NOTE: If you contact me through the Contact Developer link and expect a reply please provide an email address.</p><p></p><p>Hiker is designed for walking, hiking or scrambling outdoors. The app captures the hike data using the standard Garmin activities which can be uploaded via Garmin Connect. The activity is classed as a hike. </p><p></p><p>There is one main screen showing clock, timer, and four customisable data fields; distance, steps, ascent, current heading, heart rate, altitude and pace. If a compass is present in the watch then the heading will display the current heading, otherwise it will display the direction of travel from the GPS trace.</p>
[Version 1.27 - 11 November 2017]</p><p>UPDATED: Rebuilt on latest SDK</p><p></p><p>[Version 1.26 - 29 April 2017]</p><p>NEW: A menu has been added to the exit routine. This should provide a quicker way to save and close your hike.</p><p>NEW: A new bearing data field has been added. This complements the existing heading data field.</p><p>NEW: Support has been added for watches with the internal temperature sensor. If you don't own the Garmin Tempe external temperature sensor then temperature readings will now switch to using the internal sensor.</p>
This app requires access to:
D2™ Bravo
D2™ Bravo Titanium
ForeAthlete® 735XTJ
Forerunner® 230
Forerunner® 235
Forerunner® 630
Forerunner® 735XT
fēnix® 3, quatix® 3, tactix® Bravo
fēnix® 3 HR
vívoactive® HR
F MS
May 8, 2023
C'est parfait ! Se configure directement en français sur forunner 235 et fait parfaitement le job ! Bravo au développeur ! It's perfect ! Can be configured directly in French on forerunner 235 and does the job perfectly! Bravo and congratulations to the developer!
Marisol Alarcón
April 30, 2023
Does not stop in breaks. I walked 7 miles and it counted 2000 steps. I will look for another app.
Fl🔅rin Biriki
April 28, 2021
Not bad. But the nr of tracked km keeps going up even when I stop walking. I am afraid the calorie counter is therefore also inaccurate as a consequence. I can't have burned 800 calories by walking fast for 8km in 1h05min (I weigh 88 kg and am 1.80 mt tall)
Mike Wise
October 13, 2020
It IS called hiker and not backpacker, but I charged my watch completely before a backpacking trip. Hiked about 6 hours paused it, Next morning it had completely drained my watch battery after about 2 hours
David Murphy
September 7, 2020
If there were a battery save mode, I would give this 5 stars. It works great for short hikes, but anything over 10 miles and it might die on you.
Ryan Jonesford
April 28, 2020
Amazing app. I've used this on multiple multi-day hikes and having the map Trace of where I've been has saved me lots of time trying to figure out where I am on a map.
Chris
January 4, 2020
Was very happy with this Widget and my Forerunner 235. Now not compatible with my new fenix 6 ?! What's up? Please do...
sceid
October 24, 2019
I used to use this app a lot during my hikes, but it's been a few months now that it doesn't record the GPS route anymore. Synching with Connect, it keeps all the recorded data but the GPS route.
Christopher Allbright
August 24, 2019
Worthless after 20 minutes. It started out okay, but 20 to 30 minutes into my hike it switched my display to only show heart rate info (not even accurate info), and no way to change it back to display the info wanted.
Michael
July 7, 2019
Great app but there is one big problem for me. In a break i tried to load my device with a powerbank but then the app automatically stopped and saved the activity so i had to start a new one. Now i have 2 activities for one hike
Marie-Andree
May 26, 2019
Seems that the only fields that we can change are the 4 at the bottom and the size of the font is quite small. Seems impossible to change the 2 larger fields at the top (time of day, time in activity). It would be nice to have the flexibility to use one of these fields as distance.
Andreas Friese
December 9, 2018
Eigentlich eine sehr gute App, leider ein Schönheitsfehler: während der Aufzeichnung stimmt die Angabe "Anstieg" total nicht. Z. B. wandere auf ebener Strecke halbe Stunde und es werden 80m im Anstieg angezeigt.
RadicalDadical
November 20, 2018
Fantastic hiking app. Isn’t any harder on the battery than the standard walk app and has much more usable data with a better layout. Best feature is the compass. I often open the app just to get a compass fix! The battery just died on my original Vivoactive HR. I was considering buying the newer Vivoactive 3, but this app hasn’t been updated for the newer watch. Instead I purchased a refurbed Vivoactive HR from Garmin so I could continue using this app. (JohnD, how can we convince you to update for newer watches?)
DarrellHodge
October 18, 2018
I like it! I've been using another app called "hike", but the font is too small to see when I'm walking. Is there a way to set it to "Walk" instead of "Hike"?
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