There's no better way to get moving than hitting the hiking trail. Hiking is invigorating because it gets your heart rate up, and allows you to soak up the beauty of the outdoors, all at the same time. These apps are the best of the best, and will help you stay on course, and track your progress.
Highest scored apps in the category
The app for tracking when you explore nature
Hike is an app that helps you keep track of where you've been on your hike. It provides you with distance, duration, and altitude statistics, syncing everything through iCloud to your other iOS devices. Hike allows you to record your journey, automatically turning off when you return to your starting point and then showing you your tracks on a map.
Apps with average score
The app for hiking, biking, running, sailing, skiing, or orienteering
Map My Tracks Walking turns your iPhone into a high-performance all-sport GPS device. It's simple and fun to use, but feature-rich. It measures your performance, keeps track of important information, and provides a terrific activity map for checking where you traveled after your hike or other activity.
The definitive survival guide
For more than 20 years, the SAS Survival Guide has been what people turn to for surviving any situation, anywhere in the world. The best-selling book is available on your iOS device, and it's not something you want to be without. The SAS Survival Guide provides you with the full...
The app that helps you find trails to amazing places
Naturapps is a free utility that helps you find trails to hike. It sorts the tours into all levels of hiking ability, even providing a specially recommended selection of trails to enjoy with children and bicyclists. It provides you with a full description of each hiking path, a photo gallery,...
The app for comparing your walks with famous hikes
This is a totally different type of hiking app, since it helps you to compare your neighborhood walks with famous trails. It uses your iPhone's built-in pedometer along with the Health app to track how far you've walked during the day, showing that progress along famous voyages like the Pacific...
