The best hiking apps in 2025
Hiking apps are like your personal trail companions, helping you plan, navigate, and enhance your hiking adventures. These apps provide a range of features to assist you in finding trails, tracking your progress, and discovering new hiking routes.
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Find the best camping spots with Tribal Camping, the ultimate search engine for wild campgrounds. We use machine learning to scan satellite images and open-source data to find the best campsites around the world. Only available for EU & California for now.
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Whether you're training for your next ultra-marathon or exploring new trails, our comprehensive tools help you visualize routes, analyze elevation changes, and strategize your pacing and nutrition.
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wanderer is a self-hosted trail database. You can upload your recorded GPS tracks or create new ones and add various metadata to build an easily searchable catalogue.
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TrailWise is an all-in-one site for hiking and camping, focusing on gear and route management, hill logging, and historical analysis of user data. The site encourages users to complete famous hills worldwide, and provides mapping and visualization tools to help them accomplish their goals. Awards provide a fun incentive to get outdoors, and public profiles allow users to share their gear, routes, timelines and awards with friends.
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Dive into an innovative navigation experience with MiniMap Radar. Seamlessly melding real-world exploration with digital precision, this app ensures you'll never miss a beat while navigating.
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With the SHOOZ app, you can track the distance covered in your workout shoes to avoid injuries and improve your training performance. Create your shoe collection and track the mileage!
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With FitCrumbs, users can quickly create personalized routes for running, hiking or any outdoorsy sport and effortlessly follow them through a user-friendly, watch-based map.
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Introducing Ascend, the app that transforms your everyday staircase climbs into extraordinary adventures, using only your iPhone or your Apple Watch on your wrist. With Ascend, your stairs become the path to Everest, the Eiffel Tower, and K2, amongst many more
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MapMagic helps you to plan your next adventure. Whether you are into hiking, cycling, or even rafting, we've got your back with features like smart routing, multi-day plans, POIs, and more! Create, keep, and share your trails. Built by explorers for explorers.
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City Guides, blogger and locals can create their own trabble tours for free via a browser tool and offer them for digital purchase in the app. The app guides the user and presents multimedia content (for example quizzes) on the spots of a tour.
