Comparison

Geo Elevation vs Soffa

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

Head to head
About

Geo Elevation

Create detailed elevation profiles by drawing paths on a map. Visualize terrain changes, including mountains and coastlines, with interactive charts that sync to your map view. Ideal for planning outdoor activities or exploring topography.

Highlights
  • Draw paths on map for elevation profiles
  • Interactive map and chart sync
  • Multiple elevation data sources
  • Comprehensive statistics (min/max elevation, gain)
  • Flexible unit configuration
  • Location search and current location support
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Draw a path and see its elevation profile. Draw an area and see the ground itself: its highest and lowest points, its slopes and contours, in 3D. Anywhere on Earth, with the numbers a planner needs. Paths that follow the trail. Add a few points and choose Walking, Cycling or Driving: each leg follows the real path or road. A second later the profile is there, one sample every 30 metres, with distance, climb and descent, average grade and the steepest hundred metres. Move along the chart and a ring on the map shows where you are. Areas that answer for the ground. Draw an area, a circle or a rectangle and Geo Elevation reads the ground inside it every 30 metres: lowest, highest and mean height, relief, mean and steepest slope, with the highest and lowest points marked on the map. Every path that crosses the area gets its own small profile; scrub along it and the ring follows on the map. Slope and contours. Colour steep ground the way avalanche maps do, from the angle you choose, and draw contour lines at a spacing that suits the relief. On the map, and on the ground in 3D. The ground in 3D. Turn the area, raise the heights, scrub a path and watch the marker climb. Print it on paper as you turned it, or save it as an STL file for a 3D printer. Layers, as in a drawing app. Many shapes in one document, each in its own colour; show, hide and reorder them. Undo and redo every step. Spot heights. Pick any point for the height of the ground there. In and out. Import GPX, KML and GeoJSON, and older Geo Elevation files. Export GPX with elevations, CSV, GeoJSON, an image or a PDF report. Quick Look shows a document's map and profile in the Finder and in Files. Your units, your map. Kilometres or miles, metres or feet, hectares or acres; each document remembers its own. Standard, satellite, hybrid and 3D map styles. Documents are plain GeoJSON, in iCloud Drive if you want them on every device. One purchase for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro. No account, no subscription. Elevation data comes from our own server, ASTER and Mapzen at 30 m, worldwide; the app needs an internet connection to fetch it. In English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese.

About

Soffa

This app digitizes your parking experience, allowing for seamless, hands-free entry and exit. It uses smart cameras to recognize your license plate for automatic barrier access and cashless payments, eliminating the need for tickets or waiting in queues.

Highlights
  • Hands-free parking access
  • License plate recognition
  • Automatic barrier operation
  • Cashless payment system
  • Parking bill optimization
  • Universal parking solution
Features
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SOFFA is an application for users to digitalize and transform their parking experience, by enabling a hands free, and hassle free access and payment to parkings. SOFFA uses a smart camera equipped with our software that will recognize the users’ vehicle plate number while entering and exiting the parking. Users no longer need to take a ticket, nor wait in the paying queues to enter and exit the parking outlets. Process Explained: At the parking entrance security cameras scans your registration plate Parking barrier opens automatically At the parking exit, barrier opens automatically and time is calculated Amount is debited Numerous Benefits: Seamless Entry/Exit, Cashless, Parking Bill Optimization & Control, … SOFFA will offer a universal parking solution and will be available in numerous commercial, city parking and residential outlets.

Screenshots

Geo Elevation4 screens
Soffa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Soffa at Free against Geo Elevation's $4.99. Soffa also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). Geo Elevation's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On 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

Soffa is free to download; Geo Elevation costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Geo Elevation ships an update every 3 weeks, Soffa every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Geo Elevation versus Soffa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGeo ElevationSoffa
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating—2.5 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews56.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings—6 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperObjectGraph LLCSoffa SAL

Customer experience

Geo Elevation

Written reviews37 reviews
Positive56.8%
Neutral13.5%
Negative29.7%

Soffa

All ratings6 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

None

Geo Elevation

No in-app purchases

None

Soffa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Geo Elevation free?
Geo Elevation costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Soffa free?
Soffa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Geo Elevation or Soffa have ads?
Neither Geo Elevation nor Soffa shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Geo Elevation or Soffa?
Geo Elevation ships an update every 3 weeks, and Soffa every 4 weeks. Most recently, Geo Elevation was updated on October 16, 2026 and Soffa on October 6, 2026.

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