Garmin Explore™ 4+
Explore with a Garmin device
Garmin
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- Free
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Description
OFF-GRID NAVIGATION
When paired with your compatible Garmin device, 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.
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
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What’s New
Version 4.0.4
• Satellite and USGS layers are now available for streaming and while downloading an offline map.
• Fixed iPad crash when exporting GPX files
• Fixed map layers selection issue
• Fixed issue with batch selection on Unorganized Items
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• Our new map engine is here, bringing you advanced features and capabilities.
• Access streaming maps if you have an internet connection.
• Download offline maps for specific areas so you can access them when you are off-grid.
• Perform searches for locations, points of interest and other data both while online or offline.
• Plan and customize your outdoor adventures with our improved Course Creator.
• Library page (now called Saved) has been redesigned to simplify the review and edit of waypoints, courses, activities and collections.
• Check the new onboarding flows with improvements to sign in and device pairing flows.
Ratings and Reviews
Very useful, but…..
Loving the app for planning, BUT you need to make the app allow copy/paste of text items such as Lat/Long to help with sharing locations with friends. I’d like to be able to plan routes and then share a Lat/Long with a friend. Right now I have to resort to screen grabbing the info and using Apple photos to be able to highlight the text in order to copy it.
Signs you out!
Mid way through a lengthy Antarctic expedition, using the app as the main method of comms back home (via InReach Mini 2), and after approx 30 days offline the app signs you out. Where you can not sign in without an internet connection. This happened to each member of the team. This is obviously a massive flaw in the software. Additionally the Mercator projection within the mapping function doesn’t correctly display any track/route below approx S85 degrees. The ability to authenticate sign-in from a paired device and to switch between Mercator and Stereographic projections would make this app usable.
Re: Apple CarPlay and additional maps.
Great alternative if you’re already using a Garmin device eg watch, that allows you access to the app.
CarPlay, full Garmin Topo map rather than active topo and ability to upload maps.
Making a course works better on the app than the web based Garmin explore.
Would be nice if they committed and developed this one app and it’s compatibility with other Garmin devices rather than have so many other navigation apps like Earthmate and Tread.
App Privacy
The developer, Garmin, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- Contacts
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Garmin International
- Size
- 322.1 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2019 Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries
- Price
- Free