Camp Plan vs GPXExplore
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Camp Plan
Plan backcountry adventures by importing GPX files to estimate travel time and calorie needs. Download weather forecasts along your route and generate a packing list. During your trip, track time, distance, and current weather conditions.
- GPX file import
- Estimated travel time calculation
- Calorie needs estimation
- Weather forecast download
- Packing list generation
- Real-time trip tracking
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Camp plan helps you plan your next backcountry adventure. Import a GPX file, and the app will calculate • Estimated travel time • How many calories you'll need • Download weather forecasts along your route • Packing list During your trip, the app will calculate the time and distance remaining to your next destination and show the current weather conditions based on the downloaded forecast. Perfect for backpackers, climbers, and mountaineers who want to plan their trips with confidence.
GPXExplore
Visualize outdoor adventures by viewing GPS tracks on an interactive map. The app uses elevation-based coloring to highlight climbs and descents, providing detailed route statistics for your hikes, runs, or cycles.
- GPX file viewer
- Interactive map display
- Elevation-based gradient coloring
- Detailed route statistics
- Universal app support
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Open a GPX file. See the whole ride. Every watch, bike computer and fitness service can hand you a GPX file. Most apps show you a line on a map. GPX Explore shows you the ride: where it climbed and how hard, what your heart rate and power were doing on that climb, how long you were actually moving, and how each kilometre went. COLOUR TELLS YOU THE CLIMB The track is painted by grade: blue where it is flat, green as it rises, orange and red on the steep pitches. Read a route before you ride it, or see where the hard part of the day was without touching the chart. A second mode colours by elevation, and both work on standard, satellite and hybrid maps. EVERY NUMBER YOUR WATCH RECORDED Heart rate, cadence, power, speed and temperature from Garmin, Strava, Wahoo, Coros, Suunto and Apple Watch files, charted under the map with a picker to switch series. Scrub the chart and the marker follows on the map. The route card sums up the workout: distance, moving time with the stops taken out, average pace or speed, max speed, elevation gain and loss with GPS noise filtered, sensor averages, and splits per kilometre or mile. FILES FROM ANYWHERE The complete GPX 1.1 schema and the GPX 1.0 files older tools write: tracks, routes and waypoints with their names, symbols and comments, metadata, and every exporter's extensions. Files that confuse other viewers open here: fractional-second timestamps, tracks with no elevation or no times, routes with no track, waypoint-only files. MADE FOR THE MAC Double-click a .gpx file and it opens. Quick Look in Finder draws the track coloured by grade. A drawer lists every track, segment and waypoint so you can hide what you are not looking at. Keyboard shortcuts for fit (⌘0), the chart (⌘E), the route card (⌘I), map styles (⌘1–3) and settings (⌘,). Share the GPX, or export the map with the chart under it as one picture. ON IPHONE AND IPAD Open a GPX from Mail, Messages, Files or any app that shares one. It lands on the map with a strip of numbers on top; tap for the full card and the splits. The chart scrubs with a finger. YOURS STAYS YOURS GPX Explore is a viewer. No account, no sync, no server, no edits to your files. The file you open is read on your device and nowhere else. Free on every platform, with no in-app purchases. In English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese.
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Verdict
Camp Plan and GPXExplore are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Camp Plan | GPXExplore |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shawn Murphy | ObjectGraph LLC |
Customer experience
Camp Plan
GPXExplore
In-app purchases
Camp Plan
No in-app purchases
GPXExplore
No in-app purchases







