Using the app

Map Overlays • My Trails

🧭 “My Trails” Overlay – See Your Hiking Journey on the Map The new “My Trails” section in the HiiKER Overlays tab gives you the power to view all of your personal hiking activity directly on the map. Whether you’re planning your next adventure or reflecting on where you’ve been, this is your hiking history […]

Map Overlays • Data

Alongside our new weather overlays, the Overlays tab in your HiiKER map now features a Data Overlays section — designed to give you even more control and information when planning or navigating a hike. To access Data Overlays, tap on the “maps” button on any of the HiiKER maps screen, they switch to the “Overlays” […]

Map Overlays • Weather

We’re excited to introduce Weather Overlay Maps to HiiKER – powerful tools to help you plan and navigate your hikes with even more confidence. You’ll now find a new “Overlays” tab in the map options menu. This brings several new ways to view your hiking map, including Data overlays, My Trails, and now – Weather […]

HiiKER Map Legends

Want to know what the symbols, colours and shadings mean on each of the maps in our map collections? You can find our map legends here. UK Ireland Germany France Spain USA

How to Use HiiKER’s Off-Route Warnings Feature

HiiKER’s Off-route Warnings allows you to spend more time hiking and less time checking the map. Switching them on will give you the confidence to hit the trail, knowing that we’ll warn you when you have strayed from the trail.

Verison of the app no longer supported

At HiiKER, we’re continuously working to improve your app experience through regular updates. Occasionally, these updates include significant changes to the app’s fundamental systems. When such updates are released, they may cause previous versions of the app to stop functioning correctly. If you encounter a message stating, “You are using a version of the app […]

HiiKER offline maps

Safety is key while hiking, so make sure to download your maps for offline use when going to area of poor network connection Step-by-Step Guide to downloading and managing offline maps on HiiKER Downloading maps for offline use We have made changing map layer easy too! From any of the map pages, access the map […]

Waypoints on HiiKER

Welcome to HiiKER Waypoints! We have developed Waypoints to easily mark custom locations on your HiiKER maps to help navigate on future hikes! Whether it’s a meeting place, camp location or picnic spot, quickly add it and have it ready offline while on the trail! Create a Waypoint Show or hide all waypoints List all […]

Moving hiking routes from Outdoor Active to HiiKER

If you are one of the many users of Outdoor Active that have decided to move over to use HiiKER but want to make sure that you can carry over all of your planned and recorded hiking routes, follow these simple steps. When Outdooractive merged with Viewranger in 2021/22, many people had been looking for […]

Moving hiking routes from Alltrails to HiiKER

If you are one of the many users of Alltrails that have decided to move over to use HiiKER but want to make sure that you can carry over all of your planned and recorded hiking routes, follow these simple steps. Since the news that HiiKER are offering Free Offline maps to all users, many are […]

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