FarOut: Hike, Bike, Paddle

When I am out of service and spend what I did on a guide it should work. 3 days into my 80 mile river trip the downloaded guide stopped working. Nice when it actually works. WOULD NOT DEPEND ON. Especially if out of service.

Not so good for the Camino del Norte - directs you into a dangerous road walk heading into san vincente; both gronze and wise pilgrim are better alternatives

Bought this. DOWNLOADED specific area map for offline use. Got to trailhead, all looked good. Got three miles in, all looked good. Note that I was on airplane mode and app worked great. Then about five miles in near a 12,000 pass, storm blowing in and no trail visible — the app goes black. Nothing. No map. Nothing. Restart the app. Nothing. Restart phone. Nothing. Black screen. Cannot zoom out, in. Nothing. Dead app. Fortunately I had another app on my phone that wasn’t as sexy, BUT THE OTHER APP WORKED! Not as detailed or nifty as this one (when it worked), but that other app got me on the trail and off the pass before the lightning and hail hit. When this app works, 5/5. But when I needed it most, it totally failed. -5/5. And yes, I tested it without cell and without wifi several times and it worked. Do not recommend for critical situations.

While the water and comment features are good, do not rely on this for your navigation. After day 3 it quit working. When I opened the app it just froze. Restarting phone and app did nothing. A friend off trail gave suggestions through my Garmin in Reach but none worked. The app froze a couple of days later for the person I was hiking with. It’s unacceptable for a back country navigation app to completely lock up and become useless. Fortunately we had paper maps and used Strava to track time and miles traveled. HAVE MAPS DOWNLOADED ON A DIFFERENT APP. DO NOT RELY solely on FarOut.

FarOut, an essential app for all hikes! Glad to see they hopped on the modern app development bandwagon of unstable glitchy mediocrity. New aesthetics > functionality. All these apps change for the sake of change and nothing more, using the same cookie cutter formula and it is soooooooooooo bad.

Overall the app offers a great experience. I have purchased all the PCT Apps and used for many years. There is one major issue that all of you should be aware of. It has been around awhile and still not fixed. Do not have the app open while turning your phone off airplane mode. If you do it will do a search probably to see if you have a subscription or purchase. If you have poor cell service the link to your maps disappear. The dowloaded maps remain but you can’t access. If however you created a route, you can access those and get access to the downloaded maps and comments. I am guessing most people don’t have routes created so you are in danger of loosing access to maps while on trail. This is one of the reasons, I have paper maps and a compass. But I am guessing many users don’t have this as a back up. So this could be a safety issue.

Long standing disappearing comment bug remains unfixed. Been a problem for over a year and multiple versions. Should be a five star but I have zero confidence in the app.

This app doesn’t work, nothing loads

Not finding this app useful at all. Doesn’t show the full trails. No public comments or anything on any of the trails Ive looked at so far. Way too hard to use and no back button. See no benefit over AllTrails. Waste of money

The app is fine for planning while you have internet, but BEWARE of using it as your sole source for navigation on trail. My experience is it just stops working after about 3 days. It opens then freezes. The fix is to reinstall which isn’t going to happen easily on a thru hike. I know. I had backups for navigation and luckily I was in the Sierras where water is plentiful. Be safe out there and DO NOT DEPEND ON THIS APP AS A NAVIGATION APP it will stop working just when you need it.

Would love to follow my friends but can’t search for them and their invites don’t work.

I assumed I could access the downloaded map when I had no signal, but evidently not. Am grateful my buddy had Garmin app. Please let me know if the fine print said I do not have access when there is not a signal & I will update my rating.

This app sucks, waste of money. I bought the PA NCT map and it didn’t work well in areas with limited service.

I’ve used farout for several years now on a few trails. In July I hiked the wonderland trail and my app wouldn’t respond, the screen would freeze, and it wouldn’t record my route. I uninstalled and reinstalled the app, same problem. Luckily my hiking partner also had the app and was having no issues. I meant to contact farout back then and ask for a refund for that trail since it wasn’t cheap and was totally useless. I forgot. Now I’m preparing to hike another section of the Appalachian Trail and the app is having the same issue. My screen is frozen and there’s nothing that I can do about it. Not only that, but FarOut has not even made it easy for you to contact Support. There are a bunch of tutorial and frequently ask questions but no way it seems to contact the developer to get help directly. This is obviously case in point why you can’t rely on technology alone and should always have a backup. I’ve loved this app for years but this glitch that seems impossible to fix is ruining it. Please make support easier to contact.

The app won’t even open

Update sucks. Difficult to navigate. Too expensive. Profiting off of community sourced, public land data is super slimy. Use a free app like opentrails

Not sure how it even works. Type in great Smokey mountains national park and nothing comes up. If I’m combining trails or making my own route how does it work.

I have lost one of of my purchased trails and I can not get customer service to even respond to my request to restore my missing app.

Yeah so the App Store clearly shows there are sections to purchase for the Appalachian Trail, but after downloading the app, I realize you have to pay all $75 for it. No thanks.

I want to be able to highlight trails when I touch them again

DO NOT PURCHASE THIS APP! It’s a complete waste of money. It will provide you with the maps but does not update the current GPS location. I just spent the last 25 days on the river laughing at how useless this app is. CalTopo worked, AllTrails worked, FarOut Grand Canyon Whitewater did not. Total garbage.

Farout added an ai feature that categorizes and deletes comments automatically and now years of useful comments are just gone, do better farout

map works real good but rest is unreliable for example there is issue on water location when i contact support the reject to help because my ios was not supported. When i tested the app on ios supported by farout the issue was there , i guess they prefer to reject help instead to do sone work to investigate! dangerous to on true-hike with unreliable water source location as usual tech company sale something, get paid, and make support optional

app crashes immediately upon opening, unable to access any of my paid maps. awesome update, bricked the entire app!

I originally got the FarOut app (previously Guthook when it was a good app) to hike the PCT. Worked well, despite being convoluted with poor instructions. Now I’m getting ready to hike the Arizona Trail, so I purchased the map and, Lo and behold, I no longer have the PCT maps nor do I have the Arizona Trail?!? Clicking “Restore purchases” gives me the reply of “No previous purchases”?!? This app is completely worthless, it is a rip-off and scam!! Don’t download or make the mistake of purchasing anything. I’m going back to AllTrails - definitely more reliable! 👎👎