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Gratitude
I have been using OnX for several years, both as a scouting tool and as a live tracker/GPS in the field. As an app I have never been disappointed in its performance nor have I had any need to reach out to their support staff, which I hear is world class. This app has only ever been a powerhouse for me in times of need and I lean on it heavily.
OnX truly has become indispensable to any outdoors trip I do. The battery usage in offline mode is very reasonable, and the features they add with each update make it continue to improve on itself over time. It makes navigation in the dark significantly easier, has extremely detailed maps with customizable overlays and pins, locates your position with pinpoint accuracy, and you can take meticulous notes from every situation.
In fact, I consider it so important to my loadout that I also carry a sizable power bank to ensure that I can keep the GPS working, in case a trip takes a negative turn. I solo hunt often and OnX is my constant companion in the wild. I am glad to renew this service yearly as well as to support the team behind this incredibly useful app. Great product and thank you from a grateful customer.Show lessCDiAKing
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your support of both the Hunt App and our team. We really appreciate it and are so glad to hear that you've found the app useful in your adventures! It really is a game-changer for any time out in the field. Stay safe and have fun out there this season!App improvements in the future? Maybe? I hope!
The great Support team understood what I wanted in see in their app. First, my suggestion is when the live tracking is turned on your phone, your home computer with this application of Onx should instantly see you. It’s all web based. You shouldn’t have to save tracking first to have your home computer see where you have been. It’s a great safety feature that needs to be incorporated with app. Secondly, I would like to see new tracks start with a different color when you first use it. It helps seeing easier where you started and stopped during a good week of hard hunting. Currently you have to save track and then change its color. Cumbersome.
I hope onx will listen and get these features for others to use. It’s a great app that I will continue to use. They are kind and considerate and always willing to listen to new suggestions.Show lessBeid72
Love this App!
Even way up here in Alaska this app comes in real handy. I often use it in my work to find out who owns the property around where I’m doing research. I’ve shared the app/info with several realtors who wondered how I found out everyone’s name in the neighborhood so fast. Out in the mountains the ability to take offline maps with me to pinpoint my location is very handy, especially when I can pre-establish waypoints in the event that the weather turns foul.
However, I have noticed that within Boroughs and Cities, owners are generally available, but State of Alaska / BLM subdivisions usually are not. For instance, there are several privately owned parcels on the east side of Paxton Lake, but info is unavailable. It would be very nice to see who owns some of these remote parcels.Show lessAlaska Chuck
Lacks features
Is ok only for finding private vs public land. lack of on screen lat/long or grid is very frustrating and i am struggling to find more use for it other than that. used a competitor for a while and figured i would try this for the season since the pro or tv hunters all push it. So far i am not a fan. I liked the competitors map layers more and that it showed my my location real time. With out having to go into a sub menu. Also while out scouting the competitor worked with apple car play. Not useful for back country hunting but was a feature i found useful for small game hunting or scouting access routes. 3 month of use so far. Will most likely swap back to the other company for next season.
Update for the developers after contact from them: its that i cant have my location show on the MAIN screen that i dont like i did contact customer support and was told that that feature was removed.Show lessruss nv
Excellent Customer Service
I had an issue with a map layer covering the Satellite view on my maps as I zoomed in. It prevented me from seeing the landowner layer and land view details.
I could figure out why I could see the satellite view when zoomed out - but lost it as I zoomed in. I searched the FAQ page, no help there. So I contacted Customer Service.
They responded within minutes with the suggestion that I turn off the Forest Visitor Map layer. So, I did. It worked instantly. My maps went back to working to working as I had expected.
I was afraid my problem description was too vague for them to diagnose the problem. Not so. The Customer Service agent knew exactly how to fix the issue and responded much quicker than I had expected. Well trained and experienced Customer Service agents are hard to find. But OnX has done a great job preparing its team.
I really appreciate the team at OnX.Show lessDybs in Montana
Great app for hunters and cops
Honestly the app is great. It takes a little time to figure out some things, like adding layers so that the user can view private land ownership. I really feel that this should be a default layer that you shouldn’t have to hunt for and add since it’s one of the most important features for determining whether customers purchase it or not. Once you figure out how to add it though, things are great. I had to contact customer service twice but fortunately those guys are on top of their game and helped me very quickly: once to figure out how to add the private land layer and once because I was just a dummy and tried to log in with the wrong email address. Overall, I’m really satisfied with the app. It’s useful for more than just hunting season too. I work in law enforcement and frequently have to contact land owners. This app makes traveling to or calling the county appraisal district obsolete. It’s really been a handy tool.Show lessCopper614
Outstanding
My dad uses this app for hunting and recommended it to me for hot spring hunting. Most of the locations I go to are in extremely rural areas that require traveling for miles on dirt roads with no cell phone service. A lot like hunting, lol. So the ability to select an area and download a surprisingly high resolution offline map is worth the annual cost of this app alone. But I can then use the various map layers to show me trails, public vs. private land, recreation sites, and so much more. You can use the tracker to drop bread crumbs to see exactly what route you have come from, and I use the line distance tool to determine how far I’d need to hike to a hot spring, how far a hot spring is from the road, etc. So this app is useful for far more than hunting, and has really upped my hot spring game. I am stoked to finally track down some hidden gems.Show lessLexilove149
Why I cancelled
I was initially excited when I purchased OnX two years ago and found the app helpful. However I will be canceling my membership and going with another service after many failed attempts to have issues corrected. I own a large parcel of land that is used primarily for hunting and fishing and often invite friends and family to hunt. I noticed the property lines on my land had switched to outdated lines from years ago. Also the land owner information was incorrect and displayed the previous owners information. I attempted to contact OnX and tried to tag the land with the updated ownership many times over the last year. It is very frustrating that after a year I have not got any response from OnX. I’m not paying for an outdated app and non existent customer service. I have found other apps that have the correct boundary lines and land owner information so I will be taking my business elsewhere. I will also be canceling the five other accounts I pay for that family and friends use. I am disappointed and frustrated that I have to start over with another app but I can’t justify paying for a service that isn’t correct.Show lessJay Will 789
Indispensable
I’m a licensed falconer in the state of Iowa. We have very little public land locally compared to most of the western states. Getting a wide range of permissions with varied habitat is key to successful hunting from year to year. Finding who owns particular properties and gaining permission to hunt is, without a doubt, the first step to success.
OnX is the quickest, most dependable method I’ve found for tracking elusive property owners. In the first month after downloading the onX app I went from approximately 300 acres of permissions to well over 1000 acres. A year later I have over 2000 acres of permissions within a 50 mile radius of home. That alone is worth the price but when you consider the map tools, such as waypoints and area calculator... I couldn’t go back to a time without it. The app has functioned without a single glitch. Thanks, onX!Show lessDaddycausingchaos
Not good offline and having to constantly re-download
Same story different version of the app. The offline maps take forever to download, they don’t download at the same quality. I have major issues when I can scout from my phone or computer but download the map section (yes at the highest quality) and all I see in the field I blurry objects. It takes a lot of time and energy to download large portions of maps for offline storage and half the updates ONX comes out with deletes the saved maps you have stored. You have to turn on every layer to actually download that data which i guess isn’t the end of the world and maybe some guys don’t download all data to save room on their device? Not sure just make a button to click to download all available layers so you know your covered. I have always liked and used ONX but I could be so much better. They do a lot for land access and certainly have made a good name for themselves. Hopefully someone like basemap can put out a functional offline mapping version so those of us who utilize the offline version especially across multiple states and/ large portions of states for different species can easily download and access the data later.Show less86435692
Developer Response
We're sorry that you're having some trouble with saving Off-Grid Maps! Please give us a call at (406)-540-1600 or send us an email at help@onxmaps.com and we will be happy to help you with this issue.
