Texas Pocket Maps vs Visit Big Bend!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Texas Pocket Maps
Plan your outdoor adventures in Texas parks with downloadable maps and guides. Access detailed information on parks, trails, and points of interest, even without Wi-Fi. Features GPS support for recording hikes and sharing locations.
- Downloadable park maps and guides
- Offline access to 110+ parks
- 800+ campgrounds and campsites
- 1,800+ trails and trailheads
- GPS and GPX support for hikes
- Detailed park information and alerts
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Be prepared! Plan your next trip to one of the great Texas parks. Download maps and guides before you venture into the Wi-Fi free wilderness. Discover - 110+ national parks, state parks, monuments, forests - 90+ 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 Texas national forests. - 800+ campgrounds and campsites - 1,800+ trails and trailheads - 130,000+ 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: - Abilene, Alibates Flint Quarries, Amistad, Anahuac, Angelina, Aransas, Atlanta, Attwater Prairie Chicken - Balcones Canyonlands, Balmorhea, Bastrop, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley, Big Bend, Big Bend Ranch, Big Bogggy, Big Spring, Big Thicket, Blanco, Bonham, Brazoria, Brazos Bend, Buescher, Buffalo Lake - Caddo, Caddo Lake, Caprock Canyons, Carlsbad Caverns, Cedar Hill, Chamizal, Chickasaw, Choke Canyon, Cleburne, Colorado Bend, Cooper Lake, Copper Breaks - Daingerfield, Davis Mountains, Davy Crockett, Devils River, Devil's Sinkhole, Dinosuar Valley - Eisenhower, El Camino Real de los Tejas, El Camino Real de Tierra Dentro, Enchanted Rock, Estero Llano Grande - Fairfield Lake, Falcon, Fort Davis, Fort Parker, Franklin Mountains - Garner, Government Canyon, Grulla, Guadalupe Mountains - Hagerman, Hill Country, Hueco Tanks, Huntsville - Inks Lake - Kickapoo Cavern - Laguna Atascosa, Lake Bob Sandlin, Lake Brownwood, Lake Colorado City, Lake Meredith, Lake Mineral Wells, Lake Tawakoni, Lake Whitney, Longhorn Cavern, Lost Maples, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Lyndon B Johnson - Martin Creek Lake, McFaddin, Mission Tejas, Monahans Sandhills, Muleshoe, Mustang Island - Neches River - Padre Island, Palo Alto Battlefield, Palo Duro Canyon, Pedernales Falls, Posssum Kingdom, President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home, Purtis Creek, - Ray Roberts Lake, Resaca de la Palma, Rio Grande - Sabine, Sam Houston, San Angelo, San Antonio Missions, San Bernard, Santa Ana, Sea Rim, Somerville Lake, South Llano River - Texas Point, Trinity River - Waco Mammoth, Washita Battlefield, White Sands LEGAL Terms of Use: https://www.icoat.de/pocketmaps/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.icoat.de/pocketmaps/privacy
Visit Big Bend!
Discover attractions, accommodations, dining, and shopping in Big Bend and Brewster County. Plan your perfect day based on your interests, timeframe, and location, and share your custom itinerary with friends.
- Personalized day experiences
- Real-time event feed
- Upcoming event listings
- Customizable itinerary planning
- Social sharing of plans
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The Visit Big Bend! app will help you discover all the places you can explore, stay, dine, shop and meet in Big Bend! • Experience the perfect day based on your interests, timeframe, and location • Browse the feed of what's happening now • View upcoming events near you • Add events and places to your own customized plan • Share events, places, and your custom plan with friends
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Visit Big Bend! at none against Texas Pocket Maps's 3. Visit Big Bend! also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (25% vs 0%). Texas Pocket Maps's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On price 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. Texas Pocket Maps sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 2 months. Visit Big Bend! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Visit Big Bend! holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 89 and 325 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Texas Pocket Maps's written reviews are positive against 25% of Visit Big Bend!'s.
Texas Pocket Maps ships an update every 2 months, Visit Big Bend! every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Texas Pocket Maps | Visit Big Bend! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (89 ratings) | 4.8 (325 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 89 | 325 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alex Gugel | Brewster County Tourism Council & Visit Big Bend |
Customer experience
Texas Pocket Maps
Visit Big Bend!
In-app purchases
Texas 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
Visit Big Bend!
No in-app purchases
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