Features · 8
Eight features, and nothing that needs a login.
Go Hike is deliberately small. Everything below works on your phone, with or without a signal, and everything below is in the free app.
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01 · Trail observations
Log what you actually saw on the trail
An observation is the point of a journal. Log a sighting the moment it happens and Go Hike captures the context around it for you: where you were standing, what the weather was doing and how warm it was. Add a photo, rate how the moment felt, and note whether the path underfoot was dry, muddy or frankly a bog.
Wildlife · 11 °C · 54.5972, −3.1425
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02 · Hike planning
Plan a hike in under a minute
Every hike starts as a plan. Set the name and location, pick a date and a start time, then dial in distance, difficulty and trail type. Note whether there is parking at the trailhead and roughly what the day will cost. A hike moves through planned, in progress and completed, so your list is always split between what is ahead of you and what you have already walked.
Planned · 12.4 km · Moderate
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03 · Stats
Your walking, weekly, monthly and yearly
Numbers are the quiet reward for going out in the rain. Go Hike totals your distance, hikes and observations across the week, the month and the year, shows how close you are to your weekly distance goal on a ring, and charts your activity month by month. It also works out the area you hike most often.
This week · 18.6 km · 68 %
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04 · Achievements
Four badges worth actually earning
Badges in Go Hike are deliberately few, so unlocking one means something. Finish your first hike for First Summit. Log ten wildlife observations for Wildlife Spotter. Hike once a week for six weeks running for the streak. Complete three hikes that start before dawn or end after dark for Night Hiker. Each one turns into an image card you can share.
3 of 4 unlocked
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05 · Maps
See every hike you have logged on one map
Maps do three jobs in Go Hike. You pick a trailhead when planning, you preview where a hike starts when you open it, and you browse every hike you have ever logged on a single explore map. It is the fastest way to notice that you keep walking the same three valleys.
Explore · 23 pins
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06 · Weather
Conditions before you go, recorded once you are out
The home screen opens with the weather where you are standing and a short forecast, plus a plain read on whether it is decent hiking weather. The same data is stamped onto every observation you log, so a year later you can tell that the good photo was taken in the rain.
11 °C · Light rain · Fine for a walk
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07 · Search
Find a hike from two years ago
A journal is only useful if you can get back into it. Search by keyword, then narrow by difficulty, distance range and date range, and sort by most recent, upcoming, name or distance. Results show as a list or a grid, whichever you read faster.
Moderate · 8–15 km · 2026
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08 · Backup & restore
Your journal, in a file you hold
Everything Go Hike knows lives on your phone, which means moving to a new one is entirely up to you. Save your whole journal to your phone's storage, with or without photos, then restore or delete a snapshot later. Set backups to daily, weekly or monthly and the app takes one for you. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Last backup · 2.4 MB
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