The Wainwright Companion is the feature-packed app for working through all of the fells across the English Lake District.
NAVIGATE WITH CONFIDENCE
Track your position on a live Follow-Along map across 275+ bundled trails with Companion+, or step up to full GPS-guided navigation with off-route alerts, offline maps, and automatic summit detection along the way, plus a route planner for your own multi-fell days, with Pro. Live navigation shows your position, distance remaining, time estimate, and the route's full elevation profile.
WEATHER INTELLIGENCE
Real-time hourly forecasts for every fell across the regions, with a green/amber/red safety assessment that accounts for summit altitude. Nearby Wainwrights and plan-ahead to find the best Fells this week, which recommends your next walk based on weather, proximity, and what you've already bagged or bookmarked.
EXPLORE THE MAP
All 214 Wainwrights and 116 Outlying Fells plotted on an interactive map, colour-coded by region. Checkmarks show what you've completed and re-visited. Tap any fell for its details, and access to pre-planned and your custom routes that visit the summit. Get up-to-date weather for each location, with adjustments for altitude and climate.
NEARBY SUGGESTIONS
Recommendations based on your location, current weather, remaining daylight, and which fells combine well for a day out. Forward planning for the week ahead gives you quick insight into which day and Region has the optimal weather for a day in the hills.
TRACK YOUR PROGRESS
Check off every fell you've bagged. Add notes, photos, companions, ratings, and weather conditions. Your completions sync across all your devices via iCloud.
ACHIEVEMENTS & SOCIAL
Unlock 100 achievements as you work through the regions. Share your curated routes and completions with the fell walking community, and follow fellow baggers.
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FREE TO START
- Browse all 214 fells and their details
- Record completions with notes and ratings
- Interactive map showing your progress
- Your personal timeline of Wainwright completions
- Nearby fell suggestions
- Photo attachments on all completions
COMPANION+ (one-off purchase)
- Follow 275+ pre-planned routes covering the full Lake District
- Complete the 116 Outlying Fells of Lakeland
- Share routes and completions on social feed and completion sharing
- Live Activity gives a quick view of progress
- Apple Health workout recording
COMPANION PRO (annual subscription)
- Hourly summit weather forecasts with safety ratings
- Intelligent recommendations for the week ahead
- Live GPS navigation with optimised battery consumption
- Off-route notifications, and re-routing to get you back on track
- Route planner for multi-fell days
- Automatic summit detection
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Navigation and location data is used for route following and nearby suggestions.
Weather forecasts are provided by Open-Meteo.
Bundled routes are generated manually and use OpenStreetMap data.
Terms of Use: https://wainwrightcompanion.co.uk/terms/
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For Everyone
- Updated summit and route descriptions across all Wainwrights.
- Recalculated route time estimates, accounting for surface types even more accurately.
Companion+
- 55+ routes and descriptions added, covering all 116 of the Outlying Fells.
- 6 new Outlying Fell achievements for multi-summit hikes linked to the new routes.
- Update to the live activity to allow it to be recovered if accidentally closed from the lock-screen.
Pro
- Live Activity's next-summit target now advances automatically on proximity, not just after logging a summit.
- Backgrounded walks are far harder to lose; checkpoints every 60s, force-closed apps resume correctly, ending a walk stays safe.
- Cleaner pre-start screen; compact side-by-side activity & direction toggles.
Version 1.3.5
The developer, Paul Dickenson, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Health & Fitness
Location
Contact Info
User Content
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Supported Features
VoiceOver
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Color Alone
Sufficient Contrast
Reduced Motion
Information
Seller
Paul Dickenson
Size
90.4 MB
Category
Navigation
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.