Montana Pocket Maps vs ParksConnect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Montana Pocket Maps
Plan outdoor adventures with detailed offline maps and guides for Montana's parks and forests. Discover points of interest, trails, and campgrounds, and use GPS features to navigate and record your journeys.
- Offline maps and guides
- 40+ parks and forests
- 860+ detailed maps
- 2,000+ campgrounds
- 3,000+ trails
- GPS and GPX support
- Park alerts and weather
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Be prepared! Plan your next trip to one of the great Montana parks. Download maps and guides before you venture into the Wi-Fi free wilderness. Discover - 40+ national parks, state parks, monuments, forests - 860+ neatly folded maps by the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Services, and other agencies. - Motor Vehicle Use Maps (MVUM), Motor Vehicle Travel Maps (MVTM) and visitor maps for Utah national forests. - 2,000+ campgrounds and campsites - 3.,00+ trails and trailheads - 84,000+ points of interests Plan - Download maps, park brochures, and newspapers. These downloads are ready when you are offline and off the grid in the great outdoors. - Download arbitrary map sections as offline packs. - Photo galleries, panorama views. - Share links to parks and maps with friends Have fun - GPS and GPX support: record your hikes, import GPX routes, tracks and waypoints for your hiking trails. - Detailed national park information: alerts, news, visitor centers, campgrounds, driving directions, weather. - Open your favorite maps app to get a route to the selected park. - Current weather conditions, easy access to multi-day forecasts, sunrise and sunset times. - Push notifications for park alerts, park news, weather warnings So download maps and guides for: Glacier Yellowstone Little Bighorn Battlefield Bighorn Canyon Lewis & Clark Beaverhead-Deerlodge Bitterroot Custer Flathead Gallatin Helena Idaho Panhandle Kootenai Lolo Fort Union Trading Post Grant-Kohrs Ranch Nez Perce Big Hole Beavertail Hill Brush Lake Chief Plenty Coups First Peoples Buffalo Jump Lewis & Clark Caverns Makoshika Milltown Sluice Boxes Spring Meadow Lake Wild Horse Island / Flathead Lake Tin CAn Hill Cottonwood Four Dances Sage Creek Upper Big Hole River West Yellowstone There are additional useful information and brochures for many Montana state parks. LEGAL Terms of Use: https://www.icoat.de/pocketmaps/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.icoat.de/pocketmaps/privacy
ParksConnect
Explore the U.S. National Park System with this interactive travel guide. Access park maps, detailed descriptions, and photos to plan your next adventure. Discover both remote wilderness and historical sites.
- Interactive U.S. National Park System map
- Park descriptions and photos
- Offline access to official park maps
- Points of interest on maps
- Explore wilderness and historical sites
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ParksConnect presents this interactive travel guide to the U.S National Park System. With locations ranging from remote wilderness areas to historical sites, this app provides access to park maps, photos, descriptions, and more. Use the app to explore the National Park System and plan your next park visit. App features include: • Interactive map to the U.S National Park System • Park descriptions, photos, and image gallery • Offline access to official park maps with points of interest
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: ParksConnect at none against Montana Pocket Maps's shown. ParksConnect also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17). Montana Pocket Maps's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 10 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Montana Pocket Maps sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 2 months and ParksConnect sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Montana Pocket Maps holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Montana Pocket Maps has 31 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Montana Pocket Maps ships an update every 2 months, ParksConnect every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Montana Pocket Maps | ParksConnect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (31 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 478 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alex Gugel | ParksConnect |
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In-app purchases
Montana Pocket Maps
- access all pro features$3.992 Months
- access all pro features3 Days trial$5.493 Months
- access all pro features$12.991 Year
ParksConnect
- ParksConnect Upgrade$4.99
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