Bending Spoons acquires komoot

a beloved tool from Potsdam, Germany. Best in market for planning routes. I always had my grievances with their lack of premium features that where catered towards ambitious cyclists that use their phone instead of a GPS though. They could have had all my money of they would have had a customizable UI (or at least a bunch of skins to choose from). So much data collected and no useful HUD. Just copying what Garmin etc have (e.g. audio indicators for next turns) would have made a big difference...

Now this DC Rainmaker article about komoot quickly locking everything behind a paywall makes sense:

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/03/komoots-expanded-paywall...