HikerFeed vs Gearli.io
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HikerFeed
Capture your hiking adventures with detailed tracking, photo journals, and route recording, even offline. Share your experiences and connect with other hikers in a dedicated social feed.
- Route recording
- Offline support with sync
- Photos and journals
- Social feed with likes and comments
- Map view
- Apple Health integration
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HikerFeed is built to capture your hiking life. Track your hikes with photos, journals, waypoints, distance, steps, maps, and now full route recording; even offline. Record your path from the trail, add updates along the way, and sync everything when service returns. The updated dock makes it easier to jump between your feed, hikes, recording, maps, and profile, so the tools you need are always close by. Follow other hikers, see their hike days, photos, stats, routes, and mileage, and share your own updates with likes and comments. HikerFeed works for every kind of hike, from quick day hikes to weekend backpacking trips to long-distance thru-hikes. Keep your hiking life in one app instead of scattered across your camera roll, notes, maps, and fitness tools. Version 0.2 includes: • Updated dock navigation • Route recording • Public and private hikes • Social feed • Photos • Journals • Waypoints • Distance and step tracking • Map view • Offline support with sync • Apple Health integration • Likes and comments • Web sharing to HikerFeed.com
Gearli.io
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Manage your gear, master your pack. Gearli is your ultimate companion for planning your next backpacking and hiking trip. Now managing over 3,100 gear items for users across 11 countries! Plan from with the app or our feature-rich website. Visit https://www.gearli.io for full featured powered Gear Management. App features - Gear Inventory Management - Create and categorize individual Gear Items with details like weight, quantity, brand, condition, price, images and custom properties. - Gear Bags - Group related gear items into reusable ‘bags’ to simplify gear planning across your trips (e.g., "Sleep system", "First Aid", "Winter base pack") - Trip Planning - Create and manage trips with dates, trip type, difficulty, locations, and more. Associate Gear Bags and individual Gear Items specific to your trip - Packing Lists - Next level packing lists, with two-way sync with the Gearli.io website. Mark items as packed on either platform and stay up to date. - Imports: Gearli's AI powered importer support imports from LighterPack, PackLight, Google Sheets, Excel, CSV, and copy & paste. Monitors for duplicates and assigns categories during import to keep your gear organised. - Share your trips - you’re in control. Share your trip and packing lists via URL and email invites. - Gear database: thousands of pre-loaded gear items to choose from - Custom gear categories: Gearli.io comes with pre-built gear categories. But if you prefer you own, add as many as you like! - Plus: printable packing list option, support for imperial and metric; light/dark mode, gear filtering (by categories and weight), search Also available on the Gearli.io website: - Receipt scanning - leverage the Gearli.io AI to automate the addition of new gear items. - Predictive Gear Categorization - let the Gearli.io AI inspect all your gear and suggest categories. - Wish Lists - we always seem to need (or want!) more. Keep track of what gear is next on purchase list. - Powerful Insights - understand you gear and each trip like ever before!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HikerFeed at none against Gearli.io's 4. HikerFeed also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs monthly). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Gearli.io sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. HikerFeed asks for nothing beyond the download.
HikerFeed ships an update daily, Gearli.io monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HikerFeed | Gearli.io |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 97 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Drew Bartlett | Upward Group Pty Ltd |
In-app purchases
HikerFeed
No in-app purchases
Gearli.io
- Gearli Explorer Monthly$4.991 Month
- Gearli Long Range Monthly$6.991 Month
- Gearli Explorer Yearly$39.991 Year
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- Gearli Long Range Annual$49.991 Year








