- Alltrails started a new premium subscription level, Peak
- The peak comes with a raft of AI tools, including community thermal cards, path conditions and external objectives
- It costs $ 79.99 / £ 79.99 (around $ 125 in) per year
Another day, another level of subscription to AI Premium added to one of the best fitness applications. According to Hot on the heels of Garmin, Strava, Polar and Whoop, Alltrails announced his latest subscription level, Peak, which is delivered with a bunch of AI tools in cool air.
Alltrails Peak, the new most expensive level of membership at $ 79.99 / £ 79.99 (around $ 125 at Australian players), includes all alltrails plus and the free application level, and adds a series of AI tools:
- Community heat card Offers information on the activity of Alltrail users, allowing you to filter the routes by recent popularity. It shares certain similarities with the recent feature of the Strava Heatmap card, but these are hiking wheels to identify the roads that other hikers use.
- Trail conditions is compared to “an application which is its own” by the product manager Ivan Selin, aggregating 15 different weather factors every hour through the entire path. Selin says that the functionality will tell you “not only to wait for the snow, but what depth and where the snowpack will be”, as well as other factors such as the conditions of the soil and even the activity of mosquitoes.
- Personalized routes is a program assisted by automatic learning designed to allow alltrail users to create their own trails from zero.
- Exterior lens Use the camera of your phone, the Alltrail photographs and AI to identify benchmarks, plants, mushrooms and even insects. The external objective is not available during the launch of Peak and will arrive “a little later this summer”.
The features fed by Alltrails Peak seem very complete. However, the price increase (without puns) is important, because Alltrails more costs only $ 35.99 / £ 35.99 per year (around $ 56 per). In our Alltrails review, we said that the premium level was only worth it for regular hikers, so the increase is probably worth only for power users.
Basic subscribers have access to a new point of interest feature to help users explore along the track, and the more subscribers are also offline, a feature allowing users to download a large area card and access all the trails of this card.
Once announced as Apple’s iPhone application of the year, the most premium level of alltrails is expensive enough for only very frequent recreational hikers and those who spend a lot of time outside are tempted. A price increase of $ 45 / £ 45 is not a small increase, especially when you pay each year in a single lump sum.
However, the division of this price over 12 months gives you $ 6.66 / £ 6.66 per month, which is not a different price from Garmin Connect + ($ 6.99 / £ 6.99) or Strava Premium ($ 11.99 / £ 8.99). For this price, you get (which seems to be) a very complete set of tools fueled by AI, those which go far beyond the advice paragraphs of these services created by the generative AI. Garmin, in particular, was castigated for the laziness of apparent design in the characteristics of the AI on his paid level.
As an Alltrail user, I am particularly delighted to try the conditions of the trails and the features of the external objective, although I would not be unlikely that I go out for the full subscription. As a different (and largely ignorant) excited (and largely) different plants and trees, it would be good to have a tool that I can use on the path that will help me identify certain species.
In addition, as a person who lives in the United Kingdom, where the threat of rain is never far away, the conditions of the path would allow me to timed my hikes to ensure a minimum chance of drawbacks. In addition, it would improve my chances of packaging the right shoes!
