Komoot’s the latest wrenching reminder that corporate platform monopolies don’t work for communities. We need open-source, non-profit platforms that are owned and governed by the people.

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better skip the corporate platforms entirely and try e.g. https://wanderer.to/

Fwiw, Komoot was acquired by Bending Spoons, who promptly laid off most of the staff.

Weird time to be promoting Komoot. I recently had to help my parents cancel scummy 5€ per week subscriptions they accidentally signed up for.

Someone else linked it before but I also recommend reading the write-up over at https://bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted/.

Komoot used to be good, but as everything that has been acquired by Bending Spoons it has been enshitified as someone has already posted.

Komoot was bought some large EU corp and gutted.

I can only recommend runalyze as a better alternative. Less social network, more data.

I’ve had Komoot on my phone for ages, didn’t realise it could record running.

Enough has been said about bending spoons … but Komoot additionally is NO Strava alternative. That said, I’d be glad to hear about good alternatives for both of them.

Is there any alternative with heatmaps, and more designed for trips, exploring and commuting than metrics and v02max?