HiiKER: The Hiking Maps App

Interface is pretty busy leading to easily clicking unwanted things. Search function doesn’t have the inventory nor update speed of other apps.

Had used search to try to find a hike nearby. App had a hard time locating me in Virginia and kept searching for hikes in Ireland. We finally got that working, located a nearby hike that we knew would be outside of cell service - downloaded the appropriate map for offline viewing. Once we arrived - nothing. The app would not allow me to call up that downloaded map/trail. I’ll never use again. That’s the most basic feature that should work without fail.

Can’t save a map or mark way points

Recently downloaded this app and just started exploring it. It has suggested several hikes in my area, so that makes me happy. However, it’s a little difficult to use when the distance measurement is only in kilometers. Maybe Miles could be added to it also.

I haven’t actually used this app to hike - yet! I plan to use this app in conjunction with AllTrails for a Glacier National backpacking trip. I really like the free trail planning and that it shows the campground locations, that makes me feel a bit safer in the planning aspect. Here’s to hoping this is a great app and happy hiking!

The app doesn’t have a way to get directions to the trail. That makes it pretty much useless unless you’re just a teaser to make me use another app I’ve already paid a subscription for.

After trying several other apps, Hiiker is clearly the winner. I use it for biking and hiking and it’s terrific. Easy to use, excellent detail, and it works!

Trails still had snow and was windy with over cast skies

It does not account for elevation gain!!! Used this app to plan a 7-day trip in the Dolomites. The times for hikes were COMPLETELY WRONG. We booked hotels and Refugi based on these data and the times were not even close— not even by a day! I’m a very experienced hiker; very strong and fast-moving. I’ve used AllTrails for a few years and never had any problems, but they don’t have my Alta Via planned out. Tried Hiiker. Won’t ever use again. Example: Hiiker reported a 5-hour hike on day three. Reality was a 14-hour hike including many vie ferrate. We ended up having to book a different rifugio and were very lucky they had space. Otherwise, we would have been stranded. Got charged for hotels that we couldn’t make it to. Payed extra for different hotels and refugi.

This App has great potential but currently I couldn’t recommend anything other than a basic subscription and it can’t be solely relied on for navigation. I would recommend using this App along with another book guide or other maps for whichever trail you are walking. There are some annoying bugs that really need to be fixed and many other improvements are needed to make this App better. Many points of interest are out of date or inaccurate.Points of interest have to be added every time you open the App. It would be good if you could save the points of interest selected for a map in your list or a saved planned hike. Currently when you exit a map or planned route you have to re-ad points of interest. I have the units set to miles and feet but it changes randomly back to meters and kilometres depending on what I am using in the App. Customised features should be permanent through the App unless changed. When using the planning a hike feature it draws a straight line or follows a trail I do not want to include on the planned hike and I get a message that I am not connected to the server when I definitely have a good Wi-Fi connection. The center lines for the Wales Coast Path are not accurate, not sure if this is the case for other long walks in the App. I get a lot of error messages when downloading map layers for use offline so I am not confident that these layers will work offline. Overall this App is a good start and I am ok paying the basic subscription fee but I don’t think any higher level subscription would be worth the cost unless many improvements are made especially for offline use.