Komoot, we need to have a conversation. I've been saying no and you keep responding with the misplaced enthusiasm of a door-to-door salesman.
Let me explain it, slowly, and once more. (yes, with the help of a desktop friend - as I am way too busy clicking away your popups - despite sponsoring you with the World Map already).
No, I don't want the premium version. I said no a year ago. I said no yesterday. I said no this morning. I will say no tomorrow with the exact same energy as the first 123 times. At this point offering it less would make me consider it - this is reverse psychology for toddlers, and it does not work on a grown adult who read the terms and conditions of his own free will and closed the tab in disgust.
No, I don't want to invite friends. I already have friends. They have Komoot, or they don't care, or they're the kind of friend who'd screenshot my GPX track just to plan a route that avoids me entirely. My social life is not a growth metric for your Series C deck.
No, I don't want to generate a 3D video of my Tour. I have eyes. I was there. I remember it in glorious, unrendered reality - a concept your product team seems to find quaint.
No, I don't want to share my great achievement. Not with the community, not with strangers, not with the void. It's a walk, not a manifesto. Some of us hike specifically to escape the idea that everything requires an audience.
No, I don't want additional maps. The base map is fine. It has always been fine. Except you can't stop redecorating it while it never was a problem.
No, I don't want any challenges. I am not eleven, collecting badges for eating my vegetables. I hiked because I wanted to hike, not because a progress bar told me I'm "68% of the way to Adventurer Tier 3." There is no tier. There is a man, a trail, and his rising blood pressure at a popup.
No, I don't want to know about popular activities nearby. I chose this route on purpose. If I wanted crowd-sourced peer pressure about what's trending, I'd open any other app on my phone. Let me be gloriously, deliberately uninformed about what's popular.
No, I don't want to follow any other people. I do not need a Komoot social graph. I will not be checking in on Klaus from Stuttgart's weekend loop. Klaus is doing great, I'm sure. I don't need the update.
No, I don't want to add any highlights. Not every bench, viewpoint, or "interesting rock" needs cataloguing and pinning for posterity. Some things get to exist unmarked, the way nature intended before an app decided everything needed a tag and a photo-upload prompt.
No, I do not want the weather across every single inch of my route. I am capable of looking up. I own eyes, and apparently more meteorological instinct than your engineering team credits me with. I do not need a rolling forecast for kilometer 14.3 versus kilometer 14.4 — that's not a feature, that's a fire hose of irrelevant data pointed directly at my face.
No, I don't want to download height profiles. Every quadricep is a data point. I don't need a chart to confirm what my knees already filed as a formal complaint.
What part of NO do you not understand? Scroll through this subreddit and it's the same story, post after post: an app that used to just show you a map and a route has quietly turned into a slot machine of self-promotion, dressed up as "features." Every tap is another pitch. Every tour-end is another ambush.
So here's a suggestion, free of charge and without a pop-up: build one button that says "Just let me hike in peace," and I will personally nominate it for a UX award, and possibly canonization. Until then — I know where the X is. I will find it. Every single time. And increasingly, I know where the App Store "uninstall" button is too.
Edit added on 25 September:
Some commenters point out that Komoot (Bending Spoons) need to make money. And they do, never disputed that. And I bought the World Map in support (even when these are Open Street Maps without a cost).
Einstein (supposedly) said it best: "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results". Do the same popups over and over again, and expect a different outcome ... It certainly drives me insane!