Comparison

Control Orienteering Analysis vs Routechoices Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Control Orienteering Analysis

This app helps orienteers track and analyze their courses. Record new tracks, import existing ones, and view them on custom maps. Analyze pace, HR, and altitude, mark notes, and compare different route choices. Share your progress with a community feature.

Highlights
  • Record and import orienteering tracks
  • View tracks on custom map images
  • Analyze pace, HR, and altitude data
  • Compare different route choices
  • Community features for sharing and interaction
  • Offline Apple Watch tracking
Features
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Control is an app for orienteers. It is the perfect app for keeping track of your orienteering courses and analyzing them. It allows you to record a track in the app or import your existing track from a gpx/fit file. You can also import a track directly from Garmin Connect, COROS, Suunto or Polar if you subscribe to Total Control. View the track on any map image you add to the app. Either import an image file from a scanner or take a picture right in the app, then calibrate and adjust the track. Browse your course point-by-point, see the pace, HR, altitude along the way. Mark notes for later use. Pace zone stats let you view the pace which you had in the different sectors of the track. You can also replay the track with the speed you want. You can export the route you took in GPX format as well as a fully-customizable image of the orienteering map and your route. Export the track to Livelox or export track and the map to Digital Orienteering Map Archive. Save a video from a specific time with configurable length & gps tail length. Compare routes lets you add another route on the same map for comparing different route choices. And with What If -functionality, you can even draw an alternate route and speculate how much better your time would've been without that one silly mistake. Follow your favourite runners with Control Club. See their posts and post your own. React and comment to their performances and also compare their tracks to your own. With Cloud Sync you are able to see your courses on all your devices. Basic app is completely free but for the more advance features you are required to get a Total Control subscription. We offer a free 2-week trial period for you to try it out, with all the features. You can cancel anytime. With Control Apple Watch app you can track a route by carrying only your watch, it tracks the route completely offline. You can mark controls as you pass them. Also by just turning the Digital Crown. Afterwards, when you get back to your iPhone, the track is automatically synced to the iPhone app and to all your devices with iCloud. Control's Privacy Policy: https://control-app.net/privacy-policy End User License Agreement: https://control-app.net/eula

About

Routechoices Tracker

Features
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Routechoices Tracker lets you stream your live location to Routechoices.com, an open-source live GPS tracking solution for orienteering and outdoors events. How It Works: - Grant the app access to high accuracy location at all time, as well as background execution permission. This ensures uninterrupted GPS tracking throughout your activity - e.g. when your phone goes to sleep. - Your 8 digits Device ID is then displayed in the screen center, you need it to enter events. - Press "Start live GPS tracking" when you're ready to begin your run. The Device ID turns green when you are "Live". - Go on your adventure! - Press "Stop Live GPS tracking" when you've finished. Troubleshooting: - Ensure that high-accuracy GPS is enabled in your phone's system settings. - To avoid restriction to can run in the background, make sure that background execution is allowed and that Routechoices Tracker has permission to access location services at all times. - To avoid limitations when it can fetch location data, ensure that the privacy setting for location access in "Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Routechoices Tracker" is set to "Always"

Screenshots

Control Orienteering Analysis4 screens
Routechoices Tracker3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Routechoices Tracker at none against Control Orienteering Analysis's 3. Routechoices Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). Control Orienteering Analysis's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Control Orienteering Analysis sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Routechoices Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Control Orienteering Analysis ships an update weekly, Routechoices Tracker every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Control Orienteering Analysis versus Routechoices Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterControl Orienteering AnalysisRoutechoices Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews56.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size91 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOrienteers OyOneHertz

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Control Orienteering Analysis

Subscriptions3
  • Total Control Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Total Control for supporters6 Months trial$29.991 Year
  • Total Control14 Days trial$34.991 Year
None

Routechoices Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Control Orienteering Analysis free?
Control Orienteering Analysis is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Routechoices Tracker free?
Routechoices Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Control Orienteering Analysis or Routechoices Tracker have ads?
Neither Control Orienteering Analysis nor Routechoices Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Control Orienteering Analysis or Routechoices Tracker?
Control Orienteering Analysis ships an update weekly, and Routechoices Tracker every 2 months. Most recently, Control Orienteering Analysis was updated on September 28, 2026 and Routechoices Tracker on September 17, 2026.

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