# Inukshuk — Offline trail maps & GPS > Offline trail maps & GPS (iPhone/iPad app by Marc-Andre Vigneault.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/inukshuk/id6797629589 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Marc-Andre Vigneault](https://appshunter.io/developer/6797629591) - Category: Navigation, Sports - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.4 · 85 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-10 - Data updated: 2026-10-08 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/inukshuk/id6797629589/reviews.md ## What is Inukshuk? Inukshuk turns the maps you already trust into a live, offline navigator. Import a georeferenced PDF — a park map, a topographic sheet, a ski-hill plan — and Inukshuk draws your GPS position right on top of it. No signal, no data plan, no account. Everything happens on your phone. BRING YOUR OWN MAPS • Import georeferenced PDFs and see yourself on them, page by page. • Stack several maps at once and choose which pages are drawn. • Everything is rendered on the device — your map never leaves your phone. A FREE LIBRARY OF OFFICIAL TOPO SHEETS Search thousands of free government map sheets — USGS US Topo, Natural Resources Canada CanTopo and Geoscience Australia — and download them straight into a folder. Browse what is around you, by category, or by name. MAKE YOUR OWN MAP No sheet for where you are going? Draw a box on the map and Inukshuk composes a georeferenced PDF of it: contour lines, slope shading, marked trails, a graticule, and your own tracks and waypoints, at the scale and page size you pick. WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL • Download map regions for offline use — choose the area, the basemap (map, satellite or relief) and the level of detail. • "Locally downloaded only" mode keeps the app off the network entirely. • An OpenStreetMap base layer fills in wherever your imported map ends. RECORD YOUR TRAILS • Start a recording, pick the activity, and watch live distance, time, elevation gain and pace. • Recording keeps going with the screen off or the app in the background, and survives a restart. • Every outing is saved and can be shared as a standard GPX file. • Import GPX from friends, from the web, or straight from "Open with". READ THE TERRAIN IN 3D Open any saved trail in real 3D relief with your chosen basemap draped over the landscape. Add slope-angle shading, contour lines or elevation tint, scrub the camera along the route, trim a track, or export the whole trail as a PDF. ELEVATION PROFILES, NOTES AND PHOTOS Every trail gets an interactive elevation profile you can scrub point by point, coloured by gradient or by pace. Drop notes and photos anywhere along the route — the lookout, the tricky crossing, the last water — and they appear on the map, on the profile and in 3D. SEE WHERE YOU KEEP GOING A heatmap over your own tracks shows the ground you cover most, and repeat outings on the same trail are grouped so you can compare them. ORGANISE IT ALL Folders keep maps, trails and waypoints together by area or by trip; drag items between them and show a whole folder on the map in one tap. A dashboard charts your last week, quarter or year, with a calendar of every outing. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up, no ads, no analytics, no advertising identifier, no tracking. • Your maps, trails and notes are stored on your device and are never uploaded — sharing is always something you choose to do. • Map tiles are fetched from OpenStreetMap and other map providers as you pan, the way any map app works; nothing sent identifies you. • Export everything you have as a single zip whenever you want, and delete anything in one tap. Free and open source under the MIT licence — read the code, file an issue, send a patch. Metric or imperial, light or dark, three visual styles. Built for hikers, skiers, paddlers, hunters and anyone whose map matters more than their signal. Source code and issue tracker: https://github.com/MVXTechnologies/inukshuk Privacy policy: https://inukshuk.mvxtechnologies.com/privacy/ ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.3.0 — 2026-10-07 New in 2.3.0: • Convert: convert coordinates and heights between systems (NAD83(CSRS), UTM/MTM, CGVD2013, CGVD28, NAVD88, chart datum…), validated against official tools. • Extensions: geodetic survey marks worldwide and tide stations (with chart datum levels), from Settings → Extensions. • Overlays reorganised into Map, Terrain, Sports and Extensions tabs. • 3D terrain beta (Settings → Beta features): distance fog, steadier terrain, stable labels, seamless satellite, faster revisits, and a 3D/2D button. • Much faster PDF map rendering. • Correct climb (D+) for Garmin Connect courses, and many fixes. ### 2.1.0 — 2026-10-02 Plan your own routes: tap + then Draw. Snap to trails or roads, or draw freehand. A live elevation profile, plus Back & forth and Loop. You can also draw areas. New trail view: Overview, Charts (elevation, pace, heart rate), Timeline with your notes, and Splits. Search places: peaks, lakes and trails first. Moving time and moving pace. Satellite looks brighter; PDF maps can fade their white. Fixes: Strava upload, and long-trail Show on map on iPhone. ### 2.0.1 — 2026-09-30 Bring your activities in. • Import from Strava: your activities with their routes, and new ones automatically. Garmin, COROS and Polar watches linked to Strava come along. • Import workouts with routes from Apple Health. • Import FIT, TCX and GPX files, and full Strava or Garmin exports. Duplicates are skipped. • Map maker: frame a printable map over the live map. • Choose an icon for each waypoint. • The map now covers the whole world. • The Settings gear stays in the same place on every page. ### 2.0.0 — 2026-09-29 A new map, drawn for the outdoors. • A new map in the app's own colours: woods, water and trails that stand out, city clutter kept quiet. Canada, the United States and Europe. • Contour lines load with the map, and come with your offline downloads. • Night red and Sunlight display modes. • Route thumbnails in the Library and Logbook, and a restyled Library, Maps and Logbook. • Trails and the heat glow are easier to tap. • Fixed: the download area could stay on "Calculating…"; opening a map now moves to it. ### 1.5.3 — 2026-09-10 Maps, fixed. • Large maps whose page is one big photo now render instead of failing with "Load failed". They also render far faster. • A map imported before an earlier fix is corrected automatically on launch, including sheets that drew upside down — no need to re-import. • Your position marker always stays on top of your maps. • Importing a very large map no longer runs out of memory. • Maps prepare themselves right after import, so the Map tab opens with them ready. • Pauses in a recording no longer add the distance you travelled while paused, and time the app spent closed while paused is no longer counted. --- *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 2026-10-08.*