Follow your route
Import a route and see the next waypoint, the distance left, an estimate of time and the climb still to come as you walk. Off the line, it tells you.
What it does
Three things, done properly.
Choose your trail
Pick a destination and a waymarked long-distance trail, and the walk is planned along it, with distance and ascent shown before you set off.
Record your walk
One tap on the phone or the watch. Route, distance, time and ascent are kept for every walk, on the lock screen while you go and in your own iCloud afterwards.
Trail planning
Walk the trail, not the road beside it.
Choose a destination
Search a place, tap the map, or start from one of your saved places. The start is your position by default, or anywhere you choose.
Select a supported trail
The app lists the waymarked trails near your route and joins the one you pick. In the example, the West Highland Way.
Preview the route, distance and ascent
The planned line is drawn on the map with its distance, ascent and an estimated time before you take a step. Then follow it on your phone; your watch shows the bearing and distance while the phone leads.
Following an imported route
Works anywhere in the world and needs no connection once the file is in the app. You see the line, your position, the next waypoint and the distance left.Planning a new route
Needs a connection while you plan, and paths that OpenStreetMap has mapped. Once planned, the route is saved and can be followed offline like any other.Spoken directions
Great Britain only. Fetched once from our server while you have signal, then kept with the hike and spoken offline.Offline
Download before you go.
GPS positioning does not require mobile reception, so recording and following a saved route work without signal. Maps and new routes do not, unless you fetch them first.
- Download the map for an area, or the corridor along a route, before you leave.
- Downloaded areas cover the Topo map, contours and hillshade included. Satellite imagery and the national mapping layers are not part of a download.
- Planning new routes, place search, the weather, live sharing and the first fetch of spoken directions need a connection.
Support has a short before you lose signal checklist.
Apple Watch
Record from your wrist.
- On its own: start, pause and stop with a tap or Siri. The watch records with its own GPS, saves heart rate with the workout, and hands the hike to your phone when they are next together.
- With your iPhone nearby: live stats, a bearing arrow to the next waypoint, and a map of the route drawn by the phone and kept on the watch.
Privacy
No account. No adverts. No analytics.
Your hikes stay on your devices and in your own iCloud. There is nothing to sign in to, and nothing is collected for advertising or analytics. A few features talk to a server to do their job, such as fetching map tiles, planning a route or getting spoken directions, and the privacy policy lists each one and what it sends.
Free and Pro
Most of it is free.
Pro is a one-time in-app purchase. The price is shown in the app in your local currency before you buy.
Free includes
- Recording on iPhone and Apple Watch
- Offline maps, importing routes, following them, planning new ones
- Winter shading: slope angle and aspect over any map
- Spoken junction directions in Great Britain
- Photos and notes on every hike
- Weather, places, summits near you, gear, Emergency Location and live position sharing
- Apple Health, iCloud sync and eight languages
Pro adds
- Flyover: a hike flown over in 3D, saved as a video to share
- Summits and hill lists: every peak you reach, and your progress through the Wainwrights, Munros, Colorado 14ers, Alpine 4000ers and thirty-five more lists
- The Health dashboard
- Garmin Connect and Strava: activities in, routes and hikes out
- Group live sharing: several walkers on one map
- Avalanche danger beside the Winter shading, from the national services across the Alps, the Pyrenees, Scotland, Scandinavia, the US and Canada
Groups and outdoor education
Planning walks for a group?
The same app prepares a day out for a walking group, a class or an expedition team. Import or plan the route and check its distance and ascent, build kit lists that show pack weights, download the map before you go, and afterwards review the walk the group actually did.
Questions
Before you download.
What works without mobile signal?
Recording, because GPS positioning does not require mobile reception. Any map area you downloaded beforehand. Following a saved route, including its spoken directions if they were fetched while you had signal. Your hikes, places and gear, and the Emergency Location screen, which shows your position even when a call cannot be made. Planning new routes, listing trails, searching places, the weather and sharing your position all need a connection.
Can I import my own GPX files?
Yes. Open a GPX file, or another common route file, from Files, Mail, AirDrop or any share sheet and choose Global Adventurer, or use Import Track on the Home screen. Waypoints, notes and symbols are kept. Formats in and out.
Where are spoken directions available?
In Great Britain. When you follow a route there, the app fetches its junction directions once from our routing server and keeps them with the hike, so they are spoken offline on later walks. Outside Great Britain you still follow the route on the map with the distance to the next waypoint and the distance left, without spoken prompts.
Can I record with Apple Watch without my phone?
Yes. The watch app records on its own using the watch’s GPS, saves heart rate with the workout, and hands the hike to your phone when they are next together. Following a route, the offline map picture and the live stats page need the phone within range, because the phone does that work.
What is free, and what does Pro add?
Everything you need to plan, record and follow a walk is free. Pro is a one-time purchase, priced in the app in your currency, that adds the extras listed above. The features page has the full split.
Which devices and operating-system versions are supported?
iPhone and iPad on iOS or iPadOS 17 or later, and Apple Watch on watchOS 10 or later. The iPad version also runs on Macs with Apple silicon and on Apple Vision Pro. Recording needs a device with GPS; a Wi-Fi-only iPad can plan routes, view hikes and keep them in sync.
Something not working? The support page has the troubleshooting steps.
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Also from us, later: tested GPX route files for long-distance walks, each opening straight into the app.