Wise Pilgrim San Salvador

Bringing a plan over from wisepilgrim.com now lands exactly the way you drew it — forks and all. If you chose the path less taken, the app keeps it that way. Travelling on by train or bus? You can now sleep first and catch the morning one, instead of leaving the same day. Not sure where to begin? Every route now comes with sample itineraries — gentle, standard, strong — worked examples to start from and drag about until they're yours. Plus a little housekeeping in the accommodation directory, with a few new beds. Buen Camino!

Share the day you walked. Pick a photo from today and the app makes a card out of it: the two towns, the distance, and the day's climb drawn underneath with a walker standing exactly where the photo was taken. Your photos remember where they were shot, so each one lands at its own point along the stage. Up to ten at a time, in story or square, for Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, or just your own camera roll. No plan, or a Camino you walked years ago? Choose the photos and we work the day out from them. Or share a single spot — a view, a bar, the fountain you sat at — and the card names the nearest town and the distance still ahead of you. Travelling on: walk into a town in the morning and leave the same afternoon by train or bus. Set it on that stop and the night stops counting, your dates stay right, and the day numbers keep counting only the days you actually walk. Also: import another pilgrim's plan from a screenshot of their QR code, not only by scanning it, and a tidier home screen. Buen Camino.

Print your Camino. Your itinerary now exports as a PDF — a page for each day, with the stage, its elevation profile, every town you walk through, and the bed you have booked with its status. Choose what comes with you: descriptions, notices, notes about the Camino itself, history. Leave them off and you get a clean sheet; turn them on and you carry the whole guide. The summary page holds a QR that loads your entire plan onto another pilgrim's phone, and every booked bed carries one that opens it in Maps — so a printed page can still find your albergue in the dark. Also: Settings now keeps the guide's accommodation data separate from the app itself. The data updates in the app; the app updates in the App Store. Pilgrims were confusing the two and missing real updates. Buen Camino.

This update is about seeing your plan on the map. The bed you have chosen now shows where it belongs. Your booked accommodation appears on the map with a colored dot: green when it is confirmed, amber when you have asked, red when you have picked it but not booked yet. Favorites you have saved sit alongside it in gray. Once you have chosen where to sleep in a town, the other options there fade back, and so does every town you are not stopping in. What stands out is your own walk. Every accommodation now tells you where it actually is: how far from the Camino, which side of the trail it sits on and in which direction, and how far from the center of town, before or after it as you walk. Also fixed: importing an itinerary from the website no longer clears the accommodation you had chosen on your other routes. Buen Camino.

This update is about finding things faster. Search has arrived. Tap the magnifying glass on the guide or the map and jump straight to any town or albergue on the route. Measure distances with your finger. Press and hold any stop on the list, then drag up or down. The distance to wherever your finger lands appears as you go, following the route you have selected. If your itinerary has dates, the map now opens on today's stage. Tapping the stage name brings the view back to that day's walk whenever you wander off exploring. Elevation figures are now properly smoothed. Climbs read like the guidebooks instead of overshooting, and stage difficulty and walking times are truer for it. The scissor filter learned a new trick. Alongside trimming the list from your location, it can now trim to today's stage when your itinerary has dates: tap it to cycle between the two. And it no longer hides the town you are sleeping in. Also fixed: itineraries imported from the website now carry your chosen accommodation for each stop, the favorites filter shows your places right away, and a long press no longer opens a place by accident. Buen Camino.