route-planning

All five of these apps will draw you a line and follow it, so a feature table is useless. Here is which one fails in a way you can live with, and the plan-in-one-navigate-in-another pairing most riders end up running.

A router will happily draw a line down something you cannot ride. Here is the seven-stage workflow for planning a bikepacking route, verifying it, and getting it onto a device you can follow.

A GPX is a plain text file you can open and read. Here is how to make one, split it into day-sized files, merge and reverse segments, and clean up a route a stranger drew.