# Peaks: Track Your Climb — GPS Mountaineering Tracker

> GPS mountaineering tracker for route planning, ascent recording, and trip debriefing. (iPhone/iPad app by Josiah MacDonald.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/peaks-track-your-climb/id1497469000 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Josiah MacDonald](https://appshunter.io/developer/1497468999)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Navigation
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 18 App Store ratings · 8 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 14.1 · 44 MB
- Released: 2020-05-08
- Data updated: 2026-06-04
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/peaks-track-your-climb/id1497469000/reviews.md

## What is Peaks?

Track your ascents with Peaks. Plan your routes, record your summits, and debrief your trips with specialized stats. Get comprehensive trip plans, accurate navigation, and relevant stats right in your hand when you need it most. Whether training for the next big summit, working towards a vertical goal, or pushing the boundaries of your alpinism, reach your goals and stay safe on the mountain for free with Peaks.

With Peaks, you’ll get:

- Specialized Plans: Build your plans right in Peaks. When you’re about to hit the trail, everything in Peaks is ready to go. 

- Advanced Stats: Peaks automatically breaks down your trip in the ways that matter most. Remember how long your ascent takes, what time you summit, and your total vertical. Effortlessly break down the details of your trip. Debrief with summit timestamps, trail chronographs, elevation gain, mileage, and more.

- Better Recording: Take advantage of navigation and destination-focused stats at your fingertips. View your progress at a glance to help make critical decisions.

- Sharing: Show off your climb by sharing your favorite map, mountain, or photos.
 
- Lifetime Stats: Build up your climbing resume and log each mile and vertical foot.

- Import: Import past climbs to relive them with Peaks 3D Mountains. 

- Strava Integration: Automatically export your climbs to Strava when you connect Strava to Peaks

- Rich HealthKit Integration: When recording and you have a linked Apple Watch, the Peaks Watch app will automatically log your workout to HealthKit, and you'll be able to read health data directly on your recordings. 

Need more? Peaks Premium takes your climbing to the next level.

With Peaks Premium, you’ll get:

- Offline maps, destinations, and routes to ensure that you’re ready for the backcountry.

- Peaks 3D Mountains that give the best view of the terrain and scale of your ascent.

- Peaks AR Mountains that bring the trip home with you.

- Premium Maps

Terms Of Service:
https://www.peaksapp.com/terms-of-service

Privacy Policy:
https://www.peaksapp.com/privacy

## Key features

- GPS route planning and tracking
- Specialized ascent stats
- Navigation and destination stats
- Climb sharing and photo upload
- Lifetime climbing resume
- Strava and HealthKit integration
- Offline maps (Premium)

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Peaks Premium | $29.99 | per year |


## Recent user reviews (8 of 8)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/peaks-track-your-climb/id1497469000/reviews.md

### 2/5 — Can’t seem to connect to Strava

*2024-08-13*

Can you help with Strava connection?

### 5/5 — Would reccomend

*2024-07-20*

This app got me laid. Shame that the dev doesn’t update it regularly.

### 5/5 — Perfect For Planning Climbing Trips

*2020-12-16*

Love the ability to get directions to the specific route's trailhead!

### 5/5 — This app is awesome!

*2020-07-10*

Never have I been more motivated to get out and summit some peaks!

### 5/5 — Great App

*2020-07-10*

This is a really amazing app to track all the peaks I've bagged while ski mountaineering! Its also been really helpful in tracking and seeing my route beforehand and afterwards. Really great product!

### 5/5 — Great app

*2020-05-14*

Used this app on a recent hike in the PNW.  We got slightly off course in the snow, opened the app (I was in airplane mode with GPS enabled) and got back to the route.  We were only about 200 yards off, but that would have compounded the further we went.  Still trying to figure out all the features, but so far well worth the money.   Also, in airplane mode (no cell service) the battery drain was not bad, did almost 15 miles and still had plenty of battery by the time we got back to the car.

### 5/5 — Easy, no hassle, and accurate af

*2020-05-12*

Simple one click turn on and forget makes this my favorite new hike tracking app. I’ve run it parallel with my Garmin gps before, and it’s dead on accurate with or without cell service.

### 5/5 — Great app, tons of potential

*2020-05-11*

The app looks great and seems to have a ton of great features. The price is also very reasonable. Might be useful to do a short instructional video of how to use the app such as how to create a new route, how to follow an existing route, and a bit more detail on what premium offers that the free version doesn’t offer.

## Frequently asked questions about Peaks

### What is Peaks?

Peaks is a GPS mountaineering tracker designed to help you plan routes, record ascents, and debrief your trips with specialized statistics. It offers navigation and detailed performance data for your climbs.

### Does Peaks have ads?

No, Peaks does not contain advertisements. The app is free to use with optional premium features available through subscription.

### What are the subscription options for Peaks?

Peaks offers a 'Peaks Premium' subscription for $29.99 per year, which includes a 14-day free trial. This premium tier unlocks features like offline maps and advanced 3D/AR mountain views.

### How accurate is Peaks' tracking?

Peaks provides accurate navigation and destination-focused stats, including summit timestamps, elevation gain, and mileage. It also integrates with HealthKit to read health data from linked Apple Watches.

### Can I import past climbs into Peaks?

Yes, Peaks allows you to import past climbs to relive them with its 3D Mountains feature. This helps you build your climbing resume by logging all your ascents.

### What devices is Peaks compatible with?

Peaks is available on macOS, watchOS, iOS (iPhone and iPad), and iPod. It is designed to be accessible across multiple Apple platforms.

### How often is Peaks updated?

The latest version of Peaks is 1.5.3, which was last updated on July 8, 2021. The app was initially released on May 8, 2020.

### What age rating does Peaks have?

Peaks has an age rating of 4+, making it suitable for a wide range of users interested in tracking their outdoor activities.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.5.3 — 2021-07-08

This is a minor update improving Peaks. 

- More Recording Stats: When recording, you can cycle through the stats to get more stats.
- Improved offline search capabilities - if the app detects there is no internet access, it will now search through the cache 
- Improved destination checking - if the app can recheck for reached destinations, it will. 
- Improved read and write speed of caches for destinations, and fixes a problem where occasionally destination loading could block the apps main thread
- Improved messaging when restoring purchases

### 1.5.2 — 2021-05-27

This release fixes some minor bugs in Peaks.

### 1.5.1 — 2021-05-11

What's New: 
- Trip Reports: Create and view trip reports from previous climbs. 
- Season Summary: Get a summary of each season and aggregated totals

What's Improved: 
- Search results now include your past climbs 

What's Fixed: 
- Training data wouldn't correctly display values if they were greater than 1hr
- Some deep links weren't working as expected

### 1.5.0 — 2021-03-18

2 months in the making, but the new release is worth the wait!

What's New:

- Peaks on the Apple Watch: We've built out a way to view your active climbing stats on the Apple Watch, making it easy to get a summary of your climb without even needing to take off your gloves. Furthermore, if you have an Apple Watch, health data such as your heart rate and calories burned will be included on your recordings. Using your Apple Watch will also give you that sweet, sweet ring credit.
- Training: Climb something multiple times via the same route, and Peaks will automatically link up your efforts to show you your progress over time.
- Climbing Parties: You climb together, why not plan together? Send your whole party an invite link to them to your plan.
- Discover Tab: Adding a new way to discover the mountains around you people are climbing. Look through popular climbs & local ones to find ones you didn't know were being climbed, or ones you might not have even known about.
- Account Tab: Manage your account all in one place on the new account tab.

What's Improved:

- The Plan Tab will now load significantly more efficiently, loaded with better caching and better data fetching.
- List UI has been greatly improved. The rings especially look a lot cleaner now.
- Sessions will tell you when you've only given Peaks limited photo access, helping you determine why you might not be seeing photos you took during your climb.
- Reminder can be removed from your plans by swiping right on them.
- Premium processing has been greatly improved, ensuring everyone who joins premium gets access to the features.

What's Fixed: 

- There was a crasher that could occur when you view a plan that wasn't yours. This has been fixed.
- Fixed an issue when recording that would occasionally show you vertical feet remaining despite the fact your were on the summit. This issue has been fixed, you should see 0ft remaining on the top now.
- The map on the share screen wouldn't always zoom to the correct level.
- Various other bug fixes & performance improvements

### 1.4.0 — 2021-01-09

The first release of Peaks for 2021 is a large one! 

What’s New:
- Weather Forecasts: Weather forecasts now available on plans and destination pages
- Destination Pages: New data on the Peaks you're climbing. New features include 3D maps of the mountains, graphs showing you which months are the most popular to climb, and weather updates so you can plan when to climb.

What’s Improved:
- On iPad and Mac, you can resize the windows.

What’s Fixed:
- There was a memory leak on the Plan pages that was fixed.
- When signing in, there was a bug that could prevent your data from showing up without reloading the app
- The history screen will now correctly refresh it’s data when you log out / log in
- Other minor bug fixes

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All apps by Josiah MacDonald: https://appshunter.io/developer/1497468999

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