Every canyoner knows the situation. You've prepared well, studied the map and canyon carefully, and then spontaneously decided on a different canyon on site, which turned out to be less well prepared. During the access or in the canyon, issues arise where more detailed information would be helpful.

To make sure you always have this information with you offline, we created the Opencanyon app. Over the months, it has been expanded and enhanced with minor adjustments, but in principle, it is designed so that you can carry the entire and current Opencanyon data treasure trove in your pocket, always offline, and access it whenever you need it.

The Opencanyon app is built on Angular/Capacitor, published for Android and iOS, and directly connected to the Opencanyon API.

Good to know

• The Opencanyon app deliberately only updates offline data on command. To start this, please click on Settings -> Database -> Manual Update.

• You cannot change (most) of the data for a canyon in the app; please use the Opencanyon website for this.

• There are currently no plans to integrate an offline map into the app. This is for technical and financial reasons. You can work around this by either opening the coordinates of a canyon with an existing offline map (Organic Maps, Lotus Maps, etc.) or downloading the KMZ/GPX file for each country from the website and importing it into your offline map.

• If you want to record hikes directly in the app, you can log in with your existing user account or create an Opencanyon user account in the app.

• If you have any questions or requests regarding the app, you can report them directly in the app under Feedback or via Slack (see also https://www.opencanyon.org/contact).

Current feature overview of the app

• Offline access – all information even without an internet connection or when abroad

• Intuitive map search – discover canyons by map

• Name search – search specifically for canyon names

• Flexible filters – by rating, country, duration, number of rappelling points, and difficulty level

• Comprehensive details – key data, descriptions, GPS coordinates, links, photos, and previous ascents

• Direct navigation – open coordinates in Apple Maps, Google Maps, Organic Maps, or Swisstopo

• Latest ascents – stay up to date with newly added canyons

List of other canyoning apps

For the sake of completeness, here is a list of other well-known canyoning apps