bergfex: Hiking & Tracking
The bergfex: hiking & tracking app is a must-have companion for every hike, ski tour, mountain adventure, running route, cycling trip, or outdoor activity. Whether you are planning a peaceful walk through nature, a challenging mountain hike, a ski touring route, or a long outdoor training session, bergfex gives you the tools you need to plan, navigate, track, and enjoy your journey with more confidence.
Outdoor activities become much easier when you have reliable maps, clear route information, precise GPS navigation, and useful tracking tools. With bergfex, you can find beautiful hiking trails near you, discover ski tours across Europe, plan your own personal routes, and record your outdoor activities in detail.
The app is especially useful for hikers, mountaineers, ski tourers, runners, mountain bikers, and anyone who enjoys exploring nature. It combines route planning, hiking navigation, GPS tracking, topographic maps, fitness information, and outdoor safety features in one app.
With detailed hiking maps for the entire Alpine region, accurate GPS navigation, route descriptions, activity statistics, and optional PRO features, bergfex helps guide you safely toward your destination while giving you a better understanding of your outdoor performance.
Get to know the bergfex hiking app for free and start exploring the outdoors with smarter planning and better navigation.
Find hikes or ski tours that suit you
The bergfex tours app includes more than 500,000 hiking trails, ski tours, running routes, and mountain bike trails throughout Europe. This large collection makes it easy to find an outdoor route that fits your goals, experience level, location, and preferred activity.
If you are looking for a relaxing walk, you can search for easier hiking trails. If you want a more serious mountain challenge, you can look for longer routes with higher elevation gain. If you enjoy winter sports, you can discover ski tours suited for your area. If you are a runner or mountain biker, you can also find routes that match your activity.
Each tour includes useful information to help you decide if it is right for you. Detailed tour descriptions give you a better idea of the route, while topographic hiking maps help you understand the terrain before you begin. The app’s filter options also make it easier to narrow down your search and find the ideal tour faster.
Instead of wasting time searching across different websites or guessing which path to take, bergfex helps you choose from a wide range of verified and detailed outdoor routes.
Tour planner and hiking navigation
If you have not found the perfect hiking or ski tour yet, you can create your own with the bergfex tour planner. This feature allows you to design a personal route in just a few steps, making it useful for people who want more control over their outdoor adventure.
Maybe you want to create a route to a specific summit. Maybe you want to plan a loop around a lake, connect several trails, or build a custom ski tour. With the tour planner, you can create a route that matches your plans and then let the app guide you along the way.
The precise GPS hiking navigator helps you stay on track, even in mountain areas where clear navigation is very important. When hiking or ski touring, it is easy to miss turns, choose the wrong path, or lose direction in unfamiliar terrain. bergfex helps reduce that risk by showing your position and route clearly.
This makes the app useful for both beginners and experienced outdoor users. Beginners can feel more confident with guided navigation, while advanced users can plan more detailed and personal routes.
Detailed maps
bergfex provides detailed maps for the entire European Alpine region using data from OpenStreetMap OSM. These maps are useful for both planning your route before starting and navigating while you are already outdoors.
Regularly updated maps help ensure that you have reliable route information. This is important because trails, paths, and outdoor areas can change over time. Having access to updated map material makes your planning more accurate and your hiking experience safer.
The maps show important outdoor details that help you understand the route better. You can check paths, terrain, surrounding areas, and points of interest. Whether you are walking through valleys, climbing toward a summit, skiing across mountain routes, or cycling through trails, detailed maps help you make better decisions.
For anyone exploring the Alps or other European outdoor regions, map quality can make a big difference. bergfex gives users a practical map system designed for outdoor movement.
Tracking hiking routes and trails
With bergfex, you can track your outdoor activities and record important statistics. Whether you are hiking, ski touring, running, or mountain biking, the app can track the distance you cover and give you useful details about your performance.
You can view statistics such as duration, altitude metres, elevation profile, distance, and speed. These details help you understand how far you went, how long it took, how much elevation you gained, and how your pace changed during the route.
This is useful for people who want to improve their fitness, compare activities, or keep a record of their outdoor adventures. Tracking also helps you remember the routes you completed and review your progress over time.
The app includes a heat map that shows all the activities you have recorded so far. This gives you a visual overview of where you have been and which areas you explore most often. It can also motivate you to discover new trails and expand your outdoor history.
Route and fitness tracking combined
bergfex is not only about navigation. It also helps you track your fitness level and activity performance. If you want more detailed health and training information, you can optionally wear a Bluetooth heart rate monitor while hiking, ski touring, running, or doing other sports.
Heart rate data can help you better understand your effort during an activity. You can see how hard your body is working, whether you are staying in a comfortable zone, or whether you are pushing yourself harder.
This is especially useful for people who use outdoor activities as part of their fitness routine. Hikers, runners, ski tourers, and mountain bikers can use this information to train smarter and monitor performance.
By combining route tracking with fitness data, bergfex gives you a more complete picture of your outdoor activities.
Garmin Connect, websync and GPX-import
Your hikes and planned tours can be automatically synchronized with your bergfex account, making it easier to keep your routes and activities organized across devices.
Tracked activities can also be displayed in Garmin Connect and Polar Flow, which is helpful for users who already use fitness platforms to monitor their training. This makes bergfex more flexible because it can connect with other tools you may already use.
Self-created routes can also be exported and imported through GPX files. GPX support is important for outdoor users because it allows routes to be shared, saved, transferred, and used across compatible navigation tools.
If you like planning routes in advance, downloading routes from other sources, or keeping your own outdoor route library, GPX import and export makes the process easier.
Test many PRO functions for 7 days free of charge & without any commitment
Register in the hiking app and test the helpful functions of the bergfex PRO subscription during your next hike. The PRO version includes many advanced outdoor features designed for navigation, planning, safety, and better map detail.
• Name surrounding peaks with the Peak Names feature
The Peak Names feature helps you identify surrounding mountains and peaks while you are outdoors. This is useful for hikers who enjoy learning about the landscape around them.
Instead of wondering which mountain you are looking at, the app can help name nearby peaks and make your outdoor experience more informative.
• Access to over 9,500 webcams to get live insights into the region
bergfex PRO gives access to more than 9,500 webcams, allowing you to see live views from different regions. This can help you check current conditions before starting your trip.
Webcams are useful for checking weather, snow, visibility, and general outdoor conditions. This can help with planning and safety.
• 3D maps show the terrain, the surroundings and the route in detail
3D maps give you a better visual understanding of the terrain. Instead of viewing everything flat, you can see mountains, valleys, slopes, and route layout in a more realistic way.
This is helpful when planning hikes, ski tours, or mountain bike routes because terrain shape matters a lot in outdoor navigation.
• More detailed map material thanks to higher zoom level
Higher zoom levels allow you to see more map detail. This is useful when navigating complex paths, mountain routes, or areas with many trail options.
More detail can help you make better decisions and avoid confusion.
• Official avalanche warnings from local warning services
For ski touring and winter mountain activities, avalanche information is very important. bergfex PRO provides official avalanche warnings from local warning services.
This feature can help users make safer decisions in snowy mountain areas. Avalanche risk should always be taken seriously, and having access to official warnings is valuable for winter sports users.
• Warning signal when leaving the route
The route warning feature can alert you when you leave your planned route. This is useful because it helps prevent you from going too far in the wrong direction.
In mountain areas, staying on the correct path is important for both safety and efficiency. A warning signal can help you correct your direction quickly.
• Overlay to visualise slope steepness greater than 30°, 35°, 40°, and 45°
Slope steepness overlays are useful for mountain users, especially ski tourers and winter sports enthusiasts. These overlays help visualize slopes above 30°, 35°, 40°, and 45°.
Knowing slope steepness is important for route planning and avalanche awareness. It helps users understand terrain risk more clearly.
• Official hiking maps such as ÖK50, SwissMap, etc.
PRO users can access official hiking maps such as ÖK50, SwissMap, and more. These official maps provide detailed and trusted outdoor information for specific regions.
For serious hikers and mountain users, official map material can be very helpful.
• Offline map material for navigation even without an active internet connection
Offline maps allow you to navigate even when you do not have an internet connection. This is one of the most important features for outdoor activities because mobile reception can be weak or unavailable in mountains and remote areas.
With offline maps, you can download map material in advance and use it during your hike or ski tour.
• Satellite map with additional information and points of interest
The satellite map gives you a different view of the terrain, along with additional information and points of interest. This can help you better understand the area before and during your trip.
• Intermediate destinations for route planning
Intermediate destinations allow you to create more detailed routes with planned stops along the way. This is useful when you want to visit multiple points before reaching your final destination.
• Zones for heart rate measurement
Heart rate zones help you understand your effort level more clearly. This is useful for fitness tracking and training during outdoor activities.
• Hiking, ski touring and more without advertising
The PRO subscription also removes advertising, giving you a cleaner and more focused experience while using the app.
Any questions?
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Note:
Continuous GPS usage can result in a severe reduction in battery life. Since bergfex uses GPS for tracking and navigation, it is a good idea to start outdoor activities with enough battery, especially for long hikes, ski tours, or mountain bike trips.
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bergfex: hiking & tracking app is a powerful outdoor companion for anyone who enjoys hiking, ski touring, running, mountain biking, and exploring nature. With over 500,000 tours, detailed maps, route planning, GPS navigation, tracking, fitness support, Garmin and Polar integration, GPX tools, and advanced PRO features, the app gives outdoor users a complete way to plan and record their adventures.
Download bergfex today and discover better routes, safer navigation, and a smarter way to enjoy the outdoors.
