Trip HQ for the Outdoors
GoVenture is the trip planner app for backpacking, camping and group adventures. Build your routes, download offline maps, lay out a day-by-day itinerary, track pack weight, and split the gear list across your crew — all on one trip, all on your iPhone.
The problem
The route is in a maps app. The itinerary is in Notes. The packing list is a screenshot. Who is bringing the stove is somewhere in a group chat from three weeks ago. The permit is in an email. Nobody at home knows when you are expected back.
GoVenture puts all of it on one trip. Routes, waypoints, offline maps, itinerary, gear, weight, group assignments and your trip plan — one place, on your phone, working whether or not you have a signal.
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Trip types supported
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Recordable activities
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Gear categories
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Bars of service needed
Download
Plan as many trips as you like — itineraries, waypoints, gear checklists and group planning are all free, with no ads. Upgrade to Pro for route drawing, unlimited gear lists, offline maps and extra map styles.
Free to download
Requires iOS 18 or later
How it works
GoVenture follows the way trips actually get planned — decide, map, pack, go.
Pick from 17 trip types — backpacking, car camping, climbing, kayaking, overlanding and more — set your dates and destination. GoVenture loads a starter gear template matched to that activity so you are not staring at an empty list.
Draw a route by tapping the map, import a GPX file, or bring in a hike you already recorded on Apple Watch. Drop waypoints for campsites, water sources, parking and hazards, and check the forecast at the trailhead.
Build the gear list from your inventory or a saved Quick Kit. Weights total automatically into base, consumable and total pack weight. Invite your group and assign who carries what so nothing gets duplicated or forgotten.
Download the map area before you leave and everything works offline. Record the hike as you walk it, follow your planned route, and leave a trip plan with an emergency contact at home.
Features
Trip planner
Routes & maps
Gear & pack weight
Group trips
Record & safety
Screenshots
The screens you will actually live in on a trip.
Who it's for
Multi-day itineraries with campsite and water waypoints, base weight tracking, and permits kept with the trip.
One shared list, assigned item by item, so eight people arrive with one stove, one tarp and everything else covered.
A Quick Kit you reuse every weekend, the forecast at the trailhead, and one-tap recording when you set off.
Approach routes, rack and boat gear lists, put-in and take-out waypoints, and a trip plan filed before you go.
Guides
Practical, no-fluff walkthroughs for the things people get stuck on — planning a first backpacking trip, cutting pack weight, dividing gear across a group, and getting maps that work with no signal.
Getting started
Choose a route, work out daily mileage, sort permits, build the packing list and file a trip plan — the full sequence, in order.
Read the guide →Gear
A category-by-category checklist for a 2–3 night trip, with typical weights and the items most people carry for nothing.
Read the guide →Pack weight
Base vs consumable vs total weight explained, realistic targets by hiker type, and where the easy kilos actually hide.
Read the guide →Group trips
Who brings what, how to split shared gear fairly, and how to stop the group chat from becoming the plan.
Read the guide →Navigation
Why your maps app fails in the backcountry, what to download before you leave, and how to save battery once you are out there.
Read the guide →Navigation
What a GPX file actually contains, how to get one onto your phone from email or Files, and how to turn it into a usable route.
Read the guide →Planning
Realistic daily mileage by experience level, how to price in elevation with Naismith's rule, and how to build the day plan.
Read the guide →Safety
Exactly what to include, who to give it to, when they should call for help — and a template you can copy.
Read the guide →Camping
A complete, printable-style list for a two-night car camping trip, plus the ten things people always forget.
Read the guide →Recording
GPS accuracy in the mountains, background tracking, battery settings that actually help, and syncing with Apple Health.
Read the guide →Comparison
AllTrails, Gaia GPS, onX, Strava and GoVenture compared by what they are genuinely built for — and which to use when.
Read the guide →FAQ
The best backpacking trip planner is the one that handles the logistics, not just the trail. Discovery apps are excellent at answering "where should I hike" and stop there. A trip needs a route and a schedule, a packing list with weights, a division of shared gear, permits and a plan somebody at home can act on.
GoVenture keeps all of that on a single trip so your route, itinerary, gear list and group are one object rather than five apps and a group chat.
Create a shared gear list on the trip, invite your group with a link, then assign each item to a specific person. Everyone sees the same list in real time and ticks items off as they pack. A progress bar shows how much of the group's gear is claimed and what is still unassigned.
This is the fix for the oldest problem in group camping: arriving at the trailhead with three stoves, two tarps and no fuel.
Yes. Download an offline map region covering your trip area before you leave and the map tiles are stored on the device. Your routes, waypoints, itinerary and gear lists are stored locally too, so the whole trip is readable with zero bars.
Anything cloud-dependent — syncing changes to the group, refreshing the forecast — catches up automatically once you are back in service.
Base weight is everything in your pack except consumables — food, water and fuel — and except what you are wearing or carrying on your body. It is the number the backpacking world uses to compare setups, because consumables change with trip length while base weight does not.
In GoVenture you enter each item's weight once, tick "worn" where it applies and flag consumables. Base weight, consumable weight and total pack weight update live as you build the list.
Yes. GoVenture reads GPX track points, named waypoints and elevation data. Open a GPX from Files, Mail, or a download link, preview it on the map, then save it as a route on a trip — bringing any waypoints in the file along with it.
Useful for routes shared by a ranger station, a guidebook site, a trail association, or a friend who planned the trip somewhere else.
They solve different problems, and it is worth being honest about that. AllTrails is a trail database with reviews and photos — it is very good at helping you choose where to go. GoVenture is a planning and logistics tool for the trip you build around that choice: multi-day itineraries, permits, gear lists with weights, group assignments and a trip plan for someone at home.
Plenty of people use a discovery app to pick the trail and GoVenture to actually run the trip.
As a starting point: 5–8 miles a day for beginners on maintained trail, 10–14 for experienced hikers with a light-ish load, and add roughly an hour for every 2,000 ft of elevation gain. Off-trail, snow, river crossings and heavy packs all push those numbers down hard.
GoVenture estimates duration per route from distance, elevation gain and an activity-specific pace, so you can see whether a day is realistic before you commit your group to it.
Open the Record tab, pick your activity from 20 options, and tap start. GoVenture tracks distance, elapsed time and elevation gain in the background, shows GPS signal quality so you know whether the track can be trusted, and lets you pause and resume for breaks.
You can follow a planned route as a guide, write the workout to Apple Health, or import hikes already recorded on an Apple Watch.
GoVenture is free to download and there is no limit on the number of trips you can plan. Trips, day-by-day itineraries, waypoints, group gear assignment and GPS recording are all free. GoVenture Pro unlocks route drawing, unlimited gear lists, offline map downloads and additional map styles.
No ads, and no social feed you have to scroll past to get to your trip.
Seventeen trip types: day hiking, backpacking, camping, climbing, mountaineering, mountain biking, kayaking, rafting, surfing, skiing, snowshoeing, trail running, fishing, hunting, overlanding, road trips and a custom option. Each loads a starter gear template matched to the activity.
For recording there are 20 activities across on-foot, bike, water and winter categories, each with its own pace profile for duration estimates.
Get your next trip out of the group chat and into one place. Free on iPhone and iPad.