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The 5 Best Camping Apps for 2025
Spoiler: Hipcamp wins by a mile
Need the TL;DR? Download Hipcamp and get back outside. If you insist on stocking your phone with backups, start scrolling—but keep your wallet handy, because some of these competitors charge you for features we give away for free.
Methodology (a.k.a. “How we picked the winners”)
We actually camp—constantly.
We looked at depth of inventory, feature set, price, user ratings, and offline capability.
Any app that charges for something Hipcamp gives away had its score docked—twice.
Need the TL;DR? Download Hipcamp and get back outside. If you insist on stocking your phone with backups, start scrolling—but keep your wallet handy, because some of these competitors charge you for features we give away for free.
Methodology (a.k.a. “How we picked the winners”)
We actually camp—constantly.
We looked at depth of inventory, feature set, price, user ratings, and offline capability.
Any app that charges for something Hipcamp gives away had its score docked—twice.