# Topo Map & Hiking Tracker — user reviews > 53 indexed App Store user reviews of Topo Map & Hiking Tracker by LW Brands, LLC, rated 4.70/5 from 1,355 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/topo-map-and-hiking-tracker/id1451500304/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/topo-map-and-hiking-tracker/id1451500304.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,086 · 4★ 180 · 3★ 41 · 2★ 17 · 1★ 31 ## What do users think of Topo Map & Hiking Tracker? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Simple to use - 🚀 Provides all necessary information - 💰 Inexpensive - 🔋 Battery-saving features - 📍 Accurate tracking - 🗺️ Variety of map options - 🌐 Works well offline - 👌 Straightforward and easy to navigate **Cons** - 🐛 Inaccurate distance tracking - 🚫 Cannot import waypoints - 🚫 Does not track total vertical gain - 🚫 Cannot force offline map caching - 🚫 No export to GPX/KML formats - 🔋 Drains battery life **Commonly reported bugs** - Map feature stops working after short time - Entire hike data erased due to app error - Elevation data not saved on completed hikes **Most requested features** - Add option to display distance in kilometers - Implement ability to name/save trails - Integrate with health/fitness apps - Add compass functionality ## Newest reviews (16 of 53) ### 5/5 — TIP TOP! *2021-02-28, version 1.3* This is an outstanding app for hiking, bicycling or motorcycle riding. I have found so many trails I would’ve never found. ### 5/5 — Beginner hiker *2021-02-27, version 1.3* This app is great, showed me everything I am interested in knowing about my hike. Great for beginners ### 3/5 — Two important missing features *2021-02-20* This is a pretty good app but it has two features that I think ought to be included: 1) I cannot force the app to save maps when I am home or in a lodge using Wi-Fi. It only appears to save the maps as the developer intended when I am somewhere using cell phone data service, which is not only more expensive but problematic if I’m in a place where there isn’t any cell service. It’s also very unclear how long maps are stored when I do successfully save them. This makes it impossible and potentially dangerous to rely on this app in many situations. 2) I can’t find any way to export the sessions into a .KML or .GPX format so that I can pull it into another mapping program where I plan my routes and save records of old trips. I understand that this app is really intended as an exercise tool, but I have used it in remote situations to ensure that when I am off trail I am actually where I think I’m supposed to be in wilderness exploring using a paper topo map. It’s great to be able to use just my cell phone and not carry another heavy electronic device and batteries on a backpack to validate my map reading skills! ### 5/5 — Great app so far *2021-02-09, version 1.2* Very simple and easy to navigate. I’ll be hiking with it this week and will update my review when I’ve seen it in action. ### 5/5 — Don’t leave home with out it. *2021-01-06* The simplest tracking app and most accurate with lots of features that I’ve ever come across. Not cumbersome not complicated even a monkey could do it. **Developer response:** Thank you for the review! ### 5/5 — Exactly What I Was Looking For *2020-11-16, version 1.2* Great App. Tracks hikes accurately with absolute minimal battery usage. Shows progress with satellite terrain view including colors for ascent and descent. ### 5/5 — Lots of data *2020-10-03* Great app for walking-hiking. Provides a lot of useful data and allows use of phone and other apps while tracking. Worked smoothly. Add Health app connection and its tops. **Developer response:** Thank you for the review! ### 5/5 — Just what I was looking for! *2020-10-02, version 1.1.3* I love it ### 4/5 — Need help *2020-09-26, version 1.1.3* Weres the compass ### 4/5 — Missing data as on saved data *2020-09-22* Excellent app. Doesn't, however, save calories or elevation data on saved hike map. Data is there on bottom of map when u finish a hike, but when u save, data not on saved map. ### 5/5 — Hiking *2020-09-06* This is a great app. Would only change one thing - to add the ability to name the trails. I don’t think you have it on there as I can’t find it if you do. Thank you. **Developer response:** Thank you for the review! ### 5/5 — Okanagan *2020-08-11* Good program for hiking. All the info you need excellent for mapping an area so as to com back or just keep a record. Thanks **Developer response:** Thank you for the review! ### 5/5 — Not accurate *2020-08-10, version 1.1.3* I just downloaded this app at my kitchen table ... haven’t stood up but started a trip, I’ve managed to walk .02 miles and 14 vertical feet ### 5/5 — Hiking Tracker 5 Stars! *2020-07-30, version 1.1.3* Excellent app support and I use this app for walking, hiking, biking and even to track my lawn mowing...accurate and easy to use! Way to go Hiking Tracker pros!!!! ### 5/5 — Amazing!!! *2020-07-07, version 1.1.3* This is an amazing app!!! Great maps, easy to use, and ad free. I’m as happy as can be!! ### 5/5 — A *2020-06-23, version 1.1.3* Very basic easy to use. I ride dirtbikes and it will keep you from getting lost. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Can’t import *2025-03-06, version 1.7* Can’t import waypoints in any format supported by other apps. ### 1/5 — It doesn’t track your total Vert *2022-03-16* Everything is great about this App except that it doesn’t track your total amount of vertical gain. So if you walk up a mountain and down a valley and then back up a mountain again the App doesn’t count the second hill. It’s soul crushing that the App fails to track all your hard work. All the rest doesn’t matter. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2020-12-20* Took this app for a try on my 30 mile hike just outside a Major city in Silicon Valley. The map feature worked for about 10 minutes before it went black. There isn’t an ability to zoom out from your route to see how far you’ve been. The whole screen just starts to flash if you do that. To put a cherry on top the app “encountered an error” and erased the entire 30 miles of data from the last 8.5 hours. No apps were running in the background. Nothing else was open. All this app did was drain my battery life ### 1/5 — Hiking *2020-09-07, version 1.1.3* I have done multiple hikes using this apps and the mileage is always way more than what the hike should have been. This app does not accurately track miles at all. ### 1/5 — Outdated *2020-05-16, version 1.1.3* Very out dated; still shows 2019 year🤷‍♀️ ### 1/5 — Distance very inaccurate *2020-02-22, version 1.0.10* Could be a very good hiking app. I Like most of the features of the app, but one major issue. The distance mileage recording is way off. Not even close to accurate. What’s the point is it’s not even close to accurate. Fix that and its easily a 4-5 star app. ### 1/5 — Not accurate *2020-02-10, version 1.0.10* App recorded 18.2 miles, but hike was only 14.7 miles (confirmed with garmin gps. App also only records difference between lowest elevation and highest elevation. ### 1/5 — Poor accuracy *2019-11-06, version 1.0.8* I did a 2 mile hike yet the app recorded it as close to 5 miles. Not satisfied with the accuracy of this app, I was using a newer iPhone XS Max in cell service with location services on and allowed to run in the background. ### 2/5 — Distance is way off *2020-05-27* I recently started hiking again after 13 years of being on a cane/walker and have been really excited to track my progress as I go. I have loved being able to show my doctors/surgeon all the progress I have made. However, it appears none of my hikes have been accurately tracked. This morning I stopped to sit for a few minutes and while I was checking my route on the app, my distance kept increasing. When I sat down I was at exactly a mile but when I got up I was at 1.05 miles. The last update notes for this app state that the distance problem was fixed but clearly it’s not and now I feel terrible about excitedly showing everyone my progress. I know it may seem trivial but for someone who was essentially bedridden for my entire adult life, this is devastating. So, thanks for “fixing” this issue. ### 2/5 — Only the timer works right. *2020-05-21* Tested the app out on a local trail. The timer worked well and was pretty much the only good thing about this app. Local signs stated the trail was 7.1 miles and google stated it was 7 miles even. After completing the trail, this app said it was 8.12 miles. The description says they fixed this distance accuracy, but that’s false. The trail was pretty much flat, I personally didn’t notice any elevation gain, but this app stated there was an increase of 45 over the 7 mile stretch. What confuses me is that there’s a lot of yellow, orang or red coloring for such a minor elevation gain. This needs to be fixed. The app has a lot of promising features, but non of them work. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — My experience *2025-10-09* Simple to use, with all of the information I need, provided fully and clearly. (And inexpensively.) What a lucky discovery! ### 5/5 — Terry *2022-10-24, version 1.5* Just learning the app. So far so good, easy learning. I’ve got a week in the forest and looking forward to trying out in the wild. ### 5/5 — Love it *2022-06-26* Ok, developers take note. This is how you make apps. No subscription. No monthly/yearly fees. When I pay for an app, I expect to own it, not be renting it. Rant over. The app performs beautifully. The battery saving feature alone is well worth it. Seems very accurate and oh so easy to use. Start a track, put your phone in you sack, and forget about it. After a 12 mile walk placing trail cams for nature videos, I had only used 12% battery. Pretty dang good. Ps. I do not normally write reviews, but this app deserves notice. ### 5/5 — We use this all the time for hiking! *2022-04-24, version 1.5* Best app ever! Thank you for making it so affordable. We use it to hike all over Upstate NY. Very user friendly! ### 5/5 — THANK YOU!! Best Value for My Needs *2021-12-15* Ah the good old times of NO SUBSCRIPTIONS & NO ADS. Very clever design features: battery charge preservation during the trip by using phone’s Airplane mode and preloaded local map. Thank you for the user friendly phone-sized controls. This app does everything I wanted for casual hiking and biking, for a BUCK, without a 50-page PDF tutorial. I hope the developer sells hundreds of millions; it will be a well deserved fortune, and a positive step in the right direction away from ripoff auto-renew subscription apps. ### 5/5 — Great hiking app *2021-09-12, version 1.3* I love your hiking app. Straightforward, easy to use. Is it possible to have kms instead of miles? ### 5/5 — THE BEST *2021-05-05, version 1.3* Best App EVER!!!!!! ### 5/5 — Hiking Tracker App *2021-04-13* Love being able to use the app in the background. Tracking is decently accurate, but probably my phones natural locating is the problem rather than the apps. Also love the utilization of multiple topographical maps because different topo maps have different features -some are better showing roads and trails while others are better with natural geographical features. Oh and let’s not forget... no advertisements to be bothered with!!! **Developer response:** Thank you for the review! ### 5/5 — Variety of Maps *2021-04-03, version 1.3* So far this application works very well. ### 5/5 — Does the job *2021-03-29* So many gps aps add all sorts of unnecessary stuff. I don’t want anything more than a trail of breadcrumbs I can use to figure out where I started, where I am, and help me get a good guess about the way home. All those extra features/layers/buttons most GPS aps add are just an annoyance. This, while not at all bare bones, does everything I need but keeps it simple. **Developer response:** Thank you for the review! --- *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 2026-09-12.*