Comparison

Workout Map vs Stack My Trails

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

Head to head
About

Workout Map

Visualize all your recorded workout routes from Health on a single map. See your most frequent paths with a heatmap and customize the display with different colors and filters. Share your routes as images with optional statistics or custom text.

Highlights
  • Display all recorded workout routes on a map
  • Heatmap of frequently used routes
  • Color-coding for different activity types
  • Filter by activity type, date range, and map region
  • Share routes as images with statistics
  • iCloud sync for multi-device access
Features
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Ever wondered what it would look like to see all your in Health recorded workouts on one map at once? Or ever wondered which are the routes you took most during your workouts? Workout Map will help you with exactly that! - Display all your recorded workout routes from Health in one map - See the heat map of your routes - Optionally set different colors for each activity type - Filter on activity types, date ranges and even a map region if you only want certain routes on the map - Use predefined filter for faster access to certain time ranges - Share and save your training routes on a map image or chose your own image or a color as a background. Also optional show the workout statistics or a custom text - Your routes on top of a neutral background allow sharing your workout routes in a more private way - Check out your explorer score for your filtered workouts - Optionally sync your routes to your other devices with your personal iCloud account to see your routes on your iPad and AppleTV Workout Map works with the routes you saved to the Health app. You can record your workouts and routes with the AppleWatch or other apps on your iPhone or with other smart watches. Routes will be displayed in a simplified version, which will allow Workout Map to work with more routes on the map. Workout Map will cache the simplified version of your routes on your device for faster access. You can delete this cached data any time inside the app. Privacy is especially imported with health data. All your data is yours. The cached routes will be transferred to your personal iCloud account to synchronise with the iPad and AppleTV app. If you do not want to use iCloud synchronisation, you can switch it off in the system settings app any time.

About

Stack My Trails

Features
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Stack My Trails reads your workout routes from Apple Health and stacks them on a single map, creating a beautiful heatmap-like visualization of your training routes. You can also import and export GPX files, or draw your own GPS art directly on the map by placing waypoints. See all your runs, walks, hikes, and cycling routes layered together. Discover your favorite paths, explore patterns in your training, and turn your routes into art. Pay once, own it forever. No subscriptions, no accounts, no cloud. Your data stays on your device. KEY FEATURES - Import workout routes from Apple Health with one tap - Export and import routes as GPX files - Export and import your trail data as a backup file - Record new trails directly in the app — GPS tracking with live route display - Recorded workouts are saved to Apple Health automatically - Draw custom routes on the map — place waypoints and get real walking directions between them - Stack up to 500 routes on a single map view - Create stunning poster images with 9 artistic filters - Vignette quick-toggle: cycle off / medium / full in the poster toolbar - Adjust trail thickness, glow, labels, and decorative frames - Frame and rotate your poster for the perfect composition - Save posters to your photo library or share them - Browse all your trails in a scrollable list with preview maps - Filter by area, date range, and activity type - Show your current location on the trail map to discover new routes and unvisited directions - Built-in GPS spoofing filter for accurate route display in affected areas - Full dark mode support - No account, no subscription, no cloud YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE Stack My Trails stores everything locally on your device. No accounts, no servers, no tracking. Your workout data is yours. The only network requests the app makes are to Apple's geocoding service during import to convert route coordinates into place names, and to Apple's directions service when drawing routes on the map. POSTER THEMES - Noir: Dark background with glowing trails - Architect: Navy blue tones with cool light blue paths - Artistic: Pigment-ink style with curated paper palette - Clean: Pure map view with subtle trail overlay - Gradient: Trails rendered as flowing color gradients - Pixel: Retro pixel-art grid style with editable color palette - Risograph: Halftone print style with authentic ink misregistration offset - Voronoi: Geometric cell diagram - Halftone: Dot-matrix print style - Glyph: Typographic ASCII-art style REQUIREMENTS - iPhone with Apple Health workout route data - iOS 16.0 or later - Workouts must have GPS route data recorded (from Apple Watch or a GPS-enabled workout app) - Location access is used for trail recording and optionally to show your position on the map

Screenshots

Workout Map4 screens
Stack My Trails4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Workout Map at 4 against Stack My Trails's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Workout Map costs $1.99 and Stack My Trails $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Workout Map versus Stack My Trails: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWorkout MapStack My Trails
Price$1.99$1.99
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews53.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.4 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndre AlbachVladimir Senchikhin

In-app purchases

None

Workout Map

No in-app purchases

None

Stack My Trails

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Workout Map free?
Workout Map costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stack My Trails free?
Stack My Trails costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Workout Map or Stack My Trails have ads?
Neither Workout Map nor Stack My Trails shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Workout Map or Stack My Trails?
Workout Map ships an update weekly, and Stack My Trails weekly. Most recently, Workout Map was updated on October 22, 2026 and Stack My Trails on October 19, 2026.

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