HIKE · REACH · SHOOT · JUDGE
How PeakShot works
A photography competition you play with your boots on. Hidden Photo Zones on real fells, a shot clock that only starts when you say so, and AI judging that gives every single entry a score and honest feedback.
Shot window
5:00
per zone
Frames
3 max
in-app camera only
Walk time limit
None
hike at your pace
Zone size
10m × 10m
locations secret
THE GAME LOOP
One walk, start to summit to scoreboard
Eight steps from picking a fell to seeing your name on a leaderboard. Everything between the car park and the signal bar works completely offline.
- 01WORKS FULLY OFFLINE
Pick a fell and download the route pack
Choose a route from the directory and download its pack: the route line, offline map tiles for the walking corridor, and the encrypted Photo Zone data. Once it is on your phone, the whole walk works with no signal at all.
- 02LOCATION ONLY DURING WALKS
Start inside the start geofence
At the foot of the fell, step inside the route's start geofence and tap Start walk. Location is used only during an active walk, never in the background, and your walk tracks are private by default.
- 03NO TIME LIMIT
Hike at your own pace
There is no clock on the walk itself. Take the long way, stop for lunch, wait out the weather. PeakShot never times your feet — the mountain sets the pace, not the app.
- 04~250M OUT
The approach alert
Photo Zones are hidden at each route's most photogenic points — we never publish where. As you close to roughly 250 metres, the app quietly lets you know one is near. Finding the exact spot is part of the game.
- 0510M × 10M
Inside the zone, it arms
Step inside the 10-metre-square zone and it arms — but nothing starts yet. Wait for your light: minutes or hours, it is your call. The shot clock only begins when you tap Start shoot.
- 06IN-APP CAMERA ONLY
Five minutes. Three frames.
From the moment you tap, you have a 5:00 window to capture up to three frames with the in-app camera. No gallery uploads, ever — every entry is provably taken from the same spot, under the same pressure.
- 07SYNCS WHEN YOU HAVE SIGNAL
Pick your best frame
Choose one frame per zone as your entry. It queues safely on your phone and syncs the moment you have signal again — nothing is lost in a dead spot. One shoot session per zone per walk.
- 08FEEDBACK FOR EVERY ENTRY
Judged, scored, ranked
AI judges every entry against the zone's brief — composition, light and atmosphere, technical quality, fit to the brief, distinctiveness — with a score and written feedback for every entrant. Competitions decide the podium, and People's Choice is decided by the community in blind head-to-head votes.
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THE SHOT CLOCK
The clock pressures your composition, never your feet
Five minutes is the great leveller — but it is a creative constraint, not a stopwatch on your walk.
An armed zone waits as long as you do. Reach it at noon and fancy the evening light? Sit down, brew up, watch the sky — the countdown does not exist until you tap Start shoot. You can wait hours for the cloud to lift or the sun to drop. What you cannot do is fiddle for an afternoon once the clock is running.
That is the point. Everyone shoots from the same 10-metre square with the same five minutes and the same three frames, so the podium is decided by eye and judgement — not by gear, tripods-and-time, or an editing suite. And because the clock never applies to the walking, there is never a reason to hurry on steep or exposed ground. On the fell, the mountain decides; the clock only ever runs on flat, planted feet inside a zone you chose to arm.
OFFLINE-FIRST
Built for places with no bars
Mountains and mobile signal rarely share a summit. PeakShot assumes you are offline from the first stile.
Everything downloads up front
The route pack carries the map tiles, the route line, and the encrypted zone data for the whole walking corridor. Airplane mode with GPS on is a fully supported way to play.
Photos queue on your phone
Every frame is saved and fingerprinted on the device the moment you take it, along with your walk record. No signal means no difference — nothing is lost in a dead spot, even if the walk takes all day.
Sync happens by itself
When your phone finds a connection — the valley, the pub, home — queued entries upload automatically and go straight to judging. Feedback and scores usually follow within minutes.
START HERE
Pick your first fell
Five live Lake District routes, from an easy evening leg-stretch to Striding Edge. Browse the fells, or join the beta and start your bagging ledger.