Live Locator, rebuilt Share your hike live and your followers see your battery, distance to go, ETA and the weather ahead. Chat as you walk, send a photo, and sharing keeps going through patchy signal. Turn-by-turn on alternatives and spurs Walk onto an alternative or a spur and turn-by-turn now guides you along it and back to the main hike, instead of telling you you're off route. Pace splits See your pace for every kilometre or mile of a recording, spot your fastest and slowest splits, and open the full split table. Ascent card Your climbing and descent rates and steepest gradient, with a graph coloured by how fast you climbed. Tap ⓘ on any graph to learn how to read it. Hike lists on the map Show every hike in your lists on the map, each list in its own colour. Bag a peak from the summit Standing on top? Tap Bag this peak. No recording needed. Mute off-route warnings Mute them for 2, 5 or 10 minutes, for this hike, or for good. Also in this update • A redesigned Edit Profile, with up to 3 links on your public profile • Download a copy of your data from Settings → Your data • Start navigation straight from the hike map's options • Better place search for hiking spots • Tap a POI's coordinates to copy them • Deleting a recording asks whether to remove the peaks it bagged • Completed hikes now show above planned hikes on the map • Your completed hikes are no longer shown on your public profile • Apple Watch recordings reach your iPhone and Apple Health more reliably • Import FIT and GPX files recorded before 2021 • Downloaded hikes always open offline • Fixes for turn-by-turn, Apple Watch and very long recordings

Location & compass Tap your coordinates on the map bar for a full-screen compass. It shows your position in every format, including your national grid, plus a what3words address and which way to turn for a bearing you've set. Share your location in one tap. Merge recordings Walked a route in pieces? Pick up to five of your recordings and merge them into one walk. Import any route file GPX, KML, KMZ, GeoJSON, FIT, TCX or a ZIP: pick one file or a whole batch, and HiiKER shows what each one will become before it imports. Find it under the new + on Home. Heart rate, pace and steps Your recordings now show heart rate, pace and step graphs, plus your time in each heart rate zone. Photo stops in your flyover Your 3D flyover now pauses at the places you took photos. PRO+ members can hide them. Download the hikes in an area Frame an area in Explore and download all its hikes in one go, ready for when you lose signal. Compass mode on Apple Watch Tap the location button on your watch map and the map turns with you. A crosshair now marks the centre of the map. Also in this update • Tap a cluster in Explore to browse its hikes as cards • "On this map" shows your POIs, overlays and hikes, and clears them in two taps • Plan to opens the planner on your destination • Completed hikes now live in a Completed list beside Favourites • Failed downloads tell you why, with Retry • Share a hike trailer from the hike's share screen, and WhatsApp gets the video itself • Turn-by-turn asks which way you're heading when a route starts and finishes in the same place • A new Auto-align horizon setting in the Peak Viewer • Better battery life while recording

Location & compass Tap your coordinates on the map bar for a full-screen compass. It shows your position in every format, including your national grid, plus a what3words address and which way to turn for a bearing you've set. Share your location in one tap. Merge recordings Walked a route in pieces? Pick up to five of your recordings and merge them into one walk. Import any route file GPX, KML, KMZ, GeoJSON, FIT, TCX or a ZIP: pick one file or a whole batch, and HiiKER shows what each one will become before it imports. Find it under the new + on Home. Heart rate, pace and steps Your recordings now show heart rate, pace and step graphs, plus your time in each heart rate zone. Photo stops in your flyover Your 3D flyover now pauses at the places you took photos. PRO+ members can hide them. Download the hikes in an area Frame an area in Explore and download all its hikes in one go, ready for when you lose signal. Compass mode on Apple Watch Tap the location button on your watch map and the map turns with you. A crosshair now marks the centre of the map. Also in this update • Tap a cluster in Explore to browse its hikes as cards • "On this map" shows your POIs, overlays and hikes, and clears them in two taps • Plan to opens the planner on your destination • Completed hikes now live in a Completed list beside Favourites • Failed downloads tell you why, with Retry • Share a hike trailer from the hike's share screen, and WhatsApp gets the video itself • Turn-by-turn asks which way you're heading when a route starts and finishes in the same place • A new Auto-align horizon setting in the Peak Viewer • Better battery life while recording

Peak bagging is here Walk over a summit with a recording running and HiiKER bags it for you. Munros, Wainwrights, Corbetts and hundreds of lists besides: see everything you've climbed in My Peaks, watch a list fill up, and find where you stand on its leaderboard. Free, for everyone. Augmented Reality Peak Viewer Hold your phone up and the Peak Viewer labels the mountains in front of you with their names, heights and distances, and shows which ones you've already bagged. It locks onto the skyline your camera sees and stays there as you pan. Turn-by-turn guidance while you walk Your planned route now talks you through it: a turn banner on the recording screen, spoken aloud, arrows on the map at every turn, a directions list for the whole walk, and the same on your Apple Watch. It works with no signal and tells you out loud if you stray off route. Included with HiiKER PRO. Widgets and watch complications Open the map, start a recording or find a hike in one tap from your Home Screen, Lock Screen or watch face, and keep this month's distance, elevation and hike count on your Home Screen. Your heart rate on every recording Record with your Apple Watch and the recording shows your average, max and min heart rate. Download a whole list in one go Every route up a mountain, or a whole list of hikes, now downloads as one thing: one card, one size, managed and deleted together. Also in this update • Bagged peaks are celebrated on your recording's 3D flyover • A profile led by your totals, with your leaderboard placings and a PRO+ badge • The planner opens straight onto your route, with a hint for each step • Copy any hike into your planned hikes • Share a point of interest with a link that opens in HiiKER • Manage Subscription shows what your next renewal will cost • New 50 m and 25 m off-route sensitivities, with 50 m now the default • The points of interest you pick stay on across every map • A redesigned map options sheet, and a Download / Directions / More / Start bar on the recording screen • PRO+ video options when you share a flyover • European Portuguese, fully translated • Many Apple Watch fixes: maps load straight away, and routes and recordings stay in step with your phone

See where you are on the elevation profile The route profile now marks your live position, on the hike overview, while you record, and in the planner — so you can see the climb still ahead at a glance. Waypoints you can read at a glance Waypoints grow as you zoom in and show their names right on the map, so you no longer have to tap a pin to find out what it is. Turning them on is remembered too — switch tabs or restart the app and they're still there. A print queue that keeps up Print maps now show how many sheets are rendering and how far through a multi-page sheet you are, and a finished map appears on its own — no need to pull to refresh. Better sharing The share card opens full screen with a clear title, and Share Link now opens the system share sheet as well as copying the link. Tidy up your activity Clear your Recent Activity list whenever you like. Also fixed • Importing a GPX file with a lot of waypoints could hang the app. • Resuming a recording at launch now opens the recording page, instead of leaving you on the home screen.

See where you are on the elevation profile The route profile now marks your live position, on the hike overview, while you record, and in the planner — so you can see the climb still ahead at a glance. Waypoints you can read at a glance Waypoints grow as you zoom in and show their names right on the map, so you no longer have to tap a pin to find out what it is. Turning them on is remembered too — switch tabs or restart the app and they're still there. A print queue that keeps up Print maps now show how many sheets are rendering and how far through a multi-page sheet you are, and a finished map appears on its own — no need to pull to refresh. Better sharing The share card opens full screen with a clear title, and Share Link now opens the system share sheet as well as copying the link. Tidy up your activity Clear your Recent Activity list whenever you like. Also fixed • Importing a GPX file with a lot of waypoints could hang the app. • Resuming a recording at launch now opens the recording page, instead of leaving you on the home screen.

What's new in 26.91: • Share a review of your hike or recording to friends directly from the app. • Turn a hike into a Trail Trailer: a 3D video of the route, shareable straight from the 3D preview and kept in My Flyovers. • Redesigned place, waypoint and highlight sheets — clearer type, distance and coordinates, and Street View only where there's actually imagery. • Multi-day hikes now show the itinerary's own day count instead of a pace estimate, with a new setting that follows you across devices. • Deleted a recording by mistake? It now waits in the Recordings bin for 7 days, even if it was deleted on another device. • Plus a long list of fixes: map labels, GPX imports, paused-time on the elevation chart, the planner, print maps and downloads.

What's New in 26.82 - CarPlay support — search, switch map styles, navigate, and manage waypoints straight from your car's display. - Redesigned print maps — a new settings sheet and print queue make it easier to prep and print your maps. - Public stats — check out other users' hiking stats and share your own with a link. - Offline hike editing — edit your own hikes even without a connection. - Recording improvements — more reliable recording titles, continuing a recording now keeps its comments and ratings intact, and photos are viewable straight from a pending recording's preview map. - Smarter search — enter easting/northing coordinates directly, and Back now returns you to your results instead of starting over. - Bug fixes and polish — fixes for purchases, sign-in, map display, downloads, and Apple Health permissions, plus general UI cleanup.

What's New in 26.82 - AR Peak Viewer — point your camera at a mountain and see its name and height, right on screen. - CarPlay support — search, switch map styles, navigate, and manage waypoints straight from your car's display. - Redesigned print maps — a new settings sheet and print queue make it easier to prep and print your maps. - Public stats — check out other users' hiking stats and share your own with a link. - Offline hike editing — edit your own hikes even without a connection. - Recording improvements — more reliable recording titles, continuing a recording now keeps its comments and ratings intact, and photos are viewable straight from a pending recording's preview map. - Smarter search — enter easting/northing coordinates directly, and Back now returns you to your results instead of starting over. - Bug fixes and polish — fixes for purchases, sign-in, map display, downloads, and Apple Health permissions, plus general UI cleanup.

Pick up where you left off :hiking_boot: Cut a recording short? Continue it from exactly where it ended — even one you'd already saved. And if you discarded one you shouldn't have, Recently Discarded is quietly holding it for you. Print maps, right here Your print maps now open in the app. Print them, share them, admire them. Faster flyovers 3D previews start almost instantly instead of making you wait for the whole video. Tidier lists Sort your recordings however you like, and find everything under one friendly "+". Better offline Your downloads are stored more sturdily, so they're there when the signal isn't. And a pile of small fixes Steadier map, straighter double-tap zoom, a Watch map that remembers your zoom, honest error messages, and your hiiker.com unit settings finally following you into the app. Happy hiking!

Import GPX from your lists. Got a GPX file? Import it straight from your Hikes or Recordings list and it becomes a new hike or recording in two taps. No detours. My Stats has landed. Lifetime distance, ascent and time, your biggest milestones, and a year-by-year breakdown — all in your units. Edit your own hikes. Spotted a typo in that route you uploaded at 11pm? Fix it right from the hike overview. Closure warnings. If a trail has a reported closure, you'll see it on the overview — not at a locked gate. Tidier overlays. Heatmaps at the top of the list, the same order as the website, and your completed trails finally draw above the HiiKER trails layer. Recordings that don't get stuck. Retry a failed upload, or discard a recording straight from the save screen. Happy trails.

GPX in, GPX out: Export any recording as a GPX file, and import guide routes straight into your recordings. Live Locator goes long: Let loved ones know you'll be back in 24, 48, or 72 hours — built for thru-hikes. Never lose a step: We now auto-restore unsaved recordings if your app or phone quits mid-hike. A smoother map: Distance markers thin out as you zoom, panning is buttery-smooth, and waypoints stay put when you switch styles. Safer taps: Clearing your cache now asks twice, and off-route warnings hush the moment you finish recording. Plus a fresh new look and a stack of fixes. Happy trails!

GPX in, GPX out: Export any recording as a GPX file, and import guide routes straight into your recordings. Live Locator goes long: Let loved ones know you'll be back in 24, 48, or 72 hours — built for thru-hikes. Never lose a step: We now auto-restore unsaved recordings if your app or phone quits mid-hike. A smoother map: Distance markers thin out as you zoom, panning is buttery-smooth, and waypoints stay put when you switch styles. Safer taps: Clearing your cache now asks twice, and off-route warnings hush the moment you finish recording. Plus a fresh new look and a stack of fixes. Happy trails!

GPX in, GPX out: Export any recording as a GPX file, and import guide routes straight into your recordings. Live Locator goes long: Let loved ones know you'll be back in 24, 48, or 72 hours — built for thru-hikes. Never lose a step: We now auto-restore unsaved recordings if your app or phone quits mid-hike. A smoother map: Distance markers thin out as you zoom, panning is buttery-smooth, and waypoints stay put when you switch styles. Safer taps: Clearing your cache now asks twice, and off-route warnings hush the moment you finish recording. Plus a fresh new look and a stack of fixes. Happy trails!

- :clapper: Your hikes now get a cinematic 3D flyover that frames your whole route, buttery-smooth — and it stays locked on the action even at top speed. Oscar pending. - :card_index_dividers: Export in GPX, Garmin GPX, KML or GeoJSON, with filenames that actually make sense (dates and all). - :white_check_mark: Filter your Completed Hikes — past glory, sorted. - :lock: Pocket-proof your map: lock the screen so a rogue tap can't hijack your view mid-hike. Tap the button to unlock. - :round_pushpin: Tap anywhere on an overview map to open it — not just the tiny corner button. - :compass: Compass keeps its cool when you tap to go full screen. - :hammer_and_wrench: Plus: fewer phantom "off-route" alerts (we only nudge you when you're actually wandering), a Celsius spelling rescue, and the usual polish.

New mini compass! toggle it on for quick directional awareness while you hike. Set a custom bearing from any waypoint or POI to keep you pointed the right way. Long-tap the map to instantly get stats for that spot, drop a waypoint, plan a quick route, or set a bearing. Mile markers now appear along your routes, so you can track progress at a glance.

New mini compass! toggle it on for quick directional awareness while you hike. Set a custom bearing from any waypoint or POI to keep you pointed the right way. Long-tap the map to instantly get stats for that spot, drop a waypoint, plan a quick route, or set a bearing. Mile markers now appear along your routes, so you can track progress at a glance.

New mini compass! toggle it on for quick directional awareness while you hike. Set a custom bearing from any waypoint or POI to keep you pointed the right way. Long-tap the map to instantly get stats for that spot, drop a waypoint, plan a quick route, or set a bearing. Mile markers now appear along your routes, so you can track progress at a glance.

New mini compass! toggle it on for quick directional awareness while you hike. Set a custom bearing from any waypoint or POI to keep you pointed the right way. Long-tap the map to instantly get stats for that spot, drop a waypoint, plan a quick route, or set a bearing. Mile markers now appear along your routes, so you can track progress at a glance.

New mini compass! toggle it on for quick directional awareness while you hike. Set a custom bearing from any waypoint or POI to keep you pointed the right way. Long-tap the map to instantly get stats for that spot, drop a waypoint, plan a quick route, or set a bearing. Mile markers now appear along your routes, so you can track progress at a glance.

New mini compass! toggle it on for quick directional awareness while you hike. Set a custom bearing from any waypoint or POI to keep you pointed the right way. Long-tap the map to instantly get stats for that spot, drop a waypoint, plan a quick route, or set a bearing. Mile markers now appear along your routes, so you can track progress at a glance.

New mini compass! toggle it on for quick directional awareness while you hike. Set a custom bearing from any waypoint or POI to keep you pointed the right way. Long-tap the map to instantly get stats for that spot, drop a waypoint, plan a quick route, or set a bearing. Mile markers now appear along your routes, so you can track progress at a glance.

Big update to offline maps and settings. Quick access to downloaded maps: manage offline maps from the map selection screen. PRO+ Map Legends: view legends for PRO+ maps to identify roads, paths and icons. Customise route style: adjust the route line to stand out or blend in. Your choice. Compare Maps: overlay 2 map styles compare information. More map settings: lock map to north, change map projection, customise 3D exaggeration and more!

Big update to offline maps and settings. Quick access to downloaded maps: manage offline maps from the map selection screen. PRO+ Map Legends: view legends for PRO+ maps to identify roads, paths and icons. Customise route style: adjust the route line to stand out or blend in. Your choice. Compare Maps: overlay 2 map styles compare information. More map settings: lock map to north, change map projection, customise 3D exaggeration and more!

Your maps just got a serious upgrade. We've completely overhauled how HiiKER delivers maps — and you'll feel the difference instantly. OS Mapping, Harvey Maps, and EastWest Mapping are now rendered at the highest possible resolution, with a lightweight new engine that's faster, smoother, and easier on your device's battery and CPU. Better maps. Better performance. Go explore.