NP Maps vs Eclipse 2024
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Eclipse 2024
This app helps you find and time total solar eclipses. It uses a map to confirm if your chosen location will experience totality and provides the exact start time and duration. Plan your travel and local viewing experience with this advanced astronomy tool.
- Total eclipse timing
- Location confirmation for totality
- Interactive map for planning
- Local eclipse timer
- Eclipse duration information
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Just tap a marker or anywhere on the map. Advanced astronomy app to confirm that your chosen location will experience a total eclipse and also the start time. Total Solar Eclipse start time and location for different places. Local timer for total eclipse at your current position. Will let you know if you are in the area where total eclipse will occur or not on Monday April 8 2024 and exact time of start. Use map to plan your travel. Total Solar Eclipse timer will tell if the location you choose has a total eclipse and also its duration.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NP Maps at 4.6 against Eclipse 2024's 1.8. NP Maps also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 33%) and ratings volume (195 vs 22). Eclipse 2024's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. NP Maps sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Eclipse 2024 asks for nothing beyond the download.
NP Maps holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NP Maps has 195 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of NP Maps's written reviews are positive against 33% of Eclipse 2024's.
NP Maps ships an update every 3 months, Eclipse 2024 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and August 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NP Maps | Eclipse 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (195 ratings) — better | 1.8 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 195 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Delcartes LLC | SAIRA CREATIONS LLC |
Customer experience
NP Maps
Eclipse 2024
In-app purchases
NP Maps
- 90 Day$1.99
- 1 Year$5.99
- Lifetime$23.99
Eclipse 2024
No in-app purchases
Questions
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