Comparison

GPS Tracks vs GPS & Maps

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

Head to head
About

GPS Tracks

Track your outdoor activities like hiking, biking, and running with this app. Navigate to saved destinations and store favorite locations. Explore anywhere with offline map support and real-time track sharing.

Highlights
  • Route tracking for outdoor activities
  • Waypoint navigation and storage
  • Offline map downloads
  • Real-time track sharing
  • Export tracks and waypoints
  • Range finder and map measuring tools
Features
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"One of the better GPS apps for sporting enthusiasts for the iPhone..." - Bryan Wolfe, AppAdvice.com Do you want to track your hiking, biking, walking, running? Do you want to track your outdoor activities? Do you need to navigate to waypoints? Do you want to store your favorite destinations? Explore anywhere, without limits with GPS Tracks. It is an ideal app for offline hiking, running, walking, cycling, and any other route tracking activity. It is a perfect companion for traveling, hunting, fishing, and other navigational activities where you need to store specific waypoints. Use Applications - • Great for hiking offline, running, walking, and biking to track your route! • Great for photographers who need to track location data for their pictures! • Great for hunters and fishermen who need to store specific locations! • Great for golfing to find the distance to the pin! • Great for military navigational applications! Features Upgrade to GPS Tracks Pro & Premium (requires subscription) • Download maps for offline use • Use Street, Terrain, Topo, Satellite, USGS, NOAA nautical charts, FAA charts, and many other alternate map sources • Add map overlays of local trails or area boundaries from images, files, or directly from your camera • Use custom Map Tile Server URLs • Export tracks and waypoints to GPX, KML, KMZ, or CSV • Print Maps in PDF • GPS Tracks Live - real-time track sharing with friends which allows you to see your friends tracks live on the map • Use the Range Finder • Create a track pacesetter or goal to improve your time on a given track • Weather at waypoints • Elevation profiles for tracks • Create routes manually by tracing the map or dropping pins • GPS Tracks uses WGS84 datum, over 220 datums available with the subscription • Subscription syncs via iCloud to other devices Track • Record your track for any activity • Save your favorite waypoints • Take GPS static observations to average current location for more accurate waypoints • Easily navigate to waypoints with the waypoint guide on the compass • Add a vector as a waypoint with angle and distance • Convert between four sets of coordinates (Decimal, DMS, MGRS, UTM) anytime Measure (requires subscription) • The Range Finder allows you to measure distance, elevation and angle between any two points on the map • Map measuring tools allow you to measure area and distance on the map • Draw or drop pins to measure Apple Watch App • Track your activity directly with your Apple Watch without your iPhone • Will save your workouts to the Health app from the watch (only the watch app uses HealthKit) Connect • iCloud syncing (will sync between Mac, iPad, and iPhone version) • Import from Dropbox, iCloud Drive, or the local device storage • Send a waypoint to the Apple, Google, or Waze app for driving directions • Import tracks and coordinates in a GPX, KML, BIN, CSV, or NMEA format Live Activities & Widgets • Live Activity for tracking and navigating waypoints • Lock Screen & Home Screen widget for distance today and current location • Home Screen widget for last track and add new waypoint There are many other great features. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use - http://www.dmsoftwaresolutions.com/privacyPolicyTermsOfUse.html Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

About

GPS & Maps

This app provides precise location tracking, altitude, and speed measurements for various outdoor activities. Save and display waypoints on a map, utilize a compass, and access different map data sources. An integrated flashlight aids in low-light conditions.

Highlights
  • Precise GPS tracking
  • Altitude and speed logging
  • Waypoint saving and display
  • Integrated compass
  • Multiple coordinate formats
  • Map widgets
  • Flashlight functionality
Features
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GPS & Maps is a simple, yet powerful GPS app for supporting navigation and outdoor activities like geocaching, sailing, skating, trekking, biking or traveling by airplane. It measures your position, height and acceleration with accuracy information and in different units like feet, meter, miles and kilometers. Your highest altitude and speed will also be logged. You can show and save your current position or other waypoints on a map and pick one of the following formats to view your coordinates: - GPS Coordinates (Latitude/Longitude) - Decimal Degrees - Degrees/Minutes/Seconds - UTM: Universal Transverse Mercator - MGRS: Military Grid Reference System GPS & Maps is a must have for geocachers, due to the easy switching between coordinates and map. The integrated flashlight enables users like geocachers to find targets even in dark environments without having to use a separate device. Via in-app purchase you can add some useful features to GPS & Maps: - Premium Edition: Unlock all of the following features. - Waypoints: Save your current location as a marker on the map. Add new locations like geo caches to the map by entering GPS coordinates. Pick different colors for waypoints. Export waypoints via e-mail. Show or hide saved waypoints on the map. - Map Widgets: The draggable Map Widgets show your location, altitude, speed, address and GPS accuracy directly on the map. You can change the widget transparency and textcolor in the settings to optimize readability on different map tiles and map data sources like Google Maps or Open Street Map. - Compass: The compass shows your heading relative to magnetic north or true north (configurable in the settings) and your current location coordinates. It also shows additional information like street, city and country. If you buy Compass and Map Widgets the Compass will also be displays as a widget on the map. - Open Street Map: This feature enhances the map with additional map data from Open Street Map. - Google Maps: This feature enhances the map with additional map data from Google Maps. The map modes 'standard', 'satellite', 'hybrid' and 'terrain' can be selected in the options menu. - iCloud Backup & Restore Please keep in mind that the accuracy of your position and acceleration always depends on the intensity of the available GPS signal. Compass and heading information are only available on devices with magnetometer.

Screenshots

GPS Tracks4 screens
GPS & Maps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: GPS Tracks at none against GPS & Maps's shown. GPS Tracks also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 63%) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). GPS & Maps's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. GPS Tracks sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per year and GPS & Maps sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GPS Tracks holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GPS Tracks has 18K ratings behind it against 2.3K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of GPS Tracks's written reviews are positive against 63% of GPS & Maps's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GPS Tracks ships an update fortnightly, GPS & Maps monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
GPS Tracks versus GPS & Maps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGPS TracksGPS & Maps
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (18K ratings) — better4.4 (2.3K ratings)
Positive reviews85.4% of reviews — better62.9% of reviews
Number of ratings18K — better2.3K
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#82 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid MorneaultKraus und Karnath GbR 2Kit Consulting

Customer experience

GPS Tracks

All ratings17,786 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral3.4%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews1,431 reviews
Positive85.4%
Neutral3.7%
Negative10.9%

GPS & Maps

All ratings2,249 ratings
Positive86.1%
Neutral5.1%
Negative8.8%
Written reviews240 reviews
Positive62.9%
Neutral6.3%
Negative30.8%

User reviews

GPS Tracks

From 18K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Accurate GPS tracking
  • 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
  • 💡 Versatile features for various activities
  • 🚀 Responsive customer support
  • 👍 Reliable and consistent performance

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or glitches
  • 🔋 Battery drain issues
  • 🔒 Concerns about privacy and data security
  • 👎 Offline maps not fully functional

GPS & Maps

From 2.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Clear and precise
  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Streamlined GPS app
  • 💡 Excellent tracking service
  • 🚀 Accurate and reliable

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Does not display full screen on iPad
  • 🐛 Compass is not working
  • 💰 Features held behind paywall
  • 🐛 Waypoints are inaccurate
  • 🐛 Compass is over 90 degrees out

Bugs and requests

GPS Tracks

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Tracks disappearing after updates
  • GPS coordinates not always accurate
  • Difficulty deleting unwanted waypoints

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to edit waypoint names
  • Improved map synchronization across devices
  • Integration with popular fitness apps
  • Landscape map view option
  • Automatic activity tracking without user interaction

GPS & Maps

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes on launch
  • Waypoints drop in wrong location
  • Compass not working
  • Coordinates are inaccurate

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to draw lines between waypoints
  • Ability to add notes to waypoints
  • Ability to add photos to waypoints
  • Dark mode option
  • Ability to enter coordinates manually
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  • Ability to measure distance between points

In-app purchases

3 purchases

GPS Tracks

Subscriptions2
  • GPS Tracks Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • GPS Tracks Premium$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Datum Add-On Pack$2.99
7 purchases

GPS & Maps

One-time7
  • Smart Compass$0.99
  • Map Widgets$0.99
  • Open Street Map$0.99
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  • Google Maps$0.99
  • POI / Waypoints$0.99
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Premium Editon$4.99

Questions

Is GPS Tracks free?
GPS Tracks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GPS & Maps free?
GPS & Maps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, GPS Tracks or GPS & Maps?
GPS Tracks is rated higher. GPS Tracks averages 4.7 out of 5 from 18K ratings, while GPS & Maps averages 4.4 from 2.3K ratings.
Do GPS Tracks or GPS & Maps have ads?
GPS & Maps shows ads; GPS Tracks does not.
Which is updated more often, GPS Tracks or GPS & Maps?
GPS Tracks ships an update fortnightly, and GPS & Maps monthly. Most recently, GPS Tracks was updated on November 5, 2026 and GPS & Maps on November 4, 2026.

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