Cairn – Hiking Safety Tracker
- 78 of 100 · reviews
- 4.7of 5 · store
- 533ratings on the App Store
- 61reviews read
An editorial reading of the saved reviews
People pick Cairn for their family's peace of mind: auto-alerts with your last coordinates if you are overdue, and the cell-coverage map are genuinely valued by solo hikers. The weak spot is the core thing itself: tracking sometimes silently stops mid-hike and it crashes offline, and the trail you need is sometimes just missing from the database.
What people use it for
Solo hikers and their loved ones who need family to know the route and last location
What reviews praise
Auto-alerts to family with coordinates, cell-coverage map, peace of mind for family, offline maps ahead of time, route and elevation-gain tracking
What reviews complain about
Tracking stops on its own mid-hike, crashes in offline mode, needed trail missing from database, rigid list of return times instead of your own
What users experience
5 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.
Purchased the subscription to use for my upcoming trip to Death Valley and the trail I need isn’t listed. Downloaded Gaia and AllTrails and they both had it.
The automatic notification system gives my family so much peace of mind because they know they'll be alerted with my last known GPS location if I'm overdue coming off the trail.
it just stopped tracking me in the middle of my Grand Canyon rim2rim hike. Not sure why this happened since I never let my battery die.
it sends a map to your safety circle of cell phone coverage instead of actual locations. It records actual locations (and consumes significant power) but doesn’t send them.
Recently, I was tracking her progress and saw that she hadn’t reached her destination on the trail. I was able to check her battery life and see that her battery had ru
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