# onX Offroad: Trail Maps & GPS — user reviews > 861 indexed App Store user reviews of onX Offroad by onXmaps, Inc., rated 4.40/5 from 9,471 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/onx-offroad-trail-maps-and-gps/id1475112177/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/onx-offroad-trail-maps-and-gps/id1475112177.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 7,154 · 4★ 945 · 3★ 322 · 2★ 267 · 1★ 783 ## What do users think of onX Offroad? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🗺️ Detailed and accurate maps - 🧭 Helpful navigation features - 💻 Seamless desktop and mobile integration - 🌄 Great for finding remote trails and campsites - 🤝 Responsive and helpful customer support **Cons** - 🇨🇦 Limited coverage and data in Canada - 💰 Expensive subscription model - 🔍 Difficult to find and use certain features - 🗺️ Outdated or incomplete map data in some areas - 🔋 Battery drain issues when using the app **Commonly reported bugs** - Glitches when zooming or changing map perspectives - Offline maps not working as expected - Subscription issues and inability to access paid features **Most requested features** - Offline navigation and routing capabilities - Ability to report trail closures and changes - Integration with other mapping/navigation apps - More detailed trail difficulty and condition information - Landscape mode and CarPlay support ## Newest reviews (16 of 861) ### 2/5 — Useless when offline *2026-08-22, version 26.31.0* I downloaded a HUGE area in low quality for offline map use. I mapped to my destination and it took me an hour deeper into the national forest than I wanted to go, then it wouldn’t let me reroute anywhere at all. I would select a spot, click “navigate” and nothing would happen. Then I closed the app and kept trying and although the button worked, it kept giving error messages (I don’t remember what they said, now) — it wouldn’t gps me anywhere at all even though I was well within the offline map I downloaded ### 3/5 — Great app, just expensive *2026-08-18, version 26.31.0* This app is amazing, I had a free trial I used on my trip to Utah. The only issue I have is price. My family does quite a bit of off-roading throughout the year, but not on a weekly basis like some people. Because the app is subscription based, it makes it expensive for normal or even semi-regular users. It would be a hassle to cancel and then upgrade your subscription every time you want to go trailing. I wish they had a permanent payment option, or at least make the subscription cheaper or making the free tier better. ### 2/5 — You broke something *2026-08-16, version 26.31.0* Not sure what this last update did, but it’s about 40 degrees off in landscape mode. Portrait mode it functions fine, rotate to landscape mode and it doesn’t know which way it’s pointing. Have this on 3 different devices and they all behave this way, when before this was never an issue. Please fix. ### 3/5 — Being charged after cancellation. *2026-08-13, version 26.31.0* I cancelled this subscription during the trial and just today I was attempted be charged by you guys. And it doesn’t show active statue in my subscription tab in the App Store. Could someone please rectify this? ### 2/5 — Quickest cancellation ever *2026-08-13, version 26.31.0* I purchased a premium subscription because the maps look a little nicer than Trails Off-road - but I cancelled my autorenewal just a few hours later. The offline maps are nearly worthless. Instead of being state by state, you have to download tiny areas and piece them together. The app is flooded with pop up tips that you can’t turn off. Go Away! The trail reports are very limited, and on a computer, they remain stuck in a skinny sidebar where they are hard to read. ### 1/5 — Scam *2026-08-13, version 26.31.0* Does not work ### 1/5 — Not at all a free app. Subscription beware *2026-08-12, version 26.31.0* Saw this advertised on instagram as a great free map for camping. After lots of questions it’s only a free 5 day trail and subscription is required. Also it never says how much the subscription is. Do not download ### 1/5 — Could be good, hampered by crashes and difficult route importing. *2026-08-10, version 26.31.0* I’ve been using this app for back country adventure bike stuff and generally you download a GPX file for the route. You can import that all well and good but it can’t be directly used as a navigation route, if you try to it will give you directions to the start of the track and then always try to send you back to that. You need to manually trace the track to make a route and this is a very annoying process. If you phone happens to not have cell reception (who knew that would be common where people might be doing off-roading stuff) the app will crash while trying to do this tracing. It really needs to be a one button thing to convert a track to a route or just have it done in the background, being able to easily reverse the route would also be very helpful. Outside of that the app will just wig out at some point while you’re recording your track and you’ll lose several days worth of tracking, your best bet is to start and full stop the recording atleast once a day if not more just in case. Every time I use this app it’s frustrating and I feel like I don’t see it getting better (please provide actual change notes instead of the useless canned statement about making it better, maybe my problems were solved in an update but I’d never know it), I am unsure if I will bother renewing for another year. The one really positive thing was when I had the frustration with how to actually use this app for navigation is I called their support and got through to a real person in the US almost immediately. Update: I used it this past weekend for a group motocamping trip, I manually built my route and then exported it to my friends but the way onX uses GPX files is apparently incompatible with their chosen apps. Also found a great bug where if you are recording a track, when you are also using the app to navigate a route and you want to mount your phone in landscape the app will think you’re driving sideways constantly and not orient the map correctly, this persisted through a phone reboot. One other observation is that the app decides it needs to calculate elevation and or some other piece of information every time you tap on it so getting navigation started on a route takes a few minutes of it being mostly frozen before it suddenly kicks on. I am actively looking for a replacement before an off-road rally next week. ### 2/5 — Used to be great *2026-08-06, version 26.29.0* This app used to be incredible. It has some of the best map features out there. Now they are adding intrusive pop up advertisements EVEN IF YOU ARE A SUBSCRIBER. I pay for this app and I’m getting obtrusive, annoying ads. Just tasteless. And re: the developer response, these were straight up ads for additional services- not “new features” and I did report them to you. You just responded that there was no way to disable them. Please stop the marketing nonsense. ### 2/5 — Could be good, hampered by crashes and difficult route importing. *2026-08-05* I’ve been using this app for back country adventure bike stuff and generally you download a GPX file for the route. You can import that all well and good but it can’t be directly used as a navigation route, if you try to it will give you directions to the start of the track and then always try to send you back to that. You need to manually trace the track to make a route and this is a very annoying process. If you phone happens to not have cell reception (who knew that would be common where people might be doing off-roading stuff) the app will crash while trying to do this tracing. It really needs to be a one button thing to convert a track to a route or just have it done in the background, being able to easily reverse the route would also be very helpful. Outside of that the app will just wig out at some point while you’re recording your track and you’ll lose several days worth of tracking, your best bet is to start and full stop the recording atleast once a day if not more just in case. Every time I use this app it’s frustrating and I feel like I don’t see it getting better (please provide actual change notes instead of the useless canned statement about making it better, maybe my problems were solved in an update but I’d never know it), I am unsure if I will bother renewing for another year. The one really positive thing was when I had the frustration with how to actually use this app for navigation is I called their support and got through to a real person in the US almost immediately. ### 1/5 — They sell your information *2026-08-05, version 26.29.0* I downloaded thinking it was a camping app. Once I realized it’s not what I needed I deleted the account, however 5 minutes after I started getting multiple junk/spam emails. ### 1/5 — 7 day trial *2026-08-05, version 26.29.0* Should be free ### 2/5 — Used to be great *2026-08-04, version 26.29.0* This app used to be incredible. It has some of the best map features out there. Now they are adding intrusive pop up advertisements EVEN IF YOU ARE A SUBSCRIBER. I pay for this app and I’m getting obtrusive, annoying ads. Just tasteless. ### 4/5 — Map/Plan Your Rides *2026-07-29, version 26.13.0* Been using for a few years now, since 2021. All the little improvements and trail report features are pretty helpful. OnXOffroad still works on my iPhone SE 2nd gen, iOS 17.5.1 as of 7/29/26. (Don’t tell Tim I haven’t update my iOS plz) A minor inconvenience is on a rare occasion while recording a track, the track will not record a section and instead trace a straight line between where the interruption began and ended. Again, minor as it’s only occurred twice in the 114 tracks I’ve recorded. Idk if this is a bug or just bad luck when locking the phone to save battery. Another improvement that would be appreciated would be the ability to select multiple photos to attach to a waypoint instead of adding a single photo at a time. This has more to do with adding photos days after a ride when, for each photo, I have to scroll down through my photo roll and select the next one I want in sequence (while trying to remember the ones I’ve already selected 🙃) ### 1/5 — App again not working in Landscape *2026-07-28, version 26.29.0* Update 7/28/26 App broken again won’t work in landscape mode. WTF. Stop breaking the app, do you not test it before deploying updates? Trash. Update: App again will not function in landscape mode. Why on earth do you keep breaking this mode? Fix this garbage. Update: App is again working in Landscape. Thank you OnX for fixing finallly! Every update I am hoping that you will fix your app so that it works in landscape again but to no avail. When contacting OnX customer support their response to me was I should just cancel my subscription. Poor poor customer service just fix the app! ### 1/5 — I hate it *2026-07-28, version 26.29.0* It’s is charging me after I cancel the subscription ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Useless unless you pay *2026-08-25, version 26.31.1* Doesn’t allow you to do ANYTHING unless you pay. Waste of time ### 1/5 — They make you pay for safety!! *2026-08-23, version 26.31.0* I was hoping to use this app to track some wildfires that are actively in progress in my area as onX was the first app to pop up when I was trying to find this information. But onX has decided to lock this very useful safety feature behind a paywall. Nice to know that this company values money more than people’s safety. ### 1/5 — Not worth it. *2026-08-22* So many mistakes on names of lakes in my area actually dangerous for new comers to use in an emergency. **Developer response:** We'd love to hear more about this so we can make the necessary updates to our maps. Can you contact our support team at Help@onxmaps.com with more details surrounding the missing lakes (coordinates, lake names, etc.) so we can look into this? ### 1/5 — Trails are not matching MVUM’s. *2026-08-21, version 26.31.0* You guys have so much terrain and trails marked as closed in my neighborhood it is a little ridiculous. Roads to trailheads with pit toilets marked as closed. Clearly marked through routes shown as closed. COUNTY ROADS shown as closed. But not being able to keep up with the FREE MVUM’s is just sloppy work. If my dad didn’t want to know the name of the property owners of every ranch in eastern M, I would delete it. As far as off roading goes, it’s useless. You will miss more than half of the trails. ### 1/5 — Extremely limited features *2026-08-21, version 26.31.0* Without getting their paid memberships its basically just google maps i actually think i would get more info on google and maps than using this app ### 1/5 — Suscripción *2026-08-19, version 26.31.0* Suscripción ### 1/5 — You HAVE to buy premium *2026-08-18, version 26.31.0* The title explains it. You can’t do literally anything without paying. And the worst part is instead of just paying for the app it’s all joo ish so it’s just a monthly charge. ### 1/5 — Cant cancel *2026-08-17, version 26.31.0* For you to just cancel your subscription you gotta download a whole different app. Tried calling to cancel and I thought I did got charged anyway. Quite frustrated and disappointed. App itself does work good though ### 1/5 — Don’t waste your money *2026-08-17, version 26.31.0* Glitchey app. Trails only show up some of the time, other times you click it and it only shows national Forest. App worked perfectly fine then started glitching and will not fix itself. I contacted customer service and got a AI. Glad I figured this out before I was on the trails. Do not recommend this app to anyone especially for the price and AI customer service. ### 1/5 — Charged for just downloading *2026-08-16, version 26.31.0* I watched an add for this app. I installed it, noticed it was subscription based. So I uninstalled it. Noticed I was charged for simply downloading and deleting it. I’ll be disputing this. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — PERFECT APP *2026-08-20, version 26.31.0* I don’t have a single piece of constructive criticism on this. I love it so much. Even though I’m using the off road version I find myself using the property ownership feature probably the most. I do a lot of rockhounding on the river so I like to use the trails to get there and the property feature to make sure I’m legal where I’m at. I recently had an issue (pretty sure it was my phone and not the app) and Kendall helped me fix it in literally 2 minutes. I’m a Montanan and fully support this Montana company. You guys killed it on this! ### 5/5 — Saved My Knife! *2026-08-17, version 26.31.0* I’ve had my Benchmade Elishewitz knife for 36 years. I was out mushrooming and left it on the ground. Luckily I had waypointed that spot and OnX took me right to it the next day. ### 5/5 — App and tech support *2026-08-07, version 26.29.0* Excellent Maps and Tech support was top notch fixing my mistake ### 5/5 — Indespensoble *2026-07-31, version 26.29.0* I use this app pretty much exclusively when Offroad. ### 5/5 — Works great *2026-07-27, version 26.27.0* Used it for the first time this weekend at the Ocala National Forest. Would be very lost without it. A definite MUST for going off road. ### 5/5 — Don’t leave home without it! *2026-07-24, version 26.27.0* Needed help upgrading to elite and changing payment method. Contacted OnX via telephone and they were very helpful and quick with solving my problem. Oh, and the app is awesome too. ### 5/5 — Great *2026-07-24, version 26.27.0* Whenever I have a issue there is always someone there that will help me and I so much like the live classes they give sometimes it helps so much . Great job ! ### 5/5 — Essential *2026-07-23, version 26.27.0* This app is essential for dispersed camping information in additional to trail information. Their customer service is also exceptional. Both times I’ve reached out about problems I caused myself, they gave quick and efficient one-stop resolutions. I have never reviewed an app before, but I’ve also never considered an app this good, and important. ### 5/5 — Payed version *2026-07-23, version 26.27.0* The paid version is sooo good, it tells you who owns what areas, especially important for fishing and atv riding on specific public/private property!! ### 5/5 — Indispensable *2026-07-21, version 26.27.0* I use this on every overland trip. Accurate, relevant to my style of driving, and the users keep it up to date. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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