Texas Pocket Maps vs Surfside Beach
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
Surfside Beach
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The Village of Surfside Beach, Texas is home to miles of pristine shoreline in a cozy beach community. We are an ideal vacation, retirement, or hometown for people with many different hobbies such as Surfing, Birding, shelling, fishing, swimming, and most commonly relaxing. Our app highlights some of the best spots in town to stop for all of the above listed activities and also showcases some of the awesome hotels, and beach homes to stay in while you visit. Don’t forget to stop into some of our local restaurants and bars for the best seafood and ice-cold drinks around!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Surfside Beach at none against Texas Pocket Maps's 3. Surfside Beach also leads on ads (none vs shown). Texas Pocket Maps's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). 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. Texas Pocket Maps sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 2 months. Surfside Beach asks for nothing beyond the download.
Texas Pocket Maps ships an update every 2 months, Surfside Beach every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and August 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Texas Pocket Maps | Surfside Beach |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (88 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 88 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alex Gugel | 14 Oranges |
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
Surfside Beach
No in-app purchases
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