Red vs OruxMaps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Red
Discover and navigate rock climbing routes with detailed 3D guides. Access climbing data for over 1300 walls globally, with offline download capabilities for remote areas. Quickly find climbs using a flexible search function.
- High-definition 3D climbing guides
- Offline crag and wall downloads
- Global climbing data (1300+ walls)
- Fast and flexible search
- Supports multiple continents
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Red-Point is the ultimate rock climbing companion. Find climbs easily with our high-definition 3D climbing guides. Download crags and walls for offline use when you're out climbing. Climbing data for over 1300 walls in Europe, North America, South America and Australia. Lightning fast, highly flexible search to find climbs at the crag.
OruxMaps
Record and analyze outdoor activities with various online and offline maps. Track routes, use sensors, and share your live position. Includes advanced GIS tools for calculations and utilities like a compass and dashboard.
- Record routes with online/offline maps
- Integrate with heart rate and bike sensors
- Upload activities to Strava/SICAMI
- Analyze activity data with graphs
- Follow routes with alerts
- Live position sharing
- GIS tools for calculations
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Enjoy your outdoor activities. The app allows you to record your routes using different types of maps, both online and offline. NEW: Peak visualization, using augmented reality or a synthetic view. Supported offline map formats: Mapsforge .map, Garmin .img, Rmap .rmap, GeoPDF .pdf, GeoTIFF .tif, MBTiles .mbtiles Keep your data private. No registration required, and no uploading of your data anywhere if you don't want to. Use different sensors in your activities (heart rate monitor, cadence/speed/power on a bike). Upload your activities to important sites like Strava or SICAMI. Analyze your activities, obtaining graphs, average and maximum data, etc. Follow routes, with alerts when you move away from the path or when you approach points of interest. Search for routes using an online service, which will allow you to find paths anywhere. It includes a powerful GIS tool for complex distance calculations, bearings, intersections, coordinate conversions, and more. Share your live position with your friends and hiking companions, or with family so they can follow your trail. It includes numerous utilities: - Dashboard - Compass - Artificial horizon - GIS tool Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: OruxMaps at 4.0 against Red's 3.4. Red's advantage is review sentiment (55% vs 36%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Red sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and OruxMaps sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
OruxMaps holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 55% of Red's written reviews are positive against 36% of OruxMaps's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Red ships an update every 3 weeks, OruxMaps monthly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Red | OruxMaps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (10 ratings) | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews — better | 35.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 537 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Alpha Outdoors Pty Ltd | jose Vazquez Araujo |
Customer experience
Red
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In-app purchases
Red
- Red-Point+ Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Red-Point+ Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
OruxMaps
- Monthly Premium$0.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$9.991 Year
- Buy me a coffee$1.99
- Small contribution$2.99
- Medium contribution$4.99
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- Large contribution$9.99








