Hiker: Offline Trail Maps
Topo contours & GPS position
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Hiker is a clean, no-nonsense topographic map for the outdoors, built for hikers who lose signal the moment the trail gets interesting.
Download the areas you're heading to while you still have Wi-Fi, then leave the network behind. Hiker keeps the map, the elevation contour lines, and the shaded terrain on your phone, so you always know where you are and what's around you.
FEATURES
• Offline maps — download any region and use it with zero connectivity
• Elevation contour lines to read the terrain at a glance
• Shaded relief (hillshade) for a natural sense of the landscape
• Your live GPS position on the map
• Fast, lightweight vector maps
• No account, no ads, no tracking — your location never leaves your device
Hiker is designed to stay simple and do one thing well: show you a great map when there's no signal. More is on the way.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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Route planning
Tap two points on the map and Hiker plans the walk between them. Tap more to extend it, or drop one beside a leg you've already planned and it offers to route you via there instead. Tap a point again to take it out, and undo takes back the last change.
• Hiking, walking, mountain bike or road bike — hiking prefers trails and accepts steep ground
• Recommended or shortest, and you can rule out ferries, river crossings and steps
• Up to fifty points, replanned as you edit
What the walk is actually like
"1100 m of climb over 14 km" describes a steady valley path and a flat approach followed by a wall — different days out. So the panel shows the shape, not just the total.
• An elevation profile coloured by gradient — the wall is the dark red part
• How far you'll be on made ground and how far on unpaved, in kilometres
• Paths, tracks and roads broken down the same way, plus the trail's grade
• Colour the line on the map by surface or by steepness
• Climb and time measured from the terrain itself, so they match the trail figures elsewhere in the app
Keeping a route, and sending it on
A saved route keeps its whole line on the phone rather than just its end points, so it opens in a car park with no signal — which is where it will mostly be opened. Give it a name and a note ("park at the church; last water at the refuge") and it's in your library.
Send it on as GPX for a watch, GPS unit or another walking app, or GeoJSON for anything that draws maps.
Your own places
Press and hold anywhere on the map — or tap a fountain, hut or summit the map already draws — and keep it, under the name you'd use, with the note nobody else has. "Spring above the col. Dry in August."
• Colour-coded categories, made as you go
• Your markers over every basemap, at every zoom
• Tap one on the walk to read back what you wrote
Search
Summits, huts, springs, towns and trail numbers. Places from the map you've already downloaded come first and need no signal; the wider world is added when there is one.
Library
Downloads is now Library: your routes, your places and your offline maps in one list — everything you have with you when the signal goes.
Mountain Finder
Point your phone at the mountains and Hiker names them.
Rather than floating labels over a camera image, Hiker draws the horizon from real elevation data — so it knows which summits are genuinely in view and which are hidden behind the ridge in front of you. A peak 40 km away won't be labelled through a hill 3 km away.
• Every named summit within 100 km, with height and distance
• Works offline once an area has loaded — no signal needed on the mountain
• Works in cloud, after dark, and from your armchair
The sun, over your actual skyline
See the sun's path across the day, and — more usefully — when it clears the ridge you're actually looking at. In a valley that can be an hour after the almanac's sunrise. Hiker gives you the real time for where you're standing.
The night sky
1,600 stars, two dozen constellations and the bright stars named, fading in through twilight as the real sky does. Tap the star button to see it in daylight.
Also in this release
• The route planner no longer sits on "planning" when the routing service answers with something it doesn't recognise — it now says so and keeps your waypoints
• A saved route with one damaged section now opens as usual rather than not at all
• Tapping export twice no longer reports a failure for a share sheet that was working
• Clearer wording when a café or hut Wi-Fi intercepts the connection rather than passing it on
• A route deleted from the library no longer shows as saved in the planner
• Fixed the compass calibration prompt appearing when the compass was working correctly
• Clearer messages when terrain or summit names can't be downloaded, instead of an empty view
• More reliable downloads on weak mountain connections
The developer, Michele Banfi, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Michele Banfi
- Size
- 62.8 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Michele Banfi
