Comparison

TopoRec vs Offline Topo Map

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

Head to head
About

TopoRec

Explore historical and modern maps with this powerful viewer. Discover locations, record tracks, edit areas, and import/export data. Ideal for historians, archaeologists, and outdoor enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • View historical and modern online maps
  • Capture and edit points, areas, and tracks
  • Import and export data (GPX compatible)
  • Filter maps by type and scale
  • Create custom lines and areas
Features
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TopoRec – The powerful map viewer for historical & modern maps Explore the world through maps! TopoRec gives you access to both historical and current map data. Discover locations, collect position data, edit areas, record tracks, and export or import your data – all in one app. Perfect for: • Historians & archaeologists • Metal detector enthusiasts • Map lovers & outdoor explorers • History buffs with a curiosity for the past Features at a glance: • View online maps (historical & modern) • Capture & edit points, areas, and tracks • Import & export data (incl. GPX) • Filter maps by type and scale • Create your own lines and areas • Internet connection required Free use with time limitation: All features can be used free and without restrictions for a short time. After approx. 2 minutes per session, a Premium subscription is required to continue without limitations. TopoRec Premium – Your benefits: • Unlimited access to all features • Exclusive extras & new updates • Priority support Subscription info: The annual subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Auto-renewal can be turned off at any time in the account settings. Legal information: • End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ • Privacy Policy: https://toporec.com/privacy_policy/datenschutzerklaerung.html Rediscover maps – with TopoRec!

About

Offline Topo Map

This app provides detailed topographic maps that function without an internet connection. Users can download specific areas for offline use, featuring contour lines, hill shading, and trail information. It's designed for outdoor activities where signal is unreliable.

Highlights
  • Offline topographic maps
  • Downloadable map areas
  • Contour lines and hill shading
  • Trail and hut markers
  • No ads or tracking
  • Customizable download sizes
Features
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The topographic map of Europe that works where the signal doesn't. Offline Topo Map puts the best free topo maps of Europe on your iPhone and iPad: the official national maps of Switzerland, France, Germany, Austria and South Tyrol, plus OpenTopoMap and TopPlusOpen for the rest of the continent, from the Pyrenees to Scandinavia. Pick a map, draw a rectangle over the area you are heading into, download it, and the map keeps working when your phone has no connection at all. WHAT YOU GET • Six topo maps, one tap apart — OpenTopoMap (worldwide), swisstopo (Switzerland), Plan IGN (France), TopPlusOpen (Germany and Europe), basemap.at (Austria) and South Tyrol. A single layers button switches between them; each national map shows where it covers, and a tap takes you there. • Hillshade on any map — shaded relief drawn on your phone from open elevation data, so even a flat official map shows ridges and gullies at a glance. • Slopes for ski touring — steepness above 30° on top of the map, from IGN, across the French mountains. • Draw it, download it — tap the dashed rectangle, drag across the map, touch and hold to nudge it into place, then download zoom levels 0 to 17 in one go. The download stores the map you picked plus the overlays you have switched on. • Know the size first — before anything is fetched you see the tile count and an estimated download size, so a careless swipe never turns into a gigabyte. • Your GPX tracks, from any app — share a .gpx file from Files, Mail, Safari or any other app and it appears on the map. Rename a track, hide it without deleting it, or remove it. • The offline switch — flip it and the map shows only what you have stored, with every saved area outlined. What you see is exactly what you will have on the mountain. • Downloads that finish — lock the phone or lose the connection and nothing is lost. Every area remembers what it is missing, and one tap fetches only the rest. • Find yourself — one tap centres the map on your position. Location is used on the device only. • Your storage, your rules — a downloads list shows each area with its map, size and date. Delete one, delete all, or jump straight to it on the map. BUILT FOR THE OUTDOORS Plan at home on a big screen, then find your way on an Alpine hut-to-hut trek, a ski tour in the Dolomites or a bikepacking trip through valleys with one bar of signal or none. No roaming data needed abroad: what you stored is on your phone. The app sends nothing but map tile requests, has no account, no ads and no tracking, and collects no personal data. GPX files stay on your device. BUILT ON OPEN DATA OpenTopoMap © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA), map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, SRTM. swisstopo © swisstopo. Plan IGN and slopes © IGN, Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0. TopPlusOpen © BKG, dl-de/by-2-0. basemap.at, CC BY 4.0. South Tyrol © Autonome Provinz Bozen – Südtirol, CC0. Relief from AWS Terrain Tiles, EU-DEM © Copernicus, SRTM/USGS. Offline Topo Map is an independent client and is not affiliated with any of these providers. To keep their services healthy, each download is capped at 15,000 tiles and the app backs off whenever a server asks it to. A NOTE ON SAFETY Map data can be incomplete or outdated. Use the map as an aid alongside an official paper map and your own judgement, never as your only means of navigation in terrain where getting lost is dangerous. Questions or ideas? Visit offlinetopomap.com.

Screenshots

TopoRec4 screens
Offline Topo Map4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: TopoRec at Free against Offline Topo Map's $2.99. Offline Topo Map's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). On 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

TopoRec is free to download; Offline Topo Map costs $2.99 up front. TopoRec sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $17.99 per year. Offline Topo Map asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TopoRec ships an update every 9 days, Offline Topo Map every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
TopoRec versus Offline Topo Map: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTopoRecOffline Topo Map
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size97 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEnrico HoffmannFlorian Zindel

Customer experience

TopoRec

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive90.5%
Neutral4.8%
Negative4.8%

Offline Topo Map

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TopoRec

Subscriptions1
  • Premium3 Days trial$17.991 Year
None

Offline Topo Map

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TopoRec free?
TopoRec is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Offline Topo Map free?
Offline Topo Map costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do TopoRec or Offline Topo Map have ads?
Neither TopoRec nor Offline Topo Map shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TopoRec or Offline Topo Map?
TopoRec ships an update every 9 days, and Offline Topo Map every 4 days. Most recently, TopoRec was updated on October 16, 2026 and Offline Topo Map on October 3, 2026.

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