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Hike Further.
The packing list and gear management app built for backpackers and ultralight hikers.
Gear Inventory
Every gram accounted for
Build a comprehensive gear inventory with detailed specs for every item — weight, brand, product, price, and category. Your inventory is always at your fingertips when building packing lists.
- ✓ Import from LighterPack or CSV in seconds
- ✓ Auto-fill weights from the product database
- ✓ Create custom categories for organization
- ✓ Track the total value of your kit
Pack List Builder
Build the perfect pack
Ditch the spreadsheets. Drag items from your inventory, organize by category, and fine-tune quantities — all in a clean, purpose-built interface. Create multiple packs per trip for base camp and day hike setups.
- ✓ Drag-and-drop reordering
- ✓ Multiple packs per trip
- ✓ Built-in checklist mode
- ✓ Mark items as worn or consumable
Weight Analysis
Know your base weight
Instantly see how your weight is distributed across categories. Packstack separates base weight, worn weight, and consumables so you always know exactly what your pack weighs on the trail.
- ✓ Base / worn / consumable breakdown
- ✓ Category-level weight visualization
- ✓ Toggle between metric and imperial
Trip Planning
Plan beyond the packing list
Capture everything about your trip — location, dates, distance, daily elevation gain, terrain type, pace, and expected temperatures. These details power the calorie calculator so your food plan matches the trail ahead.
- ✓ Distance, elevation gain, and terrain
- ✓ Pace and temperature range
- ✓ Multi-day date ranges
- ✓ Notes for trail conditions and tips
Hiker Profiles
Your stats, your estimate
Create hiker profiles with your weight, height, age, sex, and body type. Assign a profile to any pack — perfect for couples or groups. Your stats feed directly into the calorie calculator for personalized daily estimates.
- ✓ Weight, height, age, sex, and body type
- ✓ Assign profiles to individual packs
- ✓ Powers personalized calorie estimates
- ✓ Set a default profile
Calorie Calculator
Know how much fuel you need
Packstack estimates your daily calorie needs based on your body stats, pack weight, trail distance, elevation gain, terrain, pace, and temperature. See a full breakdown with macros, food weight, water needs, and trip totals.
- ✓ Daily calorie estimate from trip + body stats
- ✓ Macro breakdown (carbs, fat, protein)
- ✓ Food weight and water estimates
- ✓ Optional +10% safety margin
Gear Kits
Bundle once, load anywhere
Group the items you always carry together into reusable kits — a first aid kit, cook system, or shelter setup. When building a packing list, load an entire kit with one click and every item lands in your pack with the right quantities.
- ✓ Set per-item quantities (e.g. stakes ×6)
- ✓ One-click loading into any packing list
- ✓ Reuse across trips without rebuilding
Sharing
Share your setup
Generate a shareable link for any trip and send it to friends, post it on Reddit, or embed it in your trail journal. Recipients see a clean, read-only view of your complete packing list with weight breakdowns included.
- ✓ One-click shareable links
- ✓ Clean, read-only public view
- ✓ Full weight breakdown included
Built for the trail
Multiple packs per trip
Bundle & reuse item groups
LighterPack & CSV support
Personalized daily estimates
Body stats for accurate estimates
Distance, elevation, terrain & more
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