Pass the plan for the hike to loved ones and understand when the location updates and under what conditions an alert about a delay will arrive.

Which apps people use

These apps are mentioned in the breakdown of this job. Open each one to compare strengths and limits. The order of the list is not a ranking of fitness.

1. 3

   Cairn – Hiking Safety Tracker

   Rank 3. Review score: 78 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.7★ · 533 ratings

   78of 100

   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.

   Praised: Auto-alerts to family with coordinates, cell-coverage map, peace of mind for family, offline maps ahead of time, route and elevation-gain tracking

   Complaints: 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

   Best for: Solo hikers and their loved ones who need family to know the route and last location

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