8 Best & FREE Hiking Apps You Need to Download in 2022 + Honorable Mentions!

1

AllTrails

For more advanced hikers, AllTrails also provide information such as elevation gain and trailhead location, and time. AllTrails app also tracks and records the hikes you've done, including the exact route you took, the elevation gain you've achieved, and how long it took for you to complete the trail.

#Travel & Location #Sport & Health #Sports 119 social mentions

2

Gaia GPS

With the paid version of Gaia GPS, you'll get access to offline maps and Gaia's entire map catalog. Recently, Gaia GPS partnered with Outside+ for their new annual premium version. Gaia GPS's annual version includes additional maps for skiing, mountain biking, and backpacking, which is great for frequent hikers, backpackers, and backcountry trekkers.

#Maps #Sport & Health #Travel & Location 16 social mentions

3

FarOut

FarOut Guides was built by former thru-hikers who found a need for a offline access map and guide that can help them traverse various terrains to accomplish a long distance trail.

#Travel & Location #Sport & Health #Outdoors 5 social mentions

4

PeakVisor

PeakVisor is a 3D maps and peaks Identification app that contains information about more than 1 million peaks all over the world and helps you identify the ones you find during your trips. It's definitely one of the best, if not the best, hiking + trekking visualization and identification apps out there!

#Travel & Location #Maps #Maps & Navigation 7 social mentions

5

Spyglass

Spyglass is a secretly awesome hiking rangefinder app for outdoor navigation. While it’s not a free hiking app, it’s a one-time fee of $5.99 is more than palatable and definitely worth it.

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6

Hiking Project

You can learn more about the Hiking Project app with our Hiking Project review that grades the quality of the app and goes into detail about the unique features so you can get the best out of it!

#Travel & Location #Maps & Navigation #Maps 2 social mentions

7

Cairn

Cairn helps you plan routes by offering helpful estimates of how long you will take to complete a particular trail based on personalized data and points out areas with weak cell reception.

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8

Google Maps

Google maps is great for a general purpose app if you wouldn't want to pay or download another app, but the app comes with many limitations that some other hiking apps have. This includes access to user-generated trails or less popular trails, limited rangefinder capabilities, no peak identification, and more.

#Maps #Web Mapping #Mapping And GIS

9

Pokémon GO

Looking for a way to spice up your daily walks or hikes near the city? Look no further than the super popular augmented reality game to play while hiking: Pokémon GO.

#Text Editors #Augmented Reality #Enterprise Communication 12 social mentions

10

Seek by iNaturalist

By combining curiosity with discovery, Seek by iNaturalist allows you to identify faunas and floras on your hike based on images you take and your geographic locations by providing you a list of possible species based on the picture and location provided.

#Online Services #Education & Reference #Tool

11

National Park Service App

The National Park Service App, developed by U.S. National Park Services government agency, contains all of the vital information you'll need to know on all 423 national park units, which include 63 national parks around the united states.

#Travel & Location #Sport & Health #Outdoors