Ridgeway

Ridgeway for iPhone and Apple Watch

Trail runs and mountain days, navigated offline.

Topo maps that live on your iPhone and Apple Watch, with turn alerts on your wrist, every climb counted and the way back, all without a signal. No account, and navigation is never locked.

Coming to the App Store

How offline maps work
Ridgeway’s map on iPhone, Standard Dark: the fells around Helvellyn, with the route Helvellyn via Striding Edge in magenta, 12.1 km, ↑ 816 m, 3 h 30 min.
Ridgeway on Apple Watch Ultra following the route on a dark topo map, with a turn in 210 m.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · © OpenMapTiles · OpenFreeMap

Trail Run

Navigation at running pace.

Choose Trail Run at the start and Ridgeway retunes itself for running speed: turn alerts come early enough to act on, Off Route reacts in seconds, and climbs are found at a runner’s scale, descents included.

  • Pace and GAP

    Pace and grade-adjusted pace, automatic kilometre or mile splits, and manual laps kept separately.

  • Fuel timers

    Up to three reminders, by time or distance, each with its own pattern of taps on your wrist.

The Trail Run dashboard on iPhone: 10:59 elapsed, pace 8:56 per km, grade-adjusted pace 5:21, heart rate 138, 700 m of ascent left, a gel due in 34 min and a drink in 9 min, under the route’s elevation profile.
The run page on Apple Watch at the same moment: 10:59, 1.29 km, 8:56 per km, 138 bpm in zone 3, a Lap button, and Finish at 34% battery.

  • Battery forecast

    The charge you’ll finish with, worked out from how fast the battery is falling.

  • Action button

    On Apple Watch Ultra, press it to mark a lap, arrive at an aid station or log fuel.

Race Day Part of Ridgeway Plus

Every aid station. Every cutoff.

Mark the aid stations and cutoffs on your route, or paste them in from the race notes. On the day, Ridgeway shows the distance, climb and arrival time to the next one, and how much time you have in hand.

Race Day on iPhone: Hole-in-the-Wall is next, arriving 10:17 am with 8 minutes in hand before its cutoff; Helvellyn at 10:39 am with 26 minutes; Red Tarn at 10:48 am with 32 minutes.
The Next Aid page on Apple Watch at the same moment: Hole-in-the-Wall, stop 1 of 3, 2.9 km and ↑ 520 m away, arriving at 10:17 with 8 minutes in hand before its 10:25 cutoff.

  • Next Aid

    Distance, climb, arrival time and margin, on its own page on Apple Watch.

  • Cutoff alerts

    A tap on your wrist when your margin drops below the warning you choose, 15 minutes unless you change it, and again each time it shrinks by another 10.

  • Aid stops

    A rest timer starts as you reach an aid station, and stops as you leave.

  • Paste the list

    Copy the stops and cutoffs from the race website, and paste them onto the route.

Offline Maps

Maps that don’t need a signal.

Choose the squares you want, or a corridor along your route, and see the size before you download. Maps are drawn on your iPhone and Apple Watch from compact vector data, so a whole national park fits in tens of megabytes.

Download Area on iPhone: four squares of the northern Lake District selected, from Keswick towards Windermere, 9.69 MB.
From Offline Maps on iPhone: Offline Map 5 Nov, downloading, 79%, 6.42 MB of 9.69 MB.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · © OpenMapTiles · OpenFreeMap

  • Ready offline

    Shown only once every tile has been checked, so you know before you leave.

  • Use Only Offline Maps

    Stops every map request. Anywhere you haven’t downloaded shows hatched.

  • Hillshade and contours

    Shaded relief and contour lines from public elevation data, under every path and label.

  • Open map data

    OpenStreetMap, served by OpenFreeMap, from the Lake District and Eryri to the Alps and the Rockies.

Plan and import

Tap to plan. Import any GPX.

Tap the map to add points, joined by straight lines, and watch the distance, ascent and time add up. For a route that follows the path, import a GPX from any app or website.

The planner on iPhone: seven points joined by straight magenta lines from Glenridding over Helvellyn to Seat Sandal, with 8.0 km, 1,300 m of ascent and a run time of 2 h 5 min.
The Route Profile sheet: 8.0 km, ↑ 1,300 m, a profile coloured by grade, three numbered climbs, and an estimate for a hike or a trail run.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · © OpenMapTiles · OpenFreeMap

  • Route Profile

    A grade-coloured elevation profile, with every climb numbered.

  • Hike or Trail Run

    An estimated time for each, from the same line.

  • GPX in and out

    Import from Files, Mail or AirDrop. Export any route or activity.

  • Send to Apple Watch

    New routes can go to your watch on their own, with the offline map that covers them.

Apple Watch

A watch that stands on its own.

Ridgeway opens to a full-screen topo map. Follow a route, record, reverse it or head Back to Start with your iPhone left at home, and download maps on the watch itself over Wi-Fi or cellular.

  • The map page: the route, your position and heading, and the next turn in 210 m.

    Map

    Heading-up, with the next turn. Turn the Digital Crown to zoom.

  • The run page: time, distance, pace, heart rate, a Lap button and the battery forecast.

    Run

    Time, pace and heart rate, and the battery you’ll finish with.

  • The Next Aid page: distance, climb, arrival time and the margin before the cutoff.

    Next Aid Part of Ridgeway Plus

    The next aid station, and your time in hand.

  • The route compass: distance from the route and the next turn.

    Route Compass

    Where the line is, and where it goes next.

  • Off Route: the distance and direction back to the route.

    Off Route

    The distance and the direction back, in one glance.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · © OpenMapTiles · OpenFreeMap

You Part of Ridgeway Plus

Everywhere you’ve been.

Bring in your hiking, walking and trail-running workouts from Apple Health, routes and all, and see how far you’ve gone, how much you’ve climbed and a map of everywhere you’ve been. Road runs stay out, and your history stays on your iPhone.

The You tab on iPhone: 3,479 km across 290 hikes, walks and trail runs, 230,108 m climbed, a chart of the climb since 2021, and a world map of where the activities were.
The world map in the You tab: 173 activities clustered in the United Kingdom and 54 in the Alps.

Shown with sample history.

  • All time, year, month

    Distance, climb, time and active days, with your climb drawn over the years.

  • The world map

    Every activity on one map, grouped by where it happened.

Map styles

Five map styles, day or night.

Standard Light, Standard Dark and Minimal Light, plus Hiking Pro and Tactical with Ridgeway Plus. Hiking Pro shows everything: 10 m contours, rock and scree, path types and summit heights. Tactical is red on black, and keeps your night vision.

  • The route in Standard Dark.

    Standard Dark

  • The route in Standard Light: a pale topo map with the route in magenta.

    Standard Light

  • The route in Minimal Light: a quiet white map with faint contours, paths and water, and no labels.

    Minimal Light

  • The route in Hiking Pro: a paper topo map with dense contours, rock and paths, and the route in dark magenta.
    Hiking Pro at full size around Helvellyn and Red Tarn: 10 m contours with their heights, crags, path types and summit heights.

    Hiking Pro Part of Ridgeway Plus

  • The route in Tactical: the map and the app drawn in red on black.

    Tactical Part of Ridgeway Plus

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · © OpenMapTiles · OpenFreeMap

No account. No ads. No tracking.

Your routes and activities stay on your iPhone and Apple Watch. There is no Ridgeway server, and the developer collects no data. Ridgeway goes online for map tiles, and Use Only Offline Maps turns that off.

Every request it makes, in the privacy policy

Ridgeway Plus

One purchase, shared with your family.

Everything that gets you there and back is free, on iPhone and Apple Watch. Ridgeway Plus is an optional one-time purchase, shared through Family Sharing, that adds three things.

  • Your history

    Your Apple Health history, all-time totals and highlights, and the world map in the You tab.

  • Hiking Pro and Tactical

    Two more map styles, on iPhone and Apple Watch.

  • Race Day

    Aid stations and cutoffs, arrival times and margins, and the Next Aid page on your wrist.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · © OpenMapTiles · OpenFreeMap

Always free

  • Offline maps, any area
  • Planning, and GPX in and out
  • Navigation and turn alerts
  • Off Route and Back to Start
  • Climbs and the route compass
  • Recording, saved to Apple Health
  • Trail Run, with splits and fuel timers
  • Low-battery alerts and GPS modes

No subscription, no pop-ups, and never a prompt during an activity. Safety never needs Ridgeway Plus.

Plan tonight. Leave your phone in the pack.

Coming to the App Store

For iPhone with iOS 26 or later, and Apple Watch with watchOS 26 or later.