Hiking Passport

Your season, stamped.

Add the hikes you're chasing, train with a buddy, and stamp each summit when you stand on top.

Add the hikes you're chasing, train with a buddy, 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. On a device with Apple Intelligence, it can fill the stats in for you.

  2. 2

    Get a plan

    A plan built from how you already train

    Hiking Passport uses your Apple Health data to build a training plan from the workouts you already do. It has modifications for disability and access needs, low energy, low time, parenting, and more, so everyone can hit their goal hikes.

  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.

Screenshots

Take a look inside

Training plan

More than one way up

Setup asks how you can train, how many days a week, and how long a session is. Then it asks what to work around, and offers fifty-five things to tap: knees, lungs, a mobility aid, young kids, no car, shift work, a tight month, a body that is changing.

None of it is a barrier to the goal. It changes what the plan suggests, never whether the mountain is 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, each from a community that gets told the trail is not for them. They're friends who hike, not trainers or doctors, and they never scold.

  • 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

Make it yours

Pick one and the passport up top changes with it, along with this page. In the app it dresses your widgets, your watch and your Home Screen icon too.

Apple Watch

Your passport, on your wrist

The watch keeps its own copy, so it opens with your passport whether or not your phone came along. Cross a milestone off or stamp a summit from there.

  • 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.

    The plan

  • Today's pick from Aerie: climb 2,300 feet, with a list of other things that also count.

    Today's pick

  • 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.

    Ways to do it

  • The passport drawn on the watch, with the mountain, the trail, milestone signs, and the buddy.

    Your passport

  • Aerie took a look: total climb of 78,833 feet, described as the height of Everest twice.

    Insights

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.

  • Built to be legible

    The whole scene is described for VoiceOver, signs thin out instead of colliding as text 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 Meadow 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
  • Six more park themes for the passport, widgets, and watch

iPhone on iOS 26 or later. The watch app needs watchOS 26. Apple Intelligence features need a device that supports it; without one, you enter trail stats by hand and the plan is unchanged.

Your first stamp is waiting up there.

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