Best Hiking Apps For Apple iOS
While hiking has been around since the dawn of mankind, there’s no better time than now to become that avid trail walker you’ve always wanted to be. Hiking is a great way for people of all ages to stay active and explore our lovely planet whilst offsetting carbon, as long as you don’t litter of course. Best of all, with today’s smart phones and Apple’s iOS devices such as the iPhone, there are plenty of hiking apps to help you gain a foothold on the numerous trails and hikes in your area. Most all hiking apps act like social networking sites, but for trail hiking and other outdoor sports such as road biking and kayaking. People around the world can upload their adventures to the app for sharing with others and you’re free to browse any of them. Punch in your zip code and you can view all the trails and activities in your area or look at some sweet mine “laden” hikes in Afghanistan.
Once you find the trail you want to explore, you can find your way to the hike (using GPS from within the app), and then track all of your progress once you start hiking. The app effectively tracks all the statistics involved, from speed and altitude, to time and offset carbon. Additionally you can take pictures from any point in your journey and take notes about what you might want to leave as a tip for other travelers. After your trip is complete you can upload the whole thing to the app as well as online and share with friends, family, and the public via Facebook links, etc. Tibesti brings you the Best Hiking Apps for Apple iOS!
Best Hiking Apps For Apple iOS by Electronics Expert Review Panel
The Best You Can Get
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EveryTrail Pro (there’s a lite version for free) lets your share and view trips for not only hiking but for a large variety of outdoor travel sports as well. You can save drafts, take pictures, and summarize all of your outings and then upload them whenever you like. Guides for major areas like Yosemite are available for sale. The App is clean and easy use, allowing you to delve directly into the meat of the program. The App also has an entirely fleshed out online component for faster photo and text editing of your adventure.
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Trails - GPS Tracker is a cool app that lets you import hikes and other trips from popular GPS websites and view them at your leisure. Great for skiing, rafting, and other activities, this app uses OpenStreetMap (Wikipedia’s Map Source) to toggle between road and topographic maps. While tracking you don’t need an internet connection and all files are time stamped as a standard GPX file for sharing and exporting.
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With over 5 million square miles of tundra of the contiguous US and Hawaii covered, AccuTerra Unlimited also features triple zoom levels on all maps and the most recent and detailed trail and land information available. All maps download quickly and can be stored for later viewing when a strong web connection is gone. Additionally, Accuterra can store unlimited user trail and way point information as well as displaying real time elevation and travel statistics. Any pictures that are taken are also geo-coded.
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Powered by EveryTrail, TrailHead from the NorthFace has over 300,000 search-able trails, bike routes, and other outdoor trips by length, activity, and location. The app also features forecast related gear recommendations according to activity as well as the ability to track your progress on the trail with pictures and notes that you can upload and share later. You can use this app to find a NorthFace dealer near you and view a news feed about the happenings of the NorthFace Athlete Team.
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Designed by two backpackers over the course of two years, Gaia GPS is compatible across all iOS devices and allows for massive map downloads for offline use. The interface is customizable from the unit measurements, colors, and sound, and the app lets you record and share all the data that you’ve collected. On the pricey side, Gaia will never charge you for anything downloaded within the app.
