Comparison

HunterTracker vs Patterns

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

HunterTracker

This app simplifies hunting and tracking with intuitive tools for logging activity, sharing photos, and navigating. It offers GPS guidance, wind indicators, and weather forecasts to enhance your hunting experience. Designed by hunters for hunters, it focuses on ease of use and essential features.

Highlights
  • Game tracking GPS and guidance
  • Graphical wind and scent direction indicator
  • 5 Day Lunar Activity and Weather Forecast
  • Hunting log with photo sharing
  • Unlimited location storage
  • Easy to use compass
Features
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WHY HUNTER TRACKER? There are a few hunting apps on the market these days, and even less tracking apps. Most are complicated and time consuming. And what happens AFTER you bag that big buck? With these issues in mind, we created Hunter Tracker, the world's easiest hunting and tracking app! It was created for hunters by hunters. The same problems that you’ve faced in the wild, we've faced as well. * New Colors! * New Menus! * New Deer Activity Indicators! * No Irritating Pop-Up Ads! * No Intrusive Logins! Just Open the App and Use It! * Hunting and Tracking Info at your Fingertips * Hunting Log Keeps Track of Important Activity * Share Your Hunting Log Photos on Facebook & Twitter * Store an unlimited number of locations * Game tracking GPS and guidance * Graphical wind and scent direction indicator * 5 Day Lunar Activity and Weather Forecast * Easy to use Compass and Direction Finder * Especially suited for Whitetail Deer Hunting COMPASS Compass image with standard compass needle points, digital readout with the bearing in degrees, alphabetic symbols with compass needle heading. DIGITAL AND MAP GAME TRACKING Simply find the first sign of the animal's trail and tap the MARK GPS POSITION button. A coordinate will pop up on the screen. Move on to the next blood drop or broken twig and mark it. If you lose the game's trail, just tap one of the coordinates and the GPS will guide you back to it. UNLIMITED HUNTING AREAS Add as many locations as you choose. When you tap the ADD NEW HUNTING AREA button, a screen with two tabs will appear:" The BY LOCATION tab prompts you to either choose the location you are at or type in an address. Once the GPS coordinates have been determined, type in a descriptive name and save the location. The BY MAP tab lets you zoom in on a specific area. After finding your desired area on the map, simply hold your finger on that area until the scent indicator appears. Then, just type in a descriptive name and tap the SAVE LOCATION button. Tapping a location on the list brings up a menu with four choices: Show location on map will bring up the map of the location. If the scent indicator is not in the precise position of your choosing, just hold your finger on it until it is draggable, then drag it to the exact location. The slider at the bottom of the map can be dragged to display the wind speed and direction for any specific time during the next 5 day period. You can tap the button at the bottom to cycle through a choice of Street, Hybrid, or Satellite view. Get directions to location will bring up a screen showing your CURRENT COORDINATES and the DESTINATION COORDINATES. Below that, you will see the DISTANCE TO DESTINATION and BEARING TO DESTINATION. Your CURRENT BEARING will be shown in red. Simply turn toward the destination bearing until both the BEARING TO DESTINATION and the CURRENT BEARING turn green. Then you just walk until the DISTANCE TO DESTINATION reads 0. Delete the location will delete whatever location you tapped on. Delete all locations will delete every location you've saved. It will not affect your saved tracking coordinates, however. UP TO THE MINUTE WEATHER UPDATES There are three tabs on the weather page: The CURRENT tab displays the current weather in either standard or metric. Notice the SCENT INDICATOR, the same one you'll see on your HUNTING LOCATION page. By tapping the DOWN ARROW in the upper right corner, you can choose which location you'd like the weather to show. The FORECAST tab displays the forecasted weather in either standard or metric, depending on what you've chosen on the settings page, over a 5 day period in 3 hour increments. The LUNAR tab displays the lunar activity in either 12 or 24 hour time format, depending on what you've chosen on the settings page. The combined data is a great indicator of deer or other game activity and the probability of seeing movement. With all of this in one easy to use app, why not download HUNTER TRACKER today!

About

Patterns

Log and analyze trail camera sightings by focusing on animal behavior and patterns rather than just images. Automatically integrates weather data to help understand wildlife movement. Create profiles for specific animals and generate reports on hunt areas and cameras.

Highlights
  • Log trail cam sightings with location, date, time, and direction
  • Automatic weather data integration
  • Create profiles for specific animals
  • Generate reports on hunt areas and cameras
  • Track doe:buck ratios
  • Save important sighting images
Features
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Patterns is a trail cam log that helps you store and track all of your trail cam sightings. Once you've got a collection of sightings tracked, you can use those to report on behavior and pattern specific animals. Most trail cam apps and software require you to upload all of your cam images; some will even scan them and try to identify what's on the cam, so you don't have to. One problem is, they don't work with video, and video can offer a lot more detail about what's in front of your cam. They're also expensive because they often charge by the number of images you have tracked. Another problem is you end up with thousands of images that you don't care about. Patterns is different. We don't focus on the image or the video – we focus on what it tells you. When you track something in patterns, you're tracking which cam it was on, the date and time, what it was, and the direction it was moving. We'll automatically pull weather using nearby weather stations, sunrise and sunset times, and moon phase. You can still save images of sightings, but it's not really important – there's no reason to keep thousands of trail cam images, just the good ones. Hunt Areas: When you add a cam, you choose which hunt area the cam is on. This could be a club, private, or public land (depending on your state regulations). You can add as many hunt areas and cams as you want. Weather: Patterns will pull weather data local to the cam and the date and time of the sighting. This weather info can help you pattern your hunt areas and generally helps you understand how game interact with weather patterns. Profiles: Once you've identified a specific animal you want to track, you can give it a name and connect it to new and past sightings. Then, when you view that profile, you can see a timeline of that animal's sightings and pattern its behavior. Reports: Profiles are great, but you can also report on specific hunt areas to see doe:buck ratios or report on individual cams to see when bucks are moving. Reports offer a lot of flexibility. We're just getting started. The more you pattern, the more ideas you'll have for using the collected info you've logged in your patterns cam journal. Patterns has been a game-changer for us – it has made it simple and easy to get more value from the trail cams we set up for scouting and hunting. It's also been exciting to log other game and begin to understand how wildlife move and interact in the areas we hunt and roam. We hope you find it as useful as we have!

Screenshots

HunterTracker4 screens
Patterns4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Patterns at Free against HunterTracker's $9.99. HunterTracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). On rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Patterns is free to download; HunterTracker costs $9.99 up front. Patterns sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. HunterTracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HunterTracker against 5.0 for Patterns. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HunterTracker has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
HunterTracker versus Patterns: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHunterTrackerPatterns
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (11 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.2 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSite Sculptors, LLC37 South, LLC

Customer experience

HunterTracker

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Patterns

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

HunterTracker

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Patterns

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$18.991 Year

Questions

Is HunterTracker free?
HunterTracker costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Patterns free?
Patterns is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HunterTracker or Patterns?
HunterTracker and Patterns are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 11 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do HunterTracker or Patterns have ads?
Neither HunterTracker nor Patterns shows ads.

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