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What’s New in HiiKER: Peak Bagging, the Peak Viewer & Turn-by-Turn Navigation — October 2026
Peak bagging comes to HiiKER — walk over a summit with a recording running and it counts. Plus the Peak Viewer, turn-by-turn guidance, heart rate from your watch, and list downloads.
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Introducing turn-by-turn navigation on HiiKER
Turn-by-turn navigation is live in HiiKER: on-screen directions and spoken cues for every turn on your planned route, on your phone and your watch.
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Why some peak heights show (est)
Some HiiKER peak heights show (est): an estimate from a terrain model, not a survey. Why it’s a few metres out, and why it never affects your peak bagging.
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Peak Viewer: identify every peak you can see
Hold your phone up and HiiKER names the peaks on the skyline. Tap any one for its height, its distance and whether you’ve already bagged it.
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Peak bagging in HiiKER: walk it, and it counts
Walk over a summit with a recording running and HiiKER bags the peak for you. Munros, Wainwrights, Corbetts and more, free on iPhone and Android.
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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.
