# PeakFinder — user reviews > 635 indexed App Store user reviews of PeakFinder by PeakFinder GmbH, rated 4.70/5 from 11,530 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/peakfinder/id357421934/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/peakfinder/id357421934.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 9,694 · 4★ 1,068 · 3★ 310 · 2★ 137 · 1★ 321 ## What do users think of PeakFinder? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Impressive performance - 👍 Incredible and useful features - 🌄 Excellent for landscape photography and hiking - 🗺️ Accurate and reliable for identifying peaks - 💡 Versatile with offline functionality - 🤩 Loved by users, a joy to use **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional glitches and inaccuracies - 🤔 Confusing interface and navigation - 🔍 Struggles to identify tall or distant peaks - 🔋 High data usage for downloading maps **Commonly reported bugs** - App gets stuck on certain locations - Frequently fails to identify known peaks - Overlay doesn't match actual view - Download issues in areas with poor connectivity **Most requested features** - Add ability to manually label peaks - Improve compass calibration and alignment - Provide more detailed map data for remote areas - Add option to filter peaks by distance or elevation ## Newest reviews (12 of 635) ### 3/5 — Disappointed *2026-08-29, version 4.8.89* This works well for simple horizontal shots, but is much less impressive whilst amongst the fells / mountains. The outline is often above the actual view point and it fails to give proper perspective, meaning you will not be able to distinguish peak tops easily and often - with similar looking peaks - you’ll need a map anyway, which defeats the convenience. I ended up just reverting to my map and ignoring the app. The OS app (before they removed this functionality) was much better at this. ### 4/5 — Geklärt *2026-08-01* Kann seit dem letzten update Fotos nicht mehr speichern: nach dem Auslösen des Fotos passiert gar nichts mehr. Geklärt: es dauert manchmal 10 Sekunden, bis das Foto erscheint. Das hatte ich nicht erwartet **Developer response:** PeakFinder speichert die Fotos innerhalb der App (über das PeakFinder Menu ‚Fotos‘). Wenn dort wirklich keine Foto mehr erscheinen melden sie sich bitte direkt bei mir unter info@peakfinder.com. ### 4/5 — Great app but missing one thing… *2026-07-22, version 4.8.84* I love this app but I wish I could plot GPS coordinates so I can see where that point is in the distance. ### 2/5 — 无法下载数据 *2026-07-12* 系统问题 ### 5/5 — Mountain Enthusiast's Dream App *2026-04-18, version 4.8.66* One of the best apps, simple and easy to use. With a small one time fee. A mountain enthusiast's dream! ### 5/5 — Great app that is indispensable for people like me *2026-04-13, version 4.8.64* I've always loved the app and when I had an issue with it the dev personally reached out to me via email to get feedback and implemented the change within a month or less. They really care about making a great product and it shows. ### 5/5 — Einzigartig – es gibt nichts vergleichbares *2026-03-22* Seit Jahren Referenz-Klasse in dem was es tut und kann. Funktioniert und hilft immer – bis jetzt gerade 😅 Vermutlich ein Datenfehler: Beim Versuch mir die Gipfel rund um Zermatt anzuzeigen musste ich ca. 35 mb an Daten nachladen und dann hat die App, obwohl mit korrekter Positionsangabe, zum ersten Mal nichts brauchbares anzeigen können, irgendwas hat nicht geklappt und es wurden keine Gipfel und Sichtlinien wie gewohnt erstellt und angezeigt. Das was angezeigt wurde war nicht zu gebrauchen. ### 2/5 — Good app auto gyro is terrible *2026-03-01, version 4.8.57* The app is overall very good but the fact they don't have a setting to turn off the auto gyroscope compass sync feature is maddening. Every time you switch your location or put the phone down then pull it back up the camera starts jumping around even though I'm not even viewing at my current location where I could get some perspective from moving my phone around. ### 5/5 — Exactly what I wanted *2026-02-28, version 4.8.57* Living in the Pacific Northwest, I like to know what I’m looking at when we go on road trips. This lets me know which mountains I’m seeing, and that’s exactly what I wanted. ### 5/5 — Excelente *2026-02-18, version 4.8.57* La mejor aplicación que he probado. Es excepcional. Ojala tuviéramos opción de disfrutarla en el Apple Watch aunque sea los picos más visibles… sin que incluyera la enorme lista que aparece en el IPhone!!! Un 10!!!👏👏👏 ### 5/5 — 希望能用上三倍光学镜头 *2025-12-28, version 4.8.55* 应用很好，但是只能应用一倍光学镜头放大的话，如果能利用三倍光学镜头的话，这样远处的山可以拍得更清晰，希望可以增加这个功能，谢谢 ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2025-12-14, version 4.8.54* I love PeakFinder! I live in the country and am surrounded by a ring of mountains. Thank you Fabio Soldati!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Wasn’t Working- Had to Buy Again *2026-06-28, version 4.8.79* I have been using the app for about 10 years and it used to work great. Past year it was unable to download data from the servers. I had to purchase again which means it is not free of recurring costs. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2026-06-02, version 4.8.74* App crashes every time I try to download information ### 1/5 — よく分からない *2026-04-17* 使い方がよくわかりません。 位置情報とかで自動で山が見つかるわけではないので、自分で一生懸命山の形に合わせて、これかな？？みたいな感じで納得する感じです 損しました ### 1/5 — WAAAAAY off! *2026-04-14, version 4.8.64* when I first got this app it worked pretty good. Now it’s about 60° off. Don’t waste your money get something else ### 1/5 — Incomplete Offline Map Data *2026-04-01, version 4.8.57* It is impossible to download all of the offline map data at once, even after checking iDevice storage and having the full amount of storage available. Why display the entire map if you cannot download it all to view on-demand? ### 1/5 — Not user friendly *2026-02-20, version 4.8.57* Does not have correct names of mountains in NM ### 1/5 — Peak Finder *2026-01-23, version 4.8.55* Have used this app for years and enjoyed it. Recently it’s just not picking up on any mountain range unless it’s very close. Pretty much useless now even after updating the necessary local regional files. ### 1/5 — Always 90° Off *2026-01-17, version 4.8.55* I never used to have this problem, but like other reviews, it never orients itself and I’m often 90+ degrees off all the time. Super upsetting because it was great. ### 1/5 — app顯示一次性收費$150，但下載時收費TWD689 *2025-11-16, version 4.8.50* 不理解為什麼收費跟顯示的不同 ### 1/5 — Not what I expected *2025-11-09, version 4.8.47* I had hoped the we could see and identify the mountain ranges from our porch. The compass directions are not aligned. What mountains we do know this app shows them behind us. Recalculated twice and no improvement. It is not real time just a sketch of the ranges. The camera is off on mountain ranges. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Finally *2026-08-22, version 4.8.87* Finally an awesome affordable app that I want to own and that you only pay for once 😁✨ I was out in Eryri today and someone pulled out their PeakFinder app and showed me how it worked. I was very impressed. It’s practically magic especially as I’m constantly looking at the mountains in the distance trying to figure out which ones they are. I was so excited that I had to get it for myself. Thank you 🙏 ### 5/5 — Brilliant App *2026-08-09, version 4.8.84* I emailed a question re: the sunset calculations (which use the centre of the sun FYI, for eclipse viewers) and got a fantastic response in less than a day. Great app, great dev. Well worth the money. ### 5/5 — Possibly the best app in the world *2026-08-04, version 4.8.84* I don’t really ever write reviews, but I’m making an exception because this app means a lot to me. Not just for what it does - though it does that very well - but also for its general philosophy. It is a paragon for digital products everywhere, a small clear spring in a fetid swamp of subscriptions, adverts, poor design, and bloat. You pay a small amount once, and receive, forever, a tool that is both useful and pleasurable to use. It’s like a good knife, or a well-designed pencil sharpener: you’re not going to need it all the time, but when you do, it’s there and it works, and the experience of it working is aesthetically and functionally beautiful. Thank you to the creator of this app for providing some hope in a dark world. ### 5/5 — Génial ! *2026-07-15, version 4.8.81* Je l’utilise beaucoup. Grace à lui j’ai pu choisir avec précision le lieu où observer l’éclipse solaire de 2026. Suggestion : ajouter l’heure de lever / coucher (en option) pour les planètes. ### 5/5 — Very Helpful *2026-07-12, version 4.8.81* I live at the foot of the northern Rockies in the United States. I’m just outside of Glacier Park. So I have had plenty of opportunities to use this app. I love it because it answers the question I most often have, "What mountain is that?". You would think it would be enough to have good maps, but looking at mountains from the side is a lot different than looking at a map. And it’s often hard to tell what mountains I’m seeing in the far distance between an opening in mountains that are close to me. This takes care of all of that. ### 5/5 — Great *2026-07-09* offline,small app but world peaks data ### 5/5 — Ein Muss in den Bergen! *2026-07-07* Wie oft steht man auf irgendeinen Gipfel und versucht verzweifelt, auf der Karte herauszufinden, auf welchen Gipfel man blickt. Die App funktioniert absolut zuverlässig auch offline! Ich nutze sie praktisch bei jeder Bergtour. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-07-06, version 4.8.81* This app is a brilliant use of public topologic data and the interface is simple and intuitive. Congratulations to the dev here, it’s rare that a niche is filled so masterfully. ### 5/5 — Perfect for what I need! *2026-05-19, version 4.8.73* Does what it claims to do! There’s no ads and it doesn’t try to sell you anything else. ### 5/5 — Mark from Aarmühl sent me here! *2026-05-13, version 4.8.70* Excellent map for identifying peaks while we visited Interlaken. The attention to detail is impressive. --- *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 2026-09-03.*