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, check what's between you and each pack mate, and settle up with the fewest payments or pair by pair.
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 Routes
Draw, import and edit routes of your own, then add them to any hike.
Your Routes
Keep the routes you draw or import in one place, then add them to any of your hikes, and bring a hike's copy up to date when a route changes.
Drawing And Editing Routes
Click your way along the map with each leg following the trail, then shape the route, mark its waypoints, name its ends and save it to your routes.
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, Live Hike Mode, offline mode and your account.
The Android App
Install the Pack Hiker beta APK, stay updated, and get the app-only extras — push, GPS, Live Hike Mode, 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.
Live Hike Mode
Today's walk on a full-screen map that follows you in the Android app, with the distance, ascent and descent to the next water, camp or waypoint, your place on the elevation profile, today's food and the pack's chat.
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.