Create Own Map vs GPX Trail Creator & Map Viewer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
GPX Trail Creator & Map Viewer
Plan ultra-marathon routes with detailed elevation profiles and aid station waypoints. Calculate realistic split times based on terrain and export your course directly to your GPS watch for live tracking during races.
- Draw custom race routes
- Set aid station and water source waypoints
- Calculate grade-adjusted split times
- Export routes to GPS watches
- Live GPS position tracking on elevation profile
- Import and customize official race courses
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"How far to the next aid station?" That's the question at mile 62. GPX Trail Creator answers it before race day. Plan your exact route, set every aid station waypoint, preview every climb — then export directly to your GPS watch. ① PLAN YOUR RACE ROUTE Tap to draw your route. It auto-snaps to real trails. Add waypoints for every aid station, crew access point, and water source — each showing exact distance from start. See total elevation gain before you commit. ② GRADE-ADJUSTED SPLITS The pace calculator shows realistic split times at every segment based on actual gradient — not flat-road estimates. Know exactly where the hard miles are and plan your effort accordingly. ③ EXPORT TO YOUR GPS WATCH One-tap GPX export to Garmin, Coros, Suunto, and any GPX 1.1 device. Your full race route is on your wrist before your next training run. ④ LIVE POSITION ON RACE DAY Open your saved route during the race. Your GPS position appears live on the elevation profile. See exact distance to every aid station, and exactly how much climbing remains. ⑤ IMPORT FROM RACE DIRECTORS Get the official course GPX from your race director. Add your personal waypoints. Export your customized version back to your watch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GPX Trail Creator & Map Viewer at 5.0 against Create Own Map's 1.3. GPX Trail Creator & Map Viewer also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 17 months). Create Own Map's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Create Own Map sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and GPX Trail Creator & Map Viewer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
GPX Trail Creator & Map Viewer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Create Own Map ships an update every 17 months, GPX Trail Creator & Map Viewer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Create Own Map | GPX Trail Creator & Map Viewer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bita Sobhani | RYAN KIM |
Customer experience
Create Own Map
GPX Trail Creator & Map Viewer
In-app purchases
Create Own Map
- Premium$1.99
GPX Trail Creator & Map Viewer
- Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- GPX Trail Creator Premium$24.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro$69.99
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