Mountaya vs. Komoot
Komoot plans the weekend hike. Mountaya plans the race, the season, the app.
Komoot is a consumer route planner for individual hikers and cyclists. Mountaya is the mapping platform behind pro athletes, race teams, coaches, ski resorts, and outdoor apps. Same map. Very different stakes.
Works with the tools you already use
Challenges we solve
Built for the weekend. Built for production.
Design with depth
Activity-aware routing for nine activities, on a 3D map. Eleven weather overlays you can scrub through history, live, and forecast. Hillshade, slope, aspect, and avalanche zones for the days you cannot afford a surprise.
Decide with your team
Coaches, partners, safety leads, and athletes co-edit the same map in real time. Changes land live for everyone. Sign off on a final variant. Versions are saved. Nothing lives in someone's phone.
Publish where it matters
Export GPX to any watch. Embed a white-label interactive map on the race website. Render the route as vector tiles inside your own app. Hand the GraphQL API to an AI agent. The course leaves Mountaya in whatever shape your audience needs.
Feature by feature
Where each platform fits.
An honest side-by-side. Komoot wins on community discovery and consumer mobile navigation. Mountaya wins everywhere a professional outcome is on the line.
Mountaya is best at
Designing, collaborating on, and publishing outdoor maps at a professional level.
- Activity-aware routing on a 3D map with live, historical, and forecast weather
- Professional elevation profile with per-meter slope, surface type, and waytype
- Real-time collaboration and an AI co-pilot that edits the course from a prompt
- White-label embedding for race websites, coaching apps, and resort portals
- Agent Skills and a GraphQL geospatial API for outdoor apps and AI agents
Komoot is best at
Discovering and following routes for personal weekend outings.
- Mobile-first turn-by-turn voice navigation for solo riders and hikers
- Curated community routes, highlights, and tips from other users
- Region-by-region offline maps for casual exploration
- Beginner-friendly planning across hiking, road, gravel, and mountain bike
- Social sharing of personal tours with friends and followers
Use case
How Campus Coach uses Mountaya as the single source of geospatial data for their 600,000 users.
Instead of juggling Google Maps, Mapbox, Strava, and other providers, we made Mountaya our single source of truth for all our geospatial data. Having one centralized, end-to-end platform radically simplifies how we manage our stack and build new products.
Jonathan Levy
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Frequently asked questions
For professional use, yes. If you are a race director, a coach, a mountain guide, or a team shipping outdoor maps inside an app, Mountaya replaces Komoot and adds everything Komoot cannot do: real-time collaboration, deep weather and terrain overlays, white-label embedding, GPX export at a pro level, and a geospatial API. For a Sunday hike on a discovered route, Komoot is still a fine consumer app.
Yes. Export your Komoot tour as GPX (Komoot gates GPX downloads behind a region unlock or Premium), then import it into Map Studio in seconds. From there, you can refine the route, layer weather and terrain, collaborate with your team, and publish a branded embed.
Depth and reach. Mountaya offers eleven weather overlays with historical, live, and forecast modes, a per-meter elevation profile with surface and waytype, real-time multi-stakeholder collaboration, an AI co-pilot that edits the course from a prompt, white-label embedding for race sites and apps, and a GraphQL geospatial API. Komoot covers a slice of this at a consumer level: a simple weather glance and a basic elevation curve, with no historical or forecast modes, no per-meter surface analysis, no real-time collaboration, no AI editing, no white-label embedding, and no API. If your planning serves anyone other than yourself, the gap shows fast.
No, and that is intentional. Mountaya is built for people who design their own courses, not for people browsing someone else's. The platform invests in tools to create, collaborate, and publish, not in a social feed of public tours.