While technology favours the smartphone’s use as a navigation aid, geo-tagger or similarly high-concept tool, it can be just as much use as a handy reference – especially fore those who are goal-oriented. Hill Lists is a nifty and well-featured interactive referencing app that includes info on just about every conceivable database of UK hills, including the Munros, Corbetts, Wainwrights, Welsh 3000ers and Trail 100: in all around 4,668 hills. You can electronically ‘tick’ them, make notes about your summit day, view your progress through the various lists you’re ticking off, and access your current location as a UK grid reference. This is the perfect app for the bagger: a clean and logical interface, with easily selected lists and the nifty ability to view your selected database as pins in a Google-powered map that can switch between a street plan, a satellite image and a hybrid. And all for less than the cost of pint. Bargain!
Compatibility iPhone, iPad
Available from iTunes
First published in Trail magazine December 2011