Frequently Asked Questions

Not at all. AvoMap is designed for everyone. You add your route, pick how the map looks, and the editor shows you the result as you go. If you can use a map and drag a slider, you can make a great video.

Yes. Every leg of your journey can be a different type — fly to a city, drive to a town, then hike to a viewpoint. AvoMap draws each part the right way.

Use Draw your route in the Route tab. Click the map to drop each stop, drag them to adjust, and set for every leg whether it follows roads, trails, railways, rivers, or a straight line. When you add it you choose between one segment for the whole route or one per leg.

The editor is free. You can plan routes and play the preview as often as you like, and five maps are free to build on a new account. Credits are only spent when you export a finished video, and they come in packs you buy once — there's no subscription.

Yes. Pick another route type for that leg and AvoMap shows the new path as a preview on the map. Nothing changes until you hit Apply route, and if the leg was drawn by hand or came from a GPS file you're warned before the original path is replaced.

Upload them to your Library, then add them as overlays on top of the map. You can trim video clips to just the part you want.

Symbols are markers pinned to a place on the map — they move with the map as the camera flies. Overlays sit on top of the video frame, like titles, photos, and graphics that stay on screen. Use symbols for places and overlays for storytelling.

Yes. Photograph it from the front, both sides and the back, and AvoMap builds a 3D model that travels your route. It works best with vehicles that stand upright on their own, like cars, vans and boats. You can also import a 3D model you already own.

You can export for all the popular platforms — widescreen for YouTube, portrait for TikTok, Reels, Stories, and Shorts, and square for feed posts. Choose the shape in Settings.

Yes. You can choose HD for quick, great-looking results, or 4K for maximum sharpness. Higher quality takes a little longer to produce.

Yes — to keep videos smooth and high-quality there's a maximum length. If you reach it, shorten some parts of your trip on the timeline to make room for more.

No. AvoMap builds your video in the background, so you don't need to keep the tab open. Your finished videos are ready to download when they're done.

Yes. Your project saves automatically as you work, so you can close the tab and pick up where you left off.

A credit is one exported video. You buy them in a pack once, with no subscription, and a plain Full HD render costs one. Rendering in 4K, replacing the AvoMap logo, or using more than ten different custom icons each add one credit. The export summary shows the total before you pay.

Fourteen days after it finished rendering. You get an email reminder before it expires, and the Downloads list on your home screen shows everything still available.

They come back automatically. The same goes for a render you cancel yourself.

Yes, in the phone's browser, with the same account and maps. Routes, map styling, playback and exporting all work. Editing overlays and camera keyframes needs a bigger screen.

The editor imports GPX, KML, KMZ, FIT and TCX, so exports from Garmin, Strava, Wahoo, Coros, Suunto and Google Earth go straight in. For anything else, such as a shapefile or GeoJSON, convert it first with the free tools at avomap.com/tools, in your browser and without an account.

Yes. The gift icon in the editor gets you a referral link. The person you send gets a discount on their first credit pack, and you earn a share of everything they buy, paid out monthly.

A few simple habits go a long way: give each part of your trip enough time on screen so it feels cinematic, start from an overlay preset and make it your own, try dusk lighting for a golden-hour look, and keep the screen uncluttered.