Vegvisir
Vegvisir Norway · Lindesnes to Svalbard

A travel guide to Norway that works offline

Vegvisir keeps the whole guidebook on your phone, so it works without a signal: 330 places, real driving times, a trip planner and 23 practical guides.

330places, checked and written
16,686routes measured on real roads
6regions, Lindesnes to Svalbard
Coming soon to the App Store iPhone and iPad. The guidebook is free.
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A guidebook that does not need a signal

In Vegvisir the places, the map pins and routes, the planner and the practical guides are already on your phone. Ask a local, the AI feature, needs a connection.

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Briksdalsbreen to Nigardsbreen: 16 km in a straight line, 209 km by road

16km

Briksdalsbreen to Nigardsbreen, in a straight line.

209km

By road. About three and a half hours.

Briksdalsbreen Nigardsbreen 16 km 209 km by road
Road shape from the app's route data. © OpenStreetMap contributors.

In Norway a straight line is not an approximation. It is wrong, because there is usually a fjord or a mountain in the way. So Vegvisir measured 16,686 routes between its places on real roads, with OpenStreetMap data.

Lindesnes to Svalbard

Follow the route north. Every stop shows one thing the app knows before you get there.

58°N60°N62°N64°N68°N70°N Arctic Circle Svalbard 16 km straight 209 km by road

  1. 01 · Southern Norway · 15 places

    Lindesnes

    330 places

    The guidebook starts here in the south and runs all the way to Svalbard in the north.

  2. Looking straight down a cliff into the deep blue Lysefjorden, with three hikers sitting on the rock edge
    Lysefjorden. Photo: Vikingstad, public domain

    02 · Fjord Norway · 65 places

    Preikestolen

    Preikestolen and Kjeragbolten are 24 km apart in a straight line. In Norway there is usually a fjord or a mountain in the way, so the app uses the road.

  3. 03 · Fjord Norway

    Bergen

    What is worth doing in Bergen when it rains?

    Ask a local is the AI in the app. It answers from the places in Vegvisir, in your language, when you have a connection.

  4. 04 · Eastern Norway · 84 places

    Besseggen

    From mid-June

    Besseggen depends on a boat that runs from mid-June. The app says so, instead of letting you plan a day that cannot happen.

  5. Looking down the hairpin bends of Trollstigen into a green valley between snow-flecked peaks
    Trollstigen. Photo: Stefan Krause, CC BY-SA 3.0

    05 · Fjord Norway

    Trollstigen

    Closed in winter. Every place in the app shows its season, so you know before you set off.

    One of 24 scenic roads

  6. 06 · Central Norway · 18 places

    Trondheim

    Every place has the same four things:

    1. 01What it is
    2. 02Why it is worth the trip
    3. 03What to know before you go
    4. 04How to actually get there
  7. Red fishing cabins on stilts along turquoise water at Reine, under steep granite peaks
    Reine, Lofoten. Photo: Lukas Beck, CC BY 4.0

    07 · Northern Norway · 135 places

    Lofoten

    Lofoten and the north in a week is one of five ready-made routes in the app. So is a northern lights week.

  8. The sail-shaped peak of Segla rising straight out of a calm, dark fjord in warm autumn light
    Segla by Mefjorden, Senja. Photo: Ximonic (Simo Räsänen), CC BY-SA 3.0

    08 · Northern Norway

    Senja

    Every hike shows how hard it is and how long it takes. There are 47 of them in the guidebook.

  9. Tromsø on a polar night afternoon under a violet sky, with the lit bridge, the Arctic Cathedral and the town lights below snowy mountains
    Tromsø in the polar night. Photo: Osopolar, CC BY-SA 3.0

    09 · Northern Norway

    Tromsø

    Winter driving, dressing for a Norwegian winter, the weather as the real danger. 23 practical guides, readable without a signal.

  10. 10 · Northern Norway

    Nordkapp

    Works offline

    Places, map pins, routes, the planner, the practical guides and the emergency numbers all work offline. Ask a local, the AI feature, needs a connection, and the app tells you before you tap it.

  11. 11 · Svalbard · 13 places

    Svalbard

    330

    The last 13 places in the guidebook. That makes 330, from Lindesnes all the way up here.

All of it, on your phone

The places, the seasons and the real roads from that route are all in Vegvisir. And the guidebook is free.

330 places, each with what it takes to get there

Every place has the same four things: what it is, why it is worth the trip, what to know before you go, and how to actually get there.

Each also shows the season, the time it needs, the difficulty for hikes, the cost level and how busy it gets.

The Explore screen in Vegvisir: 330 places, a search field, Ask a local and places picked for the month
A place page for Preikestolen with photo, region, time needed, difficulty, cost, how busy it gets and season

What the 330 places are

Nature127
Heritage126
Viewpoints90
City80
Activities73
Museums59
Hikes47
Food and drink36
Wildlife26
Scenic roads24

A place can be in more than one category.

A few more of the 330

Each one with its season, the time it needs and how to get there.

Mirror-still Nærøyfjorden between steep green walls, looking toward Gudvangen
NærøyfjordenFjord Norway. Photo: mcxurxo, CC BY 2.0
The Atlantic Road curving over a bridge between rocky islets, with surf and blue sea
AtlanterhavsvegenFjord Norway. Photo: Fabio Liggeri, CC BY 2.0
The white, triangular Arctic Cathedral in Tromsø under a blue sky with drifting clouds
IshavskatedralenNorthern Norway. Photo: Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0
A long blue lake far below steep mountainsides, seen from the plateau at Trolltunga
TrolltungaFjord Norway. Photo: Wolf Vandierendonck, CC0
White wooden houses on a small island at Lyngør, reflected in calm water
LyngørSouthern Norway. Photo: Peulle, CC BY-SA 4.0
View from the top of Loen Skylift over a dark fjord wrapping around a snow-capped mountain
Loen SkyliftFjord Norway. Photo: Heike Kranacher, CC BY 3.0
Turquoise glacier water of Blåisvatnet below jagged grey peaks in the Lyngen Alps
BlåisvatnetNorthern Norway. Photo: Harald Groven, CC BY-SA 2.0
Colourful wooden houses, cafés and cyclists on a cobbled street in Bakklandet, Trondheim
BakklandetCentral Norway. Photo: Leonhard Lenz, CC0
Blue glacier ice of Briksdalsbreen spilling between steep rock walls above old snow
BriksdalsbreenFjord Norway. Photo: Ximonic (Simo Räsänen), CC BY-SA 4.0
Colourful houses of Longyearbyen at the foot of a bare mountain on a clear day
LongyearbyenSvalbard. Photo: Dagny, public domain
Pastel Art Nouveau buildings along the harbour channel in Ålesund under a grey sky
ÅlesundFjord Norway. Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Åselistraumen bridge on the coastal road, with jagged peaks behind
KystriksveienNorthern Norway. Photo: th_norge, CC BY 4.0
The Stegastein viewing platform reaching out over the fjord, with visitors at the railing
StegasteinFjord Norway. Photo: TomasEE, CC BY 3.0
Vøringsfossen falling into a deep, snow-dusted canyon
VøringsfossenFjord Norway. Photo: Фалкон, CC BY 4.0
Green and violet northern lights over dark peaks and the sea at Sommarøy
SommarøyNorthern Norway. Photo: Alexandre Hertzog, CC BY 2.0

Plan the days you have

Tell it where you are staying and when. It lays your places out across the days you have.

Drag places between days and the driving time adds up. If a day runs past the evening, it says so.

Or start from a ready-made route

  1. 01Oslo in 48 hours
  2. 02Fjord Norway in five days
  3. 03Lofoten and the north in a week
  4. 04A northern lights week
  5. 05The big hikes
The trip Fjord Norway in five days, with a route map and each day's stops, times and travel time between them
The map in Vegvisir with clusters of places along the whole Norwegian coast and a Build a route button
Video: Sergey Guk, Pexels

Works without a signal

  • The places
  • Map pins and routes
  • The trip planner
  • The practical guides
  • The emergency numbers

Ask a local, the AI feature, needs a connection, and the app says so before you tap it. With Pro you can download a trip, so its photos work without a signal too.

Ask a local

AI, not a person. It answers from the places in the app, in your language, and needs a connection.

What to do in Bergen when it rains?

Is Lofoten worth it in February?

It needs a connection. For weather and avalanche conditions it points you to yr.no and varsom.no instead of guessing, and it does not give safety advice.

Ask a local, marked AI · online: a question about Bergen in the rain, answered with places from the app

The things people find out too late

23 practical guides: money and card payment, tolls, winter driving, the weather as the real danger, dressing for a Norwegian winter, the gear that matters, alcohol rules, healthcare and more.

110Fire
112Police
113Ambulance
116 117Non-urgent doctor
02800Police, non-urgent
120Sea rescue

Norway's emergency numbers. In the app the list is there even without a signal.

The Practical Norway screen with emergency numbers and topics such as money, what things cost, alcohol rules and driving

Why not just search?

A web search needs a signal.

The guidebook in Vegvisir does not.

A straight line on a map is wrong in Norway.

Vegvisir uses 16,686 routes measured on real roads.

A paper guide cannot plan your days.

Vegvisir lays your places out across them and adds up the driving.

A search result can come from anywhere.

Ask a local answers from the places in the app.

The guidebook is free

No trial and no countdown. Pro is one purchase, not a subscription, for the tools around the guidebook.

Free

The whole guidebook.

  • All 330 places, the map and the routes
  • The trip planner, with one saved trip
  • The practical guides and the emergency numbers
  • Five questions for Ask a local

Vegvisir Pro

One purchase, not a subscription.

  • 300 questions for Ask a local that do not expire, and you can buy more
  • As many trips as you want
  • Download a trip so the photos work without a signal
  • One extra theme

Privacy

No account. No sign-up. No tracking. No analytics. No advertising.

Your trips stay on your phone. Read the privacy policy.

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Take the whole guidebook with you

330 places, real driving times and a trip planner that keep working when the signal does not.

Coming soon to the App Store

iPhone and iPad. The guidebook is free, and Pro is one purchase, not a subscription. English, Norwegian, German and Chinese.

Run a place in Norway?

If you run a café, a museum or another place visitors should know about, tell us about it. Send the name, where it is and a link. If you spot something wrong in the guidebook, we want to hear that too.

Driver du et sted i Norge som reisende bør vite om? Send oss navn, hvor det ligger og en lenke. Ser du en feil i guideboka, vil vi gjerne høre det også.

contact@olmo-technologies.com

Every place in Vegvisir is chosen and written by us. We check the facts against maps and official sources before anything goes in, and the text is our own.

We do not list named tour operators.

Not every suggestion ends up in the guidebook.