# PeakNav — Mountains in 3D, offline > Mountains in 3D, offline (iPhone/iPad app by Francesco Bonazzi.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/peaknav/id6807140556 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Francesco Bonazzi](https://appshunter.io/developer/6807140558) - Category: Navigation, Travel - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 13.0 · 102 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-07 - Data updated: 2026-10-08 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/peaknav/id6807140556/reviews.md ## What is PeakNav? PeakNav shows you the world's mountains in 3D — as if you were standing there. Pick any place on Earth and PeakNav rebuilds the landscape around it from real elevation data: ridges, valleys, glaciers and summits, each peak labeled with its name and height. Turn the view with a finger, or just point your iPhone at the horizon and let the motion sensors aim the view where you are looking. WORKS OFFLINE Download an area once and everything works with no connection at all — perfect for the summit, the trail, or the airplane window. Elevation, peak names and map data are stored on your device. NAME THAT PEAK Wondering what you are looking at? Center your position with one tap on the location button and compare the labeled 3D horizon with the real one. Around a quarter of a million summits, towns and villages are searchable by name on the device, in their local spellings too — Großglockner, Grossglockner and Monte Bianco all work. YOUR HIKES IN 3D Open a GPX track from Files, Mail or any app's share sheet and see the whole route draped over the terrain — every switchback, every col, the way it actually climbs. Then fly the route as a tour, seek bar included. Great for planning tomorrow's hike or reliving today's. A REAL SKY, AND A WAY AROUND EVERY PEAK Sun, moon — with its phase — and stars stand where they really do for the date, time and place you are looking from, with the compass points marked on the horizon and an optional sky map with an astronomical grid. Tap a summit and choose orbit to circle it and see it from every side. PHOTOS KNOW WHERE THEY WERE TAKEN Choose a photo and PeakNav flies you to the exact spot it was shot from, so you can finally put a name on that summit in the background. SATELLITE AND MAP IMAGERY Drape the terrain in satellite imagery — USGS Imagery Topo or NASA Landsat — choose the source you prefer, or add your own tile provider (any https tile URL). AND MORE • Share a snapshot of any view • Search for mountains, towns and villages worldwide, even offline • Open the view you are looking at in Apple Maps for cross-checking • Metric or imperial units PeakNav is free, has no ads and no accounts. Elevation data is derived from NASA/METI ASTER GDEM; maps and peak data are © OpenStreetMap contributors; place names from GeoNames and built-up town extents from the GHS Urban Centre Database of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (both CC BY 4.0); satellite and topographic imagery courtesy of USGS and NASA GIBS. Full credits are in the app's Info page. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.3.3 — 2026-10-02 Search and downloads in one place, markers of your own, and fifteen more languages. ONE SCREEN TO FIND A PLACE AND FETCH ITS MAP Search and download now share a single screen with a map of its own. Type a name or tap the map, see at a glance which areas you already have — they are striped — and download the one you want. A world map is built in, so the screen works with no connection too. MARKERS Tap any point and keep it as a flag on the map. Name it, give it a colour, and share your markers as a GPX file. They live with your tracks under "My paths and markers". TAP A NAME TO LEARN MORE Tapping a peak, village or lake name opens a pane about it: its details, a picture and its Wikipedia article in your language when you are online, and a link to the map data it comes from. FIFTEEN MORE LANGUAGES Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Greek. Place names are shown in their own script to those who read it. DOWNLOADS YOU CAN FOLLOW A button stops a download under way, a failed one tells you why and picks up where it left off, and a new Storage screen shows how much room the maps take and lets you give it back. ALSO NEW - Routes to a tapped point name the paths they follow, and tapping one flies you along the track to it. - Photos can be opened with PeakNav straight from other apps, and nudged into place with new fine-alignment buttons. - The elevation of your viewpoint is shown above the coordinates. - "Set time" opens a date and time picker for the sky. - With no location available, the first start offers an estimate or the search box instead of waiting. - Menus rearrange themselves when you turn the screen. Labels appear sooner after you move to a new place, and many fixes make the app steadier and lighter on memory. ### 1.3.2 — 2026-09-21 PeakNav now speaks your language: the app was in English on every iPhone and iPad whatever the setting. It now follows the device's language, and has its own Language option in the Settings app. NEW • Ski slopes and lifts. Downhill runs are painted blue, red or black, flowing down the slope and named along their way. Lifts show their cabins and chairs moving uphill. Areas downloaded with an earlier version need downloading again to get them. • Route to here. Tap the map and a new button finds the walk from where you stand to that point along roads, tracks and paths. Walking time follows the slope, so the route prefers the quicker way round a hill. • GPX info pane: distance, walking time, ascent and descent, highest and lowest point, a height profile, and a speed graph for recorded tracks. • GPX tour: a marker shows where along the track you are, and a route or a track opened from the web can be shared from the share sheet. • Search finds about 7,000 famous mountains worldwide, with their country, finds names from their first letters ("Matterh"), and goes to coordinates written in almost any form, including geo:, Google Maps and OpenStreetMap links. Online results come in your own language rather than the local script. • A slideshow of the app on the welcome screen and while maps download, with the download's percentage. • The tutorial now works on iPhone and iPad (it showed a blank page), with new pictures of the app as it is now. • iPad: phone-sized buttons and text, which also keep their size in Split View. • Longer battery life: at most 60 frames a second, and 20 while nothing on the map moves. • The Labels switch hides or shows every label at once. FIXES • The gyroscope view works on devices without a compass, such as the iPod touch. • No more black photo when camera access is denied: the app explains and offers to open Settings. • Buttons and text are sized correctly on iPhones and iPads from 2020 onwards. • The options menu is no longer covered by the location pin and photo buttons, and the photo bar's close button no longer covers "?". • Going to a place with no downloaded data no longer leaves "Loading..." on screen: the app offers to download it. • Changing units updates the labels already on screen and the search results. ### 1.3.1 — 2026-09-12 Paths and roads now appear on the map — new on iPhone and iPad. TRAILS, TRACKS AND ROADS Footpaths, mountain trails, forest tracks and roads are drawn over the landscape, draped and shaded like the ground itself, so you can see where a path runs across the slope you are looking at. GRADED THE WAY A PAPER MAP GRADES THEM Trails are dashed and coloured by difficulty — yellow for hiking, red for mountain hiking, blue for alpine routes. Tracks are ochre, roads a warm white with a dark outline that reads over satellite imagery and snow alike. NAMES ALONG THE WAY Street names, path names and waymarked trail numbers are written along their own way, turned to follow it as the camera sees it. Trail numbers sit on a plate in the trail's own colour, the way a waymark does, and names of distant valleys come up as you zoom in on them. MAKE IT YOURS A new panel under "Roads and paths" in the map options lets you set the colour of roads, tracks and each grade of trail, the length of the dashes, how fast they creep along, how often names appear, and whether they appear at all. Everything changes as you tap, with nothing to reload, and one button puts it all back. Also in this version: the map engine now draws these lines on the graphics chip, which keeps the view smooth while you turn it, and makes the app a little smaller. ### 1.3.0 — 2026-09-10 Photos now find their own direction. Open a photo you took and PeakNav goes to where it was taken, works out which way the camera looked by matching its skyline to the terrain, and names the peaks on your picture. • Double-tap a summit to pin it, then drag and pinch to line the rest up • Fade the terrain over the photo, from outlines to opaque • Saved and shared pictures keep their position and direction (EXIF) • Rebuilt tutorial, now in your language • Various fixes ### 1.2.0 — 2026-09-07 No release notes. ## Apps similar to PeakNav | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [CoMaps](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/comaps/id6747180809) | 4.7 (136) | Free | Navigation | | [3D Offline Maps: GPS tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/3d-offline-maps-gps-tracker/id1629505231) | 4.6 (643) | Free | Navigation | | [Field MapS - Measure Land GPS](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/field-maps-measure-land-gps/id1556584402) | 4.7 (555) | Free | Navigation | | [Ski Tracks Lite & GPS Maps](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ski-tracks-lite-and-gps-maps/id368024976) | 4.6 (796) | Free | Navigation | ## More apps by Francesco Bonazzi - [SymPy Editor](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sympy-editor/id6807581349) All apps by Francesco Bonazzi: https://appshunter.io/developer/6807140558 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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