Health, home and travel decision
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A single developer can build a useful route planner, routing API, GPX export and a PWA, but cannot reproduce komoot’s proprietary community route database, polished native apps, and device integrations—so building a narrow replacement is realistic, replacing the full paid product is not.
Visit website↗Open-source builds that already do this
Every project below is open source and already does this job today. Fork one, self-host it, or take the parts you need — the build prompt further down assumes an empty file, and this is the shortcut past that. Licences differ; check the one on each card before you ship.
What a replacement has to do
- Allow a user to find/plan a route, compute turn-by-turn directions, save/export the route, and follow basic navigation on a phone.
What it still won’t have
- Large community route database and user-contributed highlights/photos
- Polished native mobile apps and device integrations (Garmin, Wahoo, Apple Watch)
- Mature offline maps & voice navigation quality from an established product
- Discovery features, collections, and social/community reach
What remains hard
- Proprietary data
8M + Routes in over 100 countries – for hikes, rides, and runs
- Proprietary data
850M + Photos, tips, and highlights shared by the community
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 32 seats.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a minimal route-planning web service and PWA using PostgreSQL + PostGIS, a hosted routing engine (OSRM or GraphHopper service), and Mapbox (or OSM tile host) for tiles. Core features in scope: (1) search POIs and map display; (2) create and edit routes on the map; (3) compute routing and turn-by-turn steps for walking/hiking/cycling profiles via the routing engine; (4) save routes to Postgres and serve JSON APIs; (5) GPX export/import; (6) a mobile-first PWA that displays current location and step list. Out of scope: large-scale community content ingestion, multi-device sync beyond basic JWT auth, native apps, advanced offline map packaging, and device integrations (Garmin/Apple Watch). Include error handling, input validation, logging, and unit/integration tests for routing API and DB persistence. Provide Dockerfiles to run the web app, Postgres+PostGIS, and a local OSRM/GraphHopper container for development.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- An open-source build was found+5
- 5 cited sources+3
- Hard moats found in the evidence-3
- Evidence score57
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time — so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 5
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productKomoot | Find, plan and share your adventures
- official pricingThe Best Route Planner for Cycling, Walking, Hiking and Running | Komoot
- official docsKomoot Features | Plan, Navigate & Share Outdoor Adventures
- open sourcevicliu624/trail-mate
- open sourceNMBURobotics/vox_nav
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
