ExplorOz Traveller vs Bit Map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ExplorOz Traveller
Navigate Australia's most remote areas with detailed offline topographic maps and over 100,000 points of interest. Plan trips, record your journeys, and find essential services even without mobile coverage.
- Detailed offline topographic maps
- 107,000+ mapped places
- Trip planning and route navigation
- Automatic track logging
- Personal place saving
- Live tracking (optional membership)
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ExplorOz Traveller is an all-in-one Australia-wide mapping app to explore tracks and trails, plan and track your trips, and find camps and places along the way. Built on EOTopo, a high-detail topographic map of Australia, Traveller clearly shows tracks, trails and terrain so you can understand where you are and where you’re going — purpose-built for exploring beyond mobile coverage, and equally effective in towns and cities. Download the full Australia-wide map to your device and use it anytime — online or offline — without relying on map streaming or ongoing data use. HOW IT WORKS 1. Buy the App (one-time purchase) Install ExplorOz Traveller on your iPhone or iPad. 2. Choose Your Map Access (in-app) Traveller is designed for use with EOTopo offline maps. Choose ONE option to unlock offline maps: ExplorOz Pro Access (Best Value) * Annual subscription (auto-renewing) * Includes latest EOTopo maps (always up to date) * Includes advanced features: * Live tracking & sharing * Traveller Web-App (plan on your computer) * GPX export and extended data features EOTopo Annual Access * Annual subscription (auto-renewing) * Includes latest EOTopo maps * No advanced features EOTopo 4-Year Access * One-time purchase (not a subscription) * Single map edition (no updates) * Works offline for up to 4 years FIND CAMPS, SERVICES AND PLACES * 100,000+ places across Australia * Campsites, caravan parks and overnight stops * Fuel, water, toilets, dump points and essential services * Trailheads, lookouts, recreation areas, historic sites and ruins Community-powered content: * Read reviews, tips and updates from other travellers * View photos to help choose camps and stops * Contribute your own reviews, photos and updates All places are built into the same detailed map, so you can see exactly where they are in relation to tracks, terrain and access — even when offline. BUILT FOR OFFLINE TRAVEL Download EOTopo maps to your device and use Traveller without mobile signal: * Australia-wide offline mapping * Route guidance and trip planning * GPS tracking and trip recording * 100,000+ camps and places MAP DETAIL THAT MATTERS * Named roads, tracks, hiking trails and MTB trails across Australia * Clear visual distinction between sealed roads, unsealed roads and 4WD-only tracks * Dedicated styling for hiking trails, MTB trails and shared paths * Colour-coded MTB trails with graded difficulty (green, blue, black) * Track access information including permits, restrictions, gates and closures In towns and built-up areas: * Detailed street mapping including service roads, carparks and infrastructure * Buildings, facilities and key points of interest In regional and remote areas: * Extensive coverage of tracks and routes across Australia, including many remote and lesser-known tracks * Terrain detail including contours, valleys, escarpments and sand dunes * Remote infrastructure such as airstrips, bores, water sources and communications sites BATTERY & LOCATION USE Uses GPS for positioning and tracking. Continued use of GPS may reduce battery life. IMPORTANT * App purchase is a one-time cost (platform specific) with support for Family Sharing. * EOTopo maps are required for offline use and purchased in-app * Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled in your App Store account settings
Bit Map
This app offers advanced mapping and navigation capabilities, supporting both online and offline map services. It allows users to record locations, create custom layers, and georeference map images directly within the application.
- Offline map support (JPEG, TIFF, PNG)
- Online vector/raster map services
- Offline vector layer support (GeoPackage, Shapefile)
- Record tracks and waypoints
- Create and update custom layers
- Georeference map images within the app
- Support for hundreds of coordinate systems
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Bit Map provides mapping and navigation with offline maps (inc. JPEG, TIFF, PNG), online vector or raster map services (inc. WFS, WMTS, TMS, XYZ, OSM-compatible services), and offline vector layers (inc. GeoPackage, Shapefile, File Geodatabase, GPX, KML). Record locations as tracks and waypoints. Create and update custom layers and attributes. Style (symbology) of vector layers is highly customisable. Bit Map was the first iOS app to provide navigation with arbitrary user-supplied maps in 2009. Map image files need not be georeferenced before importing, as Bit Map includes 4 methods to georeference map images within the app. Bit Map can even publish your map layers to a Web Map and automatically keep them in sync with the web map! Bit Map is built on a true GIS foundation and can manage data in hundreds of different coordinate systems, projections and geographic datums. Layers with different projections can be displayed simultaneously in the same map. Disclaimer: Do not use Bit Map while operating a motor vehicle, other vehicle, machinery or in any potentially dangerous situation. Do not rely on Bit Map, or on the accuracy of data presented by Bit Map, for any purpose in which inaccuracies or any app behaviour could cause danger, loss, damage or problems of any kind to the user or to any third party. Users are responsible for abiding by the copyright and license terms of any data, maps and services that they import, configure or use in Bit Map. Some features are not available in the 'Lite' version (see web site for details).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Bit Map at $3.99 against ExplorOz Traveller's $39.99. Bit Map also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5). ExplorOz Traveller's advantage is review sentiment (61% vs 25%) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
ExplorOz Traveller costs $39.99 and Bit Map $3.99 up front. ExplorOz Traveller sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $39.99 per year and Bit Map sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bit Map holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 61% of ExplorOz Traveller's written reviews are positive against 25% of Bit Map's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ExplorOz Traveller ships an update every 3 weeks, Bit Map monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ExplorOz Traveller | Bit Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $39.99 | $3.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.8% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | I.T. Beyond Pty Ltd | NIXANZ |
Customer experience
ExplorOz Traveller
Bit Map
In-app purchases
ExplorOz Traveller
- EOTopo Annual Access$39.991 Year
- ExplorOz Pro Access$59.991 Year
- Tile Pack 25,000$9.99
- EOTopo2023 Full Mapset Offline$29.99
- EOTopo2024 Full Mapset Offline$29.99
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- Tile Pack 100,000$29.99
- EOTopo2025 Full Mapset Offline$29.99
- EOTopo 2026 4-Year Access$49.99
Bit Map
- Bit Map Pro$12.99








