If you ride green lanes in the UK, you probably know TrailVidz. It has built a loyal following since it launched in February 2025, and it deserves it. People often ask me how it compares with Holloway. The honest answer is that they're different products that do some similar things, and I use both. For the wider picture of every option, see the best green lane apps in the UK.
What TrailVidz is great for
TrailVidz puts its lanes as a layer over Google Maps, the map most of us already know, so it feels familiar from the first time you open it. Its big strength is video: a huge library of lanes filmed by riders, so you can watch a lane before you ride it and see the ruts, the gradient and the line someone took. That's a better way to judge a technical lane than any written grade.
It also grades lanes by difficulty and shows closures, and membership includes a GPX Creator for building routes plus member discounts on kit. The team behind it are always quick to respond, and you get a real answer, fast.
I use TrailVidz myself. Before I ride a lane I don't know, especially a technical one, I'll watch it on TrailVidz first. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to see a lane before they go.
What Holloway does differently
Holloway shows different data and puts the focus somewhere else:
- Legal checks. Every lane shows its recorded legal type, BOAT, UCR or restricted byway, kept separate rather than blurred together, plus any closure, seasonal closure or traffic order we know about. Each lane has a Legal Status Search that looks up current orders for that exact lane. You can read how we check our lane data.
- Weather for that exact spot. The weather on the lane, plus a mud forecast built from soil moisture and the rainfall there over the last three days and the next 24 hours, with a warning when a ford may be running high.
- Routes, GPX and navigation. Link several lanes into a day out with the roads between them, download it as one GPX file, and follow it lane by lane on the bike.
- Record your ride. Start a ride log and Holloway records your GPS track as you go, roads and all, so you can download the day you actually rode as a GPX file.
- Ireland. As well as England and Wales, Holloway covers Ireland's unsurfaced public roads, in beta.
- The fun bits. A ride log to tick off the lanes you've ridden, badges and ranks in My Holloway, and share cards of your rides for Instagram or Facebook.
The map, every lane's legal type and closures are free with an email sign-in. Holloway Premium, £20 a year, adds the lane details, weather and mud forecast, route planning, GPX downloads, including your recorded rides, and navigation.
Where they overlap
Both help you find lanes, both grade them, both show closures and both let you build a route and download a GPX. Holloway doesn't have a video library like TrailVidz's: riders can add a video link to a lane, and Street View helps where Google has been, but it's not the same as a library of filmed lanes.
Why I use both
They answer different questions. I use TrailVidz to see what a lane is like before I ride it, and Holloway to check it's open and legal, see how wet it's likely to be after the week's rain, and plan and navigate the day. If you ride lanes regularly, there's a good case for having both on your phone.