Komoot Launches Updated Design as Part of Ambitious Product Roadmap

Komoot has launched an updated design as part of a series of major initiatives outlined the the brand’s ambitious new roadmap initiative, introducing a refreshed look that includes significant improvements for a more intuitive user experience, while the core navigation and other features remain the same. 

Key New Features

• A contemporary design. The new look introduces several refreshed design elements—such as color palette, fonts, icons, and illustrations—to elevate and modernize the overall komoot brand and user experience.
• A clearer and more intuitive structure. The team introduced improved spacing, visual contrast, content organization, and navigation to streamline information and make useful features more discoverable across Web and Mobile.
• A stronger emphasis on photos for more reliable route previewing. The new design gives priority to photo content, which users frequently rely on to choose or build their route on komoot. Now, users can better leverage over 87 million images to guide their decisions.

“Our goal was to strike a balance between the old and the new,” explains Tom Eldred, Product Manager at Komoot. “We kept the elements people already love and only reworked the parts we knew could be made simpler and more intuitive. In the end, it’s the same Komoot our community relies on, just with a fresh perspective.”

Built with the community

The new Komoot design was built hand-in-hand with the Komoot community, wherein the team collected and implemented customer feedback via 110 in-person interviews and over 3,000 online surveys. The initial community response has been favorable, with over 80% of the users reported that they preferred the new design, while another 15% said they liked it just as much as the previous version.

First in a series of upcoming product improvements

Since joining the Bending Spoons suite of digital products, Komoot has accelerated the rate at which it releases new features and improvements—in the past five months, the team has released over 50 changes for Web, Mobile, and connected devices.

Most recently, the team published a bold roadmap highlighting its key priorities for the coming months. The majority of upcoming changes focus on route discovery and planning, with a sweeping update to the Web Route Planner and the introduction of route descriptions, advanced route filters, preferences, custom saved places, and more.

When previewing the new Web Planner during customer research, cyclist and lifestyle influencer Tegan Phillips commented, “One of my favorite pre-adventure activities is route-planning, which I’ve always loved doing with komoot. With these new changes, that planning process is going to be even simpler and more beautiful—I’m super excited!”

Beyond these features, Komoot users can expect improvements to their on-route experience with a new offline mode on Apple Watch and live navigation updates on Mobile. Finally, in 2025, komoot will leverage rich insights from its large user base to create community Heatmaps and streamlined Highlights, both of which draw upon users’ real-life experiences to help others find their next adventure.

With these initiatives, the goal is to improve the everyday user experience and make the platform more intuitive and enjoyable. The full list of previous improvements and details on upcoming features can be viewed here: https://www.komoot.com/product-updates.