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Bivouac

Plan multi-day hikes, relive and analyse the ones already done
New in version 2.7.1
Bugfixes. Journal: a hike running past midnight shows both dates; the hikes shown add up to their year and to the total; the "several tracks" view stays above the 3-button bar; the Analysis of a track with neither timestamps nor elevation says so in one sentence; Stats update without restarting. Planning: segments add up to the total shown; no map tile fetched on the empty screen. Dates and times follow the app language.
Bivouac splits a GPX track into stages around bivouac spots, then keeps every outing in a journal, with its photos and its figures. It is for before and after the outing: planning multi-day hikes, then reliving and analysing the ones already done.

Plan: import a GPX track of one or several days, place the bivouacs on the route. Distance, elevation and estimated duration are recalculated for each stage. Altitude and a weather link for each bivouac, export of a stage as GPX, a bank of prepared tracks.

Remember: keep every completed hike with a note, tags, and photos placed on the track where they were taken. The selection screen offers the photos taken during the hike first, with access to the whole gallery. Each photo can be cropped, captioned or moved along the track, and opens full screen.

Analyse: see your form on the day, the slope or the speed along the track, read each section, compare with the usual pace and with the estimate, separate walking time from breaks. A timeline of the outing shows climbs, descents and breaks, nights at the bivouac included.

Measure: totals, month-by-month progress and personal records, with actual duration and walking share. Each record leads back to the hike it comes from.

No account, no tracking, no collection:
* Everything on the device: tracks, journal and photos are stored on the device, with nothing sent to a server run by the developer.
* No account, no ads, no tracking: no usage statistics, no tracker, no crash reports.
* No location tracking: the app never accesses the device's location.
* Free software under the GPL-3.0 licence: the source code is public.

The app's only network connection: downloading map tiles. The satellite layer (Esri) and the weather link (Meteoblue), which are non-free services, are turned off by a single switch in Settings.

Photos: to place a photo on the track, Bivouac reads the GPS position stored in the photo. This needs read access to images and the "media location" permission, both requested only on first use of photos. The feature can be turned off in Settings, and photos never leave the device.

What Bivouac does not do: no guidance, no track recording, no social network. Tracks come from the watch, the GPS or the app used during the outing, in GPX format.

Interface in English and French, following the device's language. Android 8 and later.

Website: https://bivouac.rseb.net
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  • Version 2.7.1 (17) suggested Added on Oct 27, 2026

    arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

    This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • read locations from your media collection
      Allows the app to read locations from your media collection.
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • read the contents of your shared storage
      Allows the app to read the contents of your shared storage.
    • read image files from shared storage
      Allows the app to read image files from your shared storage.
    • read user selected image and video files from shared storage
      Allows the app to read image and video files that you select from your shared storage.
    • com.bivouac.app.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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    • New in version 2.7.0
    New: a multi-day trek in a single GPX file. On import, Bivouac detects extended overnight stops and asks, for each one, bivouac or just a break; existing hikes are reviewed on first launch. Planning: a bivouac placed on a track with widely spaced points no longer removes anything from the total; drawer fixed with 3-button navigation. A track without elevation data is flagged, its elevation gain shown as unavailable instead of 0 m.
  • Version 2.7.0 (16) - Added on Oct 25, 2026

    arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

    This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • read locations from your media collection
      Allows the app to read locations from your media collection.
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • read the contents of your shared storage
      Allows the app to read the contents of your shared storage.
    • read image files from shared storage
      Allows the app to read image files from your shared storage.
    • read user selected image and video files from shared storage
      Allows the app to read image and video files that you select from your shared storage.
    • com.bivouac.app.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 15 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

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