Comparison

Control Orienteering Analysis vs DrawMyRoute Orienteering

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

Record, import, and analyze your orienteering tracks on a map. View pace, HR, and altitude data, add notes, and replay your performance. Compare routes and speculate on alternative choices. Share your progress with friends and sync across devices.

Highlights
  • Record and import orienteering tracks
  • Analyze pace, HR, and altitude
  • Map calibration and track adjustment
  • Route comparison and 'What If' scenarios
  • Social features for following runners
  • Cloud sync across devices
  • 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

DrawMyRoute Orienteering

Features
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DrawMyRoute turns an orienteering map into a replay you can watch and share. Photograph or import the map from your last race, mark the start and finish, then draw the route you actually ran. Press play and your track animates across the map, leg by leg, at whatever speed you like. WATCH EVERYONE AT ONCE Share a link to the map and other runners draw their own routes on it. Play them back together to see where you lost time, who took the safe way around the marsh and who went straight through it. MADE FOR ORIENTEERING • Control points flash as a runner passes them • Start, finish and controls can be drawn over the map, for clean maps printed without a course • A colour per runner, with adjustable head size, tail length and line opacity • Follow one runner and the map turns so they always head up EXPORT AND SHARE Render the replay as a video in 1:1, 9:16 or 16:9 for social, or as a PDF for the club noticeboard. GPS TOO Import a GPX track from your watch. Calibrate the map once against real-world coordinates and every imported track lands where it belongs. ORGANISE Folders for events and training sessions. Share a whole folder with your club by link or QR code. Works offline: your maps live on your device. Sign in only if you want them backed up and synced across your devices.

Screenshots

Control Orienteering Analysis4 screens
DrawMyRoute Orienteering4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DrawMyRoute Orienteering at none against Control Orienteering Analysis's 2. Control Orienteering Analysis's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Control Orienteering Analysis sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. DrawMyRoute Orienteering asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Control Orienteering Analysis ships an update every 4 days, DrawMyRoute Orienteering every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Control Orienteering Analysis versus DrawMyRoute Orienteering: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterControl Orienteering AnalysisDrawMyRoute Orienteering
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews56.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOrienteers OyAndrey Surzhikov

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Control Orienteering Analysis

Subscriptions2
  • Total Control Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Total Control14 Days trial$34.991 Year
None

DrawMyRoute Orienteering

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Control Orienteering Analysis free?
Control Orienteering Analysis is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DrawMyRoute Orienteering free?
DrawMyRoute Orienteering is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Control Orienteering Analysis or DrawMyRoute Orienteering have ads?
Neither Control Orienteering Analysis nor DrawMyRoute Orienteering shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Control Orienteering Analysis or DrawMyRoute Orienteering?
Control Orienteering Analysis ships an update every 4 days, and DrawMyRoute Orienteering every 2 weeks. Most recently, Control Orienteering Analysis was updated on November 3, 2026 and DrawMyRoute Orienteering on October 31, 2026.

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