Comparison

Create Own Map vs Hallux

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

Head to head
About

Create Own Map

Create custom offline maps of your surroundings to navigate easily. Mark important locations like home, parking, or favorite spots with custom icons. Ideal for those with poor direction or who dislike reading complex maps.

Highlights
  • Create custom offline maps
  • Navigate without internet
  • Drop and name location pins
  • Assign custom icons to pins
  • Track and draw routes
  • Save and open created maps
  • View street address with internet
Features
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This app helps you create a custom map of your neighborhood and navigate without the need for internet connection or any pre-downloaded map. This app is particularly useful for anybody who has a poor sense of direction, or who can not read maps with so many uninteresting street names and directions. Let's assume you have just moved into a new home and you don't want to get lost when traveling around. This app helps you find your way back home easily. Another practical use of this app is to find where you have parked your car, find your favorite restaurant, store, hotel, or a particular building in a neighborhood. What the app does is that it tracks you and draws your route constantly. You can drop a pin on any location that you are interested in. You can give the pin a name and assign it an icon using a variety of image options. In this way, you will have a clear view of the region you are interested in. You can follow the route to take you back to the departing point. You can save the created map. The next time you can open it and follow the route to take you to the location pins. If the internet connection is available too, then tapping the current location will show you the street address and the address is also saved with the location pins. In order to delete or rename a saved map, swipe the desired row in your map book and select the appropriate action. The premium version enables the save and open features.

About

Hallux

Features
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Falconers want the confidence that comes with a superior falcon tracking product. Hallux GPS will give you this confidence. And if you lose your bird, the SOS feature allows you to get tracking assistance from hundreds of other falconers. Hallux GPS evolved from our collaboration with The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and their work tracking bats that carry the Ebola virus. Hallux GPS was originally introduced as a GPS tracker for bats. With this app, falconers can not only track a lost falcon but also have the following features at their disposal. • S.O.S. feature throws an electronic net over your bird, with other users’ cooperation. • Encrypted GPS location data to keep your bird’s position secret from others • PINs prevent others from manipulating your birds’ GPS devices • Choice of tracking modes for longer and longer battery life • Post-flight statistics such as maximum speed, maximum altitude, and temperature • Logging of the hunting flight that you can view and share with others

Screenshots

Create Own Map4 screens
Hallux4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hallux at none against Create Own Map's 1. Hallux also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 17 months). On price, ads, device support 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. Create Own Map sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hallux asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Create Own Map ships an update every 17 months, Hallux monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Create Own Map versus Hallux: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCreate Own MapHallux
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.3 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 17 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB63 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBita SobhaniTelemetry Solutions, Inc.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Create Own Map

One-time1
  • Premium$1.99
None

Hallux

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Create Own Map free?
Create Own Map is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hallux free?
Hallux is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Create Own Map or Hallux have ads?
Neither Create Own Map nor Hallux shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Create Own Map or Hallux?
Create Own Map ships an update every 17 months, and Hallux monthly. Most recently, Create Own Map was updated on October 24, 2026 and Hallux on October 25, 2026.

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