TopoRec vs Offline Topo Map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
Offline Topo Map
Access detailed national topographic maps for various European countries offline. Download map areas to navigate without a data connection, view coordinates, and access emergency information. Includes winter and slope layers for specific regions.
- Offline topographic maps for Europe
- Downloadable map areas
- Coordinate display (decimal, DMS, UTM, Swiss LV95)
- Emergency contact information and rescue card
- Winter and slope layers
- Hillshade and compass
- GPX track import and display
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No account. No subscription. No tracking. Official maps across borders. Offline Topo Map puts the national topo maps of Switzerland, France, Germany, Austria and South Tyrol on your iPhone and iPad, with OpenTopoMap and TopPlusOpen for the rest of Europe. Draw a rectangle over the area you are heading into, download it, and the map keeps working where the signal doesn't, with 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. • Coordinates and a rescue card — touch and hold any point, or tap your own position, to see its coordinates (decimal degrees, DMS, degrees and decimal minutes, UTM, and Swiss LV95 inside Switzerland), its altitude and the local emergency numbers: 1414 Rega in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, 140 Alpine emergency in Austria, 112 everywhere. Copy or share them in one tap, or open a high-contrast rescue card to read out to a dispatcher, with call buttons. Works offline. • Winter layers for Switzerland — slopes over 30°, ski touring routes, snowshoe routes and wildlife quiet zones from swisstopo, downloadable for offline use like any overlay. • Slopes for France — steepness above 30° from IGN, across the French mountains. • Hillshade on any map — shaded relief drawn on your phone from open elevation data. • Scale bar and compass — read distances, see your heading, or lock rotation to keep north up. • Draw it, download it — drag a rectangle and download zoom levels 0 to 17 with the overlays you have switched on. Tile count and estimated size are shown first. • Your GPX tracks, from any app — share a .gpx file from Files, Mail or Safari and it appears on the map. Rename, hide or remove tracks. • The offline switch — the map shows only what you have stored, with every saved area outlined. • Downloads that finish — lock the phone or lose the connection and nothing is lost; one tap fetches the rest. • Your storage, your rules — a downloads list shows each area with its map, size and date. • In your language — English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Czech. BUILT FOR THE OUTDOORS Plan at home, then find your way on a 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. The app requests map tiles and nothing else: no ads, no analytics, no personal data collected. Your location and GPX files stay on your device. BUILT ON OPEN DATA OpenTopoMap © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA), map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, SRTM. swisstopo maps and winter layers © swisstopo; wildlife quiet zones © BAFU. 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. 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 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Offline Topo Map at 100% against TopoRec's 90%. On price, 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
Both are free to download. TopoRec sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $17.99 per year and Offline Topo Map sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
TopoRec ships an update every 9 days, Offline Topo Map every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TopoRec | Offline Topo Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 97 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Enrico Hoffmann | Florian Zindel |
Customer experience
TopoRec
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In-app purchases
TopoRec
- Premium3 Days trial$17.991 Year
Offline Topo Map
- OfflineTopoMap Pro$5.99







