LiveTrail vs OruxMaps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LiveTrail
Track your favorite athletes in real-time or push your own limits with this comprehensive app. Follow live action, access race information, and share your progress with loved ones.
- Real-time athlete tracking
- Live camera feeds at checkpoints
- Race maps and schedules
- Personalized pace charts
- Live GPS position sharing
- Social media sharing of achievements
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A brand-new LiveTrail, rebuilt from the ground up. Follow your runners live, with a notification every time they cross a checkpoint. Live rankings, passage times, course map and elevation profile in 2D and 3D. Running yourself? Your bib opens a space of your own: GPS beacon, SOS alert, cut-offs, and a finisher poster to share. New: the Ghost table — your race plan, checkpoint by checkpoint. Works offline, dark mode, km or miles.
OruxMaps
Record and analyze outdoor activities with various online and offline maps. Track routes, use sensors, and share your live position. Includes advanced GIS tools for calculations and utilities like a compass and dashboard.
- Record routes with online/offline maps
- Integrate with heart rate and bike sensors
- Upload activities to Strava/SICAMI
- Analyze activity data with graphs
- Follow routes with alerts
- Live position sharing
- GIS tools for calculations
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Enjoy your outdoor activities. The app allows you to record your routes using different types of maps, both online and offline. NEW: Peak visualization, using augmented reality or a synthetic view. Supported offline map formats: Mapsforge .map, Garmin .img, Rmap .rmap, GeoPDF .pdf, GeoTIFF .tif, MBTiles .mbtiles Keep your data private. No registration required, and no uploading of your data anywhere if you don't want to. Use different sensors in your activities (heart rate monitor, cadence/speed/power on a bike). Upload your activities to important sites like Strava or SICAMI. Analyze your activities, obtaining graphs, average and maximum data, etc. Follow routes, with alerts when you move away from the path or when you approach points of interest. Search for routes using an online service, which will allow you to find paths anywhere. It includes a powerful GIS tool for complex distance calculations, bearings, intersections, coordinate conversions, and more. Share your live position with your friends and hiking companions, or with family so they can follow your trail. It includes numerous utilities: - Dashboard - Compass - Artificial horizon - GIS tool Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LiveTrail at none against OruxMaps's 6. LiveTrail also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). OruxMaps's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. OruxMaps sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. LiveTrail asks for nothing beyond the download.
OruxMaps holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of LiveTrail's written reviews are positive against 36% of OruxMaps's.
LiveTrail ships an update every 5 days, OruxMaps monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LiveTrail | OruxMaps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (5 ratings) | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.0% of reviews | 35.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 17+ |
| Developer | LiveTrail SARL | jose Vazquez Araujo |
Customer experience
LiveTrail
OruxMaps
In-app purchases
LiveTrail
No in-app purchases
OruxMaps
- Monthly Premium$0.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$9.991 Year
- Buy me a coffee$1.99
- Small contribution$2.99
- Medium contribution$4.99
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- Large contribution$9.99









