# Hiking Project — user reviews > 117 indexed App Store user reviews of Hiking Project by Adventure Projects Inc., rated 4.40/5 from 1,976 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hiking-project/id964351449/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hiking-project/id964351449.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,494 · 4★ 202 · 3★ 80 · 2★ 73 · 1★ 127 ## What do users think of Hiking Project? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great for planning hiking trips - 🗺️ Useful offline maps and trail info - 👍 Helpful for finding new trails - 🗺️ Accurate trail details and elevation data - 🌳 Useful for exploring nature and the outdoors **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes - 🔍 Limited trail coverage in some areas - 🗺️ Offline maps not always reliable - 🔍 Difficult to search and find trails - 🔍 Missing key features like recording hikes **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when trying to record hikes - Offline maps frequently fail to load - Elevation data sometimes inaccurate - Syncing issues between app and website **Most requested features** - Add ability to record and track hikes - Improve search and filtering options - Expand trail coverage to more regions - Add weather forecasts and other useful info - Improve offline map reliability and functionality ## Newest reviews (15 of 117) ### 2/5 — The liquid glass update is broken *2026-05-14, version 4.6.14* The app is broken, cant see the time or any of the top notifications icons. The LG up/ lacks in qualify ### 4/5 — Very nice, with frustrating features *2025-07-08, version 4.6.8* Accurate & easy to use while hiking. Sadly once you answer questions at the end & “Submit” your just finished trail can disappear and never return. Even if the App owners decide not to publish your hike, you should still be able to see where you have gone! Totally frustrating & this makes me want to continue to look at alternatives ### 2/5 — Used to be simple and great *2025-05-01, version 4.6.8* This app used to be my go to hiking app, but its usefulness is mostly gone. When it was REI it was simple and great. Not it’s buggy and complicated. ### 1/5 — Just crashes at startup *2025-02-02, version 4.6.5* This used to be my go-to app, but it just crashes at startup now ### 1/5 — Crashes and won’t open *2025-01-30, version 4.6.5* This app used to be great but now constantly crashes and won’t even open. ### 3/5 — App has gone down hill *2025-01-12, version 4.6.5* I used to love Hiking Project, and I still find it very useful but it has developed many serious issues. First, the offline usability of the app is horrible. Which defeats the purpose of a hiking trail app. When you’re out of service the map layers won’t show up, you often can’t pull up the trail you’re on, can’t find other trail, etc. it becomes pretty useless when not in service which is 80% of the time I need to use it. This makes no sense especially since in order to look at trails in a specific stat you already have to download all of the information for that state!! So why is it not available offline? Second, this app has developed serious crashing issues, specifically when out of service. Try to pull of your map and move it on the screen for two seconds, crash. Try to open up the information for that trail, crash. Even as I’m sitting here in my living room on WiFi I can’t open the app at all because it immediately crashes. Lastly, an annoying usability problem is that when you have a trail open and lock your phone, when you open it again it has kicked you out of that trails page and back to the map so you have to find the trail again to try and open it. But with the crashing issues I talked about i am almost never able to open the trail long enough to see anything if at all. It is a great app that just does not function properly at all especially when you need it the most. ### 1/5 — App crashes *2025-01-08, version 4.6.5* App crashes instantly even after reinstalling. ### 1/5 — Potential *2024-11-09, version 4.6.0* looks good, but idiotic synchronization for log-in. time for developer to realize it's the 1990's and there isn't a need to pop out of the app to a web interface to log-in. can't log in after multiple attempts. glad it's free... ### 2/5 — Constantly crashes *2024-10-08, version 4.6.0* Is currently unusable. I used to love this app, but now I can't use it at all! Please fix the bug!!! ### 3/5 — Could be great *2024-09-24, version 4.5.12* I find this app unintuitive, missing lots of hikes, and the search is poor. You have to click on a photo of the area to get driving directions? If your search isn’t exact results are sparse The trail info and elevation details are good, some of the conditions data is helpful ### 2/5 — Bad update *2024-09-01, version 4.5.10* Laggy interface, all saved maps were deleted when I “updated”, some UI is super boring now. ### 2/5 — Used to be great, crashes constantly now *2024-08-24, version 4.5.10* Used to by my go to hiking app! Now it crashes every time I open it. Re downloaded twice and still no luck. Developers are in bed with onX so they made this app unusable. You’re better off getting AllTrails or Trailforks ### 1/5 — Neutered compared to desktop *2024-08-22, version 4.5.10* You cannot do anything with this app except browse trails. You can’t even download GPX files. You can send a trail to your overpriced Apple Watch, but if you have any other device forget about it. It seems this absurd, no other purpose other than a springboard to the paid service, onX Backcountry. This crap app gets deleted. ### 4/5 — Well done app overall *2024-08-12, version 4.5.10* Very good app. The trail map won’t zoom in or out once you start recording so you can’t see your destination. Driving directions to trailhead is a real plus ### 2/5 — Shows dishonest ad for some onx app *2024-08-12, version 4.5.10* On launching this app just now, it advertised a different app with a full page ad that pretends it isn’t an ad. That other app wants to charge you 30-100 dollars per year. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — OnX Ruined This *2026-06-23, version 4.7.1* Used to be a great app when REI owned it. Now OnX bought it and turned it into a nagware POS. Their own app is also a nagware wrapper around MapBox that you must pay for to see any info on any trails. Heck all these companies trying to profit from public parks and taxpayer-funded resources. Just go to OpenTrailMap.us instead. Don’t give private equity clowns more money for things you can get for free. ### 1/5 — Unusable - crashes *2026-03-20, version 4.6.14* App crashes every time I try to use it ### 1/5 — Crashes upon opening *2026-01-10, version 4.6.12* This has been reported for over a year now, why is this app still available? ### 1/5 — Fantastic platform, terrible app *2025-11-28, version 4.6.12* I have been a member and a user for almost a decade, and I prefer Hiking Project over other hiking platforms and apps like All Trails. Unfortunately the app became completely unusable on iPhone because it just keeps crashing. Currently running iOS 18.6.2 (22G100) and just updated the app, and even reinstalled it, to no avail. It happened with earlier versions of iOS too. Please do something about it! I would hate to switch to All Trails. ### 1/5 — Gone *2025-11-28, version 4.6.12* Now that this app is bought out by OnX it’s only an ad platform for OnX. The app only show cursory info and keeps asking if you want to plan in 3D. No, I do not. I just need an easy place to search family hikes, not pay money forms access to knowledge. ### 1/5 — Inaccurate on vertical *2025-09-14, version 4.6.10* Skyline Traverse, Chicago Basin 14ers, and other known summits are wrong!!! ### 1/5 — Latest update constantly crashes *2025-07-27, version 4.6.8* Cannot zoom/pan nor go to other locations (to research trails ahead of time) other than centering on you gps location without crashing. ### 1/5 — Couldn’t get it to work *2025-07-03, version 4.6.8* Having issues finding any trails ### 1/5 — Fails at its only job *2025-04-24, version 4.6.8* Downloaded maps offline, then opened the app while there’s no signals, and the app just immediately crashes every time making it useless. ### 1/5 — Updates? *2025-03-23, version 4.6.7* Update 3/23, this app is basically useless now. Also seems the app is collecting more info than before it changed companies.. deleted App hasn’t been updated in over a year and when I go to update trails for CA downloaded maps it says updated 08/02/19 :( ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-02-14, version 4.6.12* This has so far been a great app and alternative to expensive hiking apps. No frills, great information a just what you need. Love it! ### 5/5 — Best hiking app ever! *2025-10-25, version 4.6.10* Great hiking app! Has everything you need for some great times. And best part it’s Free! Puts AllTrails to shame. ### 5/5 — Super cool app for trails!!! Highly recommend! *2024-10-06, version 4.5.12* Great app to find cool trails! ### 5/5 — Dan L. World traveler *2024-09-23, version 4.5.12* I’ve been using& referring the hiking project app since I discovered it at work ( REI ) some 8 years ago. Since then I have used the app stateside and internationally on all of my adventures. I have used all trails, onX,Avenza ,Gaia & the ease of using the hiking project beats them all. Finest hiking app I’ve ever used. ### 5/5 — Map to trailhead *2024-09-22, version 4.5.12* Love this app. Everything about it is good. Specifically love the driving directions that take you all the way to the trailhead. Extremely helpful! ### 5/5 — Highly recommend this app *2024-06-29, version 4.5.8* I have been using this app for the past 5 years. It’s well designed, informative and useful. I’ve used it only 100 times for my adventures around Texas and Colorado but so far it has not steered me in the wrong direction. The best part is that it’s community driven, which means no annoying advertisements. ### 5/5 — Great alternative to All-trails *2024-05-05, version 4.5.7* My favorite hiking app. Live tracking and route elevation graph work well. ### 5/5 — Central CA *2024-03-16, version 4.5.6* Used the app this week to hike around central California. Great crowdsourced resource. Worked very well. Planning to use it on the climb to Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles next. ### 5/5 — Best Hiking App Ever!! *2024-02-25, version 4.5.6* The app works even when you don’t have signal. It has helped me find my way on more then one occasion. ### 5/5 — Simply works well! *2023-12-01, version 4.5.4* What a useful app. I love it and am thankful to be able to download maps so it can be used when there is no cell service. --- *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 2026-09-09.*