Comparison

NP Maps vs Utah Pocket Maps

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

NP Maps

Access official National Park Service and USGS topographic maps for offline GPS navigation on iOS devices. Download maps for all US national parks, monuments, and preserves, along with extensive topographic coverage across the USA. Ideal for wilderness travel where internet service is unavailable.

Highlights
  • Download NPS and USGS maps
  • Offline GPS and location tracking
  • Geospatial integration with Apple Maps
  • Waypoint and route creation
  • GPX file import and export
  • High-resolution map rendering
  • GPS location and elevation display
Features
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Download official National Park Service maps and USGS topos on your IOS devices for GPS** and offline use! NP Maps app offers 150 NPS park, recreation area, monument and preserve maps for download and 60,000+ official U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps covering all of the USA and Island Territories.* Have maps anytime, anywhere, for your travels to all parks in the USA. Because many of these wilderness regions have no data service, download maps while online so you can enjoy using this app as it was intended: no internet connection. Logical and intuitive to use. Maps are geospatially integrated with Apple Maps for a familiar interface. An visual catalog of map footprints indexes an extensive library covering all the USA for you to select maps to install all with a simple touch along your planned route of travel. Purchase a subscription for unlimited map downloading. A subscription stops ads and doesn't auto-renew. The first few map download are complementary. Features: • Downloads from a library of over 67,000 maps from NPS, USGS, US Forest service. • Full rendering high resolution maps • Shows your current GPS location & elevation** • Powerful geocode search of worldwide geographic features (online) • Waypoints with AR finder • Route path creation • Track path GPS location recording** • Ruler with line + path measuring • Full app use while maps download • Footprint index with quadrangle names • Multi-datum coordinates • Automatic map download for location • Statute, Nautical, Feet, Meter and km • MGRS, UTM and geodetic Latitude and Longitude coordinates. • Import and GPX files (and KML place marks) • Integrated help manual • Email and SMS text waypoints, tracks and routes as GPX, with subscription purchase. Some park maps available for download, National Parks: Acadia Arches Badlands Big Bend Biscayne Black Canyon of the Gunnison Bryce Canyon Canyonlands Capitol Reef Carlsbad Caverns Channel Islands Crater Lake Cuyahoga Valley Death Valley Denali Everglades Gates of the Arctic Glacier Bay Glacier Grand Canyon Grand Teton Great Basin Great Sand Dunes Great Smoky Mountains Guadalupe Mountains Haleakala Hot Springs Isle Royale Joshua Tree Katmai Kenai Fjords Kobuk Valley Lassen Volcanic Mammoth Cave Mesa Verde Mount Rainier North Cascades Olympic Petrified Forest Pinnacles Point Reyes National Seashore Redwood Rocky Mountain Saguaro Sequoia and Kings Canyons Shenandoah Theodore Roosevelt Virgin Islands Voyageurs Wind Cave Yellowstone Yosemite Zion National Recreation Areas: Amistad Big South Fork Nat. River Boston Harbor Islands Chickasaw Golden Gate Lake Mead Lake Meredith Lake Roosevelt Santa Monica Mountains Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Monuments: Aniakchak Bandelier Canyon De Chelly Capulin Volcano Craters of the Moon Dinosaur Devils Tower Fort Pulaski Grand Canyon - Parashant Lava Beds Mount Saint Helens Natural Bridges Organ Pipe Cactus National Preserves & Reserves: Big Cypress Big Thicket Catoctin Mountain Park City of Rocks Greenbelt Park Mojave National Historical Parks: Antietam Brown v. Board of Education Cumberland Gap Ebey's Landing Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania French Quarter Gettysburg Harpers Ferry Herbert Hoover Horseshoe Bend Kennesaw Mountain Kings Mnt Lowell Manassas Minute Man Monocacy Morristown Richmond San Antonio Missions Saratoga Valley Forge Vicksburg National Seashores, Lakeshores and Scenic Rivers: Apostle Islands Assateague Is. Canaveral Cape Hatteras Cumberland Is. Indiana Dunes Missouri New River Gorge Niobrara Ozark Padre Is. Sleeping Bear Dunes St. Croix Nat. Parkways & Trails: Blue Ridge Parkway George Wash. Mem. Parkway Potomac Heritage Nat. Scenic Tr. * Not preloaded with maps. WiFi recommended. Downloading queue does cap at around 25 maps. ** Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Location feature may not function on iPod and wifi-only iPad devices without GPS hardware.

About

Utah Pocket Maps

Plan your outdoor adventures in Utah's parks with downloadable offline maps and detailed guides. Access information on campgrounds, trails, points of interest, and receive park alerts and weather updates.

Highlights
  • Downloadable offline maps and guides
  • 120+ parks, monuments, and forests
  • 180+ official maps
  • 4,100+ campgrounds
  • 2,300+ trails
  • GPS and GPX support
  • Park alerts and weather forecasts
Features
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Be prepared! Plan your next trip to one of the great Utah parks. Download maps and guides before you venture into the Wi-Fi free wilderness. - 120+ national parks, state parks, monuments, forests - 180+ neatly folded maps by the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Services, and other agencies. - Motor Vehicle Use Maps (MVUM), Motor Vehicle Travel Maps (MVTM) and visitor maps for Utah national forests. - 4,100+ campgrounds and campsites - 2,300+ trails and trailheads - 41,000+ points of interests Plan - Download maps, park brochures, and newspapers. These downloads are ready when you are offline and off the grid in the great outdoors. - Download arbitrary map sections as offline packs. - Photo galleries, panorama views. - Share links to parks and maps with friends Have fun - GPS and GPX support: record your hikes, import GPX routes, tracks and waypoints for your hiking trails. - Detailed national park information: alerts, news, visitor centers, campgrounds, driving directions, weather. - Open your favorite maps app to get a route to the selected park. - Current weather conditions, easy access to multi-day forecasts, sunrise and sunset times. - Push notifications for park alerts, park news, weather warnings So download maps and guides for: Arches Bear Ears Beaver Dam Wash Bonneville Salt Flats Bryce Canyon Burbank Hills Camp Floyd Canyonlands Canyonlands Field 7 Mile Rim Jeep Trail Klondike Bluffs Klonzo and Moab Brands Labyrinth Rims Mill Canyon Area Designated Route Capitol Reef Fremont River Wayne County West Cedar Breaks Cedar City Colorado Riverways Amphitheater Loop and Fisher Towers Hiking Trails Porcupine Rim Mountain Bike Trail The Moab Daily Utah Rims Designated Route Map Conger Mountain Crack Canyon Cricket Mountains Dixie Escalante Pine Valley Powell Fiddler Butte Fishlake Frontier Homestead Thunderbird Canyon and Iron Hills Trails Dinosaur Factory Butte Fantasy Canyon Fishlake Glen Canyon North Wash Goblin Valley Golden Spike / Transcontinental Railroad Gooseberry Mesa Goosenecks San Juan River Grand Staircase-Escalante Burr Trail Scenic Backway and Wolverine Loop Road Cottonwood Road Scenic Backway Hole-in-the-Rock Scenic Backway Monument Travel Map Skutumpah \/ Johnson Canyon Roads Green River Gunlock Horseshoe Canyon (South) Kanab Kodachrome Basin Little Saharah Manti-La Sal Millsite Sevier County Moab Amasa Back Area Mountain Bike Trails BLM Moab Camping Chicken Corners Jeep Trail Gemini Bridges and Long Canyon Poison Spider Mesa Slickrock Bike Trail Steel Bender Jeep Safari Route Monticello Travel Plans Moonshine Arch Mount Pennell Henry Mountains Natural Bridges Otter Creek Palisade Piute County Pony Express Trail Price Red Cliffs Red Fleet Robber Roost San Rafael Swell Sand Hollow Sanpete Salt Lake City Sawtooth Sevier Smithsonian Butte National Back Country Byway Snow Canyon Territorial Statehouse Three Peaks Valley of the Gods Vernal McCoy Flats Moonshine Arch West Wayne Zion There are additional useful information and brochures for many Utah state parks. LEGAL Terms of Use: https://icoat.de/pocketmaps/terms Privacy Policy: https://icoat.de/pocketmaps/privacy

Screenshots

NP Maps4 screens
Utah Pocket Maps4 screens

Verdict

The call

NP Maps and Utah Pocket Maps both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 75% of NP Maps's written reviews are positive against 33% of Utah Pocket Maps's. NP Maps also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. NP Maps sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Utah Pocket Maps sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 2 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for NP Maps against 4.6 for Utah Pocket Maps. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 196 and 145 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of NP Maps's written reviews are positive against 33% of Utah Pocket Maps's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NP Maps ships an update every 3 months, Utah Pocket Maps every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
NP Maps versus Utah Pocket Maps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNP MapsUtah Pocket Maps
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (196 ratings) — better4.6 (145 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings196 — better145
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB109 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDelcartes LLCAlex Gugel

Customer experience

NP Maps

All ratings196 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral2.0%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Utah Pocket Maps

All ratings145 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral4.1%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

NP Maps

One-time3
  • 90 Day$1.99
  • 1 Year$5.99
  • Lifetime$23.99
3 purchases

Utah Pocket Maps

Subscriptions3
  • access all pro features$3.992 Months
  • access all pro features3 Days trial$5.493 Months
  • access all pro features$12.991 Year

Questions

Is NP Maps free?
NP Maps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Utah Pocket Maps free?
Utah Pocket Maps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, NP Maps or Utah Pocket Maps?
NP Maps is rated higher. NP Maps averages 4.6 out of 5 from 196 ratings, while Utah Pocket Maps averages 4.6 from 145 ratings.
Do NP Maps or Utah Pocket Maps have ads?
Utah Pocket Maps shows ads; NP Maps does not.
Which is updated more often, NP Maps or Utah Pocket Maps?
NP Maps ships an update every 3 months, and Utah Pocket Maps every 6 weeks. Most recently, NP Maps was updated on October 21, 2026 and Utah Pocket Maps on October 28, 2026.

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