I have used the OS app and it was rubbish. I have been using Viewranger for some time now and It is a great app. I like the fact that you do not have to have cell coverage at all to use it, as long as you have down loaded the area map to your phone at home. Great video Trev. See you in the hills..
No worries - yeah, a shame about OS. You think they would work to make the best app there is seeing how they are all about the maps. Strange! Oh, well, cheers for watching!
Good little tutorial that. I’m a big ViewRanger fan. They’re always updating it too which I like and the icing on the cake has to be a map on my watch👍🏻👍🏻. No barbies tonight chap??
Haha! Once I have finished my editing I may allow a little tea party lol. Yeah, Viewranger is a great little app, and I enjoy using it. Still must remember to have a go at the Skyline though. Thanks for watching!
Yea, it is a shame Terry. I cant understand why they didn't just take over Viewranger as it was rather than move it over to an inferior platform. Sad really.
Great little film Trev, just what I was looking for! Will be signing up too once the lockdown is over. I've been using Stava, which is OK for tracking the route you took, elevation, and things like that, but for route planning alone this has my vote. Thanks again. Top-Notch again!
Hi Trevor, a good video which has got me interested. What I do like however, is that you seem to answer every question put to you. Some reviewers never seem to answer questions. I may give the free version a try. As an 82 year old, some of it may get too technical for me. But thanks for the intro. Terry Davis
Hi Terry, I do try to answer as many as I can, but must admit that with a rise in subscribers and comments its not always as easy. Unfortunately, recently viewranger has been purchased and integrated with another app, and by all accounts, its not very good at all. Such a shame because it really was one of the better apps.
Nice video Trev. Massive fan of viewranger and use the subscriber version. On the web version when plotting your route, there's a drop down menu for route generation top right under the map selection drop down. Doesn't snap perfectly each time but definitely speeds things up instead of having to correct or re align each waypoint.
Excellent! I have had Viewranger on my 'phone for a while but never really used it. Having watched your video I will use it more in future and might well be tempted to pay for the subscription / premium version. I was supposed to be doing the Great Glen Way this past week but it was cancelled due to Covid-19.....Viewranger would have been useful even though it's a fairly straightforward route. Stay safe and stay healthy. Cheers. Ken.
Yea, its a great little app, Ken, and I have found it a pleasure to use the mapping recently - makes navigation a lot easier. Sorry to hear you won't be making the Great Glen Way - such a shame. Hoping that we will establish some kind of normality before too long. I am absolutely itching to get out camping.
Must admit Trev I didn't rate the view ranger app but I had the free version. I had old maps lying around so used the code for the OS app. Having a subscription for any map at any time sounds brilliant. Especially if you aim to hike different areas of the UK
That's a shame to never for on with VR, I have used it for a while now and love it. I've only in the last year used the Premium version, and always found the free version to be fine, but I am glad that I paid to subscribe. It's handy no matter when I go out. cheers for watching!
Hmmm, I must have missed last weeks OS map video but funny enough, just got Viewranger on my phone so a very useful watch tonight and I have planed my firts route, so thank you very much for the walk through, just need to be able to get out and see it in action now. I subscriber to OS Map as well and find that there is always a delay when I check it, being at a previous position but it jumps to the current location. Cheers Alan
Hi Alan, this is a great little app. I know that many seem to get on ok with OS app, but for some reason it really struggled for me, but as I said, I had a cheap as s**t phone. That's probably half the reson, but alwys happy that Viewranger has never been an issue. Thanks for watching, mate!
Memory map for me. Can thoroughly recommend this. Guess everyone will have a personal preference. Got the whole UK at the 1/25000 level and can do all the same stuff pretty much. Part of the fun for me is creating my own routes and zooming around planning options. Will check this out though based on your review/experience
Cheers for the recommendation, Chris. I've not used memory map myself, but it does look ood. I think once I have started using Viewranger there is not much point changing as it works for me but also because every walk I have ever taken is logged on there now, so to change would be to split up my progression. Thanks for watching, and all the best!
Viewranger is absolutely fantastic. I've paired it, via my phone, with my Casio ProTrek watch and when synced the watch actually points the direction you need to walk in real time almost as if a personalised compass. I created custom maps each step of the way and it was incredibly useful. I've used this around the Glyderau in poor weather and it was still functioning fine. Always took a map as a back up, however!
Hi Joseph - that sounds like a great set up - and good to hear that it works whatever the weather. But yeah, always have the paper back up. Thanks for watching!
One thing I have been doing is using Stava heatmaps when planning my route to see which are the most used paths, really helps with minimising risk of getting into hot water
@@SummitOrNothing it shows where people have been (according to their Strava data). I walk a lot through farm land so it's really useful to see if there is a way though certain fields. Really good way to sense check a route you're not sure of
Thanks for this Trev, this video will help me big time, I've only used it to record trials didn't have a clue how to plot a route, Now I know I'm going to give it a try, how do I follow you on view ranger, I would love to try some of your walks ATB Trev
Hi Steve - glad to have helped. Not sure how you would follow me, I guess you just find me and press follow?? Must admit I am not following many on there. I'm only just getting to grips with what it does myself. All the best mate !
That was a brilliant video i still get confused just ringing out on my phone , defo gonna have a go at that i,ll probley have to watch it about 50 times though to make it sink in . Cheers .
I've got the OS maps subscription also, seems to work fine for me. Not sure when you last used it, but it also has the 3D maps and all the same features that Viewranger does - I just find the OS maps app/website cleaner and simpler to use :)
I have OS online,which I use a lot to print maps when I go out on the coast etc, but on my phone's (I did try it on two or three) it was always laggy and lost me. Was a shame.
I really want to get out on dartmoor. But friends tell me it can be pretty dangerous. Just getting my kit together. Can't wait do my first solo wild camp. Thanks for the vids.
Yea, it's not to be taken lightly. It's always best to stick to trails as much as possible and always go up with a map/compass or some kind of GPS device because once the weather changes and visibility fails it can be pretty disorientating. Once restrictions are lifted and when we are back to some kind of normality I will be organising some more guided walks, so you are more than welcome to join us on those.
Give it a go but try to choose a a good weather window for a first trek....Dartmoor weather can be very fickle ...Put Dartmoor Rescue 112 on your phone as you can usually get a signal on high ground should things go badly wrong!. Dartmoor Rescue are just brilliant & they have a base in Tavistock....so don't be daunted......
Great review... I personally have never had any luck with the cell based apps mainly because in about 90% of the places I hike there is no cell service.. So until I can afford a satellite based system I have to stick with map & compass.. 😢 Cheers Trev!
Yeah, I should imagine that you are quite remote out where you are, Max . Like I said, I still like to take a map and compass but use Viewranger as a back up and to record my progress. Thanks for watching!
@@HikeCamp The relive app was a little more gimmicky and I think it was quite a pricey monthly subscription price for the full package when I looked into it. Plus it didn't seem to work so well if you weren't online.
Looks like a great app 👌 Os maps works perfect on my Samsung so I've just entered the codes from my paper maps. I do like the look of 3d thingy I always wondered how u did that in your videos. I'll give the free version a try 👍 Cheers trev 😃
I susbcribe to OS maps too, after winning a free year subscription once I have always had it on my pc - so I print maps off and get full access on the app too, but the bloody thing was always laggy and unpredictable on my phones. Never had that trouble with Viewranger though! Cheers, Dean!
How is ViewRanger compared to OSMaps ? I pay 3.99 a month for OSMaps (should probably just grab a year huh), it's probably very similar (lets you plot routes and follows them). *Read your response to 'Life on the rocks', I've not noticed those problems.. the Viewranger photo attachment on the route thing sounds kind of nifty, will grab a trial.
I never got along with OS Maps on my phones - had in on two or three various phones and found it glitchy. I still use it online, though, but as a phone app - I have found Viewranger to be much more accurate!
Great app. I use it too. It was also very useful when I took some solo walks on a small island in Greece a couple of years ago. I downloaded some free tracks and I could always see on the map where I was in the terrain and if I was walking the right way 😁👍It made me feel quite safe. Of course I also brought a paper map just in case my phone broke down or lack of gps signal 😊
Thanks for sharing this Trevor. I looked at ViewRanger when it was first launched, but had problems. It has clearly come a long way since those days, so I may switch from my OS Maps subscription (which I have had for 3yrs) over to ViewRanger. You mentioned you have subscriptions for both. Just curious what you still use on OS Maps that you can’t do on ViewRanger ? Thanks again & ATB
Hi ya. I use the Os maps to print maps on my pc, apart from that I no longer have it on my phone.It's just something that I have found handy to keep going for the sub fee per year, saves a fortune on buying os maps every time i walk somewhere new.I can't recommend Viewranger enough - I have always found it easy to use. Thank you for watching!
No, I forgot to mention in this video that it doesn't need WiFi, or data. It can still function fully in airplane mode, although it dowsn help to have data on every now and again to load the map if you're streaming. But that being said I think that if you're using a preplanned route the map is instantly in your phone. I used it to follow a route the other day and my phone lost signal for thw entire walk but I always knew where I was on Viewranger.
Hi Trevor, great informative video. I'm looking at downloading this app to my PC. They don't seem to make a version for Windows 10. Which is what I have on my PC. Is your PC running on Apple/mac or Android? Sorry, I'm not very technical, and it seems to involve a real phaff if I do want to download a version for Windows 10. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Keep up the good work.
With the PC you just go to Viewranger.com online - no need to download, they will ask you for your log in details which will be the same as the app, that way you can sinc the two.
Funny you should mention this. I'm currently editing the first in a series of videos related to running and building a TH-cam channel and so this will probably feature how I edit my videos.
Great video but ViewRanger has now merged with Outdooractive and is now a bag of🤬in the true sense of the word. I'm going to go till the end of my subscription and then go back to OS unless it improves dramatically in the meantime 😩
Yea - I know - I havent converted to Outdoor Active yet - I watched all the piss poor reviews come in on teh app store and decided to hang on until Viewranger halts completely. I still have the OS maps for all the National parks on it so its still working fine for me.
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I have used the OS app and it was rubbish. I have been using Viewranger for some time now and It is a great app. I like the fact that you do not have to have cell coverage at all to use it, as long as you have down loaded the area map to your phone at home. Great video Trev. See you in the hills..
Yea, that's a massive plus with Viewranger. Shame the OS app was so poor. Thanks for watching, Anthony, hope you're keeping well. Cheers
So far the best explanation I have found . Thank you .
Cheers. Shame the app is becoming obsolete 😢
Great video and one of the easiest and clearest explanations of how to use view ranger on TH-cam. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Top notch again bro. I also found OS ..... not coming up to expectation. I will be trying this out for sure... lockdown pending. Great work thank you.
No worries - yeah, a shame about OS. You think they would work to make the best app there is seeing how they are all about the maps. Strange! Oh, well, cheers for watching!
Good little tutorial that. I’m a big ViewRanger fan. They’re always updating it too which I like and the icing on the cake has to be a map on my watch👍🏻👍🏻. No barbies tonight chap??
Haha! Once I have finished my editing I may allow a little tea party lol. Yeah, Viewranger is a great little app, and I enjoy using it. Still must remember to have a go at the Skyline though. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the update about the changes with ViewRanger. Shame when good Apps decline when taken over.
Regards
Terry
Yea, it is a shame Terry. I cant understand why they didn't just take over Viewranger as it was rather than move it over to an inferior platform. Sad really.
A good instructional video Trev, well done! Regards Keith
No worries, Keith, thanks for watching!
Thanks Trev. Well explained and easy to follow. I will be using in the future. Cheers
No worries Pete. Hope you enjoy it. Cheers
Great little film Trev, just what I was looking for! Will be signing up too once the lockdown is over. I've been using Stava, which is OK for tracking the route you took, elevation, and things like that, but for route planning alone this has my vote. Thanks again. Top-Notch again!
Cool - glad that you enjoyed it, Rob. Thanks for watching!
A very useful vid. Followed you on viewranger and will hopefully do some of these when we can wild camp again.
Thanks Paul - yea, here's hoping we get back to some normality before too long. Thanks for watching!
Hi Trevor, a good video which has got me interested. What I do like however, is that you seem to answer every question put to you. Some reviewers never seem to answer questions. I may give the free version a try. As an 82 year old, some of it may get too technical for me. But thanks for the intro. Terry Davis
Hi Terry, I do try to answer as many as I can, but must admit that with a rise in subscribers and comments its not always as easy. Unfortunately, recently viewranger has been purchased and integrated with another app, and by all accounts, its not very good at all. Such a shame because it really was one of the better apps.
Nice video Trev. Massive fan of viewranger and use the subscriber version.
On the web version when plotting your route, there's a drop down menu for route generation top right under the map selection drop down.
Doesn't snap perfectly each time but definitely speeds things up instead of having to correct or re align each waypoint.
Ah, thats great to know, thanks - I will bare that in mind in future. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for This Trev, very useful. We were discussing using view ranger the other day so perfect time to see this uploaded haha.
Ah cool, good timing then, glad to have helped
Thanks for this review Trev. Good to know for later 👍
No worries, Caroline - its a great app, and also runs on Airplane mode which is always handy! Cheers!
Excellent! I have had Viewranger on my 'phone for a while but never really used it. Having watched your video I will use it more in future and might well be tempted to pay for the subscription / premium version. I was supposed to be doing the Great Glen Way this past week but it was cancelled due to Covid-19.....Viewranger would have been useful even though it's a fairly straightforward route. Stay safe and stay healthy. Cheers. Ken.
Yea, its a great little app, Ken, and I have found it a pleasure to use the mapping recently - makes navigation a lot easier. Sorry to hear you won't be making the Great Glen Way - such a shame. Hoping that we will establish some kind of normality before too long. I am absolutely itching to get out camping.
Must admit Trev I didn't rate the view ranger app but I had the free version. I had old maps lying around so used the code for the OS app. Having a subscription for any map at any time sounds brilliant. Especially if you aim to hike different areas of the UK
That's a shame to never for on with VR, I have used it for a while now and love it. I've only in the last year used the Premium version, and always found the free version to be fine, but I am glad that I paid to subscribe. It's handy no matter when I go out. cheers for watching!
May have to invest in that. Thanks for the walk through Trev.
No worries, Joe. Hope you get on well with it!
Really helpful, definitely worth a punt, cheers Trev.
Hmmm, I must have missed last weeks OS map video but funny enough, just got Viewranger on my phone so a very useful watch tonight and I have planed my firts route, so thank you very much for the walk through, just need to be able to get out and see it in action now. I subscriber to OS Map as well and find that there is always a delay when I check it, being at a previous position but it jumps to the current location. Cheers Alan
Hi Alan, this is a great little app. I know that many seem to get on ok with OS app, but for some reason it really struggled for me, but as I said, I had a cheap as s**t phone. That's probably half the reson, but alwys happy that Viewranger has never been an issue. Thanks for watching, mate!
Memory map for me. Can thoroughly recommend this. Guess everyone will have a personal preference. Got the whole UK at the 1/25000 level and can do all the same stuff pretty much. Part of the fun for me is creating my own routes and zooming around planning options. Will check this out though based on your review/experience
Cheers for the recommendation, Chris. I've not used memory map myself, but it does look ood. I think once I have started using Viewranger there is not much point changing as it works for me but also because every walk I have ever taken is logged on there now, so to change would be to split up my progression. Thanks for watching, and all the best!
Viewranger is absolutely fantastic. I've paired it, via my phone, with my Casio ProTrek watch and when synced the watch actually points the direction you need to walk in real time almost as if a personalised compass. I created custom maps each step of the way and it was incredibly useful. I've used this around the Glyderau in poor weather and it was still functioning fine. Always took a map as a back up, however!
Hi Joseph - that sounds like a great set up - and good to hear that it works whatever the weather. But yeah, always have the paper back up. Thanks for watching!
One thing I have been doing is using Stava heatmaps when planning my route to see which are the most used paths, really helps with minimising risk of getting into hot water
Ive not heard of this before, John - sounds like something I need to investigate, cheers!
@@SummitOrNothing it shows where people have been (according to their Strava data). I walk a lot through farm land so it's really useful to see if there is a way though certain fields. Really good way to sense check a route you're not sure of
Thanks for this Trev, this video will help me big time, I've only used it to record trials didn't have a clue how to plot a route,
Now I know I'm going to give it a try, how do I follow you on view ranger, I would love to try some of your walks
ATB Trev
Hi Steve - glad to have helped. Not sure how you would follow me, I guess you just find me and press follow?? Must admit I am not following many on there. I'm only just getting to grips with what it does myself. All the best mate !
That was a brilliant video i still get confused just ringing out on my phone , defo gonna have a go at that i,ll probley have to watch it about 50 times though to make it sink in . Cheers .
Hahaha! I know what you mean, I am a technophobe myself, but once you get know your way around Viewranger, its really easy to use. Good luck!
I've got the OS maps subscription also, seems to work fine for me. Not sure when you last used it, but it also has the 3D maps and all the same features that Viewranger does - I just find the OS maps app/website cleaner and simpler to use :)
I have OS online,which I use a lot to print maps when I go out on the coast etc, but on my phone's (I did try it on two or three) it was always laggy and lost me. Was a shame.
I really want to get out on dartmoor. But friends tell me it can be pretty dangerous. Just getting my kit together. Can't wait do my first solo wild camp. Thanks for the vids.
Yea, it's not to be taken lightly. It's always best to stick to trails as much as possible and always go up with a map/compass or some kind of GPS device because once the weather changes and visibility fails it can be pretty disorientating.
Once restrictions are lifted and when we are back to some kind of normality I will be organising some more guided walks, so you are more than welcome to join us on those.
Give it a go but try to choose a a good weather window for a first trek....Dartmoor weather can be very fickle ...Put Dartmoor Rescue 112 on your phone as you can usually get a signal on high ground should things go badly wrong!. Dartmoor Rescue are just brilliant & they have a base in Tavistock....so don't be daunted......
I gonna smash Dartmoor to as soon as we can wild camp, might see you passing by.
Say hi if you do. Good luck! Cheers!
Great review... I personally have never had any luck with the cell based apps mainly because in about 90% of the places I hike there is no cell service.. So until I can afford a satellite based system I have to stick with map & compass.. 😢 Cheers Trev!
Yeah, I should imagine that you are quite remote out where you are, Max . Like I said, I still like to take a map and compass but use Viewranger as a back up and to record my progress. Thanks for watching!
@@SummitOrNothing Did you give up on the Relive app?
@@HikeCamp The relive app was a little more gimmicky and I think it was quite a pricey monthly subscription price for the full package when I looked into it. Plus it didn't seem to work so well if you weren't online.
@@SummitOrNothing I Tried the free version for about a month and gave it up for the same reason.
Looks like a great app 👌
Os maps works perfect on my Samsung so I've just entered the codes from my paper maps.
I do like the look of 3d thingy I always wondered how u did that in your videos.
I'll give the free version a try 👍
Cheers trev 😃
I susbcribe to OS maps too, after winning a free year subscription once I have always had it on my pc - so I print maps off and get full access on the app too, but the bloody thing was always laggy and unpredictable on my phones. Never had that trouble with Viewranger though! Cheers, Dean!
Cool video!
Cheers
How is ViewRanger compared to OSMaps ? I pay 3.99 a month for OSMaps (should probably just grab a year huh), it's probably very similar (lets you plot routes and follows them). *Read your response to 'Life on the rocks', I've not noticed those problems.. the Viewranger photo attachment on the route thing sounds kind of nifty, will grab a trial.
I never got along with OS Maps on my phones - had in on two or three various phones and found it glitchy. I still use it online, though, but as a phone app - I have found Viewranger to be much more accurate!
24.99 for every OS map, bargain! Such a good app, cheers Trev for recommending, Im loving it.
No worries, Amy. It's a fantastic app. And there's still much more to it that I haven't got to grips with. Thanks for watching!
Great app. I use it too. It was also very useful when I took some solo walks on a small island in Greece a couple of years ago. I downloaded some free tracks and I could always see on the map where I was in the terrain and if I was walking the right way 😁👍It made me feel quite safe. Of course I also brought a paper map just in case my phone broke down or lack of gps signal 😊
Yea it does help you to keep track of where you are - but as you say - always best to have the paper map too. Many thanks Torunn. All the best!
Thanks for sharing this Trevor.
I looked at ViewRanger when it was first launched, but had problems. It has clearly come a long way since those days, so I may switch from my OS Maps subscription (which I have had for 3yrs) over to ViewRanger.
You mentioned you have subscriptions for both. Just curious what you still use on OS Maps that you can’t do on ViewRanger ?
Thanks again & ATB
Hi ya. I use the Os maps to print maps on my pc, apart from that I no longer have it on my phone.It's just something that I have found handy to keep going for the sub fee per year, saves a fortune on buying os maps every time i walk somewhere new.I can't recommend Viewranger enough - I have always found it easy to use. Thank you for watching!
You said when you're out you've got the map streaming. Does that mean you have to have Wi-Fi on? Do you ever have a problem getting signal?
No, I forgot to mention in this video that it doesn't need WiFi, or data. It can still function fully in airplane mode, although it dowsn help to have data on every now and again to load the map if you're streaming. But that being said I think that if you're using a preplanned route the map is instantly in your phone. I used it to follow a route the other day and my phone lost signal for thw entire walk but I always knew where I was on Viewranger.
@@SummitOrNothing Smashing, thanks for your help.
Hi Trevor, great informative video. I'm looking at downloading this app to my PC. They don't seem to make a version for Windows 10. Which is what I have on my PC. Is your PC running on Apple/mac or Android? Sorry, I'm not very technical, and it seems to involve a real phaff if I do want to download a version for Windows 10. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Keep up the good work.
With the PC you just go to Viewranger.com online - no need to download, they will ask you for your log in details which will be the same as the app, that way you can sinc the two.
@@SummitOrNothing Thank you. I'll give it a go.
Very helpful thanks 👌
Could you possibly think of doing a how you edit your videos vid?
Agree, be good to see behind the scenes 😁👍 great vid again Trevor. Very informative.
Funny you should mention this. I'm currently editing the first in a series of videos related to running and building a TH-cam channel and so this will probably feature how I edit my videos.
@@michaelsapsford6013 I'll see what I can do.
Great info 👍 thanks
No worries. Glad that it was helpful. Cheers!
Great video
Cheers
You didn't mention the camping thing, that you dodged last time!!! ☝😩
Great vid thnx new sub 👍👍
Cheers Craig! Welcome on board! Hope you can find the time to check out some of previous content!
@@SummitOrNothing will do.pall..
Great video but ViewRanger has now merged with Outdooractive and is now a bag of🤬in the true sense of the word. I'm going to go till the end of my subscription and then go back to OS unless it improves dramatically in the meantime 😩
Yea - I know - I havent converted to Outdoor Active yet - I watched all the piss poor reviews come in on teh app store and decided to hang on until Viewranger halts completely. I still have the OS maps for all the National parks on it so its still working fine for me.
5 minutes before he actually gets to plotting a route, Lost interest.