. why?? why dud i stop being premium?
No landscape orientation on Android. How hard it could be to implement it? It's like a joke.
Pretty useless for me, you have to pay for basic stuff.
Such a clickbait app, you don't get any useful tools unless you buy the premium version. For the free version all it does is give you a minimalist hint of the trail, the satellite photo they use isn't even that good. You can get the same information from Google search for free
Sign up doesn't work. app freezes.
missing important features such as trimming a recorded route when you forgot to stop the recording before heading home. You can't edit the routes either so you can't remove wrong turns. Lastly for offroad use on MTB, gravel, dual sport motorbike, it doesn't differentiate off-tarmac sections. I regret paying premium and won't be renewing.
Free version is so limited it's worthless
Please fix the problem of not recording and drawing straight lines in new versions. On my phone, similar navigation software does not have any problem and this problem only exists in Wikilock. I even changed my phone and the problem still did not resolve. I also did all the settings mentioned on the site but the problem still remains.
seems like a decent app, I'd like to buy a subscription, but I can't seem to just use my credit card directly without using Google pay. Too bad, I'll have to check out some other similar apps.
saved trails are usable. however recording new does not work, screen locks even if set not to ... the app need a lot of work to become as it was
Less than intuitive, filter and search options useless as it just returns junk that has little relation to the search keywords, if you could tidy up the DB and the fields used in the DB or could be a good app, else just another app for the hello of it.
Esta app no sirve de nada si no pagas.
First half of the walk was wonderful but in the second half the "trail" disappeared and was blocked by three barbed wire fences which we had to climb with much difficulty. The last part of the trail guide is completely useless. Maybe the person who did it used a drone instead of walking it. Unless you are happy to stop the walk halfway and go back, or have strong wire cutters, don't go on this walk.
Sentiment summary
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Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
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