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The official app from the Ordnance Survey, featuring detailed topographic maps for hiking and outdoor activities in the UK, with offline access and real-time GPS tracking.

OS Maps

Known for its comprehensive catalog of maps including detailed topographical, satellite, and road maps, allowing users to download for offline use, essential for backcountry navigation.

Gaia GPS

Offers a significant collection of trail maps and user-generated content with access to over 400,000 trails worldwide, including GPS tracking and offline map availability through a paid subscription.

AllTrails

Provides a vivid 3D mapping experience focused on mountain sports with elevation and terrain visualizations, useful for hikers planning their routes.

FATMAP

Offers access to a variety of detailed topographic maps worldwide, allowing users to download maps for offline use and customize their GPS options.

Topo GPS

While primarily for cycling, it offers excellent topographic route planning for hiking, including offline navigation features and community-shared trails.

Komoot

Improves on the features of ViewRanger, offering extensive resources for planning and navigation for various outdoor activities, and includes detailed mapping.

Outdooractive

Features the world's largest collection of offline maps, including topographic maps, making it ideal for outdoor navigation without cell service.

Avenza Maps

Avenza-Maps

A community-driven app focusing on finding new hiking trails in the US and Canada, offering detailed descriptions and trail conditions.

Hiking Project

Hiking-Project

Utilizes AR technology to identify mountains and peaks around you, providing detailed information about topography and elevation.

PeakVisor

An innovative app that assigns a unique three-word address to every 3m square on the planet, aiding in precise location sharing for hikers.

What3words

Focused on hiking safety, it allows users to share their location with friends and family, along with offline maps.

Cairn

Helps identify plants and animals on the trail using your phone's camera, enhancing the hiking experience through knowledge of the surroundings.

Seek by iNaturalist

Seek-by-iNaturalist

Provides real-time weather forecasts and alerts, crucial for planning hikes, especially in unpredictable conditions.

Weather Live

Weather-Live

Combines advanced navigation tools with augmented reality features, ideal for those needing more than basic GPS capabilities.

Spyglass

Useful for downloading trail maps for offline use and tracking progress, although not ideal for detailed trail navigation.

Google Maps

A popular app for long-distance hiking with extensive trail guides and detailed offline maps, great for users planning major hikes.

FarOut

Focuses on route-planning and viewing personal libraries of routes with high-quality maps available for purchase.

Memory-Map

A relatively new app providing live collaboration for route planning with 50+ layers of customizable maps.

MapMagic

Pairs with Garmin devices for detailed backcountry navigation and easy map downloading.

Garmin Explore

Enables users to log wildlife sightings and contribute to conservation efforts while hiking.

iNaturalist

- OS Maps: The official app from the Ordnance Survey, featuring detailed topographic maps for hiking and outdoor activities in the UK, with offline access and real-time GPS tracking.
- Gaia GPS: Known for its comprehensive catalog of maps including detailed topographical, satellite, and road maps, allowing users to download for offline use, essential for backcountry navigation.
- AllTrails: Offers a significant collection of trail maps and user-generated content with access to over 400,000 trails worldwide, including GPS tracking and offline map availability through a paid subscription.
- FATMAP: Provides a vivid 3D mapping experience focused on mountain sports with elevation and terrain visualizations, useful for hikers planning their routes.
- Topo GPS: Offers access to a variety of detailed topographic maps worldwide, allowing users to download maps for offline use and customize their GPS options.
- Komoot: While primarily for cycling, it offers excellent topographic route planning for hiking, including offline navigation features and community-shared trails.
- Outdooractive: Improves on the features of ViewRanger, offering extensive resources for planning and navigation for various outdoor activities, and includes detailed mapping.
- Avenza Maps: Features the world's largest collection of offline maps, including topographic maps, making it ideal for outdoor navigation without cell service.
- Hiking Project: A community-driven app focusing on finding new hiking trails in the US and Canada, offering detailed descriptions and trail conditions.
- PeakVisor: Utilizes AR technology to identify mountains and peaks around you, providing detailed information about topography and elevation.
- What3words: An innovative app that assigns a unique three-word address to every 3m square on the planet, aiding in precise location sharing for hikers.
- Cairn: Focused on hiking safety, it allows users to share their location with friends and family, along with offline maps.
- Seek by iNaturalist: Helps identify plants and animals on the trail using your phone's camera, enhancing the hiking experience through knowledge of the surroundings.
- Weather Live: Provides real-time weather forecasts and alerts, crucial for planning hikes, especially in unpredictable conditions.
- Spyglass: Combines advanced navigation tools with augmented reality features, ideal for those needing more than basic GPS capabilities.
- Google Maps: Useful for downloading trail maps for offline use and tracking progress, although not ideal for detailed trail navigation.
- FarOut: A popular app for long-distance hiking with extensive trail guides and detailed offline maps, great for users planning major hikes.
- Memory-Map: Focuses on route-planning and viewing personal libraries of routes with high-quality maps available for purchase.
- MapMagic: A relatively new app providing live collaboration for route planning with 50+ layers of customizable maps.
- Garmin Explore: Pairs with Garmin devices for detailed backcountry navigation and easy map downloading.
- iNaturalist: Enables users to log wildlife sightings and contribute to conservation efforts while hiking.

Best Topographic Maps for Hikers