GPXTools in your pocket. Follow the route, even without coverage.
The Android app has every tool of the website — editor, AI assistant, weather, avalanches, stages, projects — plus what only makes sense on the trail: GPS guidance with alerts, maps saved on the phone and an SOS button for winter outings.
Follow the route
GPS guidance with sound and vibration alerts, also with the screen off.
Offline maps
Save an area or a corridor along your route, with relief and avalanche data.
Winter SOS
5 presses to open the phone with 112 dialled and your coordinates on screen.
No account needed
Everything works without signing in. The account is only for shared projects.
Follow the route (GPS)
It tells you when you leave the route
Select a route and press Start. GPXTools follows you with the GPS, also with the screen off and the phone in your pocket, and warns you with a different sound for each situation.
- On route / off route, with the distance to the track
- Wrong direction: when you walk the route backwards
- Next waypoint, km and climb left, and estimated arrival time
- Time and distance done, with a progress bar
- Your track is recorded and saved as a new file, with times
- Settings: off-route distance (20–100 m), sounds, vibration, screen always on
One sound for each alert
- Off route — High–low alarm, repeated every 45 s while you are off
- Back on route — Two rising notes
- Wrong direction — Low double buzz
- Waypoint reached — Bell, with the name of the place
- Arrived — Arpeggio
With the screen off you also get a notification. Each alert has its own vibration.
Offline maps
The map keeps working without coverage
Before you leave, save the area you will need: the current map view or a corridor around the selected route. Everything is stored on the phone.
- Basemap and visible layers, slope layer included
- Terrain model: relief, 3D, elevations and avalanche analysis
- Avalanche regions and bulletins for today and tomorrow
- Choose the detail (zoom 15 is enough to walk; 16 doubles the size)
- Update or delete saved areas; areas share tiles to save space
Up to 120 000 tiles per download (about 1–3 GB).
Winter safety
SOS button for winter routes
While you follow a winter route (November to May, with the highest point at 1 200 m or more), an SOS button appears on the map. You can also enable it on every route.
- Press it 5 times in a row: the phone opens with 112 dialled
- An emergency screen shows your coordinates to read them to 112
- Android does not let apps call emergency numbers by themselves: the last tap, “call”, is yours
- It also reminds you of Android’s own Emergency SOS (5 presses on the power button)
What works without connection
Without connection
- Saved maps
- Slope layer
- Avalanche analysis (last bulletin and forecast saved)
- Elevations
- Follow route with GPS and alerts
- Editing, stages, comparison and statistics
- Drawing routes (straight lines between points)
Needs connection
- Routing along roads and paths
- AI assistant
- Weather forecast
- Points of interest and place search
- Sharing to networks
- Shared projects sync
Made for the phone
The whole website, adapted to one hand
- Bottom bar with the main tools and a “More” sheet with all of them
- Opens directly on the map, in your phone’s language
- Same tools as the website: AI assistant, weather, avalanches, stages, PDF sheets…
- Export and Share open Android’s share menu: Files, Drive, WhatsApp, Telegram…
- Optional account for shared projects; Google sign-in through the system browser
- Your files stay on the phone
Your location stays on your phone
The GPS position is only used on the device, to follow the route and for the SOS screen. It is not sent to any server.
Get notified when it is out
The app is being prepared for Google Play. Meanwhile, the website works on any phone and can be installed from the browser.