Alaska Pocket Maps vs SXT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alaska Pocket Maps
Plan your adventures in Alaska with offline maps and detailed guides for parks, trails, and campgrounds. Access essential information like weather, alerts, and driving directions even without a Wi-Fi connection.
- Offline maps and guides
- 60+ parks, forests, and monuments
- 400+ campgrounds and campsites
- 800+ trails and trailheads
- GPS and GPX support
- Weather forecasts and alerts
- Park brochures and visitor information
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Be prepared! Plan your next trip to one of the great Alaska parks. Download maps and guides before you venture into the Wi-Fi free wilderness. Discover - 60+ national parks, state parks, monuments, forests - 200+ 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 Alaska national forests. - 400+ campgrounds and campsites - 800+ trails and trailheads - 40,000+ 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: Alagnak Aniakchak Becharof Bering Land Bridge Campbell Tract Cape Krusenstern Chugach Dalton Highway Delta Denali Denali Highway Fortymile Game Management Units Gates of the Arctic Glacier Bay Gulkana Iditarod Izembek Kanuti Katmai Kenai Kenai Fjords Kodiak Lake Clark National Petroleum Reserve Sitka Steese Tetlin Tongass Unalakleet White Mountains There are additional useful information and brochures for these state parks: Afognak Island Aleutian World War II Big Delta Caines Head Chena River Eagle Beach Fort Abercrombie Hatcher Pass Kachemak Bay Kenai River Lower Chatanika Nancy Lake Wood-Tikchik LEGAL Terms of Use: https://www.icoat.de/pocketmaps/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.icoat.de/pocketmaps/privacy
SXT
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SXT keeps your trip details and travel group together throughout your adventure. Designed for confirmed SXT Adventures travelers, the app brings your itinerary, trip updates, approved documents and conversations into one place. YOUR TRIP AT A GLANCE See your assigned trips, daily itinerary and practical travel details. Follow your schedule in the destination's local time and keep up with changes from the SXT team. STAY CONNECTED Read trip announcements, chat with your group and message the SXT staff team privately. Share photos from your adventure in your trip's album. KEEP IMPORTANT DETAILS HANDY Open your trip while connected to save its details for later. Previously synchronized trip information and messages remain readable offline. Approved documents show when they are saved on your device. Sending messages, uploading photos and receiving updates require a connection. MAKE IT YOURS Choose a comfortable or compact display, manage trip notification preferences and archive past trips. SXT is a companion for existing SXT Adventures trips. Sign in with the email associated with your confirmed trip. Access is limited to the trips assigned to you. Trip booking and payments are handled separately from this app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SXT at none against Alaska Pocket Maps's 3. SXT also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Alaska Pocket Maps sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 2 months. SXT asks for nothing beyond the download.
Alaska Pocket Maps ships an update every 6 weeks, SXT every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alaska Pocket Maps | SXT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (104 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 104 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Alex Gugel | Blargo LLC |
In-app purchases
Alaska 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
SXT
No in-app purchases
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