PeakFinder USA East

Living in western North Carolina we are surrounded by beautiful vistas. But identifying the numerous peaks can be very difficult...until this app. Have purchased others that just didn't fill the bill. Some were difficult to master, some were outright cryptic. This app has made it extremely easy to identify the peaks on my horizon. Some are 35-40 miles away. The app interface has been well thought out and unlike other apps really represents the horizon I see from my viewpoint. Would give it 5 stars if I could print out the screen.

I have this for my droid and it works well. It's easier to ID peaks with silhouettes than from Video AR (augmented reality) apps which may not be calibrated/aligned or the video may be poor because of lighting. I bought it for my ipad for larger screen size and field of view but I can not scroll past the first screen in the peak directory because of immediate crash. If I manually enter the lat/long of a peak I can get there, but this is a pain. I can work around this using the google map feature to scroll around to the area I am looking for. Since I can not easily look for peaks by name in the state where I live (NH), I am currently giving it 3 stars. Fix this problem and it's 4 stars. Improve usability and it will be 5 stars.

It does have a glitch or two, but once you figure out how to set a viewing location it just does what it is supposed to. From a high mountain in southeast KY, I took some pictures of the distant Smoky Mountains on a very clear day. I had hiked the length of the Smokies recently, and was having some trouble identifying some of the peaks I saw. With this app, I set the location and displayed the distant Smoky Mountain profile, pulled up the photos on my computer to compare the skyline, and there they were. It showed me all the peaks I had remembered, gave me the names, and cleared up all my questions. Well worth the money just for that one application. Without being there, you can set the location for a distant location and view the surrounding skyline as if you were there. Enough said.