iHikeGPS Classic Topo Maps Reviews

Good app for hunting, hiking or even tracking. I like the fact that you can enter shared coordinates and track your own with different icons. There’s are plenty of default roads and waypoints that help your progress and the offline maps are a plus.

I would like to see more map options, especially with the offline maps. I don’t always know what the terrain ahead of me looks like, so a more detailed map would really help out there. Also, when I am tracking from one grid to the next, the downloaded map just disappears until I double tap on the white area, then the map I just left disappears. I need to screen shot and send my progress for work and that is a real problem if I can’t show where I was at.

Within the last few days, iHikeGPS won’t find my location. It’ll just take me to the last map I downloaded, not my current location. I need coordinates of where I’m at. Not very useful anymore.

I might delete app and pay again for something else that is more reliable.

I can’t get it to track. I want an app to leave a trail; breadcrumbs. Even on the blank page it left a straight line. Downloaded a map and nothing. Press the track button and it stays on off.

This is by far my favorite GPS app for hiking. It just does more things right than any other GPS app I've used: accurate georeferencing, the ability to add waypoints by lat/long, and the ability to save routes for use on other devices. If it needs one feature to become everything I need from a hiking-oriented GPS app, it would be a graphical compass (beyond just the bearing and heading in degrees).

However, there is one major issue I have with iHikeGPS: after I need to restore my device for any reason, iHikeGPS offers to redownload the maps I most recently had on there. This is great. However, if the download fails for any reason (including the device going to sleep), and at least one map has been fully downloaded, then iHikeGPS forgets that any other maps were ever downloaded.

I would like a better implementation of the redownloading of maps after restore (perhaps something that detects if the batch download was interrupted? Perhaps the addition of something that keeps a certain "set" of maps on your device, and the ability to have multiple sets, and these sets are just stored as metadata like waypoints and routes are?). I'd also like to see something that allows batch downloading of multiple maps (rather than one at a time like it is now), and graphical management (like, for example being able to delete maps or groups of maps based on their location overlaid over a Google map, rather than based on the name of the quad)

Have used this in the backcountry with 24k USFS maps with great results.

There is one feature that I wish iHikeGPS had:

Folder structure for Routes and Waypoints.

Dealing with dozens of GPX files and Waypoints would be easier if there was the ability to create folders/subfolders for organization instead of the current flat file system.

This is one of my first apps. I was just beginning to understand the ropes of navigating with a hand held gps. They were fascinating to me.
Then I discovered this app. Works offline, download and store USGS and USFS maps, create waypoints, no hassles with subscriptions or purchases. One inexpensive payment and actual product support from the author.
There is a learning curve. It’s not steep. It is important to read the instructions and not assume to much.
Works on the ground, in a plane or car. iHikeGPS shows me where in at and where I’m going.

I like everything about it except I would like to be able to create waypoints using the elevation plot. Great to get this feature.

I really appreciate how this developer makes features available that other apps charge a premium or subscription for. I've owned several such apps, and this one is my favorite.

iHikeGPS allows preloading maps so you can be well prepared for no cell phone service. iHikeGPS has helped me get un-lost multiple times. It is also easy to use.

I didn’t want a social/sharing app. I just wanted to make a gps track and see a topo without needing any signal while hiking. I can download all the maps I need when I’m home on wifi.

It’s a great app. I like how as you scroll it moves from one contiguous map to another. How hard would it be for you to change the map title to reflect the new quad it’s on? Thanks.

Have been using iHikeGPS for several years and it works and has been a great resource in off road and backcountry. I would love to see two additions to iHikeGPS . 1. Be able to show on apple CarPlay and 2. The ability to move in and out from high resolution maps to 100k by just zooming with finger motions instead of having to change maps.

I’m passionate the outdoors. I seem to use paper maps and iPhone/iPad apps weekly for hiking, backpacking, bikepacking, backcountry skiing and exploring in my car. I have maintained a paid Gaia subscription for years, I’ve used low cost/free GPS mapping tools, location enabled PDF’s, etc. Still iHike is the simplest, fastest, most intuitive app of them all, with also the lowest power consumption and best map download facility. These days I only use Gaia on my Mac at home for planning.

The map choices on iHike are ‘limited’ to USGS and USFS topos, but in real life these are the ones you need for backcountry travel.

Have used a variety of GPS apps. This is best for US and Canada users because it’s easy to import/export GPX and other common formats, it uses the very familiar USGS/USFS topo maps at all scales (1/24K to 1/250K), and once the needed maps are downloaded it needs no mobile data connection. It also has no subscription fees and no strange proprietary maps. It would be nice if it also took geolocated PDFs, but so far so good.

I have checked many other gps apps. Still think this is the best. Still longing for watch support.

I have used it for years and love it. Please, please add watch support. Make it an in app purchase. Very high quality topo maps for no charge. Great support from the developer both for iHikeGPS and for the topos he hosts on his server. Make sure your compass is calibrated before using iHikeGPS . If your compass can't calibrate check Settings/privacy/location services/system services/

I’ve used iHikeGPS for 4-5 years and it’s much better than any map app out there! I’ve had Garmin GPS’s since they came out. iHikeGPS with my iPhone is so much more user friendly than any of the Garmin models. Easy to download maps, works when you have no cell service, support is unbelievable. Twice in the last few years I’ve had a problem (user error)and my emails were answered within a couple of hours to resolve it. Can’t go wrong with iHikeGPS!

I have been using iHikeGPS for years to record gps tracks on the USGS topographic maps. It works wonderfully! I am using my Garmin units less now. You do need to bring along external batteries to power the iPhone gps on a long day trip. My only quibble is that it does not record enough data points for a long bike ride, so you must remember to save your data log every few hours or it will start to overwrite itself without warning when it has reached its maximum number of points.

iHikeGPS allows you to do many different things. The help menu that’s available in iHikeGPS can be confusing, at least for me, however in you look up iHikeGPS in your browser, then you can scroll through the menu and find what to do. I wanted to delete some track segments and using the info in the browser version I was able to remove just the segments I wanted and not the whole track.

I’ve owned iHikeGPS since 2012. Phenomenal. Solved many an off-road quandary. Recommended to over a 100, that download on the spot. It’s Helped find stuck and lost people, planned epic adventures. Every time I start to think “other than iPhone”? iHike is what keeps me Apple. (So it’s sold for them a 4s, 5s, 6s+, 7+, and XSMax since I bought in on my 3g, lol)
I could go on for hours.
The only way this would improve? Is if we had CarPlay/Projection Manager stuff. And trivial, but I’d sacrifice a small portion of my screen for an active Gps driven speedometer indicator.

I have used numerous mobile gps apps, and none comes even close to this app. Being able to download topo and forest maps, for free, by WiFi before a trip is great. But if you are stuck on the trail outside your downloaded area, you can still get maps with even a minimal cell signal. iHikeGPS handles waypoints, tracks and routes with ease, imports and exports gpx and kml format smoothly, and has the best built in help file I have ever seen. And everything can be edited right on iHikeGPS . It’s all you need for gps.

Simple and easy, doesn’t kill battery, loads fast, works great.