Comparison

Harz vs Heritage Walker

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

Head to head
About

Harz

Discover over 1,000 hiking, biking, and winter tours with offline navigation and route planning. Find accommodations, cultural sites, and activities. Stay updated on trail conditions and save your workouts to Apple Health.

Highlights
  • Over 1,000 tour suggestions
  • Offline tour storage
  • Voice navigation
  • Custom tour planning
  • Save recorded routes
  • Real-time trail updates
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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Die offizielle Harz-App vom Harzer Tourismusverband bietet über 1.000 Vorschläge für Wander-, Mountainbike-, Rad- und Wintertouren. Alle Touren können offline gespeichert werden. Mit der neuen Sprach-Navigation führt die App ohne Kartenstudium sicher zum Ziel. Sie bietet auch die Möglichkeit, eigene Touren zu planen und die zurückgelegten Strecken zu speichern. Zusätzlich gibt es aktuelle Hinweise zu Wegsperrungen oder Umleitungen. In der App finden sich der gesamte Harzer-Hexen-Stieg, alle Stempelstellen der Harzer Wandernadel, das gesamte Mountainbike-Routennetz der Volksbank-Arena Harz u.v.m. Darüber hinaus gibt es viele weitere Tipps zu Unterkünften, Kultureinrichtungen und Freizeitaktivitäten in der magischen Gebirgswelt. Alle Tourenvorschläge, Hinweise und Tipps wurden vom Harzer Tourismusverband, den Harzer Tourist-Informationen und vielen weiteren Partnern in der Region erstellt und werden regelmäßig überprüft und aktualisiert. Apple Health: Wenn du eine Rad-, Wander- oder Laufstrecke aufzeichnest, kannst du dein Workout in Apple Health speichern. Daten aus HealthKit werden nicht für Marketing oder Werbezwecke genutzt.

About

Heritage Walker

Features
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Heritage Walker is an offline map of 265,222 heritage places in 228 countries. Castles, prehistoric monuments, industrial landmarks, sacred sites, memorials and lighthouses - stored on your phone, not fetched from a server. WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL, BECAUSE IT CANNOT PHONE HOME Turn on airplane mode and the app behaves identically. That is not a setting. Heritage Walker contains no networking code of its own - the release build is automatically rejected if any appears in it. No account, no sign-up, no analytics. Nothing you do in this app can leave your phone, because there is no code capable of sending it. WHAT IS ON THE MAP 41,625 archaeological sites. 44,542 memorials. 25,471 castles. 22,748 museums. 5,539 lighthouses. Every record travels with you. NOW IN TWELVE LANGUAGES The whole app - interface, categories and the reading voice - is available in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Hindi. A Dutch church is read in Dutch, a French abbey in French - the app detects the language of each record on your device and picks a matching voice, instead of reading the world in English. ADD THE COUNTRY YOU ARE STANDING IN The map is free and complete. Heritage Plus downloads the country you are walking in at full density - Rome goes from 419 places to over 2,200, carried on the phone. The download is handled by the App Store itself, the way an app update arrives, and it carries nothing about you. THIS IS NOT FOR EVERYONE No reviews, no opening hours, no booking, no feed. It is a map of what is around you and what it is. If you want a travel guide, this is not one.

Screenshots

Harz4 screens
Heritage Walker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Harz at none against Heritage Walker's 4. Heritage Walker's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 7 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Heritage Walker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Harz asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Harz ships an update every 7 months, Heritage Walker every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Harz versus Heritage Walker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHarzHeritage Walker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB100 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOutdooractive AGDavid Shelley

In-app purchases

None

Harz

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Heritage Walker

Subscriptions4
  • Heritage Plus Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Explorer$9.991 Month
  • Heritage Plus Annual14 Days trial$14.991 Year
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  • Historian$14.991 Month

Questions

Is Harz free?
Harz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Heritage Walker free?
Heritage Walker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Harz or Heritage Walker have ads?
Neither Harz nor Heritage Walker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Harz or Heritage Walker?
Harz ships an update every 7 months, and Heritage Walker every 2 days. Most recently, Harz was updated on November 1, 2026 and Heritage Walker on October 24, 2026.

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