HikerFeed vs Packstack
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
Packstack
This app helps backpackers and hikers meticulously track gear, organize packing lists, and calculate essential trip details like base weight and calorie needs. It offers a comprehensive gear inventory, reusable kits, and detailed trip planning features. Syncs across devices and allows sharing of setups.
- Gear inventory management
- Trip-specific packing lists
- Reusable gear kits
- Base weight and calorie calculation
- Hiker profile creation
- Trip planning tools
- Gear catalog search
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PACKSTACK: GEAR LISTS & PACK WEIGHT TRACKING FOR BACKPACKERS Packstack is the gear list and pack weight app built for backpackers, hikers, and ultralight gram-counters. Build your gear closet once, spin up a packing list for any trip in minutes, and know your base weight before you hit the trail. Looking for a LighterPack alternative with a real mobile app? This is it. GEAR CLOSET All your gear in one searchable place. Log brand, product, weight, price, and category for every item — or skip the typing and pull verified specs from the gear catalog. Wishlist the gear you want but don't own yet. GEAR RESEARCH Browse thousands of outdoor products by category, sorted lightest to heaviest. Compare any product against the category median, dig into full specs, and add it to your gear closet in one tap. PACKING LISTS Build a list for each trip by pulling from your gear closet. Everything stays organized by category — shelter, sleep system, cookware, clothing — with total, base, and worn weight at a glance. Build multiple packs per trip to compare loadouts. CHECKLIST MODE When it's time to pack, flip any list into a checklist and tick items off as they go into the pack. Nothing gets left behind. WEIGHT TRACKING Automatic totals for pack weight, base weight (everything minus consumables), and worn weight. Switch between imperial (oz/lb) and metric (g/kg) anytime — every number updates instantly. SMART TRIP DETAILS Type a trail name and Packstack researches the rest: distance, elevation gain, terrain, and expected temperatures for your dates. It only fills in what you haven't set yourself — your local knowledge always wins. CALORIE CALCULATOR (PACKSTACK PRO) Estimate daily calories from your trip's distance, elevation, terrain, pace, and temperature — combined with your hiker profile. Take the guesswork out of food planning and know exactly how much to carry. HIKER PROFILES Set up profiles with height, weight, age, sex, and body type. Assign a profile to any pack for personalized calorie estimates — perfect for couples, families, or group trips. REUSABLE KITS Group the gear you always pack together — cook kit, first aid, camera setup — and drop the whole bundle into any list in one tap. Your first kit is free; Packstack Pro unlocks unlimited kits. SHARE YOUR SETUP Every packing list gets a public link anyone can view on the web, no account required — perfect for shakedown feedback. Or export a trip summary card with your weight breakdown, sized for Instagram Stories. IMPORT & EXPORT Switching tools? Import from LighterPack or any CSV in seconds. Export your gear back out anytime. Your data is never locked in. CROSS-PLATFORM SYNC Plan on your laptop, pack from your phone. Your gear closet, packing lists, and trips stay in sync across web and iOS. FREE TO START An unlimited gear closet, three packing lists, your first kit, imports, and sharing — free, with no credit card and no ads, ever. Packstack Pro unlocks unlimited packing lists, unlimited kits, and the calorie calculator. Sign up with email, Google, or Apple and start in minutes. Whether you're an ultralight gram-counter or a weekend camper, Packstack is the modern LighterPack alternative. Questions or feedback? Reach me at jerad@packstack.io — I'd love to hear from you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.packstack.io/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: HikerFeed at daily against Packstack's fortnightly. HikerFeed also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Packstack's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HikerFeed against 5.0 for Packstack. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively.
HikerFeed ships an update daily, Packstack fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | HikerFeed | Packstack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 97 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Drew Bartlett | Jerad Maplethorpe |
Customer experience
HikerFeed
Packstack
In-app purchases
HikerFeed
No in-app purchases
Packstack
No in-app purchases









