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Tap Open GPX File on the start screen or Load GPX File in the menu, share a file to POI Navigator from another app, or open it from the Files app. Files are read where they are; nothing is uploaded.

It's free to try: everything works in simulation, on the demo route or your own GPX files. POI Navigator Unlock is a one-time purchase that adds your real GPS position plus saving and exporting, on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with Family Sharing. If you bought POI Navigator when it was a paid app, it's already unlocked. On another device, choose Restore Purchases in the unlock sheet.

Yes. Tap Try the Demo Route on the start screen, or Open Demo Route in the menu, to open the Oregon Outback, a gravel route from Klamath Falls to the Columbia River with its towns, stores, cafés, campgrounds and water as POIs. It opens already simulating, so everything is ready to try.

From the waypoints in your file. Each waypoint's comment or type (water, camping, food, lodging, bike shop and dozens more) becomes a category. Only categories in the file are listed, and anything unrecognised is filed as Generic. Choose which to show, and their order, with the gear button.

Distances are measured along the route, which is the distance you'll actually travel. If you're off the track, the distance back to the nearest point on it is added.

Tap any POI and choose Set as Goal to see the distance, climb and an elevation profile to it at the top of the map. Anchor Point marks a stop, such as each night's camp. The Anchors table then shows the distance to the next anchor and between each one, so a long route breaks into daily legs. The finish is always an anchor.

Each tap moves to the next view: your location, the whole route, you and the next stops, the way to your goal, the way to your next anchor point, then follow mode, which keeps you centred and heading up as you move. The goal and anchor views only appear when there's a goal or an anchor ahead. Moving the map yourself switches it off until you tap again.

If you open a route more than 20 miles from where you are, POI Navigator offers to simulate travelling along it, so you can plan from home. Pick a speed in the bar at the top of the map, or end it from the bar or the menu. Your real position is used again as soon as it stops.

Choose Save Modified Copy from the menu. The copy keeps your goal and anchors, includes the POIs you added, and leaves out the POIs you suppressed. Your original file is never changed. Advanced Export in the same menu saves just the POIs or just the track as a standard GPX file for other apps.

Until you save, your changes are kept safe: if the app closes first, it offers them back the next time you open it. Saving and exporting come with POI Navigator Unlock.

Press and hold anywhere on the map (click and hold on a Mac). A pin drops and the New POI sheet asks for its icon, a name and a description. You can also tap a shop, café or other place on the map and choose Add to Route to add it from Apple Maps.

The route, POIs, distances and GPS all work without a connection. Maps come from Apple Maps, so areas you haven't viewed recently may be blank until you're back online or download offline maps that cover your route in the Apple Maps app to always have a map on hand.

iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or later, and Macs with macOS 26 or later.

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