Fitness Mapper vs Oarsum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fitness Mapper
Visualize all your GPS workouts on a single interactive map. Explore past runs, walks, and rides, and relive your fitness journey with detailed stats and visual replays. See your most active routes highlighted with a customizable heatmap.
- Map Apple Watch GPS workouts
- Visualize runs, walks, rides, hikes
- Detailed workout stats and replays
- Workout history heatmap
- Customize heatmap colors
- Filter workouts by stats
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See your entire Apple Watch workout history on a single interactive map. Fitness Mapper helps you visualize runs, walks, rides, hikes, and other GPS workouts so you can explore where you’ve been and relive your fitness journey—across neighborhoods, cities, and trips. Instead of scrolling through lists, view your workouts as routes on a map. Tap any workout to see detailed stats and replay each session visually. Features • Map workouts recorded with Apple Watch • View GPS routes for running, walking, cycling, hiking, and more • Explore your workout history by distance, duration, or pace • Visualize workouts across trips and locations • See pace, distance, calories, heart rate, and elevation • View photos associated with workouts • Heatmap view to highlight your most active routes • Customize heatmap colors and intensity • Filter workouts by stats • Get a notification when a new route is available • Optimized for iPhone Duo • Smooth, interactive map optimized for performance • No subscription required to access all features Apple Watch & Apple Health Fitness Mapper integrates with Apple Watch and Apple Health to display workouts and route data. Your data stays private and is never shared. Download Fitness Mapper and see your Apple Watch workouts come to life on the map, with no subscription required. Apple, Apple Watch and Apple Health are trademarks of Apple Inc.
Oarsum
This app helps kayakers, canoeists, and rowers track their time on the water. Record live sessions, view distance and pace on Apple Watch, and get detailed trip summaries. It offers on-device analytics, water body identification, and integrates with Apple Health.
- Live paddle session recording
- Apple Watch companion display
- Detailed trip summaries
- HealthKit workout support
- On-device analytics
- Water body identification
- Private route logging
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Oarsum is a GPS paddle tracker and logbook for kayaking, canoeing, stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) and rowing. You did the paddling. Give yourself something to show for it: routes to replay, records to beat, and a whole year of water worth revisiting. RECORDING — Wrist or phone. Your call. Record on iPhone or independently on Apple Watch. Track your route, distance, duration, speed and pace. See heart rate, calories and stroke rate when available. Pause, resume, check weather conditions, and follow your Watch session on iPhone when connected. HISTORY — Run that paddle back Replay a saved route and see where you picked up speed. Browse trips in your logbook or on the map, show past routes together, and choose their colors. Pin favorite paddles and waters. Less digging. More finding. WATERS — Put a name to the place That lake has a name. So does the river you keep going back to. Search lakes and rivers worldwide, explore water shapes and available facts, and connect trips to named waters. Confirm where you paddled, check repeat visits, and find your regular spots. CALENDAR — Your year. Accounted for. See your year on the water, open a month, and revisit its paddles. Follow streaks, compare activity across days, months and years, and see your most active days and favorite times to paddle. INSIGHTS — Settle it with the numbers Your fastest paddle? Your longest? Open your personal records and the trips behind them. Explore pace trends, heart-rate zones and stroke efficiency from your recorded data. Deep Detail compares individual paddles with your history, so you can see how they stack up. INTELLIGENCE — Go ahead. Ask. "How far did I paddle this month?" "Which water do I visit most?" Paddle Intelligence turns questions about your paddling into answers from your saved trips and available Insights. It uses Apple Intelligence on supported devices. IMPORT, EXPORT & SYNC — Your old paddles count, too Import paddle workouts from Apple Health and trips from GPX files. Save Oarsum workouts to Apple Health, export routes as GPX, and sync your logbook across devices with iCloud. IPAD & MAC — Spread out a little Explore Oarsum Atlas on iPad: your map, water search and logbook in one workspace, with adjustable panels. Bring the same iPad experience to compatible Apple silicon Macs. WIDGETS & SHORTCUTS — Keep it handy Follow a session on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island with Live Activities. Reach Oarsum through widgets, Siri and Shortcuts, or find a saved paddle with Spotlight. Designed and built by an independent developer who paddles. Oarsum is for recreational tracking, not navigation or emergency use. Support: https://oarsum.com/contact Terms of Use: https://oarsum.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://oarsum.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Fitness Mapper at free against Oarsum's freemium. Fitness Mapper also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). Oarsum's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Fitness Mapper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Oarsum sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 3 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fitness Mapper against 5.0 for Oarsum. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Fitness Mapper ships an update monthly, Oarsum every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fitness Mapper | Oarsum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Bryant | Oddsplash LLC |
Customer experience
Fitness Mapper
Oarsum
In-app purchases
Fitness Mapper
- Full Access$7.99
Oarsum
- Seasonal Pass$2.993 Months
- Annual Pass$9.991 Year









