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Whympr : Mountain & Outdoor
Whympr is an app designed to assist individuals in preparing for their mountain and outdoor adventures, catering to various activities such as hiking, climbing, trail running, mountain biking, ski touring, snowshoeing, and mountaineering. The app offers a range of features to enhance the planning and execution of these adventures.
Users can explore over 350,000 routes worldwide, sourced from renowned platforms like Skitour, Camptocamp, and Tourist Offices. By utilizing filters, individuals can find the perfect route based on their activity, difficulty level, and points of interest. The app also allows users to create and save their tracks before embarking on their outing, providing information on distances and elevations to enhance preparation.
Access to a collection of topographic maps, including IGN, SwissTopo, USGS, and others, is available to users. The app's 3D Mode enables the visualization of different map backgrounds in three dimensions. Additionally, routes can be downloaded for offline viewing, ensuring accessibility even in remote locations.
To facilitate planning further, the app provides a comprehensive weather forecast in partnership with Meteoblue. Users can access mountain weather information, including past conditions, forecasts, freezing levels, and sunlight hours. The app also offers access to daily updated avalanche reports from official institutions in France, Switzerland, and the United States.
Whympr fosters a sense of community among outdoor enthusiasts by allowing users to share their outings and contribute to the preservation of nature through the activation of a "sensitive zone" filter. The app includes the "Peak Viewer" augmented reality tool, providing real-time information about the names, altitude, and distance of peaks in the vicinity.
Other notable features include the availability of professional route recommendations for climbing, ski touring, mountaineering, and hiking, the ability to add geolocated pictures and comments to the map to capture memorable moments, and the option to maintain a logbook of outings with access to statistics and a visual representation on a map.
While the base app is free, users can opt for the Premium version for a complete experience. This version offers exclusive features such as topographic maps, offline mode, advanced route filters, detailed weather conditions, GPS track recording, elevation and distance calculation for track creation, GPX import, and more. A 7-day free trial is available, following which users can subscribe for €24.99/year.