BackCountry Navigator XE is a mobile application for exploring the outdoors using offline topo maps and GPS on your smartphone. This free app is available for Android, iOS and the web. It is a newer version of the well-established BackCountry Navigator PRO. The new app comes with cross-platform support, vector topo maps for the world, and easy grid-based download of maps.

The app has an easy-to-use interface that allows you to download and use topo maps offline to explore the outdoors using your smartphone. With the GPS in your smartphone, you can navigate, mark your path, and record waypoints. The app also provides planning in the cloud, which allows you to plot points, routes, and boundaries for trips, and download them on demand in the mobile app. You can push trips created in the mobile app to the cloud as well for reviewing or sharing.

BackCountry Navigator XE offers a variety of worldwide and country-specific maps that can be downloaded for offline use based on a yearly membership. Bronze membership allows you to use most maps, silver membership allows you to use slope-shaded topo maps of the US, plus US Forest Service maps, and gold membership allows you to use Accuterra Maps, with new, readable maps of the US and the World, plus BackRoads MapBook Basemap in Canada.