After sale and redundancies: Komoot gets a fresh design
Despite redundancies, work on the outdoor platform Komoot continues: the website and app are getting a new design, with heat maps to follow later.
(Image: Komoot)
Komoot is getting a new design: the outdoor platform's website has already been redesigned and the app is set to be updated by the end of September. According to Komoot owner Bending Spoons, the aim was to create a sleeker interface. In addition, the search bar is now more prominently placed, and recommended excursions are better highlighted.
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In addition to the new look, Bending Spoons has presented a development plan that includes various new features. These include a new route planner, a dark mode and heat maps that use public data from the Komoot community. Apple Watch users will also be able to save routes offline in the future. Some of these features should be ready this year, others in 2026.
The roadmap is also a sign from Bending Spoons that the development of Komoot will be actively continued following the takeover last year. Bending Spoons has already implemented 50 innovations for Komoot recently, writes Bending Spoons in a press release. According to Wirtschaftswoche, Bending Spoons laid off around three quarters of its employees following the takeover.
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"Scaling requires a different mindset"
Komoot co-founder Markus Hallermann had justified the sale of the app as necessary: "What got us here will not take us to the next level," he wrote in the press release. "Scaling a company requires a different mindset and different skills than building a company." Komoot was founded in Potsdam.
Bending Spoons is an Italian company that has acquired several well-known applications in recent years, including WeTransfer and Streamyard. Bending Spoons' portfolio also includes Evernote and Meetup. Bending Spoons is notorious for its rigorous approach: After buying Evernote, the company laid off almost all of its employees. Bending Spoons has also laid off a large part of the workforce in many other acquisitions.
Komoot is a platform for outdoor activities that maps out tours for hikers, cyclists and runners worldwide by the community. The basic version of the application is free of charge, but if you want to unlock additional features such as tracking and additional planning tools, you have to activate Komoot Premium for 5 euros per month.
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