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DRiiVER: Introducing Auto app by HiiKER

DRiiVER app banner: Premium topo maps on your dashboard, with a hiker beside a jeep at a forest trailhead

Your driving companion for every adventure.

DRiiVER — Premium topo maps on your dashboard

DRiiVER gets you to the good stuff. Built by the team behind HiiKER, it brings the same beautiful, detailed maps you love — now with turn-by-turn driving routes to trailheads, towns, viewpoints, and anywhere else you’re headed.

Whether you’re chasing a weekend hike or a spontaneous road trip, DRiiVER helps you find it, route to it, and get there.

Here’s what it looks like on your car’s display:

DRiiVER's map running on an Android Auto car display, centred on the vehicle
DRiiVER on the car screen, centred on your vehicle.

What you can do with DRiiVER

  • 🗺️ Explore stunning maps — Access the rich, high-quality mapping that powers HiiKER, from detailed national and local topographic maps to clear road maps.
  • 🚗 Drive to any destination — Get driving routes to searchable locations: towns, car parks, attractions, and points of interest.
  • 📍 Navigate to your saved waypoints — The waypoints you’ve pinned in HiiKER show up on the car map and in search, ready to drive to.
  • 🥾 Route straight to the trail — Discover hikes from HiiKER and navigate directly to the trailhead, so you spend less time finding parking and more time on the path.
  • 🔍 Search anywhere — Look up a place, a hike, or a landmark and let DRiiVER plot the way.

🗺️ The maps you already trust

Standard, Satellite and Parks are free for everyone. Hiking, National and Historic maps come with PRO+.

DRiiVER's map style picker on the car screen: Standard, Satellite, Hiking, National, Historic and Parks
Switch map styles right from the car screen.

🔍 Search for hikes, waypoints and places

DRiiVER's car search listing saved waypoints by type alongside the user's hikes
Your waypoints and your hikes, a tap away.

🚗 Pick a destination and go

DRiiVER works out the drive and shows you the distance and time before you set off.

Route preview on the car screen showing 29 minutes and 40 km with a Go button
Check the route, then tap Go.

Then it’s turn-by-turn the whole way, with the map following you as you drive.

DRiiVER giving turn-by-turn driving directions on the car display with the route highlighted
Turn-by-turn navigation on the car display.

Getting started

Install DRiiVER, open it on your phone, and sign in with your existing HiiKER account — it’s the same account across both apps.

DRiiVER welcome screen — The driving companion to the HiiKER app

Then connect your phone to your car and open DRiiVER on the car’s display. There’s no code to type into the car — if you’re signed in on the phone, the car picks it up automatically.

The DRiiVER car screen asking the driver to sign in on their phone, with a QR code
Not signed in yet? The car waits while you sign in on the phone.
DRiiVER You're all set — connect your phone to your car, then open DRiiVER on your car's display

Need a hand? Our support article walks through it step by step: Can I use HiiKER in my car? (Android Auto & DRiiVER)

Made for people who love the outdoors

DRiiVER and HiiKER work hand in hand. Plan your hike in HiiKER, then let DRiiVER handle the drive there. It’s the missing link between your front door and the trailhead.


Download DRiiVER and make getting there part of the adventure. Happy hiking (and driving)! ⛰️

DRiiVER is available on Android for now — we’re hard at work on an iOS counterpart.

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