Comparison

iOrienteering vs O

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

Head to head
About

iOrienteering

This app turns your smartphone into an orienteering tool, allowing you to load courses, scan checkpoints with QR codes, and track your location via GPS. It supports various course types and can be used for private or public events, offering a fun way to time or score activities.

Highlights
  • GPS location detection
  • QR barcode checkpoint scanning
  • Score and linear course support
  • Reusable checkpoints
  • Private and public course setup
  • Event timing and scoring
Features
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iOrienteering combines the convenience of a smartphone with the challenge of orienteering. As well as using QR barcodes to load the course, start, finish and read checkpoints, you can now use your device's GPS to detect your location. iOrienteering allows both score and point to point (linear) courses. Checkpoints can now be used multiple times, so Phi or Butterfly loops can be created You can set up private or public course. Private if just for you, your friends, a school or club. Public if anyone can take part. Simple and great fun. It is free to use. Although designed for orienteering it can be used in any situation where you would like to time or score an event, or you simply what to show someone has traveled to a specific location. For a fun example, you could use it on a stag night with a barcode at each pub or on a car navigation event to show various points have been visited. If you use the app for something unusual then tell us about it as we'd love to hear about it.

About

O

Features
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O-Track makes enjoying orienteering easy and fun for both beginners and experienced orienteers. You can use your GPS-watch or your phone to track your run, upload it to O-Track and then view how you did and compare to other runners.

Screenshots

iOrienteering4 screens
O2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: O at 17.6 against iOrienteering's 26.0. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iOrienteering ships an update fortnightly, O monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
iOrienteering versus O: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriOrienteeringO
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews56.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRichard PattonTracTrac Aps

In-app purchases

None

iOrienteering

No in-app purchases

None

O

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iOrienteering free?
iOrienteering is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is O free?
O is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do iOrienteering or O have ads?
Neither iOrienteering nor O shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iOrienteering or O?
iOrienteering ships an update fortnightly, and O monthly. Most recently, iOrienteering was updated on October 23, 2026 and O on October 12, 2026.

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