Comparison

RTC’s real vs Inukshuk

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

Head to head
About

RTC’s real

Plan your public transit journeys with real-time bus schedules and live tracking. Discover nearby stops, set departure alerts, and stay informed about service disruptions for seamless travel.

Highlights
  • Real-time bus arrival estimates
  • Live bus tracking
  • Nearby stops and routes
  • Departure alerts
  • Favorite trip saving
  • Disruption notifications
Features
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RTC’s real-time Nomade lets you plan trips and check real-time or published schedules for all RTC routes. RTC (Réseau de transport de la Capitale) provides public bus transportation for Quebec City and STLévis. • With real-time updates, you’ll know exactly how much time is left before your bus arrives at a given stop. • Use your location to see nearby stops and routes. • Find out where buses are and track them in real time. • Set an alert for yourself and know when to leave to catch your bus. • Select trips as your favorites and save your starting or arrival destinations. • Locate our point of sales and Parc-O-Bus on the map. • Be informed of all disruptions in real time. • Locate àVélo stations. • Locate where Flexibus is available

About

Inukshuk

Features
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Inukshuk turns the maps you already trust into a live, offline navigator. Import a georeferenced PDF — a park map, a topographic sheet, a ski-hill plan — and Inukshuk draws your GPS position right on top of it. No signal, no data plan, no account. Everything happens on your phone. BRING YOUR OWN MAPS • Import georeferenced PDFs and see yourself on them, page by page. • Stack several maps at once and choose which pages are drawn. • Everything is rendered on the device — your map never leaves your phone. A FREE LIBRARY OF OFFICIAL TOPO SHEETS Search thousands of free government map sheets — USGS US Topo, Natural Resources Canada CanTopo and Geoscience Australia — and download them straight into a folder. Browse what is around you, by category, or by name. MAKE YOUR OWN MAP No sheet for where you are going? Draw a box on the map and Inukshuk composes a georeferenced PDF of it: contour lines, slope shading, marked trails, a graticule, and your own tracks and waypoints, at the scale and page size you pick. WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL • Download map regions for offline use — choose the area, the basemap (map, satellite or relief) and the level of detail. • "Locally downloaded only" mode keeps the app off the network entirely. • An OpenStreetMap base layer fills in wherever your imported map ends. RECORD YOUR TRAILS • Start a recording, pick the activity, and watch live distance, time, elevation gain and pace. • Recording keeps going with the screen off or the app in the background, and survives a restart. • Every outing is saved and can be shared as a standard GPX file. • Import GPX from friends, from the web, or straight from "Open with". READ THE TERRAIN IN 3D Open any saved trail in real 3D relief with your chosen basemap draped over the landscape. Add slope-angle shading, contour lines or elevation tint, scrub the camera along the route, trim a track, or export the whole trail as a PDF. ELEVATION PROFILES, NOTES AND PHOTOS Every trail gets an interactive elevation profile you can scrub point by point, coloured by gradient or by pace. Drop notes and photos anywhere along the route — the lookout, the tricky crossing, the last water — and they appear on the map, on the profile and in 3D. SEE WHERE YOU KEEP GOING A heatmap over your own tracks shows the ground you cover most, and repeat outings on the same trail are grouped so you can compare them. ORGANISE IT ALL Folders keep maps, trails and waypoints together by area or by trip; drag items between them and show a whole folder on the map in one tap. A dashboard charts your last week, quarter or year, with a calendar of every outing. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up, no ads, no analytics, no advertising identifier, no tracking. • Your maps, trails and notes are stored on your device and are never uploaded — sharing is always something you choose to do. • Map tiles are fetched from OpenStreetMap and other map providers as you pan, the way any map app works; nothing sent identifies you. • Export everything you have as a single zip whenever you want, and delete anything in one tap. Free and open source under the MIT licence — read the code, file an issue, send a patch. Metric or imperial, light or dark, three visual styles. Built for hikers, skiers, paddlers, hunters and anyone whose map matters more than their signal. Source code and issue tracker: https://github.com/MVXTechnologies/inukshuk Privacy policy: https://inukshuk.mvxtechnologies.com/privacy/

Screenshots

RTC’s real4 screens
Inukshuk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Inukshuk at every 4 days against RTC’s real's every 3 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RTC’s real ships an update every 3 months, Inukshuk every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
RTC’s real versus Inukshuk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRTC’s realInukshuk
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews9.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB109 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRéseau de Transport de la CapitaleMarc-Andre Vigneault

In-app purchases

None

RTC’s real

No in-app purchases

None

Inukshuk

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RTC’s real free?
RTC’s real is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Inukshuk free?
Inukshuk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do RTC’s real or Inukshuk have ads?
Neither RTC’s real nor Inukshuk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RTC’s real or Inukshuk?
RTC’s real ships an update every 3 months, and Inukshuk every 4 days. Most recently, RTC’s real was updated on November 2, 2026 and Inukshuk on October 31, 2026.

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