Hiking Passport

Your season, stamped.

Add the hikes you're chasing, train in ways that fit your life, and stamp each summit when you stand on top.

Get the appHow it works

Add the hikes you're chasing, train in ways that fit your life, and stamp each summit when you stand on top.

Tap the goal stamp to summit it

Trailhead

Four signs to the summit

A passport for your hiking season, from the first goal to the last stamp.

  1. 1

    Add your hikes

    Start from the hikes you're actually chasing

    Type in the trail, the distance, the climb, and how many days it takes, straight from your guidebook or your favorite trail app.

  2. 2

    Get a plan

    A plan built from how you already train

    Hiking Passport reads your Apple Health history and builds a plan around the ways you already move. Taking the stairs, pushing a stroller, and carrying groceries all count. It bends around disability and access needs, low energy, little time, caregiving, and more, so the goal hike stays within reach.

  3. 3

    Train

    A ladder between here and the summit

    Six milestone signs climb the trail, finishing with two dress rehearsals near eighty percent of the goal. Each milestone says how to do it in plain words: on a trail, a treadmill, a stair machine, or in the small things you already do.

  4. 4

    Stamp it

    Proof you can see from across the room

    Log the summit with a date, a rating, a mood, and a photo. The stamp lands on the peak, the camp moves up the meadow behind you, and the boot prints on the trail reach a little further.

Why I built it

The plan bends. Your goals don't.

  • 1 in 4U.S. adults has a disability
  • 63 millionAmericans are family caregivers
  • 1 hr 18 minoff my summit time, one skipped stair at a time
“Seven hours up, blistered and exhausted, summit sign in hand.”

A month of 20,000 steps a day took me from never walking more than five miles to the top of South Sister, and I wanted to come back faster.

Lilly on the red volcanic rock at the summit of South Sister, holding a cardboard sign reading South Sister 10,358 ft, with Oregon's Cascades hazy blue behind.
South Sister, 10,358 ftThe summit, and the sign I carried up
“I didn't need a conventional training plan. I needed one that could adapt to my life.”

I'm disabled, with hearing loss and insomnia, and skipping a stair on every staircase cut an hour and eighteen minutes off my summit time.

Lilly smiling in a green meadow in Lauterbrunnen, with sheer cliffs on both sides and snowy Alps at the end of the valley.
Lauterbrunnen, SwitzerlandThe meadow the passport is drawn from

For millions of people, hiking is limited by time, energy, transportation, caregiving, or access, not motivation. Hiking Passport turns those barriers into accommodations.

Lilly Seay, founder of Hiking Passport

Screenshots

Take a look inside

Track your goal hikes. The passport scene: a goal hike on the summit, milestone signs along a trail, a tent and a buddy where the boot prints end.
Stamp the summit. Logging South Sister with a date, a five star rating, a mood, and a photo set as the passport stamp.
Train doing your faves. Picking how you can train: real hikes, walks and runs, treadmill, stair machine, low impact, strength, and everyday habits.
Training for everyone. The list of things the plan can work around, across family, transportation, and body and health.
Hike with a buddy. Choosing a hiking buddy, with Aerie the bald eagle at a ninety six percent match and her story underneath.
Hiking insights. The stats tab, with total climb, trail miles, biggest climb, and longest hike, written in your buddy's voice.
Passport themes. Picking a theme, with the whole scene recoloured and a row of park themes underneath.
Training widgets. Home Screen widgets showing the season, milestones done, and the insights your buddy pulled out.

Training plan

More than one way up

  • Choose how, how often, and how long you train
  • Tap from 55 things to work around, like knees, kids, or no car
  • Finish every milestone more than one way
  • Miss a trailhead without losing your progress

The plan changes; the mountain is still yours to climb.

  • Real hikes
  • Walks & runs
  • Treadmill
  • Stair machine
  • Low impact
  • Strength
  • Everyday habits

Every milestone, five ways

  1. Matches itThe milestone exactly, the way it's written.
  2. Your sessionSized to how long you usually get.
  3. ModifiedBent around what you told it to work around.
  4. Low energyFor the days that ask for less.
  5. Short on timeFor the days that give you less.

This is not medical advice. Run your plan past your clinician.

Hiking buddies

Pick a hiking buddy

Six forest animals from communities often told the trail isn't for them, and none of them ever scolds.

  • Aerie

    Bald eagle

    Disabled, fierce & kind

    “The trail isn't the problem, and neither are you.”

  • Berry

    Black bear

    Plus-size & joyful

    “The view is the same size for everyone.”

  • Acorn

    Chipmunk

    Trains between naps

    “The stroller counts as a weighted sled, if you ask me.”

  • Juniper

    Box turtle

    Queer, trans & outside

    “You belong on every trail you walk.”

  • Otis

    Barred owl

    Neurodivergent & clear

    “Starting is the hard part. Shoes by the door helps.”

  • Biscuit

    Barn cat

    Funny, warm & on your side

    “The mountain isn't going anywhere, and neither am I.”

Passport themes

Custom passport themes

Each national park theme follows your clock from sunrise to starlight and carries over to your widgets, watch, and app icon.

Apple Watch

Your passport, on your wrist

The watch keeps its own copy of your passport, so you can cross off a milestone or stamp a summit without your phone.

The plan on the watch: fourteen miles and 5,100 feet of gain, two of six milestones done, and the next one is to climb 2,300 feet.
Today's pick from Aerie: climb 2,300 feet, with a list of other things that also count.
Ways to do it: fifty eight minutes on a stair machine, eighty eight minutes on a treadmill at a ten percent incline, or 230 flights of stairs over the week.
The passport drawn on the watch, with the mountain, the trail, milestone signs, and the buddy.
Aerie took a look: total climb of 78,833 feet, described as the height of Everest twice.

Ranger station

Made to stay yours

  • No account, no cloud

    Nothing to sign up for. Your passport, your hikes, and your photos are stored on your iPhone and work with no signal at all.

  • Apple Health is read only

    The app reads five things and writes nothing back. Decline any of them and the plan simply works without it.

  • On your wrist and Home Screen

    The Apple Watch app draws a miniature passport and lets you cross a milestone off or stamp a summit. Four widgets carry the plan, today's pick, and your stats.

  • Accessibility first

    The whole landscape is described for VoiceOver, signs thin out instead of colliding as Dynamic Type grows, and the opening animation skips itself when Reduce Motion is on.

Park entrance

What's free, and what Pro adds

Day pass

Free

$0

  • The passport, the scene, the six milestone signs, and your progress up the trail
  • One goal hike per passport
  • Summit stamps with a date, rating, mood, notes, and a photo
  • All six hiking buddies and the Alpine theme
  • Hikes, miles, and climb on the Stats tab

Season pass

Hiking Passport Pro

$39.99 a year7-day free trial

$4.99 a monthCancel any time

  • The training plan behind the signs, built from your hikes and your Apple Health history
  • Your buddy's pick for today, sized to how you've actually been training
  • Stats insights in your buddy's voice
  • Every hike on your list in one passport
  • Four more park themes for the passport, widgets, and watch

iPhone on iOS 26 or later. The watch app needs watchOS 26. Apple Intelligence writes your plan's name and your buddy's notes on devices that support it; without one, everything else works the same.

Your first stamp is waiting up there.

Coming soon to the App Store. Want to hear the day it lands? Send me a note.

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