Get the pack right.
TrekList is the free gear planner for hikers heading into the Alps, across Spain, or anywhere really. Build your list, track your weight, check off before you go and show up ready.
Build Your Free Gear List
Your kit, dialed in before you leave home
Build and edit on the go. Track your weight. Show up ready.
Build your gear inventory quickly
Type a few words, drop a product link, or snap a photo of the product packaging. The smart search bar searches the catalog first. If it's not there, TrekList fills in the name, brand, category, description, and image for you. You review and add in seconds.
Check items off as you pack
One tap to mark it done. Export a clean PDF or share a read only link.
Know your pack weight before you go
Base weight, worn weight, consumables tracked in real time. No spreadsheet formulas, no guesswork.
Your trail community, built in
Ask about gear, gear lists, or your itinerary. Get answers from like-minded hikers who've done the route or used the gear.
Built for mobile and desktop
Plan from your phone on the couch or build out your full kit at a desk. TrekList is optimized for both.
More than a spreadsheet
Your lists, your library, your style.
Your gear library, reused across every trip
Add something once and it lives in your personal library. Pull it into any future list without re-entering anything.
Make it yours
Set a background photo or color for each list. Keep planning feeling like an adventure and less like a spreadsheet.
Share your list anywhere
Public links for trail forums, Reddit, Facebook groups, or your hiking friends. No account required to view.
Any list is a starting point
View a public list, save it to your account, and swap out gear with your own. Your trail, your kit.
Start with one of these templates.
Ready made gear lists for Europe's popular routes. Save one as your template, swap out what doesn't fit, and you're ready to start packing.
Why I built TrekList.
Planning is half the adventure, especially for a bucket list hike.
Before my Appalachian Trail thru-hike I built my first gear spreadsheet. It worked, but was tedious and boring. Before the PCT I switched to Lighterpack, the long-standing standard for hikers who care about gear organization and pack weight. It got the job done, but nothing has changed there in years. It's still a glorified spreadsheet.
I wanted to build on that idea. Keep it simple and easy, but actually move it forward. What started as a hobby project kept growing and I kept asking questions. What if there was a community section where hikers could talk gear and trail conditions? What if you could take a photo of product packaging to add gear? Or just drop a product link? What if you could customize backgrounds and implement a kanban-style view alongside the traditional list view? What about users who speak different languages?
It kept growing and that's TrekList today. A better tool for the same thing we've always loved doing.