Wise Pilgrim Via Podiensis

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.

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.

Fly your Camino before you walk it. The new Flyover screen gives you a cinematic 3D preview of every stage in your itinerary, and Explore mode lets you roam the whole route in 3D. The dashboard is now yours to arrange — press and hold any card to move it. Also includes the latest albergue updates from the trail.

You can now share your Camino with other pilgrims — send your itinerary and notes by QR code or file, and import theirs just as easily. You can also back up your plan and notes to a file, so they're safe if you change phones. Thanks for walking with Wise Pilgrim. Buen Camino!

New — weather forecasts for every town and your itinerary stages. A new Wildfire Map. Tap the Layers button and switch on Wildfires to see active fires across Spain and Portugal — updated daily from the EU's Copernicus fire service — plus this season's burnt areas along your route. I've also refreshed the route tracks with cleaner elevation profiles and a few corrections, updated a number of albergues with the latest information I have, and fixed a few bugs along the way. Buen Camino.