Comparison

huntAhead vs Back40

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

Head to head
About

huntAhead

This app helps hunters pattern and track individual animals by building profiles, logging stand locations with weather data, and managing hunting properties with advanced mapping. It also facilitates group hunting and sharing of information.

Highlights
  • Individual animal profiling
  • GPS stand location logging with weather data
  • Property and area mapping
  • Trail and blood trail tracking
  • Hunting group location sharing
  • Trophy room for successful hunts
Features
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huntAhead is a hunting tool that allows you to pattern and track individual animals. With the huntAhead app you will be able to build an individual bucks profile, set up independent stand locations tied to a specific GPS coordinate, which will automatically store valuable weather data such as air temperature, barometric pressure, predominate wind direction and moon phase. No more taking pictures off your computer screen and scrolling through the photos on your phone to find the deer pictures to share with your friends. Simply open our app and go to your bucks profile and start swiping. Our goal is to help you have an easier, enjoyable and successful hunting experience. After you have had a successful hunt simply hit add to trophy room and start collecting memories. You can also manage your hunting properties and areas with our new mapping features. Add different locations such as tree stands, box blinds, cameras to your map. Add other points of interest such as turkey roosts and coyote mapoints. Draw or live record trails. Track a blood trail while you're on the hunt and in the field. We offer satellite imagery and contour maps with hillshading to assist you in locating and setting up for more successful hunts. Maps can be viewed in 2D or 3D to survey terrain. Guide service features include sharing hit list profiles, stands and locations with other users via sms, email, facebook, twitter and whatsapp. Create hunting groups where you can share your location with other members of your hunting group. As a guide you can track multiple hunting groups at the same time, seeing where members of groups are at on the map. We know not all trail camera photos are big bucks. Sometimes you get a few that you might just want to keep around because they are just too good to delete. So, simply add them to your individual favorite photos collection within the app. Monthly Subscription: • Title: Standard Monthly • Length of subscription: 1 month • Price of subscription: 1.99 / Month Annual Subscription: • Title: Standard Annual • Length of subscription: 1 year • Price of subscription: 19.99 / Year • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. • Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms and conditions: https://hunt-ahead.com/terms_and_conditions.html Privacy policy: https://hunt-ahead.com/privacy_policy.html

About

Back40

Features
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- Back40 works with all trail cameras, either through email (SMTP enabled cameras like Reolink) or by uploading photos from an SD card. - Back40 uses AI to find and tag animals so that you can stop looking at empty photos. - Opt in to push notifications to get an instant alert whenever there is activity on your camera or someone uploads photos. - Weather & astronomical data is collected for each photo to help you find patterns in the animals behaviour. - Accurate weather and wind forecasts for all of your hunting lands. - Share cameras, data and insights with your hunting buddies. Get started for free today by downloading the app and signing up! Terms of use: https://back40.app/terms-and-conditions

Screenshots

huntAhead4 screens
Back404 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Back40 at none against huntAhead's shown. Back40 also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). huntAhead's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. huntAhead sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Back40 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

huntAhead ships an update every 2 months, Back40 every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and August 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
huntAhead versus Back40: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterhuntAheadBack40
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (34 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings34 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size251 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHUNTAHEAD, LLPPixby Media AB

In-app purchases

2 purchases

huntAhead

Subscriptions2
  • Standard Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Standard Annual Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
2 purchases

Back40

Subscriptions2
  • Subscription$2.991 Month
  • Subscription1 Month trial$2.991 Month

Questions

Is huntAhead free?
huntAhead is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Back40 free?
Back40 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do huntAhead or Back40 have ads?
huntAhead shows ads; Back40 does not.
Which is updated more often, huntAhead or Back40?
huntAhead ships an update every 2 months, and Back40 every 10 days. Most recently, huntAhead was updated on September 18, 2026 and Back40 on August 25, 2026.

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