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HiiKER named Best Hiking App in The Great Outdoors Gear of the Year Awards
HiiKER has been named Best Hiking App in The Great Outdoors’ Gear of the Year Awards 2026. If you don’t know The Great Outdoors, it’s been covering the hills for over 40 years, and its gear testing team is about as experienced and as hard to impress as they come. Their apps round-up was led…
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What’s New in HiiKER: Share Cards, Trail Trailers & Redesigned POI Sheets — 7 September 2026
Turn any hike or recording into a share card drawn on your phone — five designs, your own photo, saved straight to your gallery. Plus Trail Trailers for any hike including the official trails, redesigned POI, waypoint and highlight sheets, and 3D peak views on Android.
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What’s New in HiiKER: Printed Maps Rebuilt, CarPlay Navigation & Downloads 20× Faster — 28 August 2026
A completely rebuilt printed-maps experience, full CarPlay navigation on iPhone, map downloads up to 20× faster on Android, and offline that finally lets you edit a hike and continue a recording with no signal at all.
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HiiKER comes to CarPlay
Android drivers have had HiiKER in the dashboard for a while through DRiiVER, our standalone car app. Now iPhone drivers get it too — built into HiiKER itself: your saved hikes, your recordings and every waypoint you’ve ever dropped, as places you can simply drive to.
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What’s New: Continue Where You Left Off, and Offline That Holds Up — 11 August 2026
Our latest update means a recording is never a one-shot thing you either finish or lose. Continue a saved recording from where it ended, rescue discarded ones for up to 7 days, and get hike details that load properly with no signal at all.
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What’s New in HiiKER: My Stats, Heat Maps & GPX Imports From Your Lists — 5 August 2026
See your hiking life at a glance with the new My Stats page, spot the paths hikers actually walk with the Heat Maps overlay on Android, import a whole folder of GPX files straight from your lists, and edit your hike details on iPhone — plus trail closure warnings and a stack of fixes.
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What’s New in HiiKER: 3D Flyovers, a Redesigned Map & GPX for Recordings — 27 July 2026
Our biggest update in a while: watch cinematic 3D Flyovers of your hikes and recordings, enjoy a redesigned map, and use GPX with your recordings — plus custom tags, lock-screen recordings on iPhone, and a stack of fixes.
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DRiiVER: Introducing Auto app by HiiKER
Meet DRiiVER — your driving companion for every adventure. Built by the team behind HiiKER, it brings the same beautiful maps you love, now with turn-by-turn driving routes to trailheads, towns, viewpoints, and anywhere else you’re headed.
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What’s New in HiiKER — July 2026
Export your routes in any format, lock the screen on the trail, smoother 3D previews and better offline — a round of updates landing on both iPhone and Android.
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HiiKER named Best in Test by The Great Outdoors 🏆
Right, this is a good one. The Great Outdoors Magazine, the UK outdoor magazine that’s been independently testing gear for 40+ years, has named HiiKER the Best in Test hiking app in its 2026 round-up. Best in Test. Ahead of a field that includes OS Maps, Gaia GPS, Topo GPS, MapOut, Komoot and Outdooractive. For…
