Every Munro, Corbett, Graham, Wainwright and Hewitt
Never done one? Start here.
I'm Ross. I live in Moray, and I've always loved walking.
The walks were put on hold due to life getting in the way of things. I'm getting back into it now, and the hardest part hasn't been the walking — it's been deciding where to go. So I built an app to make that bit easier.
I've done a few Munros in the past. This time I'm building up to them gradually and ticking off the hills close to home first — Ben Aigan, Knock Hill, the Bin of Cullen, plus a few more.
I called it Climb A Munro because Munro is the word everybody knows — say Corbett or Graham to most people and you get a blank look. The app itself covers far more than that: 1,374 summits across the five lists, 282 of them Munros, and the local hills on top of that.
It's by no means an app that tells you how to climb a hill — that bit's on you. But if you're curious like me and want to get out and explore, it's a grand place to start.
This site is the journey. Where I've been, what it was like, and whatever I work out along the way.
The aim is to walk up all 1,391 of them. It'll take a while. This is where I keep score.
11of 1,391
1,380 to go.
2 of 282
280 to go.
1 of 223
222 to go.
2 of 228
226 to go.
6 of 17
11 to go.
Same maths the app runs — press the button, we ask your browser where you are, and show the closest of 1,391 summits. Nothing is stored, nothing leaves this tab.
Give the browser permission and we'll find the closest hill in about a second.
Asking your phone where it is…
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Couch to Corbett lays out eight hills in order for your part of the country, starting with something small and finishing on a Corbett. Ten regions to pick from, and a badge for each hill as you go. By the end of it you'll have a fair idea whether you fancy a Munro.
A terrain map of 1,391 summits across Britain and Ireland, each with a description written for the app. If a hill involves a scramble or needs navigation, it says so, so you know what you're in for before you set off. There are small local hills in there too, for anyone wanting a short day before they take on something bigger.
Private GPS tracking, a gold star for each summit and a running tally of your round. Your walks stay on your phone, with no ads and nothing watching where you go. Signing in is only needed for syncing across devices or using Baggers.
No stars or numbers, and nothing described as "moderately challenging". Every hill in the app gets one of these four, which is roughly how a mate would answer if you asked what it was like.
Paths and tracks the whole way
Clear path, steady climb
Long, rough, navigation needed
Steep, exposed or remote
Hillwalking here runs on lists and nobody really explains them. Here's what each one is.
Pick a region and it lays out eight hills in order — a coastal trig point or a forest track to start with, a proper Corbett at the end. Ten regions, so there's a programme wherever you are. A badge for each hill as you tick it off, and the next one is sitting there on the screen when you finish the last.
Pick Munro or hill, pick your level, say where you are and how far you'll drive. It shows you every hill within reach, sorted by nearest or easiest, with a plain-English write-up for each one.
An original description of the walk, an honest grade, the OS grid reference, and a car park with one-tap directions. There's a tick to mark it as one you've already done, so nothing gets missed off your log.
A big number counting down the metres left to the summit, which is usually the only figure you care about on a long day. The ascent gauge fills as you climb and a gold star appears inside the last 500 m. There are two modes: Track saves the walk to your log, and Just walk it gives you the same map and countdown without saving anything.
Tap the + as you walk and it pins a note at your exact spot. "Boggy bit", "cairn hidden left", "good lunch spot". You can add as many as you like and read them back on the walk afterwards, and they go with the route if you share it with your Baggers.
If you've been walking a while, tap through the hills you've already done. No dates needed and no GPS trace to invent — your tally and star map fill in straight away. If you kept a spreadsheet you can import it as a CSV instead.
The whole of Britain and Ireland on one terrain map, with hills from the Highlands down to Snowdonia and the Wicklows. Pins are coloured by grade, and the ones you've stood on top of get a gold star, whether you recorded the walk or ticked it off from memory. Zoom in for the smaller hills; zoom out and the bigger ones stay on the map. Your Baggers show at their most recent summit.
Add walking mates as Baggers by handle and you'll see each other on the map at your most recent summit. No group chat to keep up with. You can also share a route from a walk you enjoyed, notes and all, so a friend can follow your line up a hill they haven't done.
Opt-in warnings from Apple's forecast on iPhone and Open-Meteo on Android, covering the things that matter on a Scottish hill: summit wind, cloud on the tops, freezing level, and heavy rain in the next few hours. Off by default, on only if you want them.
Every walk goes into a private log with the GPS trace, a gold star for the summit and a running tally. No ads and no tracking. You only need to sign in if you want your log synced across devices or you want to use Baggers.
One payment and it's yours on every hill after that. If you're still not sure which hill to start on, Couch to Corbett picks one for you the first time you open it.
£6.99, once. Not a subscription, and it doesn't expire.
The app draws your walking history as gold pins across Britain and Ireland, one for every hill you've been up. It fills in gradually over the years.
None of this is decoration, and none of it does the thinking for you. It's there to be useful on the day something goes wrong, and quiet the rest of the time.
One tap on the hill sheet opens your phone's share sheet — WhatsApp, Messages, whatever you use — with a note already written: what you're climbing, when you set off, when you expect to be back, and the summit grid reference. It takes a couple of seconds.
An opt-in summit-weather chip on every hill. It stays quiet when conditions are fine, goes amber above 40 mph or when rain's coming in, and red at 50 mph, which is around where ridge walking gets dangerous. Those are the same thresholds mountain rescue and Mountaineering Scotland use.
A red SOS chip sits at the top of the recorder for the whole walk. Tap it and you get your live grid reference, the words to say to mountain rescue, and a Call 999 button. It needs two taps so it can't go off in your pocket.
For an emergency in the UK, dial 999 and ask for the police, then mountain rescue.
The app carries no adverts, no tracking, no telemetry and no third parties. It works without an account. You'd only sign in if you wanted your log saved across devices or wanted to add walking mates as Baggers.
Morven, a Corbett of 872 metres above Logie Coldstone, and the second hill of the day. A brutal climb with a fake summit at every bump, and the view goes everywhere once you're up.
Clachnaben in the mist — a Graham of 589 metres in Aberdeenshire, with a great granite tor at the top and ten minutes of hunting for the trig point once I got there.
The Buck in the mist — 721 metres, and marsh for roughly three quarters of the way up. Wear boots you don't mind ruining.
