TrailsIQ and Trailforks
We get asked this a lot: "Our trails are already on Trailforks. Why would we need TrailsIQ?" The short answer is that you probably want both. They look alike from a distance, and up close they are built for different people.
Two different jobs
Riders look for them there. Use TrailsIQ for everything that happens before and after a rider shows up.
Trailforks
It is one of the best trail discovery apps there is. Riders use it to find somewhere new to ride, check what is open, follow a route and record their ride. Its trail database covers the whole world, and a lot of it was put there by local volunteers.
TrailsIQ
That means the crew clearing the blowdown, the coordinator counting volunteer hours, the board member writing the grant report and whoever keeps the website up to date. It is how you run the organization behind the trail map.
Trail reports and maintenance
Trailforks has trail reports too, and they are good ones. Riders post what a trail is like, and an association can mark a problem open or in progress, assign it to somebody and log the volunteer hours that fixed it. TrailsIQ starts with the same report. The difference is everything that happens after it arrives, because in TrailsIQ a report is the start of a job your organization has to plan, staff, pay for and prove it did.
Both products
TrailsIQ goes on to
01Reporting
Visitors report through TrailsIQ Go with no account and no password. Every report waits in a review queue, so nothing reaches your crew or your public page until somebody on your team approves it. If the problem has already been reported, the visitor is told before they send a second one.
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02Tasks
Each task has a type, a priority and a pin on the map. It can also carry a work plan: how long it should take, how many people it needs, and which tools and materials to bring from your own inventory.
Learn more03Inspections
Inspect a structure on your phone and TrailsIQ works out when it is next due. A failed answer files the repair task for you, linked to the structure.
Learn moreDraw on a photo to circle the washout or mark the cut. Add more photos as the work goes on, take one off that is no help, or dictate the description instead of typing it.
Learn moreThe crew talks it through on the task itself, with photos, instead of in a group chat. Managers are notified when something new comes in.
Learn moreFile a task, update it or close it with no signal. Download a network and the whole open list comes with it, and everything uploads once the phone is back in range.
Learn moreHours logged on a task count toward your volunteer totals and their dollar value. Group bigger work into a project with its own budget, and the year ends in an annual report for the board.
Learn moreShare one trail with a hired builder and they can work its maintenance list, and nothing else in your organization. Every change they make is marked with their company name.
Learn moreOpening day, closing day and the walk after a storm, ticked off on the phone with photos, and anything that fails becomes a task.
Learn moreBeyond maintenance
Keeping a trail network open is half of it. The other half is running the organization that does it.
Change a trail's condition from the field and it shows on your website and in TrailsIQ Go straight away. Followers get a notification.
Learn moreDownload a whole network before you leave the parking lot, including the map, the terrain and the photos. Anything recorded out of range uploads once the phone has signal again.
Learn moreTrack lifts alongside trails, keep the fixed hardware on your climbing routes inspected, or run several chapters under one umbrella account.
Learn moreWalk or draw a line and see its grade, where it breaks the half rule and where it runs down the fall line. Get a build estimate from your own rates.
Learn moreVolunteer hours with their dollar value for a grant, expenses and mileage, inventory, seasonal checklists and an annual report for the board.
Learn moreBuild a full site with your own domain, or keep the website you already have and bring your trails and conditions into it through our API. Run events with signups, waivers and tickets, and take donations straight into your own Stripe or PayPal account.
Learn moreWhat Trailforks does well
If your riders love Trailforks, that is good news for you. Nothing about TrailsIQ asks them to stop using it.
Trails all over the world in one app, with photos, ride logs and a big community. TrailsIQ shows your own trails to your own visitors. It is not a discovery app.
Detailed maps, routing and offline regions, built around a rider out on the trail.
Riders post trail reports there every day, and your association can help moderate them.
Who pays
Trailforks is mostly paid for by riders. The website is free, and riders who want more from the app buy a Pro subscription. That suits an app built for riders. TrailsIQ is paid for by the organizations that use it, and that lets us make three promises.
TrailsIQ Go is free, with no premium version and no upgrade screen. Somebody reporting a washout on your trail is doing you a favor, and we will never ask them for money.
There are none in the field app, none in TrailsIQ Go and none on your website. Your public site is yours, and we will never sell space on it.
Most trail organizations run on volunteers and a budget that is already spoken for. We built TrailsIQ so a small club can use the whole system, and there is no charge per seat on any plan.
Starter
Free for good, with no credit card
10 trails and 3 field workers, plus the trail planner, both mobile apps, offline downloads, maintenance and your public conditions page.
Core
$29 a month or $299 a year
50 trails and 15 field workers, plus terrain analysis and satellite imagery in the US.
Pro
$49 a month or $499 a year
Everything. Unlimited trails, managers and field workers, plus the full website, events, news and your own domain.
Using both together
Import the GPX, KML or GeoJSON files you already have, a whole folder at once.
Tasks, inspections, hours, photos and condition changes, with or without signal.
On your website and in TrailsIQ Go, and they report problems straight to your crew.
The way they always have.
Import your trails, put the field app on your crew's phones and see how it fits the way you already work. The free plan never expires, and there is no credit card.
