Trekking Carpathians vs inConnect Guide

Plan a hike in the Ukrainian Carpathians, walk it with the phone in your pocket, and keep a record of every summit you reach — with or without a mobile signal. Trekking Carpathians is made by people who walk these mountains themselves. It has been growing since 2019 together with the community at vpohid.com.ua, who add the places, the photographs and the corrections. IT WORKS WITHOUT A SIGNAL There is no dependable mobile coverage on a Carpathian ridge, and the app is built for that. Download the map for the area before you leave and the tiles, the routes, the descriptions and the photographs are all on the phone. The navigator needs no connection at all. HUNDREDS OF READY ROUTES Day walks above Yaremche, the climb to Hoverla, the full Chornohora traverse, Svydovets, Gorgany, Marmarosy, Borzhava. Each route carries its track, its length, its walking time, a difficulty level, the places it crosses and photographs taken along it. Filter by region, by category or by what is nearest to you. A MAP THAT KNOWS THE MOUNTAINS A topographic map with the trails, marked with what actually matters to a walker: summits, waterfalls, lakes, springs, shelters, chapels, ruins, viewpoints, sheepfolds. Thousands of them, added by walkers over years. Tap one to read what is there and see what other people photographed. FOLLOW A ROUTE AS YOU WALK IT Start a route and the app shows how much is behind you, how much is left, the forecast on the ridge and a warning when you drift off the line. Finish it and it goes into your history. YOUR TOURIST PASSPORT A hiking history that belongs to you: every route walked and every place reached, with the date, your own notes and the summits you ticked off along the way. Keep it private or publish it, and read other walkers' passports. MORE IN YOUR POCKET • Weather for the mountains, not for the nearest city • Villages and towns with transport and how to get to the trailhead • Peak detector — hold the phone up and it names the summits on the horizon • Quests: collections of control points to collect over a season • Chat and a forum with other walkers, and a shared photo feed • A handbook: mountain rescue, the border zone, transfers • Add a place yourself, where you are standing, with a photograph FOUR LANGUAGES Ukrainian, English, German and Polish, switchable inside the app. The app is free. An optional purchase removes the advertising. Website: https://vpohid.com.ua/ Questions and suggestions: vpohid.com.ua@gmail.com

inConnect is a tour radio you never have to carry, hand out or collect. You speak into your own phone. Your group hears you in theirs — through the earphones they already have. They listen in the free inConnect app: they scan your QR code, the app opens straight into your tour, and they hear you. HOW IT WORKS 1. Open the app and tap “Go live”. 2. Show the group the QR code, or send the link into the tour chat. 3. Guests scan it with the free inConnect app and hear you within a couple of seconds. You can put the phone in your pocket — the broadcast keeps running. WHAT THE GUIDE SEES • How many people can hear you right now — the counter updates live. • An indicator that answers “can they actually hear me?”, not “is there internet?”. • A warning when the sound stops reaching the group — before the group notices. • A map of the group: who is next to you and who fell behind. • A history of the tours you have run. WHY THIS INSTEAD OF RECEIVERS A set of radio receivers has to be booked ahead, picked up, handed out, collected and not lost. Every lost receiver is a separate bill. inConnect needs no booking the night before: it works with the equipment you and your group are already carrying. WHO IT IS FOR City guides, tour desks, museums, corporate and school groups — anywhere one person needs to be heard by a few dozen. HONEST ABOUT THE REQUIREMENTS You need the internet, and so do your listeners. In underpasses and deep cellars there will be no signal — neither for us nor for a radio guide on the same frequency.