Tread® App Reviews

Excellent app and hardware

I recently used the Tread app for my NorCal BDR ride. The app and navigation works flawlessly. Could be happier.

Such an amazing app. Being able to pick how adventurous routine want is amazing. I’ve used it on the XT 2 for my motorcycle go a while and recently bought the TreadXL Overland gps unit for my 4 x 4 and had a great backroad trip to Montana. Good job Garmin.

This is the first time I’ve had a truly smooth experience with GPS planning routing and uploading. I was on a dirt bike ride with my dad and we ran into private property so I was able to quickly spin up a new route, send it to my Zumo XT2 and we were off!

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The thing I like best about this app is how you can build a route exactly how you want it from the comfort of your home. Specific roads/trails, however many way points or stops, adventure settings- curvy and paved or straight and boring- whatever you want. Then name the route, save it, and the next time your GPS synchronizes it’ll be on your device screen. You can build several days worth of routes for a multi day trip and then name each. Monday, Tuesday, etc. Works great with Zumo XT2

The map opens in random orientation and makes it very difficult to plan or look at the routes.

Amazing app. They have thought of everything. Group rides are simple. Adventure levels let you route offroad trails with ease. Standard routing works just like the phone GPS. Importing GPX files and syncing with the Garmin Tred tablet is very easy. Recommend even for people who don’t have a Garmin Tred so they can be a part of a “Group Ride” and never get lost!

I use it with my Garmin XT2 Motorcycle GPS. I have several motorcycles and I like that with this app and the optional enhanced map subscription I can get access to off-road maps.

Works great !!!

Maybe it has it and I can’t find it but it would be great if there was a Lock Screen or maybe a way to track it if it’s stolen even if it off. I don’t have doors or a top and I don’t want it stolen. If it was it be great to get it back

I really enjoy this app. It’s just what you’d expect from Garmin. Basic user interface, but powerful features when paired with their device.

I really like both the app and the GPS. Very user-friendly and intuitive so far so good.

Love the integration with XT2 and easier to plan routes than on the device.

I frequently plan multi-day group rides (road touring) for me and my friends. We’ve used Google Maps, Harley GPS and Indian GPS in the past. This is by far the best app I’ve used. We can plan the days ride while sitting in our hotel or a bar at night on my iPad. It will automatically sync to the cloud, then to my phone and from my phone to my Zumo XT2. Once you get used to adding waypoints, stops and shaping points it’s a breeze to use. If you’re planning a long ride in a place like the Ozark

Takes a while to figure out how to use it properly, but once you do it is easy to work with.

Love this app. Makes it simple to save and share tracks.

The Garmin XT2 and Tread app are just about perfect for moto travel. I have tried many alternatives. No laptop required (sorry, but BaseCamp is past it’s prime). Tread makes GPX management simple.

Awesome functionality

But all these Apps want you to rate them before you have any real experience, with them…so be careful of the 5 star I gave, as while I’ve done “home testing”, I’ve not done the real world trail testing, yet. Garmin was “hot to trot” for a review so I gave one, but I’m not going to lie for them.

This is not perfect but it is the best so far and I hope they keep working on it

Perfect device for Off-road vehicles. I track all my routes and keep them on the tread app. Love this thing.

Love the Garmin Tread app! easy to plan your routes and transfer to the motorcycle mounted Garmin. I use the Zumo XT 2. Customizing routes to explore the Pacific Northwest has never been easier and frustration free.

This app seems to cater more towards off road riders and campers. I ride a Goldwing and this app is difficult to use to make routes. It needs better or more map layers of just streets and roads, paved roads. And many times If I zoom in on a road it never even displays the name and thats very frustrating. I have to use my SCENIC APP to make routes with and send it to the TREAD APP and then hope my New Zumo XT2 will follow the route.

I’m not sure if this is a bug or not, but I looked at some older videos of the application being used and there’s a save button when you try to create a route. There is no way to save any route that I create on the phone app (there is also no way to load a route as far as I know). older video walk-throughs of the app show a save button as well as a fast and adventure button on the bottom when you’re creating a route. Those don’t exist anymore and haven’t for the last few versions I guess. that f

You release an update that includes great rides… the ONE in north Georgia has 40 miles each way of of boring slab, you miss almost all the scenic roads, you don’t have the dragon? Garmin … always so close, but so far… I wish they had competition or someone made a phone that worked with gloves so the could become irrelevant.

Some map details, such as popular paths, are not completely shown. There is a square region of my city that has the popular paths but outside this region the purple lines stop This also makes it not possible to fully plan your route a long distance route.