Bucegi
Omu · 2,507 m
Trail intelligence
Read the mountain before you set foot on it.
Mountiq fuses terrain, live conditions and your own measured pace into a single route brief — where to go, when to start, and the exact hour you have to turn back.
See how it works
The map and everything that brings you back stay free. Carpathians first, Alps after.
Făgăraș range
Moldoveanu · 2,544 m
- 13.4 km
- distance
- 1,464 m
- ascent
- 7 h 40
- your pace
- Walking
- Steep
- Exposed
- 18,050 km
- of marked trail, cut into segments
- 520,716
- segments, each with its own terrain, conditions and exits
- ~8,900
- calls a year to Romanian mountain rescue just to ask whether it is walkable
- €0
- for every single thing that brings you home
What it does
A mountain guide that fits in your pocket.
Not another map with pins on it. Every other app tells you a trail exists. Mountiq tells you whether you get back down it before dark.
Describe the day, get a brief
Six hours, a ridge, exposed but not technical, back by seven. You get one page — and if the day does not fit, a reasoned no with a smaller version of the same day attached. Never a bare refusal.
Conditions, fused per segment
Wind on the ridge, snow in the couloir, the stream running high — resolved for each part of the route, at the hour you actually arrive there. Corrected for altitude, because a 7 km forecast grid flattens a 2,500 m summit to half its height.
Turnaround on three clocks
Light, corrected for the horizon the terrain actually casts. Your measured pace on ascent, descent and traverse. And the hazard clock: freezing level, rockfall after the day’s heat, snow bridges in the afternoon.
The retreat engine
Every segment knows its way out. Twenty-five minutes behind, and it says so: this exit puts you at the car at 18:50, carrying on puts you at the summit an hour after last light.
Terrain you can read
Gradient, exposure, scrambling grade and the sections where a fall matters — plus the commitment point, the place after which turning back stops being cheap.
All of it offline, free
The whole country on the phone before you leave: contours, trails, waymark symbols, your position. The map is not the paywall, and neither is anything that gets you home.
How it works
Three steps. Then you just walk.
- 01
Describe the day
Plain language. “Saturday, seven hours, something exposed but not technical, back by seven.” Or pick a summit and let Mountiq find the way up.
- 02
Get the brief
One page: the route, the elevation profile with the hard parts marked, hour-by-hour conditions, the gear that matters and your turnaround time. Every number carries the model run and the hour it came from.
- 03
Walk it offline
Everything is on the phone before you lose signal — and the routing and the turnaround recalculate on the device, so a change of plan at the col does not need a bar of signal.
Terrain intelligence
The profile tells you more than the distance ever will.
Two routes to the same summit can differ by four hours. Mountiq breaks every route into segments and tells you what each one asks of you — the sustained gradient, the exposure, the surface underfoot and the point where turning back stops being cheap.
Turnaround: 14:20
From your measured pace over the last eleven ascents, the wind at 2,100 m at the hour you get there, and the light: sunset is 17:41, but the sun leaves this ridge at 16:58.
Forest road
4.2 km · 6% average · firm gravel
Beech switchbacks
2.8 km · 14% average · roots, wet after rain
The ridge
1.9 km · exposure both sides · hands out of pockets
Summit block
0.4 km · grade II scramble · 40 min in descent
Coverage
The Brașov corridor first. Then the rest of the Carpathians.
We start where the people and the incidents already are — Bucegi, Piatra Craiului and Postăvaru — and widen from there. A range appears here once it is cut into segments: trails, waymarks drawn as the symbols they actually are, springs, shelters, the exposed sections and the escape routes off them.
- Beta
BetaPiatra Craiului
La Om · 2,238 m
At launchFăgăraș
Moldoveanu · 2,544 m
At launchRetezat
Peleaga · 2,509 m
At launchRodnei
Pietrosul · 2,303 m
At launchApuseni
Curcubăta Mare · 1,849 m
The AlpsLater
Once the Carpathians are whole and have been through one winter. Austria and Slovenia first — close, open avalanche bulletins, and most of the Romanian traffic.
Safety
The mountain does not negotiate. The plan should.
Most incidents are not caused by bad climbers. They are caused by good ones running out of daylight, weather or margin. Mountiq is built around margin — and none of it is ever behind a subscription.
Live track
A private link for one person at home. No account needed to open it.
Auto check-in
A quiet ping at the summit, the col and the car. Silence escalates: first you, then your contact, then rescue.
Rescue card
Your coordinates, route and county rescue number on one screen, offline, next to 112.
Recovery mode
For the moment the waymarks vanish in cloud. Not a blue dot — a bearing, a distance, and the last point you were confirmed on the trail.
Being honest about the limit: software does not stop you twisting an ankle, and slips and falls are a fifth of all callouts. What a plan can move is the decision subset — committing to ground you cannot reverse, running out of light, being caught by weather you could have seen, and nobody knowing where you are. That is the claim, and we will not make a bigger one.
Pricing
The map is free. Safety is free. The intelligence is what you pay for.
Offline maps have free substitutes and everyone knows it, so they are not the paywall — and neither is anything that brings you home. What costs money is the part nobody else has: conditions fused per segment, unlimited briefs, and winter.
Explorer
The map is free. So is everything that brings you back.
€0
- The whole country offline: topo, contours, waymarks as symbols
- Turnaround time on all three clocks
- The retreat engine and the commitment verdict
- Recovery mode, for when you lose the waymarks
- Live track anyone can open without an account, auto check-in, escalation on silence
- Offline rescue card with the county number and 112
- Recording, GPX export and your own pace model
- Three complete briefs a month
- Most popular
Alpinist
For people who are out most weekends.
€5.99/month
- Everything in Explorer
- Unlimited briefs, in plain language
- Conditions fused per segment, corrected for altitude
- Snow line, freezing level and the storm window
- The whole winter: gradient, aspect, the avalanche bulletin per segment
- Multi-day planning and the turnaround map
- Watch alerts and the route pushed to your Garmin
Expedition
For guides, clubs and ski schools.
€9.99/month
- Everything in Alpinist
- Client-ready briefs under your own name
- Group tracking and one shared turnaround time
- Team seats
- API access and unrestricted export
- Priority conditions refresh
Prices for Western Europe. Romania has its own, lower grid — switch the page to Romanian to see it.
Or pay for the days you actually go
No renewal, no card on file, nothing to cancel. It stops being the cheaper option after eight days a year.
- Day pass48 hours
- €4.99
- Hut to hut3 days
- €9.99
- Season pass6 months
- €24.99
- Family6 people, a year
- €69.99
- Studenta year
- €19.99
What we commit to, in the terms and not just on this page
- Monthly and yearly, always. Never yearly only.
- 30 days free on the yearly plan, 7 on the monthly.
- Seven days’ notice before every renewal. Cancel in one tap.
- No weekly subscriptions, ever.
- No feature you already have will ever move into a higher tier.
- The safety layer stays free. Written into the terms.
Questions
The things people ask first.
Does it really work with no signal?
Yes. Maps, the brief, the conditions snapshot and navigation download before you start — and the routing and the turnaround recalculate on the phone itself, so changing plan at the col works with the radio off. The only things that need signal are refreshing conditions and sending a check-in, and those queue until you get a bar back.
Where does the terrain data come from?
OpenStreetMap for the trails and waymarks, Copernicus for the elevation, the Romanian met service for station observations and the avalanche bulletin, and the European weather models for the forecast. All of it credited, on every brief. Waymark condition is checked on the ground by paid local surveyors. Everything else about the terrain — gradient, exposure, scrambling grade — is derived from a 30 m elevation model and shown with its uncertainty. We never present it as surveyed truth.
Is this a replacement for a mountain guide?
No, and it never will be. Mountiq is a planning and awareness tool. On technical, glaciated or avalanche terrain, hire a guide. The app will tell you when that is the honest answer.
How accurate is the timing?
It learns from you. The first route uses the statutory Romanian model — the one printed on every trail sign — and after three or four outings the estimate is calibrated to your real pace on ascent, descent and traverse, including how much you slow after five hours. Both numbers stay visible, so you can see when your own pace has earned the right to differ.
Is the brief written by an AI?
The prose is. The numbers are not, and that distinction is the whole architecture. Routes come from a deterministic router, times and gradients and turnaround hours come from code, terrain verdicts come from published algorithms. The language model is only allowed to write sentences over numbers that already exist — it cannot invent a figure or draw a line on the map. Briefs are labelled as AI-generated, and the app is fully usable with that layer switched off.
Does Mountiq call 112 for me?
No. There is no legal or technical route for a third-party app to feed the emergency service, and any app that implies otherwise is misleading you. What Mountiq does is place the native 112 call — so your operator sends your location the way it is supposed to — while showing you the five things the dispatcher will ask, and sending the structured rescue card to mountain rescue at the same time.
Which mountains are covered?
The beta is the Brașov corridor: Bucegi, Piatra Craiului and Postăvaru. Făgăraș, Retezat, Rodnei and Apuseni follow before the paid launch. The Alps come after the Carpathians are whole and have been through a winter — Austria and Slovenia first.
What happens to my location data?
It stays yours. Tracks are private by default, live links expire when the trip ends, and nothing is sold or shared with advertisers. Mountain rescue can see a live track only if you consented when you sent the plan, only after a missed check-in, and you can revoke it. You can export or delete everything at any time.
The mountain is already there. Go prepared.
Join the beta and get Mountiq free while we map your range.