Build your hike with a fingertip, see the climb before you climb it, and keep the map when the signal drops. For a first time at Col des Bœufs as much as for the thirtieth.
For people discovering the cirque and for people who know it by heart: 5 a.m. starts, dead zones, trails that close overnight.
A start, a finish, the hamlets in between: distance, ascent, descent, difficulty and duration appear straight away — computed from your pace, not from an average.
When the ONF closes a trail or Météo-France raises an alert, you hear about it in the app and by notification. If your route goes through it, it is flagged.
Two hours or three days? The app proposes loops and crossings based on the part of the island, the time you have, and what you can actually climb.
Tap a hamlet, a pass, a waterfall: it becomes a waypoint. Distance, elevation and duration follow every tap.
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Read in the middle of your route and turned into walking conditions: what it means underfoot, not a column of numbers.
Download once, keep the map and its points of interest. Your Garmin or Komoot tracks import, yours export.
The route unrolls over satellite imagery, profile and photos alongside — ready to send to whoever missed it.
Every hamlet has its sheet, readable from the map even offline, with the lodge's number one tap away.
Open a friend's track, snap it back onto the waymarked trails, leave with your own.
You invite once. At every departure and every arrival, they are notified by email or push, with nothing to install — they follow the hike on a plain web page.
The app tells apart “no signal”, “flat battery”, “hike finished” and genuine trouble. A dot that stopped moving is never presented as a drama.
Arrival time passed and still no news: your people get a notification. Nothing for you to trigger.
Your progress shows on their lock screen, with your mascot. Low-power mode measured at around 4% battery per hour.
No more map screenshots in the WhatsApp group. You choose the route, the date and the meeting point; everyone joins the hike with a link or an eight-digit code, no subscription needed, and keeps the plan even with no signal when it is time to set off.
The route, the time, the car park, the planned pace and the gîtes for each night sit on the same page for everyone. Who is coming, who is unsure, who has dropped out: you see it without chasing anyone.
An ONF closure order or a Météo-France warning that touches this route, and every participant is told. The weather for the stage is on the hike's page.
At the start and at the finish, each walker's people get the news. And with a Premium organizer, trails across the whole island open up to the entire group.
No group to hand? Some organizers also open their hikes to anyone who wants to come.
See the open hikes ›Muddy stretch, ravine in flood, trail cut: the people who passed before you leave the information at the exact spot. Published with a five-minute delay, moderated, erased after 48 hours.
Every point of interest you pass in the field joins your collection: pools, passes, viewpoints. The network already walked, about twenty achievements with Creole names, a character to grow.
Every hike leaves a recap to send as a link: the track, the numbers, the photos — and heart rate if you wear a watch.
The app follows your phone's language: for walking here, and for planning the trip from the other side of the world.
Satellite, relief, or maximum legibility depending on what you are trying to see — and the interface in light or dark.
Track, pace and heart rate on the wrist, without taking the phone out of the bag. Everything resyncs on return. In testing on real devices.
The trails of the whole island, live tracking for your people, GPX import / export, map styles and the RandoMafateur cap. Mafate, routing, closures, lodges and zarlor stay free.
Choosing the trail, finding a lodge, checking that nothing was closed along the way, looking up the weather on the right side of the mountain… The hike was beautiful. Getting ready for it, much less.
I started by gathering it all in one place, for myself. Then I added whatever I was missing on the next outing: offline maps, real walking times, routing from one point to another. Today every feature in RandoMafate answers a problem met in the field, not a box to tick.
I am a developer from Réunion, I build the app on my own, and I am the one who reads the mail. A trail, a piece of information, a feature missing? Write to me at contact@randomafate.app.
AllTrails, Komoot, Visorando, Cartes IGN, Outdooractive and Wikiloc all work on Réunion. Only one app is built for the island. Offline, ONF closures, sector weather, tracking by your loved ones, price: the comparison use by use, and the cases where RandoMafate is not the right pick.
“Très pratique dans Mafate !”
“First time in Mafate, I had never known how to read an elevation profile. Seeing the climb before doing it stopped me setting off on something too hard for me.”
“We climb as a group of eight, at very different paces. Seeing everyone on the map cut the twenty-minute waits at every junction.”
“Hike planned from Nantes, the lodge at Aurère called straight from its sheet. On site, not a bar of signal and yet everything was there.”
Free, and no account needed to explore the map. Download RandoMafate, tell the people who care, go walk.
