Record and relive your outdoor adventures with detailed GPS tracking, offline maps, and a summit log. Discover new trails and connect with a community of hikers. Track your progress and sync with health apps.
2.0.2
November 1, 2026
Hikez comes to Apple Watch, and opens like a notebook on iPhone Duo and iPad. On Apple Watch • Start a hike on your iPhone: Hikez opens on your watch by itself • Time, distance, elevation gain, altitude, speed, heart rate and calories in large figures • Pause, resume, finish and add a waypoint from your wrist • With Hikez Pro: the map with the route to follow, the route even without a network, guidance (distance and elevation gain left, arrival time, next waypoint) and the elevation profile. Your wrist taps when you leave the trail • Map with north up or turned to your direction of travel, as you like. Set the page order and the opening page on your iPhone, in Settings › Apple Watch • A complication for your watch face, and your heart rate on the hike page On iPhone Duo and iPad in landscape • Journal: your hikes on the left, the one you pick shown large on the right. The arrows leaf from one hike to the next • Hike page, recording, route guidance, map, routes, profile and Your year open across two pages • Duo half open and standing like an easel: the map on top, the figures below • Folding or unfolding mid-hike loses nothing Everywhere • Hikez now speaks Norwegian • In Norway, Kartverket's hiking map, offline too • If Hikez is closed mid-hike, it offers you the hike when you reopen it: resume where it stopped, or finish it to save it • More accurate distance at a slow pace, when stopped near a hut or under trees: no more phantom kilometres • More accurate elevation gain and altitude, above all without a barometer and in the first minutes • Follow a route: the exact gap shown, fewer false alerts, alerts with the phone locked too, and "Back on the route" when you find it again • Estimated times follow the DIN 33466 standard (4 km/h, 300 m/h up, 500 m/h down): longer than before, and more realistic • Less battery used while paused or at rest • Route guidance screen: the arrow always stays in view, and the profile shows from a button at the top right • Dynamic Island: no more clock running on once the app is closed • 3D flyover: save the video from the end-of-hike summary too (Hikez Pro) • Opening a GPX file from Files, Safari or AirDrop no longer closes the app, and more formats are accepted
MoreEvery Pro feature, month by month.
Hikez is a hiking journal that allows you to record your outings using live GPS, follow GPX routes, and log your summit achievements. It also offers offline maps and integrates with the Health app.
No, Hikez is ad-free. The app emphasizes user control and data privacy, stating 'No ads, no data resale'.
Hikez Pro offers a monthly plan for $3.99 and a yearly plan for $22.99, both with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account upon purchase.
Yes, Hikez provides offline maps that download automatically around your routes, ensuring you have navigation even without a signal in the mountains.
Hikez is available on iPhone and iPad, indicated by its support for 'iphone' and 'ipad'.
The latest version, 2.0.1, was released on October 24, 2026, suggesting regular updates to improve functionality and add features.
Yes, Hikez has an optional community feature where you can post your hikes to your feed, follow other hikers, and share routes on a community map. You can also choose to keep your account private.
Hikez Pro unlocks features like cinematic 3D flyovers of hikes, an unlimited GPX library, complete summit log access, automatic weather data, yearly stats, and advanced journal filters.
