Peak Scanner app for iPhone and iPad
See what mountain peaks are around you simply by pointing your iPhone at them!
Using augmented reality, this app is fast and smooth, displaying information about the peaks near you. Position any peak within the cross hairs to see useful information, including peak name, height, distance from you, and also the difference in height from your current altitude.
Even if some peaks are behind others Peak Scanner still allows you to get details on them (shown in grey).
Youll find Peak Scanner a much better experience than other apps of this type:
- fast, smooth display
- no finger taps required - just point and get instant results!
- worldwide coverage (unlike other apps that make you pay for each country)
- does not require any mobile signal - all the peak data is inside the app
Peak Scanner includes data on over 500,000 mountain peaks all over the world. Whether youre in the Alps, the Lake District, or The Rockies, Peak Scanner is your ideal travel companion.
Youll never need to ask, "Whats that mountain over there?" again.
Data Sources include:
Database of British and Irish Hills (http://hills-database.co.uk)
OpenStreetMap contributors (http://www.openstreetmap.org)
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Latest reviews of Peak Scanner app for iPhone and iPad
Very good!!! Congratulations
Poor app. Waste of money. Even make it very difficult to review. Dont recognize known mountains in plain site HUGE battery drain Want refund
Absolutely useless. As I sit in Georgia pointing at the local mountains, all of them report names in French unrelated to their real names
From our house I can see a 9,800 ft mountain about 30 miles away. The app doesnt pick it up even after adjusting the range option. It also indicates peaks that are not in the direction you point your phone. Ill try it from another location to see if the GPS will respond better but so far not impressed.
Ive gone through the settings several times, closed the app and restarted my phone. It doesnt recognize local peaks but it is showing dozens of peaks almost directly over my head. They all appear to be in the French alps. Its a little cloudy overhead so maybe theyre there and I never noticed them but I suspect thats not the problem. A friend has an app of the same name running on a different operating system and its brilliant. I had high hopes.