About ADVx

What is ADVx?

ADVx is a platform for off-road and adventure riders: plan on the web, then take the whole ride offline. Draw a route from scratch or upload a GPX, pin the waypoints that matter, and share it with your crew — then the ADVx apps for iPhone and Android (coming soon) carry it onto the trail: an offline navigator with turn-by-turn, a crew voice intercom that works with zero signal, and your car's screen when you're on four wheels.

Why we built it

Standard map apps are built for commutes and assume a tower in sight. Hiking tools don't speak motorcycle. Group comms means strapping another few hundred dollars of hardware to every helmet. And sending GPX files back and forth in group chats gets old fast.

ADVx is the tool we wanted but couldn't find — focused on adventure riding, built around the way groups actually coordinate before, during, and after a ride.

The ADVx apps — coming soon

Native iPhone and Android companions built for the ride, not the desk.

Crew voice comms

An open-mic intercom for the whole crew — a Cardo in your pocket. Phones within range find each other and connect directly: no cell coverage, no servers, nothing to dial. Full-duplex voice on the Opus codec that survives phone calls and reconnects on its own.

Offline navigator

A fast, native map that keeps working with zero bars — routes, waypoints, and your position on downloaded maps, never a blank tile.

Downloadable map regions

600 regions across 87 countries, picked automatically for wherever you are, plus terrain & detail packs: hillshade, contour lines, and an ADV surface overlay. A worldwide base map covers everywhere in between. The free plan covers three new regions a month — updates and re-downloads are always free, and ADVx Pro removes the limit.

Turn-by-turn navigation

Load a route and go — navigation wakes when you start moving, reads the turns ahead, and warns you the moment you drift off-track. The map follows the actual sun: light after sunrise, dark after sunset.

Lock the screen

Rain on the glass, a glove, a jacket cuff — locked, every touch on the map is ignored while your speed, altitude, and turn cues stay up. Hold the unlock pill for a second to get back.

ADV Routing

Long-press anywhere on the map and ride there — turn-by-turn computed right on the phone from your downloaded maps, no signal needed. Five profiles from Road Fast to Extreme decide how much dirt the route hunts for.

Ride a loop

Pick a budget — by distance, or by time, which most planners won't take — and the app builds a round trip from where you're standing back to the same spot, ranked for roundness. On the phone and on both car screens.

Offline place search

Food, fuel, lodging, health, and stores — searched from your downloaded maps and one tap from a route there.

Weather alerts

Severe-weather warnings for where you are and the route ahead, surfaced while you ride.

Remote GPS

Run the Navigator on a Wi-Fi-only iPad: your iPhone broadcasts its GPS over the hotspot and the iPad rides on it — moving map, navigation, recording, all of it.

Background ride recording

Speed, elevation, grade, and accuracy recorded with the phone locked in a pocket. Pause and resume anytime — the stats stay honest.

CarPlay & Android Auto

The navigator on the dash — offline map, turn cues, and recording controls on the car's screen, and crew comms one tap away without touching the phone.

On the web

GPX upload & ride stats

Interactive maps with distance, elevation, duration, speed, and grade extracted automatically — plus elevation and speed charts for every track.

GPX Planner

Draw new routes directly on the map, insert points right on the line, and undo any edit — with a live elevation profile as you plan and drafts that save themselves. Flip on Follow roads and every click snaps to the road and track network using the same routing profiles the apps ride with. Ride a loop builds round trips to a distance or time budget, and the 3D toggle drapes the map over real terrain so a route reads as ridges and valleys. Load and edit existing tracks, merge segments, simplify over-dense files, and export as GPX or save straight to your library.

Route weather

Hour-by-hour forecasts along your tracks and planner routes, timed to your departure.

Waypoints

Pin campsites, fuel stops, water sources, and technical sections — yours and your groups' show up right on the dashboard map.

Riding groups

Create a group, invite riders, share tracks. Simple membership and invite flow.

Route sharing

Share any GPX file with one or more of your groups in a single tap.

Photo attachments

Add up to three photos per track to document the ride.

Units preference

Kilometers or miles, set once in Account Details — every page on the site follows it, and the apps pick it up the next time you open them.

Public rider profiles

A profile page that rides for you: your featured map as the cover, a ride résumé of total distance, climb, and countries, and a link that unfurls with your stats anywhere you share it.

Shareable ride cards

Every track gets a share image worth posting — elevation profile, headline stats, and your best photos laid out automatically.

Offline map coverage

600 downloadable regions across 87 countries — each with the full terrain & detail packs — and a worldwide base map for everywhere in between. More countries land as riders ask for them.

Cross-border routing

ADV Routing doesn't stop at the line on the map: the countries below share one routing graph, so a computed route crosses their borders without a seam — Chihuahua to New Mexico or the Alps arc in one go. Everywhere else routes within its own country.

Learn the ropes

Every feature above has a short, rider-to-rider guide in the How-To Guide — five-minute reads with the screens you'll actually see. Crew Comms, ADV Routing, terrain & detail packs, route weather, and CarPlay / Android Auto are part of ADVx Pro; everything else is free.

Navigate. Coordinate. Ride.