A good app for Via Podiensis?

[janineb]

Anyone have a recommendation for a good app to use while walking the Via Podiensis? I’m starting in Le Puy and walking for 2 weeks. Would love to find an app with a good map and lodging/food options highlighted. Thanks!

 

[dougfitz]

I much prefer to use generic tools rather than an app, but I think Wise Pilgrim has an app for the Via Podiensis. I did use the Wise Pilgrim app to complement the other tools that I was using doing the CP this year, and it it worked quite well for what I wanted.

 

[mark connolly]

I used wise app as well. Very good.

Good luck.

Mark

 

[Helen Avoca]

Wise Pilgrim. It’s unanimous so far.

 

[lisagb]

Anyone have a recommendation for a good app to use while walking the Via Podiensis? I’m starting in Le Puy and walking for 2 weeks. Would love to find an app with a good map and lodging/food options highlighted. Thanks!

Anyone have a recommendation for a good app to use while walking the Via Podiensis? I’m starting in Le Puy and walking for 2 weeks. Would love to find an app with a good map and lodging/food options highlighted. Thanks!

Not an app but I think one comes with it? The Miam Miam Dodo guide book is amazing for all that you need.

 

[Vagabonder]

I booked all our lodging through Gronze and was very pleased. Everything is so well marked that unless one plans to do off trail hiking I’m not sure that a map would be needed.

 

[dougfitz]

I booked all our lodging through Gronze and was very pleased. Everything is so well marked that unless one plans to do off trail hiking I’m not sure that a map would be needed.

I have yet to walk a camino where there hasn't been some unplanned deviation from the marked path. Having a reasonable map on a handheld GPS or smartphone has given me the option of finding an alternative to go forward to wherever I am headed that day. This is often, but not always, far better than retracing one's steps to find that turn marker one inadvertently missed.

 

[Cleigh]

Anyone have a recommendation for a good app to use while walking the Via Podiensis? I’m starting in Le Puy and walking for 2 weeks. Would love to find an app with a good map and lodging/food options highlighted. Thanks!

We used Wise Pilgrim on the CP and loved it. Walking from Le Puy in Sept 2022 and have downloaded it for the Podiensis.

 

[naplesdon]

Miam Miam Dodo is great but if you do the variant to the Cele you will need to buy a second guide book.

 

[TexasIndia]

Has anyone used Buen Camino's Via Podiensis route? On my last 2 I liked Buen Camino better as an app. However, I'm concerned the Via Podiensis may not be as updated.

 

[Helen Avoca]

Anyone have a recommendation for a good app to use while walking the Via Podiensis? I’m starting in Le Puy and walking for 2 weeks. Would love to find an app with a good map and lodging/food options highlighted. Thanks!

I’ve used the Wise Pilgrim app from Le Puy twice now and highly recommend it. You can download the maps and use them off line.