Plan your gear for trekking and expeditions. Total weight, base weight, categories and a gear library curated by a guide who actually packs.
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Every quantity change and every „worn" or „food" toggle recalculates base weight in real time.
Gear with verified weights, field notes and links to shops.
A public link with ready-made social cards for Facebook, Instagram or your blog.
Sławomir Sniegula – guide with several seasons in Sarek and Lapland, author of books on personal safety and crisis preparation.
PackPlan exists to help our community decide what gear to buy, what to leave at home and what to carry as backup.
Popular pack weight calculators are the standard among trekking gear planners. If you are deciding whether PackPlan is worth switching to, here is the side-by-side.
| Feature | PackPlan | Popular calculators |
|---|---|---|
| Interface language | Polish + English | English only |
| Gear library | Curated, verified weights, author notes | None — every item entered by hand |
| Shop links | Yes — Polish and European (Skalnik, 8a, Bergfreunde) | None |
| Public packs + OG image | Yes, ready-made social previews | Yes, but no preview graphic |
| PDF export | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile app | Android + iOS (rolling out) | No native app |
| Price | Free (web always, mobile freemium) | Free |
| Business model | Shop affiliate commissions | Donations |
Yes. PackPlan is and will stay free. We are funded by affiliate commissions from outdoor shops — when you buy something from the library through our link, we get a percentage. Product visibility is decided by quality, never by commission size.
Base weight is the weight of your pack without food, water and fuel — what you carry through the entire trip regardless of the day. The lower your base weight, the easier you walk. Ultralight threshold is around 4.5 kg (10 lb), lightweight up to 9 kg.
PackPlan ships with a curated gear library you can actually buy from European shops, plus Polish terminology where it fits. Popular pack weight calculators are great tools, but they have no library — you enter every item by hand from the package.
Yes — by default only you see them. You can mark selected packs as public (they get a unique sharing link) — but that is your decision, not ours.
CSV import from popular pack weight calculators is planned for the next few weeks. If you want us to ship it sooner — drop a line to kontakt@sniegula.com.
