Free to plan. Forever.
Routes, camps, per-day breakdowns, permits, GPX, and planning with your crew — all free, no trial timer, nothing moves behind a paywall.
The planner stays free, forever. Pro adds the things that matter once you're out there: printed map packs, day-by-day route weather with difficulty adjustments, and offline maps when they ship — $20 a year, locked in for founding members.
Ridgefold Pro
Founding rate — locked in forever for early members. No per-map math, no surprises.
Only get out once or twice a year? That's a couple bucks a trip for a printed map pack in your hip belt and a forecast on every day of the plan.
The other apps, for comparison
The full-featured tiers run $50 to $100 a year, priced for people who live outside. Ridgefold is built for the rest of us.
A few offer a cheaper entry tier, but it's usually mobile-only and strips out 3D terrain and the planning tools. With Ridgefold, $20 gets you everything, on your phone and your laptop.
The planner is free forever — Pro is optional.
Yes, and we mean the whole planner: unlimited trips, routes snapped to real trails, camps that split your trip into days, difficulty and elevation, permits, GPX in and out, and planning live with friends. Nothing you can do today will ever move behind a paywall.
The field extras: print packs (a trip sheet plus true-scale topo map pages), weather along your route for every day of your plan with weather-adjusted difficulty — and offline maps with mobile navigation when they ship, included at no price change.
Because planning with friends should never cost the group anything. Anyone you invite can edit the trip free, forever. Pro upgrades your own toolkit — your prints, your weather, your offline maps — and travels with you across every trip you're part of.
Early members pay $20/year and keep that price for as long as they stay subscribed — even as Pro grows and the list price rises. It's our way of saying thanks for being early.