Guide
How the app works – from search to map to weather forecast.
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Search a place or load a tour
Enter a summit, hut or place – the search queries OpenStreetMap across the entire Alpine region. The same field is where you load a GPX file, or use the GPS button to find summits nearby.
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History
Every summit and every tour goes into the history on its own – the most recent one on top. A single tap brings it back: the place, or the tour with its elevation profile.
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Map
Choose between summer and winter map and enable overlays: slope angle classes, ski tours, snowshoe routes or wildlife rest zones.
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Elevation profile
A loaded tour shows distance, ascent and descent, and an elevation profile with slope angle classes. Press and hold to open up a spot, swipe sideways to move through the tour. The coloured legend helps assess steeper sections.
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Draw a route
Place waypoints directly on the map to plan a new route. Points can be dragged, corrected with undo/redo and the finished route exported as GPX.
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Weather forecast
Six weather models compared: wind, precipitation, temperature and freezing level in a compact matrix. Ten days in six-hour blocks, and the next 48 hours hour by hour as well.
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Weather stations
The nearest mountain stations from various networks (MeteoSwiss, GeoSphere, Météo-France and others) with distance display. Current readings such as temperature, wind and snow depth at a glance.
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Navigation
Real-time GPS navigation along your route with a compass rose for orientation and a direction arrow pointing to your target. Remaining distance, ascent/descent and automatic off-track warnings.
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Emergency Location
Press and hold the emergency button on the map and your position appears in decimal degrees, degrees/minutes and UTM – offline, with altitude, accuracy and the age of the GPS fix. Where there is signal, the nearest named point is added – “600 m north-east of Schwarz Berg (2314 m)”. Control rooms ask for the names of mountains and huts, not only for figures: a name survives a digit misheard on a bad line. The emergency numbers shown are those for the area you are actually in. Dialling starts only after a five-second hold. The app hands the number to your phone but sends no data to a control room itself – for an emergency call with automatic data transfer there are SOS-EU-ALP (AT/DE/IT) and the Rega app (CH). When in doubt, use 112.
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Slope Meter
Hold the device in the fall line of the slope – the app measures the inclination angle in real time. From 30° the display turns red, the threshold above which avalanches release.
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Offline Maps
Download map tiles in advance for use without mobile signal. Select areas on the grid and save them for your tour – ideal for remote areas without reception.