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Not to look around: you can browse the map and open trails as a guest. Sign in to record, rate, join outings and add connections.

With an email address and a password, or with your Google account.

Your public name on WeHike, like @nadia_hikes: 3 to 20 lowercase letters, digits or underscores, and only yours. It appears on the trails you publish, your ratings and your outings.

On the sign-in screen, tap Forgot password and follow the link we email you. If you signed up with Google, sign in with Google instead.

Yes. WeHike is for adults: you must be 18 or older.

Maps drawn from OpenStreetMap data. Trails, outings and your planned hikes appear on top of it.

Open a trail and tap Download: the map along the trail is saved on your phone. The free plan keeps 3 trails at a time; WeHike+ keeps as many as you like and adds whole regions. Downloaded maps stay on your phone even if your plan ends.

From hikers. Every trail was recorded or uploaded as a GPX file by a member, then scored by the people who walked it. WeHike does not copy trails from other apps or sites.

Yes. Export any of your recordings as a GPX file, on every plan.

Yes. Recording runs with a visible notification, so it keeps going with the screen off and without a signal. WeHike never asks for background location: recording stops when you stop it.

Download the trail before you leave, keep the screen off between checks and carry a power bank on long days. WeHike pauses the recording on its own when you stop moving.

Some phones close apps to save battery, even while they record. In Android settings, set WeHike’s battery use to Unrestricted (the wording depends on the brand). WeHike keeps what was recorded and lets you resume.

Yes. Open a trail and tap Follow: WeHike shows where you are on it and warns you when you leave it.

Stop a recording or upload a GPX file, give it a name and publish it. Before anything is public, WeHike removes the times and cuts 200 m at both ends and anything inside your privacy zones. Your first contribution asks you to accept the terms of use.

For a planned hike, WeHike reads the forecast for your hike window and gives one verdict, go, caution or no-go, with its reasons: thunderstorms, heavy rain, strong gusts, a snow line below the summit, heat or cold, low visibility, high UV, or too little daylight to finish.

Yes. WeHike checks again 48, 24 and 6 hours before your start and sends a notification when the verdict changes, plus a reminder the day before.

With the free plan, 2 planned hikes at a time, starting within 7 days. With WeHike+, as many as you like, up to 16 days ahead. Beyond 7 days the verdict is marked as less certain.

From Open-Meteo, through WeHike’s servers: your identity is never sent to the weather service.

A personal verdict on a trail: WeHike weighs its grade and scores against the fitness level in your profile and the weather of the day.

Open it from the map or from a link, confirm that you have the required level and will bring the required gear, and join. If it is full, join the waitlist.

When someone leaves, the first person on the waitlist is offered the place and has a set time to confirm. Otherwise the place goes to the next person.

Capacity counts the organizer, who always holds a place.

Invite-only outings stay off the map. In WeHike, tap + and choose Join with a code, or open the invite link on your phone.

When the outing starts, check in from the outing within 300 m of the meeting point. The organizer sees the headcount and closes the outing once everyone is accounted for.

Leave the outing as early as you can, so your place goes to the waitlist. After the RSVP deadline the organizer has planned with you: tell them as well.

People you know on WeHike. One of you sends a request and the other accepts it. Connections see your home region, fitness level and statistics, and the outings you open to connections only.

Yes, from your connections list, at any time. They are not told.

Every trail, condition report, outing, question, profile and club page has Report in its menu. When 3 members report the same thing, it is hidden until it is reviewed.

Blocking someone ends your connection, stops them from joining your outings and hides their questions from you. They are not told.

Yes. Write to support@wehike.app: we will review the decision and explain it.

Circles you place on the map, around your home for example. Anything you record inside them is cut from the trails you publish.

WeHike cuts 200 m at both ends of every published track and removes its times, so nobody can tell where you started or when you walked.

Only you. The original GPX file stays private in your account; only the trimmed track is public, and only if you publish it.

Only while the app is open, or while you record or follow a trail with a notification on screen. Your position on the map is never stored or shared.

Your handle, your display name and a reliability badge: new, reliable or no record yet. Your attendance counts stay private.

In the privacy policy.

Browsing and search, recording, publishing and rating trails, GPX export, following a trail with its off-route alert, the weather verdict, the emergency contact, joining outings and connections.

In WeHike, open your profile and tap WeHike+. Subscriptions go through Google Play, which shows the price in your currency before you confirm.

In Google Play, or from WeHike with Manage subscription. You keep the plan until the end of the period you paid for.

All billing questions are answered on Plans and billing.

In WeHike, open your profile, then Settings, then Delete account, and confirm by signing in again. The steps are also on Delete your account.

Not by itself. Cancel it in Google Play first; we also try to stop the renewal, but only Google Play can confirm it.

Trails you published stay available to the community, with the author shown as a deleted account. Write to us if you want a trail removed. Everything else is listed on Delete your account.