Peakery vs Trails.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Peakery
Discover, track, and share mountain hikes worldwide. Explore over 600,000 peaks with detailed maps and use the GPS tracker for navigation. Collect your climbing history with photos and trip reports, and browse community adventures.
- Discover 600,000+ peaks worldwide
- Detailed map layers (topo, satellite, 3D)
- Offline peak browsing and searching
- In-app GPS tracker with navigation stats
- Follow external or community GPX tracks
- Collect past climbs with photos and reports
- Browse community mountain adventures
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peakery is all about peaks! Discover, track, collect, share, and celebrate mountain hikes. • Discover peaks to hike anywhere in the world: Explore, search, and filter 645,000 peaks on 50 free map layers including detailed topo maps, satellite maps, and 3D maps. Browse, search, and filter peaks even offline. • Get info from the latest hikes: Browse over 500,000 mountain trips with photos, trip reports, and GPS tracks from peakery's passionate worldwide community. • Track your mountain hikes: Use the in-app GPS tracker that features key navigation stats such as vertical gain and current elevation. • Save & follow GPS tracks for navigation: Save any track shared by peakery members and use it to navigate. Or load external GPX tracks to use as reference tracks. • Collect your peaks: Complete your mountain history by adding photos, GPS tracks, and trip reports for your past climbs. • Tackle Peak Challenges: Climb special, curated collections of peaks called Peak Challenges. peakery features over 750 Peak Challenges for everyone: from gentle walks to technical climbs. There's one ready for you to tackle. Add your climbs of included peaks to see your progress. • peakery.com: The website peakery.com is synched with the app!
Trails.
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Trails is the ultimate trail recorder app for your iPhone. Whether you walk, hike, run, or cycle – use trails to keep track of your favorite paths, see how far you moved and how much elevation you gained, and revisit your trails later or share them with others!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Peakery at every 3 months against Trails.'s every 6 months. Peakery also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Peakery ships an update every 3 months, Trails. every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Peakery | Trails. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (28 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apperies | Vision Thing B.V. |
In-app purchases
Peakery
No in-app purchases
Trails.
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Peakery free?
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Do Peakery or Trails. have ads?
Which is updated more often, Peakery or Trails.?
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