not great, but huge potential – TrailLink: Bike, Run, Walk Review

This app has so much potential. It does help me locate a new trail, but there are things that can be much better: 1) when I click a location, sometimes it shows more info and other times it opens in google maps. It is not clear when you’ll get it to open in maps for driving directions and is sometimes impossible to figure out. There should be a clearly defined “open in maps” icon. 2) When maps does open, it does not open in my phone’s default mapping software (Apple Maps) and always opens in google maps. This is terribly inconvenient because when I use my phone to navigate in my car, I use CarPlay for instructions on the large console. Google maps only works on my tiny phone screen. Please update the app to open each device’s default map software, the. I can choose to default to Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze, or whatever the user wants. 3) When I signed up on TrailLink, I donated $50. Then when I went to the app on my phone, I discover that I have to pay another $30 to get access to the maps. This was super frustrating because I had just given you $50, and had I known up front it was another $30 just to use the app, I would have donated less and then paid the $30 for the app. These two things should be better explained, or ideally fully integrated. 4) The “trails near me” feature only shows a random trailhead on the trail and not the actual trail path. This makes it difficult to actually know what is near me, or where I might want to hop on the trail. Please just display the trails on the map. This app has so much potential. Please make it easier to use.
Review by AaronCLE on TrailLink: Bike, Run, Walk.