Peakify mountain weather app: every feature

Mountain weather and maps in the app

Find a hill and check its summit weather before you leave the house.

On the web: Browse UK mountains

• Explore map

  A 3D map of summit pins you can tilt and rotate. Filter by height, distance, saved, bagged or whether a route exists, and add layers for footpaths, routes, popularity and slope steepness.

  Why it helps: You see which nearby summits have a route and which ones you have already climbed.

• Map styles

  Switch between satellite, topo, streets and dark maps, or OpenStreetMap, OpenTopoMap and CyclOSM.

  Why it helps: Topo and OpenStreetMap styles show footpaths that satellite images hide.

• Mountain list

  Browse mountains by country, nearest first or highest first.

• Favourite mountains

  Save the hills you climb most. Your favourites feed your widgets, dark sky rankings and cloud inversion alerts. Free accounts keep two favourites.

  Why it helps: Your regular hills show up on your Home Screen and in your alerts.

• Search

  Search mountains, your activities, saved routes and app screens from one box, with your recent searches kept.

  Why it helps: Activity and route results come from data already on your phone.

• Mountain pages

  Each mountain has its height, prominence and range, key features, an elevation profile, a 3D map with a 360° summit view, and routes to the top.

• Summit weather

  Current conditions, today's forecast and a 7 and 14-day outlook for the summit: temperature, wind, humidity, pressure and cloud cover.

• AI weather summary

  An AI-written summary of the summit forecast, with daily and hourly detail.

  Why it helps: You get the forecast in a few sentences before you open the numbers.

• AI hiker summary

  An AI summary for hikers covering ground conditions, navigation difficulty, estimated time and what to take.

• Stargazing forecast

  Tonight's stargazing score for the mountain with its cloud, light pollution and moon factors, moonrise and moonset, and a 7-day outlook.

• Sunrise and sunset

  Sunrise, sunset and twilight times for the summit. Share the day's summary with your group.

• Snowfall

  The latest snowfall and snow depth on the mountain.

Mountain Briefing: summit forecasts

A full forecast for one mountain, laid out to help you decide whether to go and when.

• Verdict

  One sentence at the top gives the best weather window, or tells you there isn't one. The card takes the colour of the day's worst conditions.

  Why it helps: You can read it in a second, even standing in wind and rain.

• Summit, mid and base

  Conditions at three heights on the mountain, with the cloud base and freezing level set against the summit.

  Why it helps: You know whether the top will sit in cloud or below freezing.

• Here and now

  Your phone's live compass heading and GPS altitude next to the forecast, including how far you are below the summit. It switches on when you are near the hill.

  Why it helps: It ties the forecast to the spot you are standing on.

• Which face

  A wind rose names the most sheltered face hour by hour and shows which slopes recent wind and snow have loaded. Peakify works this out from the weather history and labels it as no substitute for an avalanche forecast.

  Why it helps: You can pick the side of the hill out of the wind.

• Avalanche bulletin

  Where an official avalanche service covers the mountain, the briefing shows its bulletin word for word: the danger level out of 5, the affected aspects and a link to the issuer, such as SAIS.

  Why it helps: You read the official bulletin next to the weather, with its source.

• 15-minute nowcast

  A strip of 15-minute steps for the next two hours, wherever the chosen model publishes them.

  Why it helps: You can decide whether to set off now or wait out a shower.

• Hours ahead and graphs

  An hourly table comparing summit and base, plus up to 7 days of graphs you can scrub through: wind at height, pressure, freezing level, temperature, rain, cloud, visibility, thunderstorm risk, sun and UV.

• Forecast model picker

  Choose the weather model behind the briefing: ECMWF, the ECMWF AI model, ICON-EU, ICON-D2, AROME, the UK Met Office 2 km model, MET Norway, GFS, HRRR or an automatic blend. Peakify hides models that don't cover the mountain.

  Why it helps: In the UK you can use the Met Office's 2 km model, which shows hills in more detail than global models.

• Model agreement

  A grid of weather models against hours, coloured by severity, with a line saying where they agree and where they differ.

  Why it helps: You see how far to trust the forecast before you commit to a day.

• Cloud inversion tile

  When an inversion is likely, the briefing tells you the summit may be above the cloud and links to the full inversion forecast.

• Share the briefing

  Send the briefing as WhatsApp-ready text or as an image card with a link back to Peakify.

  Why it helps: Your group chat gets the whole forecast in one message.

• Bright light mode

  One tap switches the briefing to bold dark text on white.

  Why it helps: You can read it in direct sun.

• Offline briefing

  With no signal, the briefing keeps the last forecast on screen and tells you when Peakify fetched it.

  Why it helps: You still have a forecast when signal drops on the hill.

• Recent and nearby

  The briefing start page lists your recent briefings and the mountains nearest to you.

Sunrise, cloud inversions, dark skies and snow

Plan around sunrise, cloud inversions, dark skies and snow.

On the web: Cloud inversion forecast · Dark sky events · Snowdar snow forecast

• Sun and Moon planner

  Drag through the day on a 3D map to see where the sun and moon rise and set from any spot. Peakify uses the real skyline from terrain data. Save plans for later.

  Why it helps: You get the moment light clears the ridge in front of you, which can be minutes after the official sunrise.

• Sun and Moon reminders

  A saved plan can remind you the day before and an hour before your planned time.

• Cloud inversion forecast

  Peakify ranks mountains by their chance of a cloud inversion over the next 7 days, with a list or map, country and score filters, and the reasons behind each score.

  Why it helps: You know which morning and which summit give you the best chance of standing above the clouds.

• Cloud inversion alerts

  An evening alert when one of your favourite mountains scores 70% or more for the next morning.

  Why it helps: You can set an early alarm the night before instead of checking each morning.

• Snowdar

  Peakify ranks peaks by first expected snow and total snowfall over the next 14 days, with snow depth, rain and a snow and rain radar map.

  Why it helps: You see where snow will fall first and where it will last.

• Dark sky events

  A calendar of meteor showers, eclipses and moon phases with tonight's sky. Each event has its own page with viewing times and safety notes, such as eclipse eye safety.

• Event reminders and calendar

  Tap Remind me for alerts the evening before and shortly before an event, add it to your calendar, or share it.

• Where to watch

  For each event night, Peakify ranks your favourite mountains by dark sky score.

  Why it helps: You know which of your hills will have the clearest, darkest sky that night.

Hiking routes and GPS navigation

Plan a route, check it, then follow it on the hill.

• Route planner

  Pick one or more summits in order and a start point, or use your location. Peakify snaps the route to mapped walking paths. You can draw waypoints by hand, compare alternatives or import a GPX file.

  Why it helps: You get a route that follows real paths in a few taps.

• Saved routes

  Keep your routes private. Edit them, reverse them to walk end to start, or start navigation.

• GPX export and download

  Pro

  Export your saved routes and download mountain routes as GPX files.

  Why it helps: You can load the route onto your watch or into another mapping app.

• Open GPX files

  Peakify opens .gpx files from other apps, and the route planner can import them.

• Offline route packs

  Download a route's path, waypoints and turn instructions to your phone. Peakify warns you when a pack is out of date. Map tiles still need a connection.

  Why it helps: Turn instructions and off-route warnings keep working without signal.

• Route preflight

  Before you start, a checklist covers the offline pack, your direction of travel and live tracking.

• Route navigation

  GPS navigation on the map with the next instruction, progress, distance and ascent remaining, your ETA, altitude, time to sunset and off-route alerts.

  Why it helps: Peakify warns you when you leave the route.

• AR route ribbon

  An optional camera view draws your route as a ribbon over what you see. Peakify labels it as a guide to check against the map.

• Navigation Live Activity

  Your progress, distance left, ETA, time to sunset, next direction and a route map on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.

  Why it helps: You can follow the route without unlocking your phone.

Hill safety and emergency SOS

Tools for when the day doesn't go to plan.

• Mountain plan

  During navigation Peakify builds your personal ETA, a turnaround time, a cloud window and a safety briefing for the route. You can share the plan.

  Why it helps: You set a time to turn back before you need one.

• Live tracking link

  Start navigation and Peakify can create a peakify.ai link that family and friends open to follow you.

  Why it helps: People at home can see where you are while you are out.

• Emergency SOS

  Shows your OS grid reference and GPS coordinates and writes a rescue message you can copy or send by SMS or WhatsApp. It reminds you to call 999 or 112 and ask for the police, then mountain rescue, explains the UK 999 text service, and shows your GPS accuracy, battery, altitude trend and remaining daylight.

  Why it helps: You can give rescuers your exact location in the format they use.

• SOS live location

  Create a tracking link that sends your location. You can stop it or make a new one at any time.

• Avalanche risk map

  A map of official avalanche bulletins by region, plus a Peakify conditions index worked out from weather and terrain. Peakify labels the index as unofficial.

Wild camping

Plan a night out and stay in touch at camp.

• Camp planner

  Link a camp trip to a mountain, drop a pin for your pitch, and set dates and notes. Peakify reminds you 3 days before, the evening before and the morning of the trip, each time with a forecast briefing.

  Why it helps: You get the latest forecast at the moments you decide whether to go.

• Camp Chat

  Group chat over Bluetooth and local Wi-Fi, with nearby rooms, private rooms you join by code, photos, videos and pinned notices. Phones pass messages on to each other.

  Why it helps: Your group can talk at camp with no phone signal.

Summit bagging and challenges

Peakify logs every summit you reach from your GPS activities.

On the web: Summit challenges · Bagged summits map

• Automatic summit detection

  Peakify matches your GPS tracks from Strava, Garmin and Apple Health against nearby peaks. You choose how close your track must pass for a summit to count.

  Why it helps: You don't log summits by hand.

• Summit challenges

  48 challenges, including the National, Yorkshire, Welsh and Scottish Three Peaks, the Welsh 3000s, Wainwrights, Munros, Corbetts, Grahams, Hewitts, Nuttalls and Marilyns, the Bob Graham, Paddy Buckley and Ramsay Rounds, and Alpine 4000ers. Each shows your next targets, a timeline and a map.

  Why it helps: Peakify ticks summits off from your activities as you climb them.

• Badges and share images

  Finish every summit in a challenge in one activity to earn a badge, and share a challenge image.

• Bagged summits

  A list of every summit you have logged, filterable by name and height. Open one to see the activities and route that prove it.

• Bagged summits map

  A map of the summits you have and haven't bagged in the area you are looking at.

  Why it helps: You can spot unclimbed peaks near the ones you know.

• Report a wrong match

  Tell Peakify when a summit or challenge match looks wrong.

• Elevation progress

  Your vertical gain over time, a weekly climbing target, consistency, ramp warnings and readiness guidance.

Running, hiking and race analysis

Analysis of your runs, hikes and rides from Strava, Garmin and Apple Health.

• Dashboard

  Weekly, monthly and yearly overviews with stats, recent activities and health tiles. Add and reorder sections, choose your main sport, and compare with the same point last period.

• Activities

  Every synced activity, filterable by runs, rides, hikes and workouts, summits only, or run day.

• Activity analysis

  For each activity: route map and elevation profile, summits, heart rate and pace zones, climbs and gradient, VAM, NGP and rTSS, fitness, fatigue and form, recovery cost, terrain, conditions, segment PRs, and Garmin strength sets and reps.

• AI Coach

  A verdict on each activity with a summary, a next step and a suggestion for your next run.

• 3D flyover

  Fly along an activity in 3D with a pause at each summit. Hikes open on a turning 3D terrain map.

• Flyover video editor

  Choose a style, length, speed, terrain, clouds, summit highlights and a stats overlay, then export a video in a 9:16 frame for stories.

  Why it helps: You can turn a hike into a video for your stories.

• Route images and video

  Save or share a route as a map image, a transparent stats image or a 10-second video, in several layouts.

• Running Lab

  VO2 max trend, predicted race times, an adaptive weekly goal, a workout builder, injury risk flags, grade-adjusted pace, cadence, hill and heart rate drift checks, and segment PR alerts.

• VO2 max

  A running VO2 max estimate with a 12-week trend, a confidence level, your fitness age, how you compare with people of your age and sex, and ways to raise it.

• Best efforts

  Personal bests over standard and ultra distances, times, trails and climbs, with new PBs flagged.

• Run streaks

  Your current, best and previous streaks, a run-day calendar, every route in the streak, and a share image.

• Strava segments

  Search and sort your Strava segments with attempt history, time and speed graphs and trends.

• Backyard ultra analyser

  Peakify finds backyard ultra events in your runs and breaks down each loop: time against the cutoff, rest bank, pace against heart rate, fatigue, survival chance and a loop heatmap.

• Compare races

  Put races or runs head to head: splits, pace against distance, how alike they are, shared Strava segments and a route replay.

• Create and manage races

  Build a race from a GPX route, add checkpoints on the map, save drafts, duplicate races and share a support crew link. Free accounts create two races with up to three checkpoints each.

• Live race tracking

  Start a live session and Peakify uploads your location, even with the phone locked, at a rate that suits the race length. Followers open a public link with your location, pace and ETA at each checkpoint.

  Why it helps: Your crew sees where you are without calling you.

Health and recovery

Your Garmin and Apple Health data turned into daily guidance.

• Health Hub

  Sleep, heart, stress, Body Battery, steps, recovery, HRV, breathing, training load, injury risk and cardio fitness on one page.

• Sleep

  Sleep score, stages and timeline, naps, sleep debt, timing, broken sleep and recovery.

• Illness check

  A 7-day illness risk forecast from changes in your health signals.

  Why it helps: You can get an early hint before you feel ill and ease off training.

• Heart and HRV

  Resting heart rate, HRV and overnight heart trends, with your HRV compared against your own 28-day normal range.

• Breathing and blood oxygen

  Overnight breathing rate and how stable your blood oxygen stays.

• Stress and Body Battery

  Garmin stress load and Body Battery: charge against drain, when it will run out, and a 30-day trend.

• Steps

  Daily movement and how consistent it is.

• Recovery

  Sleep, heart, stress and training combined into one recovery view.

• Training load and injury risk

  Short and long-term load across everything you sync, and the load, terrain and recovery factors that raise your injury risk.

• Cardio fitness

  Your cardio fitness trend against your own baseline.

iPhone and Lock Screen widgets

Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for the numbers you check every day. Preview them all in the app's widget gallery.

• Mountain Briefing widget

  Summit, mid and base conditions with the freezing level for a mountain you choose.

• Mountain weather widgets

  Pro

  Weather, wind, rain, snow, visibility, dark sky and inversion details for a favourite mountain, plus a quick look at all your favourites.

• Dark Sky Tonight

  Pro

  Tonight's stargazing score, moon phase, cloud cover and the next astronomy event.

• Daylight

  Pro

  Sunset time, usable daylight left and when golden hour starts.

  Why it helps: You can see at a glance whether you have time for one more top.

• Next camp trip

  Pro

  A countdown to your next camp trip with the weather trend.

• Summit widgets

  Pro

  Your top bagged summits, your latest summits and progress on a summit challenge.

• Everest counter and monthly vert

  Pro

  This year's climbing as a number of Everests, and this month's climbing with a projection.

• Activity widgets

  Pro

  Recent activities, your latest route and stats, performance stats, best efforts and PR targets.

• Running widgets

  Pro

  Weekly, monthly and yearly running totals against the last period, your run streak and your VO2 max trend.

• Training insight widgets

  Pro

  Today's verdict in plain words, a workload gauge, your 6-week fitness trend, weekly mileage against the 10% rule, cadence, efficiency, negative splits and fitness age.

• Recovery readiness

  Pro

  A readiness score with fitness, fatigue, form, VO2 max and consistency.

• Health widgets

  Pro

  Health stats, last night's sleep, a daily health grade, sleep debt with a bedtime target, Body Battery run-out time, illness risk, breathing rate, blood oxygen and weight trend, plus one widget for each Health Hub factor.

• Lock Screen widgets

  Pro

  Activity stats for the week, month or year, a single stat of your choice, a 7-day HRV line against your baseline, and resting heart rate with its trend.

Strava, Garmin and Apple Health

Peakify works with the apps and watches you already use.

• Strava

  Connect Strava to sync activities and summits, with stats by activity type.

  Why it helps: New activities arrive in Peakify without you doing anything.

• Summits in Strava descriptions

  Peakify can add the summits you reached to new Strava activity descriptions.

  Why it helps: Your Strava followers see which peaks you climbed.

• Garmin Connect

  Connect Garmin to import new activities, health data and your full activity history.

• Apple Health

  Peakify reads your workouts, routes, sleep, heart and wellness data, but doesn't write to it. New workouts sync in the background.

  Why it helps: New workouts arrive without opening the app.

• Activity alerts

  Optional notifications for new activities, new summits and finished Garmin imports.

Account and settings

Set Peakify up the way you use it.

• Sign in with Apple or as a guest

  Sign in with Apple, or look around as a guest first.

• Units

  Metric or imperial. Peakify follows your phone's region until you choose.

• Appearance

  Light, dark or match your phone.

• Customisable dock

  Choose two of the shortcuts in the bottom bar, from Activities, Summits, Briefing, Sun and Moon, Inversion, Snowdar, Dark Sky, Avalanche, Health, Widgets or Connections.

• Main sport

  Pick running, hiking, cycling, walking, swimming, strength or multi-sport to set your dashboard.

• Tracking frequency

  Choose how often live tracking sends your location.

  Why it helps: A lower rate saves battery on long days.

• Your account

  Report a bug, log out, or delete your account and all its data from the app.

Peakify Pro

A monthly or yearly subscription that unlocks the extras.

• All widgets

  Pro

  Every Home Screen and Lock Screen widget. The Mountain Briefing widget is free for everyone.

• GPX export

  Pro

  Export saved routes and download mountain routes as GPX files.

• No limits

  Pro

  Unlimited favourite mountains, races and checkpoints.

• No ads

  Pro

  Pro removes the banner ads.

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