After sale and layoffs: Komoot gets fresh design

Komoot gets a new design: The website of the outdoor platform has already been revised, the app is to be updated until the end of September. According to Komoot owner Bending Spoons, the goal was to create a fancier interface. In addition, the search bar is now placed more prominently, recommended excursions are better highlighted.

In addition to the new appearance, Bending Spoon has presented a development plan that includes various new features. This includes, among other things, a new route planner, a dark fashion and heat maps that use public data from the Komoot Community. Apple Watch users should also be able to save routes offline in the future. Some of these features should be completed this year, partly in 2026.

The roadmap is also a sign of Bending Spoons that the development of Komoot will continue to be actively continued after the takeover last year. In the past few months, 50 innovations have been implemented for Komoot, Bending Spoons writes in a message. Bending Spoons has after the takeover According to Wirtschaftswoche released about three quarters of the employees.

“Scaling requires other mindset”

Komoot co-founder Markus Hallermann had justified the sale of the app as necessary: ​​”What brought us here will not bring us to the next level,” he wrote in the message. “The scaling of a company requires a different mindset and skills than building a company.” Komoot was founded in Potsdam.

Bending Spoons is an Italian company that has bought several well -known applications together in recent years, including Wetransfer and Streamyard. Bending Spoons portfolio also includes Evernote and Meetup. Bending Spoons is notorious for his rigorous approach: after buying Evernote, the company released almost all employees. Bending Spoons also terminated a large part of the workforce for many other takeovers.

Komoot is a platform for outdoor activities that represent the community tours for hikers, cyclists and runners worldwide. The basic version of the application is free of charge. If you want to unlock additional features such as tracking and additional planning tools, you have to unlock Komoot Premium for 5 euros per month.