# Hiker: Offline Trail Maps — Topo contours & GPS position > Topo contours & GPS position (iPhone/iPad app by Michele Banfi.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hiker-offline-trail-maps/id6791084523 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Michele Banfi](https://appshunter.io/developer/6790778406) - Category: Travel, Sports - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.4 · 60 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-24 - Data updated: 2026-08-19 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hiker-offline-trail-maps/id6791084523/reviews.md ## What is Hiker? 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. ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.3 — 2026-08-15 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 ### 1.2 — 2026-08-08 Tap anything on the map to find out about it. Drinking water, mountain huts and bivouacs, shelters, viewpoints, picnic sites, trail signposts and summits now open a details panel when you tap them, showing what OpenStreetMap knows about each one. For water you get a straight answer to the question that actually matters — whether it's drinkable, whether it's a seasonal source that may run dry, whether there's a fee, and when someone last checked it. Summits show elevation and prominence; huts show their opening season, capacity, phone and website. If you want the raw detail, every OpenStreetMap tag is one tap away. It works in the mountains, too. The icons, the tapping and the essentials all come from the map you've already downloaded — only the extra detail needs a signal, and the panel says so plainly instead of leaving you guessing. Also in this release: • Error messages now explain what went wrong and what to do about it, instead of showing raw technical text. • Connection problems are now recognised as such — an offline lookup or a rain radar that won't load used to give a vague "please try again". • Starting a download with no connection no longer repeats the same alert over and over, or leaves a half-finished region behind. • The trail overlay now starts switched off, so you turn it on for the walk you're planning under Layers → Routes. ### 1.1 — 2026-07-28 Waymarked hiking, cycling and mountain-bike trails are now on the map, with their trail-number badges. Tap one for its length, ascent and descent, operator and website — and if several trails share a path, pick from the list and the map frames it for you. Coverage will be updated shortly. Also new: • Rain radar with a scrubbable two-hour timeline • A Transport map style alongside Outdoors • Offline downloads now save trails too, so tapping works with no signal • Downloaded regions can be outlined on the map • A clearer location marker showing the direction you are facing ### 1.0 — 2026-07-24 No release notes. ## Related topics [offline trail maps](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/offline-trail-maps) · [offroad trail map](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/offroad-trail-map) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-19.*