Plan the Routeburn, the Tongariro Crossing or the trek to Everest Base Camp on contour topo and 3D satellite terrain. See every hut on the way, the climb in each day, the weather at each stop — then take it all with you, offline.
Try every feature for 7 days. A card starts the trial; nothing is charged until day 7, and you can cancel in the app before then. No ads, and we never sell your data.
Now on Google Play in New Zealand, more countries next week. iPhone app coming next week.
Now on Google Play
Plan your hikes and camps, then record every trip in the Ridgeflow app. It keeps recording with your screen off and your phone in your pocket. Every walk is saved: distance, time, climb and the line you walked, to replay on the map whenever you like.
New Zealand, the USA, Australia, Canada and the UK. iPhone app coming next week.
Why this exists
General-purpose maps are built for driving. In the mountains the things that decide your day are not there: how steep the next kilometre is, whether there's a hut at the far end, what the weather does on the pass, whether the track is even open. Then you lose signal and the map goes blank.
A trail drawn on a flat grey background hides the 1,200 m of climb in it. Terrain is the information.
Park services publish grades, walking times, huts and closures. Ridgeflow carries them, so you don't find out at the trailhead.
Download a region before you go and the map, the 3D terrain and the trail data stay on your phone — 42 regions on six continents.
The map
Contour lines are usually a national mapping-agency product, which is why most apps have them for one country and nowhere else. Ridgeflow draws them in your browser from elevation data, so the map over Patagonia is the same map as over the Southern Alps.
Index and intermediate contours with height labels, glaciers, water, hillshade, peaks, passes and huts — drawn as a topo sheet, not a street map with trails on top.
Tilt into 3D and the route becomes a shape: which side of the ridge, how the spur runs, where the pass actually is. Switch between the topo sheet and aerial photography at any time.
Government and park-agency trails carry the publisher's own grade and walking time. Named routes from OpenStreetMap fill in what the agencies never drew. Nothing is given a grade it does not have.
Plan a trip
Ridgeflow routes on hiking trails, not roads, and times the walk from the gradient — so a 12 km day with a saddle in it is not costed like 12 km of valley floor. Then it tells you where you can sleep.
Tap a hut for what the agency records: water, toilets, mattresses, cooking, the fee, how to book and the height you will sleep at. Then the things you would otherwise ask at the visitor centre: what is nearby, the week's forecast, and whether your phone will get a signal.
Weather
A town forecast tells you about the valley. Ridgeflow fetches the weather for each stop on your route, for the day you will reach it, and keeps it on your phone for when the signal goes.
Share it
The first rule of the backcountry. Ridgeflow makes it one tap: the whole plan in your inbox, with a PDF to print and to leave with someone at home.
On the track
Download a region and the map, the 3D terrain and the trail data come with you. Your route's forecast is already saved.
The part we care most about
Coverage is uneven, and pretending otherwise is how people get hurt. Where an authority publishes closures, avalanche advisories or severe-weather warnings, Ridgeflow shows them. Where it has none, it says so in plain words instead of showing a calm empty map that reads like an all-clear.
"No warnings here" and "we don't carry warnings here" are different sentences, and you get whichever one is true.
Hut and closure information carries the date it was retrieved and the agency it came from, because a month-old notice is not today's conditions.
If there's no elevation data for a track it says so rather than printing a confident "+0 m" that reads as flat ground.
Anywhere means anywhere
Every one of these is a screenshot from the app, not an illustration. New Zealand on LINZ aerial photography; the rest on the 3D topo sheet.
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What it costs
7-day trial.Every feature unlocked. A card starts it and nothing is charged until day 7. Then your plan starts, unless you cancel in the app before then.
Make an account with your email address or with Google, then start the 7-day trial: Stripe takes a card, nothing is charged today. Cancel in the app any time before day 7 and you pay nothing. If you don't cancel, your plan starts on day 7.
One plan, every feature: the topo sheet and 3D satellite terrain, the trail data and huts, route planning, offline map downloads, weather along the route. Offline downloads are the honest reason there is a price at all — serving gigabytes of terrain costs real money every month.
Earlier versions of this page said the map would stay free after the trial. From 29 October 2026 Ridgeflow is one plan with a trial that a card starts (7 days since 5 November 2026), and this is the announcement of that change. A route someone shares with you still opens for anyone, with no account.
Questions
Yes — with your email address or with your Google account, and then a plan. Every plan starts with a 7-day trial: a card starts it, nothing is charged until day 7, and you can cancel in the app before then. A route someone shares with you still opens without any account at all.
The contour topo map, 3D terrain and community trail data are worldwide. Official agency data exists for a growing list — the United States, Switzerland, France, Norway, Ireland, Czechia, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Germany (Bavaria), Italy (South Tyrol), Austria (Tyrol), Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and New Zealand, which has the deepest coverage. Where an area has thin data, the app says so in the Layers panel rather than leaving you to guess.
It runs in the browser on a phone or a laptop, and installs to your home screen like an app — including working with no connection. An Android build is in progress.
They are estimates from distance and gradient, tuned differently for hiking and running. Where an agency publishes its own time for a track, that figure is shown too — and if ours disagrees with theirs by much, you are told both rather than just ours.
Treat it as a prompt to check, not a clearance. It is only as fresh as the agency's own feed, it carries the date it was retrieved, and for most of the world no such feed exists at all — which the app states plainly. Always verify locally before you go.
No, and it isn't meant to. It is a planning and navigation aid running on a device with a battery. Carry a paper map, tell someone your intentions, and use your own judgement about conditions.
OpenStreetMap contributors, national mapping agencies and park services, each under its own licence — credited in full at the bottom of this page and inside the app.
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