Baseweight
Gear listsPhone & desktopFree
Baseweight
Build your kit list, see where the weight actually is, then pack from a checklist so nothing gets left on the kitchen floor.
I'm Jack. I'm a physiotherapist, I hike a lot, and I make videos about the gear that actually works. Which means I spend an unreasonable amount of my life weighing things.
The problem was never the weighing. It was everything after. Every tool for tracking a kit list was built for a desktop browser in an era before anyone thought you'd want this on a phone — and a phone is exactly where you want it. In the tent, the night before, at the gear shop working out whether that pack is worth the swap.
So I built the thing I wanted. It's free, it runs on your phone and your laptop, and it does one job properly.
You don't need a spreadsheet habit or a titanium spork to get something out of this.
You've bought the gear, you're not sure what's normal, and you'd quite like to know if 18 kg is a lot. It is. Baseweight shows you where it's going.
The classic. It's rarely the tent. It's the eleven small things you never weighed. The breakdown finds them in about a minute.
You've got a system. It's a spreadsheet with four tabs and you hate it. This is faster, it's in your pocket, and it does the worn and consumable maths for you.
Two of the three screens, live and clickable below. Real numbers from a real Cape Wrath Trail kit.
Where your weight actually lives, ranked. Nobody guesses this correctly — it's almost never the tent.
Tap a row to see the itemsThe night before, your list becomes a checklist. Tick as you load the pack. This is how the spork stays out of the drawer.
Tick a few offTwo taps turns any list into a proper image — one for the full kit, one for the breakdown. Straight to Instagram, a forum post, or a mate who insists their pack is lighter than yours.
Exported at 1480 px wide, ready to post. Every gear section called out with its weight and share, plus your heaviest items and pack-versus-bodyweight reading.
Every category, every item, every weight — laid out in two columns so it stays readable on a phone screen.
No social feed, no badges, no premium tier hiding the useful bits.
The first list is the only one that takes any effort. After that your gear's already saved.
One per trip, or one per setup — summer, winter, bikepacking, whatever you run. Name it and go.
Type the name and pick it from the catalogue with the weight already filled in, or add your own and put it on the scales. Already got a list elsewhere? Import the CSV and skip this step entirely.
Boots and trekking poles are worn. Food, fuel and water are consumable. Tag them and your base weight is calculated properly.
See what's heavy, decide what stays home, then run the checklist the night before and load the pack.
The breakdown does the thinking. Most tools give you a list and a total, which tells you that your pack is heavy but not why. Baseweight ranks your categories, shows your heaviest items, and puts your pack next to your bodyweight — so you stop guessing and start cutting the right things.
It's a phone app that respects your laptop. Every other gear list tool is a website you pinch and zoom while standing in a cold car park. This one is designed for the small screen first and opens up properly on a big one.
The weights are already there. Over 500 items with manufacturer specs loaded, tents listed at minimum trail weight, and clothing labelled with the cut and size it was weighed in — so you know exactly what you're adjusting from.
Switching takes one file. Export a CSV from whatever you're using now, import it here, and your entire kit arrives with its categories and tags already set. You're not retyping forty items to try something new.
It works with no signal. Once it's loaded it keeps working in the tent, on the plane, halfway up a hill in Scotland.
It's free. Not free-for-now, not free-with-three-lists. Free.
Join the waitlist and I'll send you one email when Baseweight goes live. No drip sequence, no launch countdown, no nonsense.