842 places across Austria and Italy now have a PeakVisor page built from what the local tourist board publishes: routes drawn on our maps, highlights, huts and lifts, and a way into the 3D terrain.

Choose any date, follow the Sun and Moon through the day, and see when the real mountain skyline brings direct light to your location or takes it away.

PeakVisor is testing mountain identification for geotagged videos. Watch the demo and send us a mountain video to help prepare the September release.

Track Poster turns any of your recorded hikes into a designed, share-ready poster image. Pick a format, a background, a layout, and the stats you want to show — the whole thing takes about thirty seconds.

Explore regional mountain hut lists and dedicated hut pages with schedules, access routes, photos, weather, check-ins, and PeakVisor map and 3D context.

Pin hazards, gear points, and logistics directly on your route. Built for guides and planners who need every detail on the map.

Plan a route in PeakVisor, make it public, and send it directly to Garmin Courses or Suunto Routes from the Share dialog.

Plan with snap-to-skitours, import tracks by drag-and-drop, and analyze every line with new Planner, Elevation, and Pace views.

A practical guide to the new avalanche bulletin layer in PeakVisor: how to enable it, how to read icons and elevation bands, what the problem symbols mean, and a pro tip for opening a micro‑region directly via a link.

What’s Changing, and What It Means for the Future of PeakVisor

PeakVisor is an ultimate digital solution created by mountain lovers, for mountain lovers

Trail “Karma” is the New Outdoor Achievement Score

PeakVisor has made it possible to import KML/KMZ files onto the app. Continue your journey with all your favorite spots on our 3D maps!

While we started as a Peak Identification app, we’ve expanded into a full-service navigation tool you can rely on during all your mountain adventures. We’re excited to announce Garmin GPS Integration, the logical next step in pursuing seamless activity tracking.

Ski touring is the oldest and one of the most beloved winter sports. To hunt and travel in deep snow, ancient peoples in Europe and Asia began attaching animal furs to the bottom of skis 10,000 years ago. In modern times, wandering through the enchanted winter landscape, climbing majestic summits with breathtaking panoramas, and skiing to the valley below are some of the most enriching experiences a person can have. What more could we dream about on a perfect winter day? (Well, more snow in the Alps would be great…)

Take Your Website to New Heights With Peakvisor’s Panorama Embed API

A lifetime PeakVisor Pro subscription was one of the most popular requests that we’ve received to date. In response, we’re now introducing the Lifetime PRO purchase option.

The 5th anniversary version of PeakVisor features a brand new graphics engine that’s capable of rendering satellite imagery of unmatched quality. You can easily identify everything from cars to trees while exploring an area in 3D for your next adventure.

Widgets are one of the most fascinating features of the new iOS 14 introduced by Apple in 2020. PeakVisor presents a mountain widget! Peak of the Day.

What is outdoor experience for you? We bet most answers would be to plan thoroughly and then just do it. Simple as that, you prepare for every hike or climb, you study the itinerary and you get that overwhelming feeling of completing a tough job. Yet, how about one more nonetheless important stage? We take it for granted, but keeping the precious memories of our achievements and failures is also essential. Most people keep those memorabilia just stashed in the phones as a bunch of unsorted photos. But that’s hardly a good approach.

What can be more crucial for the success of your outdoor adventures than finding a convenient trailhead? Oftentimes, a mistakenly chosen trailhead or being forced to use another parking lot at the last minute causes us huge problems. In order to fight these inconveniences and further enrich the hiking experience of the PeakVisor users, we introduce the “Trailhead Finder” feature. Now, for every mountain, lake, viewpoint we will show nearby parking lots and cable car stations so that nothing can spoil your trip.

GPS Tracking is the most recent addition to the PeakVisor toolkit. This feature allows you to track hikes while measuring duration, distance, pace, and elevation gain along the way. Once you’ve conquered the desired destination, you can share and explore any of your tracks in 3D maps.

No matter how detailed the map is chances are that in order to reflect all the aspects of outdoor adventure some tweaks are needed anyway. One of the most requested features was to add custom locations into the 3D map and highlight particularly important features. Those might be landing options for hang gliders, planned camping sites for backpackers, important reference points for trekkers, or spectacular photo spots for photographers. Everyone needs a personalized map of the outdoor places we love. Now you have it!

A glacier is a huge mass of ice formed as a result of eons of snow accumulation. Snow gets transformed into ice under pressure or by melting and refreezing. Such processes form powerful flows, domes, and floating slabs.

Since ancient times people have been identifying their location and direction by some landmarks supplemented with the observation of the position of celestial bodies. The very first compass was invented in China more than 2000 years ago. Interestingly, it wasn’t used for navigation back then, but to harmonize dwellings according to feng shui principles. Nowadays, almost every mobile phone has a compass that lets you easily identify the direction in an instant. But how precise it is?

PeakVisor mobile app and the website require a wide range of topography data to work and satisfy all the needs of outdoors enthusiasts. We spent an enormous amount of time crafting 3D Maps and Augmented Reality Peaks Identification on mobile phones with their limited resources. But even more time is dedicated to processing the heaps of data from various sources. Our data pipeline contains terabytes of Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), millions of geographic points (including more than a million named peaks), worldwide satellite imagery for 3D maps, and a great many processing steps.

Topographic maps for hiking and skiing in the mountains have to be 3D. Realistic terrain modelling allows faster and easier understanding of the landscape, its complexities and pitfalls for a wider range of outdoor enthusiasts. We are proud to present PeakVisor 3D maps available on the world's most popular mobile platform!

Effective today the PeakVisor app becomes free. No need to spend a lot of time researching whether the app is a good fit for your outdoor adventures. Everyone can download the app and try it without paying anything.

Realism and convenience, that is what people are looking for in 3D maps. Hence, creating a larger-than-life and most user-friendly representation of 3D maps has been paramount for PeakVisor since the first time we added maps into the mix. The initial rough version of 3D maps was soon improved by adding the terrain types, which allows distinguishing bare rock slopes from forests, grass, residential, and many other land cover types. Even though it was a big step forward, it wasn’t enough. Today, we introduce a Satellite layer in 3D maps.

For a long while, PeakVisor has been a definitive tool to identify mountains and get detailed information about the peaks. The summer 2018 PeakVisor got state-of-the-art 3D maps with hiking trails and routing capabilities. Now, in winter 2019 when most of you are skiing we bring the Winter Mode into the app. Worldwide ski runs and mountain lifts are available to all PeakVisor users in Augmented Reality and 3D maps. No matter what your preferred way to spend time in the mountains is and what time of the year, you can always tap into the PeakVisor world of mountains to make your outdoor adventures more joyful and informative.

Oftentimes standing on the edge of a cliff, a mountaintop, or a panoramic viewpoint you wonder of the endless hiking possibilities around. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a superpower to visualise a path blended into the epic landscape? It might be the trail you are going to undertake later or the one you just did. The new version of PeakVisor using the Augmented Reality shows hiking trails not only in the 3D map but in your camera view as well.

Every time being in the mountains, we are thinking about how to enhance our outdoor experience, which data can help us have even better time. The information about available mountain lifts to help outdoor enthusiasts get away from mobile network coverage and get even deeper into an amazing world of nature beauty is one of the options.

The latest version of PeakVisor for iOS features parking areas and viewpoints. These two types of map features are exceptionally important for planning and navigation.

These navigation and hiking route planning questions kept us very busy in the labs. But today we are proud to present availability of hiking route planning in PeakVisor 3D maps!

This week we are rolling out a new label positioning algorithm. It allows us to embed labels into 3D maps! Now you could see not only your position in 3D but all the mountain names around you. That might be especially useful while approaching a summit. It’s always handy to see a target and have a bird-eye view.

Just like rivers, mountains are often natural boundaries between countries and administrative regions. In the mountains more often than not state borders go along mountain ridges and summits. All over the world you could notice centuries old border stones which were used for indicated a border, usually with a year inscribed. We find something especially thrilling walking the ridges and state borders at the same time. What could be more exciting than having your left leg in Switzerland and the right leg in Italy?!

The farther we get from the civilization the more rewarding adventure usually is. Luckily, you don’t have to travel far to get away from the hustle even in one of the most developed Alpine regions. In our experience, the weaker cellular signal, the prettier scenery is. Here we will tell you how to get your 3D maps ready for getting off the beaten track and still benefiting from the immersive knowledge of the PeakVisor mobile app.

It takes some time and effort to plan an exciting hiking adventure. Flat maps might be misleading in terms of the big input required to estimate the complexity of the hike, but PeakVisor Mountain Explorer comes in handy when it gets to planning any mountain endeavour.

The Earth's mountains having a proper name are over one million now, so it is really handy to have a pocket encyclopaedia devoted to the landscape defining features.

What new can be there about Mountain Search you would ask? Let me introduce you to the Mountain Search which allows you to find all the relevant outdoor features nearby.

Here in PeakVisor we firmly believe that outdoors maps should be in 3D. That’s the most intuitive way to embrace the mountains. Today, we are excited to release 3D maps to PeakVisor Mountain Explorer and PeakVisor for iOS.

If you are a passionate outdoor enthusiast odds are that your smartphone and DSLR camera roll is full of picturesque mountain landscapes made over the years of your hiking adventures.

This winter is rich in weather surprises and anomalies. With most of Europe (even the southern part) covered by snow, we have been working hard to bring you important improvements, so you would be totally ready when the skies clear and show magnificent peaks in all their splendor to all the world.

There's a lot of snow high in the mountains and the weather seems to be pleasant for a late autumn / almost winter kind of hike. Grab this latest version of the PeakVisor app with the following improvements.

Last week we started rolling out improvements that smoothly move the app into the so-called 'Grand Release'. It is based on our early tests and feels like the promising future of navigation and orienteering. Follow us in order to be the first to experience this grand future!

We have been very quiet over the recent weeks, the whole month actually. But that was for the grand reason. We can't wait for you to see all the mind-blowing stuff coming into your phones with the recent improvements.

The complete database of 745.000+ summits embedded into the app. Added support for the three Augmented Reality modes: mountain labels only, terrain silhouettes, full AR.