Technology company Bending Spoons today announced that it has closed the acquisition of komoot, the Germany-based route-planning platform for adventurers and...
Right when everyone is recommending them as an alternative to Strava, is this acquisition the reason you now need a subscription to transfer maps to devices?
That’s an odd recommendation in my book. I use both and I couldn’t imagine using one instead of the other. To me, one is a route planner and the other is athletes’ Facebook.
I agree and like you wasn’t really sure why but I have seen a lot of people recently recommend komoot as an alternative to Strava, particularly on the buyeuropean communities. I haven’t used Komoot for quite a few years now though so didn’t know if maybe they had expanded into activity tracking as well as routes etc.
Right when everyone is recommending them as an alternative to Strava, is this acquisition the reason you now need a subscription to transfer maps to devices?
That’s an odd recommendation in my book. I use both and I couldn’t imagine using one instead of the other. To me, one is a route planner and the other is athletes’ Facebook.
I agree and like you wasn’t really sure why but I have seen a lot of people recently recommend komoot as an alternative to Strava, particularly on the buyeuropean communities. I haven’t used Komoot for quite a few years now though so didn’t know if maybe they had expanded into activity tracking as well as routes etc.