PeakFinder

Fabio Soldati

About this app

The mountains are calling! Explore more mountains than any mountaineer! PeakFinder makes it possible… and shows the names of all mountains and peaks with a 360° panorama display.
This functions completely offline - and worldwide!

PeakFinder knows more than 1'000'000 peaks - from Mount Everest to the little hill around the corner.

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Winner of several prizes. Highly recommended by nationalgeographic.com, androidpit.com, smokinapps.com, outdoor-magazin.com, themetaq.com, digital-geography.com, …
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• Works offline and worldwide
• Includes more than 1'000'000 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
• Mark mountains and places you like
• Can fly like a bird from peak to peak and vertically upwards
• 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

* On devices without a gyroscope and a compass sensor the camera mode is not supported.

Ratings and reviews

The idea of the app is very nice, but there are some issues right now: 1) it doesn't access the location of pictures I want to import (despite it being in the metadata). 2) It doesn't handle landscape pictures well: the controls for adjusting the outline overlay are inverted. The names of mountains are all laid on top of one another and are thus illegible. 3) some mountains don't always show up, especially when close by.

NEEDS ability to tilt viewpoint angle or zoom out further! I often end up right at the foot of steep mountains (chugach, alaska, & talkeetna ranges), causing things like ephemeris function to be largely off-screen & impossible to view. Even so this is tied for my second favorite photography/scouting app. Nixed 2 stars as the above complaint greatly inhibits app functionality, easily 5 star app otherwise.

Fantastic app, does all it sets out do with a mostly flawless experience. I think the DEM isn't quite good enough to capture some of the weirder spots you might want to get a horizon overlaid on a photo, but that's only rarely.

What's new

Smaller optimizations and bug fixes.