Waymarkly vs Glassing Maps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Waymarkly
Discover and log Waymarks globally with this official partner app. Search, view details, add photos, and save locations for offline access. Explore categories and use powerful filtering tools to enhance your waymarking adventures.
- Search for Waymarks globally
- View Waymark details and photos
- Log visits and comments
- Save Waymarks to offline lists
- Offline list filtering
- Premium offline maps
- Proximity alerts
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Use Waymarkly to find Waymarks anywhere in the world! It provides the following powerful features: - Official partner app of Waymarking and Geocaching HQ. Login with your same account. - Search for Waymarks anywhere - View Waymark details including Waymark info, logs and photos - Log your visit or comment - Browse categories - Powerful live filter options - Save Waymarks to offline lists - Offline list filtering - Highlighting - Export GPX - Log text templates - Beautiful Premium Offline Maps - Many map types including custom tile URL - Proximity alert - Much much more!
Glassing Maps
This app offers offline backcountry navigation with detailed map layers and planning tools. It allows users to mark waypoints, record tracks, and plan routes without a cellular signal, all while conserving battery life. Saved data remains accessible even after a subscription ends.
- Offline map downloads
- Waypoint marking
- Route planning and following
- Track recording with battery optimization
- Multiple map layers (Topo, Satellite, Hybrid)
- Slope Angle Shading and Aspect views
- GPX/KML/KMZ import and export
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Glassing is an iOS-native backcountry navigation app with a refined design for quick, one-handed use. It sips battery and keeps every map layer and backcountry tool working offline. Download the grids for your trip and every available layer comes with them. Search, plan routes, record tracks and mark places without a signal. You know what’s available before you leave. DIRECTIONS Navigate calls each trail junction as you walk. Plan a Route finds the trailhead and the trails to anywhere you pick, with stops along the way and a camp for each night. Your iPhone and CarPlay guide the drive to the trailhead, turn by turn over highways and forest roads. Directions work offline in your downloaded maps. TRAILHEADS AND CAMPGROUNDS Tap a trailhead for its pass, permits and wilderness rules. Tap a campground for its season, fees and how to book it. WAYPOINTS AND TRIPS Mark a place and choose its symbol with one hand. Keep track of camps, water sources and animal sightings without typing names or digging through menus. Your waypoints, tracks, routes and photos organize themselves into trips named for the place and month. A week in the Wallowas stays together in one trip. RECORDING Start recording at the trailhead and put your phone away. Glassing saves battery by easing off GPS when you stop and picking up again when you move. Turn on Max detail when you want a more detailed track, like following a blood trail or backtracking for a dropped hat. ROUTES Follow trails with Snap to trail or draw your own route across open country. See distance and elevation gain as you draw, and drag a point to try another way. Plan and follow routes offline, with an alert if you wander off course. LAYERS Choose Topo, Satellite or Hybrid. Topo and Hybrid include shaded relief to help you read the terrain. Topo turns to a night map when your iPhone is in dark mode. Turn on 3D Terrain to tilt the map and see the mountains in relief. Sunlight shows where sun and shade fall at any time of day. Use Slope Angle Shading to spot steep hillsides and compare off-trail routes. Aspect shows which direction a hillside faces. Ownership shows public land and available private parcels. Cell Coverage shows where AT&T, T-Mobile or Verizon reports outdoor 5G or LTE service. Every available layer works in your downloaded grids without a signal. Check its source and data date in the legend. Slope shading does not show current avalanche danger, parcel boundaries do not establish access permission, and predicted cell coverage does not guarantee a connection. APPLE WATCH AND WEB Check your heading, see your next turn, mark a waypoint or control recording from your Apple Watch while your iPhone stays in your pocket. Plan on a larger screen at glassing.app/map, with 3D terrain to help you look over your route. Your saved places sync when you have a signal. BRING YOUR SAVED PLACES Import GPX, KML and KMZ files. Review suggested trips to organize what you bring over. Export your waypoints, tracks and routes as GPX any time, including after your subscription ends. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No advertising, third-party analytics, public heatmaps or social feed. We don’t sell your data. Location metadata is removed from photos you share through Glassing. YOUR MAPS AND DATA STAY YOURS Getting signed out won’t take away the maps and places saved on your phone. If your subscription ends, you can still view your saved trips, use downloaded maps and export your waypoints, tracks and routes for free. WHAT IT COSTS $19.99 a year, with the first month free for new subscribers. Every map layer is free to browse. Subscribe to save waypoints and routes, record tracks, download and update maps, and read trailhead access rules and campground booking details. COVERAGE Maps cover the lower 48. Ownership coverage varies by area. TERMS AND PRIVACY Terms of Use: https://glassing.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://glassing.app/privacy Made by one person in Portland, Oregon.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Glassing Maps at Free against Waymarkly's $4.99. Glassing Maps also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 81%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Waymarkly's advantage is ratings volume (140 vs 3) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 days). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Glassing Maps is free to download; Waymarkly costs $4.99 up front. Waymarkly sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Glassing Maps sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Glassing Maps holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Waymarkly has 140 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Waymarkly's written reviews are positive against 100% of Glassing Maps's.
Waymarkly ships an update every 5 days, Glassing Maps every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Waymarkly | Glassing Maps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (140 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 140 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zed Said Studio LLC | Glassing, LLC |
Customer experience
Waymarkly
Glassing Maps
Bugs and requests
Waymarkly
Reported bugs
6 issues- Crashes when logging
- Filters for found and owned waymarks not working reliably
- Unable to mark waypoints
- Saved waypoints disappear
- App shows 'none found' for all categories
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- Offline list requires data connection to view waypoint information
Requested features
6 requests- Allow posting comment and photo simultaneously
- Option to filter out already completed categories
- Ability to create and submit new waymarks from the app
- Downloadable offline lists
- Filter multiple categories
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- Reverse search excluding specific categories
Glassing Maps
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Waymarkly
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
- Maps Supporter$2.99
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- Large Tip$4.99
- Maps Supporter + Tip$4.99
- Maps Supporter + Big Tip$6.99
Glassing Maps
- Glassing Annual1 Month trial$19.991 Year









