A simpler way to plan a hike.
Draw a route, get it snapped to real trails, see the climb before you commit, and export a map worth printing. No clutter to work around.
Built for planning a hike
Not a cycling tool with walking bolted on. Elevation, surface and steepness are the first things you see, because they're the things that decide whether a route is a good day out or a miserable one.
No account required
Open it and start drawing. Signing in is optional and only buys you one thing — your routes saved across devices. Nothing is gated behind it.
Something to take with you
A route is only useful if you can carry it. Export a GPX for your watch, or a print-ready A3 topographic sheet that splits into a map book for longer trails.
Built on open data
Hikit draws on OpenStreetMap for trails and terrain, plus community-run routing and elevation services, rather than a closed proprietary map. The upside is that the data is public and improvable by anyone.
And what that costs
It also means Hikit is only as reliable as those free public services. Most of the time that's plenty — but snap-to-trail can be slow when the routing server is busy. Worth knowing this isn't a commercial platform with an SLA behind it.
Finding trails
Search real OpenStreetMap hiking routes by name or area, from waymarked long-distance trails to local paths. Open any of them straight into the editor to adjust and make your own, or download the GPX as-is.
Open-source dependencies
Hikit — on the web and in the Android companion app — is built on open-source software.
- Next.js & Reactapp framework and UI
- MapLibre GL JSmap rendering — vector and raster tiles
- OpenStreetMaptrail, path and terrain data
- BRoutersnapping drawn lines to real trails
- Turf.jsgeospatial calculations
- Lucideicon set
- jsPDFthe printable route-sheet export
- Supabaseoptional cloud save and passwordless sign-in
- Tailwind CSSstyling