PeakFinder Overview
What is PeakFinder? PeakFinder is an app that allows users to explore mountains and peaks around the world. It provides a 360° panorama display of the surrounding landscapes and overlays the camera image with the panorama drawing. The app works offline and worldwide, and it includes more than 950,000 peak names. It has won several prizes and is highly recommended by various publications.
Features
- Works offline and worldwide
- Includes more than 950,000 peak names
- Overlays the camera image with the panorama drawing
- Realtime rendering of the surrounding landscapes in a range of 300km/200mil
- Digital telescope to select less prominent peaks
- 'Show me'-function for visible peaks
- Selection of the viewpoint by GPS, the peak directory or an (online) map
- Can fly like a bird from peak to peak and vertically upwards
- Mark mountains and places you like
- Shows the solar and lunar orbit with rise and set times
- Uses compass and motion sensors
- Daily updates of the peak directory
- Does not contain any recurring costs. You pay only once
- Is free of advertising
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Product Details and Description of
The mountains are calling! Explore more mountains than any mountaineer! this app makes it possible… and shows the names of all mountains and peaks with a 360° panorama display. This functions completely offline - and worldwide! this app knows more than 950'000 peaks - from Mount Everest to the little hill around the corner. ••••••••• Winner of several prizes like 'Best of AppStore', 'App of the Week', … Highly recommended by macnewsworld.com, nationalgeographic.com, smokinapps.com, outdoor-magazin.com, themetaq.com, digital-geography.com, … ••••••••• ••• Features ••• • Works offline and worldwide • Includes more than 950'000 peak names • Overlays the camera image with the panorama drawing • Realtime rendering of the surrounding landscapes in a range of 300km/200mil • Digital telescope to select less prominent peaks • 'Show me'-function for visible peaks • Selection of the viewpoint by GPS, the peak directory or an (online) map • Can fly like a bird from peak to peak and vertically upwards • Mark mountains and places you like • Shows the solar and lunar orbit with rise and set times • Uses compass and motion sensors • Daily updates of the peak directory • Does not contain any recurring costs. You pay only once • Is free of advertising ••• Ratings ••• Every good rating (including those following updates) makes me happy. The positive ratings and reviews make it possible for me to continue to improve the app for you. Many thanks! ••• Support ••• In case of questions, problems, mistakes, missing mountain names and ideas for future expansion, I am happy to help you. Please write to support@this app.org.
Top Reviews
By Observanti
Long-time PF user, suddenly in love with PeakFinder
Today I went hiking here in Colorado. As I often do, I opened this app to figure out what peaks are which. Ordinarily, this was a frustrating process, because when I hold my iPhone 7 vertically, the compass doesn't work, and it was hard to look back and forth to match the outlines with the view. Today, WOW, augmented reality! I can see the view _and_ the info all together, right on the iPhone! Suddenly, it was easy to align the peaks to the view on the screen, and voilà! In seconds we identified each of the twenty peaks we could see, even the distant ones that were barely visible behind the others. We all were dazzled! Each of the five people on the trip said they'd be buying this app. If you love mountains, check it out. Even if you're not sure, I hope you get to see it in action some day. If you do, I'm certain you'll be buying it, too.
By Dirk_astro
Great app
Really shows off the synergy between GPS, a camera, accelerometers, gyroscopes and an amazing database. I use it whenever I’m on vacation and take pictures in the mountains: just take a screenshot of the app looking at the same area you’re taking pictures of and you have a perfect record later on of what you were looking at. I add it to all my vacation albums. And everybody you show it to is just amazed at how well it works. A couple of minutes after I show them, they’re downloading it.
By Kern-z
I Show It Off Every Time
One of my favorite apps of all time! Every time I’m on top of Genesee Mountain or Evergreen Mountain, I “wow” anyone who seems to be enjoying the view by showing them Peak Finder. They can’t believe what this app can do, especially the “fly to” feature. That usually gets the most emphatic response. Who knows how many people download this app after I show it to them...hopefully a lot! For 29 years, I’ve always wondered how far from my house it is to the top of Mt. Evans. And now I know with Peak Finder that it’s exactly 21 miles.
