iHunter vs DownWind

iHunter is Canada's all-in-one hunting app designed for hunters across British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, & Labrador, Nova Scotia, and the Yukon Territories. The app is both free to download and free to use. Regulations are updated annually upon release by the respective provinces. By overlaying hunting zones onto various base maps, users can easily determine their current location and the corresponding zone. Users can delve deeper into specific zones to view the open seasons for big game, predators, game birds, and small game. Additionally, they can add their own waypoints, tracks, and drawings to keep track of hunting spots, past harvests, and landowner contact information. Features (Most functional offline): • View Hunting zones overlaid on your choice of map. • Multiple satellite, topographic, and road maps included which automatically caching for offline use. • Add waypoints to the map at your current location, known GPS locations, or by tapping on the map. • Log in to back up and synchronize waypoints and preferences across devices. • Utilize the sunrise/sunset calculator to determine legal hunting light at your location or a waypoint. • Share your current location with friends or family via email or text for easy location tracking requires internet. • Display weather at your current location or a waypoint (requires internet). • First Nations Reserve boundaries. • Import waypoints and tracks from GPX, KML, and KMZ files. • Track your position, speed, and altitude; draw over the map; search the map; view recently viewed and favourited items. (Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can significantly decrease battery life). For each province, there are two subscription options to enhance the iHunter app: With an iHunter Core yearly subscription, you will receive: • Access to select hunting zones to view summaries of big-game, predators, game birds, and small game seasons (works offline). • Ability to select regions of base maps and map layers to cache for offline use. • Unlimited waypoints, tracks, and drawings. • Capability to add your own TMS and WMS map layers. • Wind condition display by location (requires internet). • 3D base maps. With an iHunter Pro yearly subscription, you will receive: • All features included in the Core Subscription. • CarPlay integration. • iHunter layers in driving navigation for both CarPlay and in-app navigation. • Additional public and private land layers. The available layers differ for each province. See https://www.ihunterapp.com/ for more information. For more information, visit: https://www.ihunterapp.com/subscription-terms-of-use/ Other available purchases: • Land Ownership Maps (AB): Over 60 county land ownership overlays ranging in price from $9.99 to $29.99 are available for Alberta. • Land Ownership Maps (SK): Over 180 RM land ownership overlays ranging in price from $14.99 to $21.99 are available for Saskatchewan. • Land Ownership Maps (MB): Over 70 RM land ownership overlays ranging in price from $14.99 to $44.99 are available for Manitoba.

DownWind is a hunter's map, forecast, and recovery tool — built to help you plan a smart approach, pick the right day and time, and find a wounded animal. THE MAP & SCENT CONE Lay your hunt out on a satellite and topo map: save stands, blinds, and trail-camera spots, and draw deer trails and your own land boundaries. The scent cone overlay shows where your scent is drifting for any hour's wind — so you can pick a stand and an approach the wind keeps in your favor instead of blowing your spot. "Best stands for this wind" ranks your setups for the conditions, and a time slider scrubs the wind hour by hour so you can plan exactly when to slip in. DEER MOVEMENT FORECAST A 7-day forecast tuned for hunters: every day gets a deer-movement rating and the best windows to be out, with the hourly detail behind it. It weighs what actually moves deer — cool-to-cold temperatures, rain that shuts movement down, and a rut overlay that lifts midday activity during the chase — and stays honest about the weak signals instead of overselling them. Wind, temperature, precipitation, and sunrise/sunset are all there for planning the sit. RECOVERY Marginal hit? Log the blood and sign you find — color, consistency, hair, bone, spray pattern — and DownWind reads the likely hit zone, estimates how lethal the shot was, and recommends how long to wait before you take up the trail, with a countdown. Drop shot and last-blood markers and it builds a recovery map: color-coded probability zones and a directional search fan drawn from the hit, animal behavior, and terrain. Add blood, hair, bone, track, and bed waypoints as you go and the predicted line tightens around the real trail. Turn on GPS tracking to record your search path — even in the background, with the screen off — and invite your party by email so everyone's tracks and positions merge into one shared coverage map. No more searching the same ground twice. YOUR DATA Your hunts, recoveries, tracks, and saved places stay private to your account. Delete any record — or your whole account — at any time. Location is used only with your permission, and background recording shows the standard system indicator while it's active. AN AID, NOT A GUARANTEE DownWind's ratings, maps, and wait times are estimates meant to support your own judgment and experience — not facts, not a guarantee of recovery, and not a safety, navigation, or emergency device. Always hunt legally and ethically: follow your local regulations, seasons, and legal hours, and verify land boundaries before you cross them. For licensed hunters. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/