Getting Started
Your first hike, step by step.
Planning Your Hike
Routes, days, food, money and gear.
Routes And Maps
Upload GPX, KML or GeoJSON tracks, read the elevation profiles, and build up the hike map with waypoints, water and reception points.
The Section Planner
Split one long track into day-sized sections with accurate per-day distance and climb, and drop them straight onto the itinerary.
Building Your Itinerary
Day cards, camps and travel, daily routes, zero days, backpack weight per day, and planning by duration before your dates are locked in.
Food Plans And Food Drops
Plan every meal of the trip, record food weight the way that suits you, and organise resupply drops the whole pack shares.
Expenses And Settling Up
Track who paid what, split costs fairly, plan future spends, and settle the whole trip with the fewest payments.
Gear Lists
Build the group gear list, organise it into categories, let every hiker track their own packing status, and record your base backpack weight.
Backpack Weight
See what your backpack weighs at the start of every hiking day — your base weight, plus water, plus the food you're still carrying.
PDF Trip Export
Export the whole hike — map, itinerary, food, expenses, gear and emergency details — as one polished PDF.
Sharing Your Hike Publicly
Publish an unlisted, read-only link to a hike plan — the route, days, camps and water, with no dates, no members and nothing personal — and review every word before it goes live.
Your Pack
The people side — members, roles and chat.
Safety
Briefing the people at home, and checking back in.
Emergency Contacts And The Safety Brief
Register emergency contacts and PLBs, then send the people at home a complete brief of the trip — routes attached.
Post-Hike Check-In Alerts
Set a check-in deadline before you walk in; if you don't confirm you're back, your emergency contacts are alerted automatically — here's exactly what gets sent, and when.
App And Account
The Android app, offline mode and your account.
The Android App
Install the Pack Hiker beta APK, stay updated, and get the app-only extras — push, GPS, offline maps and on-device check-in reminders.
Using Pack Hiker Offline
What works with no reception — cached hikes, offline maps, queued chat, gear ticks and backpack weights — and what needs a connection.
Your Account, Profile And Privacy
Profile settings, timezone, passwords, plans and limits — and how your data is handled, shared and deleted.
Miles Or Kilometres — Choosing Your Units
Pack Hiker shows distance, elevation, backpack weight and water in miles, feet and pounds or in kilometres, metres and kilograms — your choice, per person.