Offline Map vs WayLog
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Offline Map
Record your outdoor adventures, navigate back to your starting point, and access maps offline. Mark important locations, track your speed and distance, and import routes from various file formats. Offers both free and premium features for enhanced navigation.
- Record tracks and log waypoints
- Compass navigation with ETA
- Import GPX, KML, KMZ files
- Offline map downloads
- Live location sharing
- Route planning and measurement
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Record where you go, find your way back, and keep your maps with you even without signal. Offline Map is built for the outdoors: hiking, trail running, cycling, hunting, fishing, boating, motorcycling and road trips. Press Start, do your thing, and the app draws your route, logs every waypoint and keeps your statistics for later. WANT TO… • remember the trail you took and walk it back to your car? • mark a fishing spot, a reef, a camp or a hunting stand and return to it? • see your speed, distance, elevation and pace while you move? • follow a route a friend sent you as a GPX file? FREE • Record tracks for any activity, with Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Save waypoints with photos, videos and notes • Compass navigation to any waypoint with distance, bearing and ETA • Apple maps (standard, satellite, hybrid) • Speed, distance, time, pace and elevation while recording • Import GPX, KML, KMZ and NMEA from Files, iCloud Drive, Google Drive or Dropbox • Deleted tracks wait 30 days in Recently Deleted, so a slip of the finger costs nothing • Apple Watch app that records on its own and saves workouts to Health • iCloud sync between your iPhone, iPad and Mac • No account, no login, no ads PREMIUM (subscription) • Offline maps: download an area once and navigate with no signal • 15 map sources: OpenStreetMap, topo, satellite, USGS, NOAA nautical charts, FAA aviation charts • Follow a saved track forward, or reverse it to get back to the start • Export tracks and waypoints as GPX, KML, KMZ or CSV • Full track report as a dark PDF or image: map, every number, speed and elevation charts, splits • Share a track as a 24-hour status card for WhatsApp and Instagram • Six speedometer styles: classic, sport, racing, neon, marine, vintage • Live location sharing with a 6-letter code, no account needed • Route planner, range finder, area measurement • Pacesetter: race your own previous track • Elevation profile, splits and speed-coloured tracks • Weather at waypoints • Image overlays, custom tile servers, 220+ map datums, unlimited waypoints MEASURE & CONVERT • Decimal, DMS, UTM and MGRS coordinates, convert between them any time • Distance, bearing and area between any points on the map • GPS averaging for more accurate waypoints WORKS WITH • Live Activities and widgets • Siri Shortcuts to start, pause and stop a recording • Send a waypoint to Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze • Files app: every saved track is also stored as a GPX file you own Available in 32 languages. Continued use of GPS in the background can decrease battery life. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gpstrackapp.web.app/privacy
WayLog
This app records your routes for various activities like walking, running, cycling, and driving. You can view your path on a map, track metrics like distance and speed, and organize your journeys with tags. It offers hands-free control and Apple Watch support.
- Record routes for walking, running, cycling, driving
- View route on map during recording
- Track distance, speed, and altitude with graphs
- Organize routes with tags and search functionality
- Hands-free control via Siri, Shortcuts, or NFC tags
- Apple Watch and CarPlay support
- Export/import routes in GPX format
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Turn your moves into a log you can look back on. WayLog is a GPS tracker that records your routes for walking, running, cycling, and driving with a single tap. Record with Apple Watch alone. Start/stop hands-free with Siri, Shortcuts, or NFC tags. Also supports information display with CarPlay. Key features • View your route on a map (even while recording) • Review distance, speed, and altitude with graphs • Organize with tags, and search by address, date/time, title, or tag • Automatically saves your step count when you finish recording • Automatically adds start/end locations, distance, average speed, and more to your calendar • Export/import routes in GPX format
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Offline Map at none against WayLog's shown. Offline Map also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 62%). WayLog's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Offline Map sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days and WayLog sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
WayLog holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 27 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of Offline Map's written reviews are positive against 62% of WayLog's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Offline Map ships an update every 3 weeks, WayLog every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Offline Map | WayLog |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (44 ratings) | 5.0 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better | 61.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 44 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CEBINDEKI PAZAR E-TICARET ALISVERIS HIZMETLERI SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI | Tsuneki Kamura |
Customer experience
Offline Map
WayLog
In-app purchases
Offline Map
- Premium Weekly$9.997 Days
- Six Monthly$14.996 Months
- Monthly$19.991 Month
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- Premium Yearly$31.991 Year
WayLog
- Pro Version(Monthly Payment)1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- Pro Version(Outlight Purchase)$34.99









