# HikeGPS: Offline Trail Maps — AI Species ID, Hazard Warnings > Offline trail maps with AI species identification and hike recording. (iPhone/iPad app by 宇洋 王.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hikegps-offline-trail-maps/id6802831809 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [宇洋 王](https://appshunter.io/developer/1554623375) - Category: Navigation, Health & Fitness - Price: Free - Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 340 MB - Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) - Released: 2026-08-26 - Data updated: 2026-09-22 - Monetization: free - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hikegps-offline-trail-maps/id6802831809/reviews.md ## What is HikeGPS? HikeGPS records your hike and shows you the trail — with no signal, no account and no tracking. Most map apps draw footpaths as near-invisible hairlines. HikeGPS draws its own hiking cartography: trails, tracks, steps and bridleways separated by line style and colour, named along the path, summits labelled by elevation, water and trailheads marked. NAME WHAT YOU SEE, WITHOUT A SIGNAL Photograph a plant, bird, insect or fungus and HikeGPS names it on the phone. Nothing is uploaded and no connection is needed: a model covering 150,000 species runs on the device, which is why it works in a canyon. You get several candidates rather than one, and when they agree on the genus it says that first: "Oaks, 94%" beats a 62% winner presented as the answer. Identifications are kept in Sightings with where and when. Dangerous species carry a warning sized to the risk, from nettles to rattlesnakes. DOWNLOAD BEFORE YOU LOSE SIGNAL Tap download and the area you are looking at is proposed at once, its size in megabytes shown before you commit. Downloaded areas render in airplane mode, and the data stays on your device. FIND A TRAIL NEARBY HikeGPS lists every route in view, not only the ones OpenStreetMap has named — real trails ranked above pavements, unnamed ones below. Filter by type, length, distance and grade, or search by name. Pick one and it is framed to fit. PLAN BEFORE YOU GO Sketch a route by tapping the map or entering coordinates, save it, and follow it later as a dashed guide with no signal. Import or export a GPX track from Files as an editable plan. ON YOUR WRIST Start a hike on the phone and HikeGPS opens on your Apple Watch by itself: distance, time and ascent in large figures, and the map itself, drawn on the phone with the same cartography and offline like everything else, with your route on it. Pause, resume, finish or drop a waypoint from the wrist, and watch your heart rate. RECORDING THAT DOES NOT LOSE YOUR WALK Recording continues with the screen locked and the phone pocketed. A checkpoint is written continuously, so a crash, a flat battery or a restart does not cost you the hike. A pause never invents distance or charges the break to moving time. BUILT TO BE READ OUTDOORS Distance, time and ascent in large tabular figures, over a grid you choose and reorder: pace, moving and stopped time, grade, vertical speed, GPS accuracy, bearing, battery. High-visibility mode thickens strokes for bright sun, and elevation combines GPS with the barometer where there is one, so a wobbly fix is not counted as climbing. AFTER THE HIKE Every hike keeps its route, elevation profile, waypoints and statistics. Drag the profile and a marker traces the map. Name it, add notes, export it as GPX with timestamps intact. History groups by month, with totals and a weekly distance chart. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No advertising. No account. No cross-app tracking. Anonymous usage statistics record which screens are opened — never your routes or photographs. Finished hikes sync to your own private iCloud database; turn it off in Settings and everything still works. ALSO INCLUDED • Live Activity and Dynamic Island, with a timer that respects your pauses • Widgets for the current hike, the last one and the week • Backtrack: your route in reverse, with the bearing to the trailhead • Metric and imperial, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, dark mode • English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and both Chinese scripts PLEASE READ HikeGPS is a navigation aid. It does not replace navigation training, a paper map and compass, official trail and closure information, or emergency communication equipment. It routes over mapped paths with written turns, but has no spoken directions and no emergency or SOS capability. GPS position and elevation can be wrong, and continuous recording uses significant battery. Species identification is a guess from one photograph. Never eat or touch anything on the strength of it. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. ## Key features - Detailed offline trail maps - AI species identification - Hazard warnings - Hike recording and playback - Route planning and GPX import/export - Apple Watch integration - Private by default ## Frequently asked questions about HikeGPS ### Does HikeGPS have ads? No, HikeGPS is ad-free. The app is built to be private by default, with no advertising or cross-app tracking. ### How does HikeGPS handle offline use? You can download map areas before losing signal, and they will render in airplane mode. All data, including maps and species identification models, stays on your device. ### What kind of trails does HikeGPS show? HikeGPS displays its own hiking cartography, separating trails, tracks, steps, and bridleways by line style and color. It also names trails and labels summits with elevation. ### How does the AI species identification work in HikeGPS? You can photograph plants, birds, insects, or fungi, and HikeGPS will identify them on your phone using an on-device model covering 150,000 species. It provides candidate suggestions and genus agreement. ### Can I plan and follow custom routes with HikeGPS? Yes, you can sketch a route by tapping the map or entering coordinates, save it, and follow it later as a dashed guide. You can also import or export GPX tracks. ### Is HikeGPS compatible with Apple Watch? Yes, HikeGPS offers Apple Watch integration. You can start a hike on your phone and it will open on your watch, displaying distance, time, ascent, and the map. You can also control the hike from your wrist. ### How does HikeGPS ensure hike recording reliability? Recording continues even with the screen locked or phone pocketed. A checkpoint is written continuously, so a crash or restart does not lose your recorded hike data. ### What safety features are included in HikeGPS? Dangerous species are flagged with warnings sized to the risk, ranging from nettles to rattlesnakes. The app also provides hazard warnings for trails. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.1.6 — 2026-09-07 A trip computer, like a handheld navigator. Tap the gauge on the map for a full screen of large, live figures: speed, elevation, ascent and descent speed, grade, vertical speed, distance, heading, coordinates, time and battery. It works whether or not a hike is recording, keeps the screen awake, and has a Big Numbers mode for a glance in the sun. Hold a field to swap it for another. Search the map, with or without a signal. A search box at the top of the map looks through the trails and places in front of you, everything you have saved, and the trail names inside your downloaded areas, which are kept on the phone when a download finishes. Type a coordinate and it takes you there; a typed coordinate is never sent anywhere. With a signal the wider trail index joins in; without one, nothing waits for it. A finished hike can no longer be lost. The recording is held until it is safely stored, and if that fails you are offered Try Again instead of an empty screen. BUILT FOR NO SIGNAL • A downloaded area is used the moment the map is over it, with no wait for a network check and no flip back to the online map when the connection recovers • Elevation profiles read the terrain you downloaded before asking the network, so climb figures work in airplane mode • A hike that iOS stopped in your pocket is recovered the moment the app relaunches, before anything touches the network • The Lock Screen card no longer disappears after eight hours, and the widget stops counting while you are paused • Pause and Waypoint stay within reach when the hike panel is collapsed, and pausing no longer freezes your position • Changing tracking accuracy applies at once, and Low Power Mode or a battery under 20% offers a one-tap switch to Battery Saver • A hole in a track now says why it is there, so a gap can be explained rather than guessed at GETTING THERE • Press and hold a place and HikeGPS works out a walking route to it from the paths on your downloaded map, on the device, no connection needed • Routes prefer trails and take a road only where a road is the only way through. The turns are written down • The route arrow turns with the map when the map turns with you WEATHER AT THE TRAILHEAD • Check the forecast where you stand and see it again with no signal, labelled with how old it is. Walking on no longer hides it • Your position is rounded to about a kilometre before a forecast is asked for, when you open the weather screen or start a hike OFFLINE MAPS • A slow moment no longer ends a large download: a timed-out tile is retried while the download keeps going • A finished area shows the space it actually uses, and "Large downloads on Wi-Fi only" now does what it says ALSO • The camera is the iOS camera again, full screen, with nothing of the app drawn over its controls • Auto-pause: stand still and the hike pauses itself, then resumes once you walk on • If location access is taken away mid-hike, HikeGPS says so and offers to open Settings • On a fresh install the map opens on your own position • Paragraphs that had shipped in English everywhere are now translated ### 1.1.5 — 2026-09-04 A finished hike can no longer be lost. If saving a hike failed, the walk went with it. The recording is now held until it is safely stored, and when something goes wrong you are offered Try Again instead of an empty screen. • Finishing a hike while the "recover your interrupted hike" prompt is still on screen now shows the summary, rather than nothing at all • If location access is taken away mid-hike, HikeGPS says so and offers to open Settings, instead of counting time over a track that has stopped moving • Auto-pause: stand still and the hike pauses itself, then resumes once you walk on. A pause you asked for is never undone for you • The control lock now covers the map and the tabs as well as the panel, so a pocket cannot reach them, and Finish asks twice with VoiceOver on THE MAP OPENS WHERE YOU ARE • On a fresh install the map opens on your own position instead of flying there from a valley in California • The compass no longer freezes for the rest of the session after a hike ends GETTING THERE, NOT JUST KNOWING WHERE IT IS • Press and hold a place on the map and HikeGPS works out a walking route to it from the paths, tracks and footways on your downloaded map — on the device, with no connection • Routes prefer trails, and take a road only where a road is the only way through. A motorway is never part of one • The turns are written down: tap the list button while following a route to read them, named where the map names the way • "Navigate here" used to need a hike already running before it would do anything. It now works from the moment the phone knows where you are, which is when you are actually planning OFFLINE MAPS • When the connection slows to a crawl, the map now really does switch to your downloaded data and redraws with it, instead of announcing the switch and leaving the old map on screen • If nothing is downloaded for where you are looking, at the detail you are looking at it with, the map stays with the service however slowly it answers — a slow map beats being dropped onto a world map that stops well short of trail detail • Resuming a download whose data had been cleared rebuilds it, rather than repeating that the map could not be found • Terrain is only requested from providers that actually have it SIGHTINGS • Camera permission is asked for before the viewfinder opens, an identification can be cancelled while it runs, and the crop is a true square, so what you frame is what the model sees • A damaged species bank now says it is damaged instead of claiming it was never installed TRAILS • Saved loops and unnamed routes keep their identity as you pan and zoom, so a saved trail stays saved and its elevation profile is not fetched again • Circular trails can now be routed on, and junctions merge correctly at high latitudes • Tapping a trail on the map and then choosing to follow it, show it, or download its area now closes the panel and does the thing, instead of leaving the buttons looking dead APPLE WATCH • Pause and resume from the wrist are honoured separately, the workout starts only when a hike is genuinely running, and paused figures stay readable • The "phone is silent" banner waits until the phone has really failed to answer ALSO • Numbers and units are formatted for your language throughout, and several paragraphs that had shipped in English in every language are now translated • Buttons across the map, the crop editor and the filters meet the 44-point minimum touch target • Anonymous usage statistics — which screens are opened and when a hike is started, finished or exported, never your routes, photographs or sightings — are now always on, and the Settings switch has been removed ### 1.1.4 — 2026-09-02 There is now an Apple Watch app. Start a hike on the phone and it comes up on your wrist by itself: distance, time and ascent in figures you can read at a glance, your route on the real map, and pause, resume and finish without taking the phone out of your pocket. • Distance, time, ascent, and the secondary figures you chose on the phone, updated as you walk • The map is drawn on the phone with the same hiking cartography and sent to the watch, so you get named trails and terrain rather than a bare line on a blank face — and it works with no signal, like the rest of the map • Your position and route are drawn live over it, and a fresh map is sent as you walk towards the edge of the one you have • Pause, resume, finish, and drop a waypoint from the watch • Heart rate while a hike is running, on a watch that measures it • Figures dim when the phone has not been heard from recently, rather than showing you a stale number as though it were current • When there is nothing to show, the watch says which thing to do about it — open HikeGPS on your phone, unlock it, move back into range — instead of leaving you guessing at a blank screen • Opening the watch app from the phone is done through a hiking workout, so iOS asks for Health permission once. Nothing is read from Health and nothing is written to it Also in this version: • AI Notes is now called Sightings — the same offline identification, hazard warnings and saved photographs, under a name that says what is in it • Photographing something to identify it now goes straight to the crop instead of stopping at a confirmation screen on the way • Anonymous usage statistics — which screens are opened and whether a feature worked, never your routes or your photographs — can be turned off in Settings • Fixed crashes that could end a recording, and one that closed the watch app when a map arrived ### 1.1.3 — 2026-09-01 Trails now appear when you zoom out. Below the close-in zooms the map showed parks, rivers and summits but not a single path, with a note beside it telling you to zoom in. The trail network is now drawn from the regional view down, so you can see whether somewhere is worth the drive before you set off — with no signal, like the rest of the map. • Trails are drawn from the wide regional view rather than only close in • Farm and forestry access roads are no longer drawn as trails, so open country reads honestly instead of appearing webbed with paths that are not there • The "zoom in for trails" note now checks what is actually on the screen, and stays away when trails are already drawn • AI Notes is now called Sightings — the same offline identification, hazard warnings and saved photographs, under a name that says what is in it ### 1.1.2 — 2026-08-31 Photograph a plant, a bird, or an insect and HikeGPS names it — on the phone, with no signal and nothing uploaded. This build triples what it knows, and makes it far more careful about what it warns you of. • 150,000 species, up from 50,000, ranked by what is actually seen in the wild rather than photographed in gardens and zoos • Common names in German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and both written Chinese scripts — and saved notes now follow the language you switch to • Auto-crop suggests a frame around the subject before identifying, and you can still crop and rotate by hand — filling the frame is the single biggest thing you can do to improve a result • Full classification from Kingdom to Species, each rank in plain language rather than Latin alone • When the guesses all share a genus it says so first: "Oaks, 94%" rather than a 62% winner presented as the answer • Every photo is kept automatically, grouped by animals, plants, and fungi — swipe to share or delete Warnings that match the risk: • Dangerous species now raise a warning sized to the danger — a note about nettles, a solid red block about rattlesnakes, and the loudest ones sit above the photograph where they are read first • The list of hazards grew from six entries to more than fifty: venomous snakes worldwide, dangerous spiders and scorpions, bison, moose and mountain lion, the deadly fungus genera, and the plants that kill if eaten • A snake the app is unsure about now says so, because harmless species and venomous ones look alike and a photograph cannot settle it • Where your phone knows the continent, species never recorded there are nudged down the list — a nudge, never a filter, since animals do turn up far from home • Warnings no longer fire on a candidate the app barely believes in • Sharing a sighting now sends one image carrying the photograph, the name, the confidence, every other candidate, and the warning • Species pages show the raw similarity beside the percentage, and all of it can be selected and copied ## More apps by 宇洋 王 - [OmniScanner: AI Scan & Redact](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/omniscanner-ai-scan-and-redact/id6802830553) All apps by 宇洋 王: https://appshunter.io/developer/1554623375 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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