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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. For an independent, founder-led team going up against apps backed by national mapping agencies and serious funding,…
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Hike Planner: The Free Tool That Maps Your Multi-Day Hike to the Last Mile
Anyone who has organised a multi-day walk knows the planning rarely happens on the trail. It happens at the kitchen table, weeks beforehand, surrounded by browser tabs, a half-finished spreadsheet, and a map app that was never built for thru-hiking. You’re trying to split a route into sensible days, work out where you’ll sleep each…
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What’s New in HiiKER — June 2026
A huge month — Android Auto launches, QR sign-in and in-app subscription management arrive on both apps, and iPhone catches up with completed-hike tracking and lots more offline.
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What’s New in HiiKER — May 2026
Mile markers, comment tags, a mini compass and a revamped search arrive on Android, plus offline-maps improvements across both apps.
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What’s New in HiiKER — April 2026
Major watch updates, live elevation change in the coordinates bar, and waypoint fixes.
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What’s New in HiiKER — March 2026
Offline maps get a major rebuild for faster, more reliable downloads, plus improvements to nearby hikes and search.
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What’s New in HiiKER — February 2026
Search the community feed, watch improvements that lean on your phone’s GPS for better accuracy, and a more stable home screen.
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What’s New in HiiKER — January 2026
HiiKER comes to your wrist with our companion watch app — plus GPX import fixes, more reliable recordings, and smoother planning of big routes.
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What’s New in HiiKER — December 2025
Our biggest update of the year — HiiKER 26 lands on Android with an expanded hike planner and community hike submissions, plus a wave of recording improvements.
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What is a “HiiKER” hike
HiiKER hikes are hikes sourced and built by our HiiKER hike production team. Hike data is provided to us from partner organisations and open source data sets, which is reviewed, processed via our hike system and verified for release to you the user to follow and edit as you wish. But of course there are…