iPhone · free to start
Climb Everest from your commute.
Pick a famous mountain. Walk uphill in real life. Every meter of ascent counts toward it — the stairs at work, the bridge on the way home, the park hill you keep meaning to run.
No GPS watch. No trail. No gym. It counts the climbing you already do.
The arithmetic
8,849 meters sounds absurd. Written differently, it is a month.
A fit person gains roughly 300 m of height in an hour of steady uphill walking. That is the whole exchange rate between an ordinary day and a mountain.
Hammarbybacken is the lit-up ski slope south of Stockholm: 85 m tall, an hour's walk from a city of a million people. It is in the catalogue, and people start with it.
How it works
Three things, and none of them is a workout.
Pick a mountain
2,335 peaks and 40 towers, from Hammarbybacken's 85 m to Everest's 8,849 m. The app shows you what it costs in ordinary days before you commit.
Walk uphill, anywhere
Start a session with the phone in your pocket. The barometer counts ascent — real height gained, not distance, not pace, not route. Stairs count. A hill counts. A parking garage counts.
The meters add up
Every meter is banked against your mountain and never resets. Milestones unlock badges, challenges, teams — and a printed postcard of the peak you finished, posted to you.
Pick your mountain
2,335 mountains. One commute.
Every peak over 5,000 m on Earth, every country's highest point, the mountains a person actually has nearby — and the towers, for when the tallest thing in your city is made of glass.
| Mountain | Country | Height | At 300 m/day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mt. Everest | Nepal / China | 8,849 m | 30 days |
| K2 | Pakistan / China | 8,611 m | 29 days |
| Denali | United States | 6,190 m | 21 days |
| Kilimanjaro | Tanzania | 5,895 m | 20 days |
| Matterhorn | Switzerland / Italy | 4,478 m | 15 days |
| Mt. Fuji | Japan | 3,776 m | 13 days |
| Kebnekaise | Sweden | 2,097 m | 7 days |
| Hammarbybacken | Sweden | 85 m | one afternoon |
| Burj Khalifa | United Arab Emirates | 828 m | 3 days |
Made for real life
You do not need to go anywhere.
Most fitness apps assume you have a route, an hour and a field. Tilltopps assumes you have a building with stairs and a hill you already walk past.
- Stairs count. The barometer reads height gained, so the 9 flights to your desk are 27 m of a mountain.
- A session can be ten minutes. Nothing resets, nothing expires, nothing punishes a gap.
- No watch, no route, no GPS. Phone in pocket. It works in a stairwell.
- Only ascent counts. Walking down never cancels what you climbed, and the flat part of your day is simply not the point.
Challenges & teams
Someone else's hill is the reason you climb yours.
Start a challenge with friends — a target and a weekend — and the app settles it when the window closes. Join a national team and your meters land on your country's board.
- Weekend, week or 9-to-5 windows, so a challenge fits a life rather than a training block.
- Share a link, anyone can join. The link opens the app if you have it and a page if you don't.
- Topps — the in-game currency — is what you stake and what you win. You earn it by climbing, never by paying.
The thing you keep
A screenshot is not a summit.
Finish a mountain and the app sends something physical: a printed postcard of that exact peak, on your tier's pace. Climb enough and the badges turn into a mug, a cap, a shirt — priced in Topps you earned by walking uphill, not in money.
- Postcards are free — one a month on the free tier, more on Pro.
- Merch costs Topps, not cash, and Topps only comes from climbing.
- Physical summit check-in: if you ever stand on the real thing, the app notices and says so.
Questions
Fair ones.
Does it need GPS?
No. Ascent is measured from the phone's barometer, which is why it works on indoor stairs, in a stairwell and in a city canyon where GPS would wander. Distance and pace are not the currency here — height is.
Do stairs really count as much as a mountain?
Yes, meter for meter. 30 flights of 3 m is 90 m, and 90 m of Hammarbybacken is a full summit. The app deliberately does not judge how you got the height.
Is it free?
Free to download, free to pick a mountain, free to climb, free postcards. Pro is a subscription with a 14-day trial that adds the full statistics history, more postcards and the Topps-priced merch items.
What happens on a day I do nothing?
Nothing. Progress never decays, streaks are not the point, and a mountain you started in March is still there in November. The only thing with a deadline is a challenge you chose to enter.
Which mountains do you have?
2,335: every peak on Earth above 5,000 m, the highest point of every country, the well-known hills and towers people actually live near, and 40 buildings for cities whose tallest climb is indoors. Heights and borders come from GeoNames and Wikipedia, and every item links to its source.
What do you do with my data?
Ascent, mountains, challenges, and whatever you choose to publish. No advertising, no selling, no third-party trackers on this page. Location is used to find the mountains near you and to check a physical summit — never stored as a trail.
Start tonight
The stairs at work are 27 meters of a mountain.
Pick the peak. Put the phone in your pocket. Walk uphill.
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