Home
Your routes on a map.
Routebox puts the routes you have actually travelled on a map: the GPS tracks your workouts recorded, alongside a library of GPX and KML routes you import. Every track gets a map and an elevation profile you can drag to follow a point along it, and can be exported again as GPX or KML. It opens on Routes, where six real example routes are already waiting, so there is something to look at before you connect anything. Everything happens on your device.
- Workouts — your sessions newest first, filtered by sport, with a calendar to jump to any day that has one. Only sessions that recorded a GPS route are listed; one without a track has nothing to map.
- Map — every workout and saved route on a single map, told apart by pin colour.
- Routes — a library of GPX and KML routes you import: distance, ascent, descent and peak altitude worked out on import, drawn on a map with an elevation profile. Six real recorded routes ship with the app, from two stages of the Camino de Santiago to rides and walks in the Azores and Okinawa.
- Compare — on any full-screen map, draw other routes and recorded workouts over the one you are looking at, each in its own colour. Every track gets its own elevation profile, swiped between below the map, and one button puts them all on a single scale so lengths and climbs compare directly.
- Directions — get turn-by-turn directions to the start or the end of any saved route.
- Full screen — open any map full screen with the elevation profile over the bottom, rotate it with two fingers, or let it turn as you turn. Reverse a route end-to-start to read it the other way — the profile recomputes its distance from the far end — with a marker sweeping the track to show the direction.
- Off route? — see how far from the route you are and which way it lies.
- Route and profile — the real track on a map, with an elevation profile you can drag to follow a point along it. On a long route you can also tap a spot on the map and the profile jumps to it — the quick way to read your altitude and how far along you are without fiddling with the tiny chart. Pinch the profile to zoom into a single stretch; the window keeps the point you are following in view.
- Difficulty and rating — every workout is given an automatic difficulty from its distance and climb, which you can override, plus your own verdict on a four-level scale from Very good to Avoid. In the workout list the difficulty shows as a colour dot, green through red, with your rating as a small face beside it.
- Notes, ratings and difficulty, on all your devices — add your own note, rating and difficulty to any workout; all three sync across your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud.
- Your routes on all your devices — routes you import sync through your own iCloud, so a route added on one device shows up on the others. (The bundled examples stay on each device.)
- Export — GPX or KML, through the share sheet.
- Import — bring a GPX or KML file in from another app, either into the route library or saved to Apple Health as a workout.
- Download more routes — browse a catalog of routes organised by country and add any to your library with one tap.
- Permissions when they are needed — nothing is asked at launch. Health access is requested the first time you open Workouts; location only while you ask to be shown on a route.
- Appearance and language — light, dark or system; fourteen languages.
The interface follows your device language, with English, Spanish, Catalan, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Galician, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish available. On the Home screen the app is called Routebox.
Available for iOS.
- Support — quick start, FAQ and how to reach us
- Privacy Policy — what we collect (nothing)
Routebox is free, with no ads and no tracking. If it is useful to you, a donation helps keep it maintained:
Looking for help rather than a way to donate? See Support.