Tools
Free planning tools for Scottish trips
Interactive tools built specifically for Scottish conditions — midges, weather, terrain, access law, the lot. Most need no sign-up. We're shipping them over the next several months.
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Naismith's Rule Calculator
Scotland-specific walking time calculator. Enter distance and ascent, pick your fitness, terrain, weather and pack weight — get a realistic time estimate for your hill day in seconds.
Phase 1 · Shipped
- Live
Midge Forecast
A seven-day midge risk score for any Scottish location. Uses real weather data (wind speed, temperature, time of day) from Open-Meteo to tell you whether your evening is going to be bearable.
Phase 1 · Shipped
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Daylight Hours Planner
Sunrise, sunset, civil twilight and usable walking daylight for any Scottish location on any date. Plus a 7-day look-ahead with day-length trend so you know whether the day is gaining or losing light.
Phase 1 · Shipped
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Gear Checklist Generator
Builds a Scotland-specific kit list for your exact activity, season and experience level. Day hike, wild camp, winter Munro, sea kayak day — printable to one page with essential/recommended/optional priority flags.
Phase 1 · Shipped
- Live
Trail Centre Finder
Interactive map of every major Scottish mountain bike trail centre with filters for grade, facility, network and drive time from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness and Aberdeen.
Phase 3 · Shipped
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Route Compare
Side-by-side comparison of Scotland’s eight major long-distance trails: West Highland Way, Great Glen Way, Southern Upland Way, Speyside Way, Cape Wrath Trail, Rob Roy Way, John Muir Way and the Fife Coastal Path.
Phase 5 · Shipped
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Hill Tracker
Log your completed Corbetts, Grahams and Donalds, see your progress, and find the nearest unbagged hill to where you live. No account, no sign-up — progress saves to your browser and exports to JSON for backup.
Phase 4 · Shipped
Why these tools and not others
Every tool on this page exists because the information it gives you isn't easily available elsewhere for Scotland. Midge risk forecasts from the Met Office cover midges generically. Trailforks has GPS tracks but no facility details. The Database of British and Irish Hills has raw data but no planning interface. We're filling the gaps — nothing more, nothing less.