Comparison

Backwood vs Outerly

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

Head to head
About

Backwood

Connect with local communities for sports and outdoor adventures. Discover new spots for activities like fishing, hiking, and off-roading. Organize group meetups, share locations, and compete on leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Local sports and outdoor community
  • Discover new adventure spots
  • Organize group meetups and challenges
  • Interactive map with shared coordinates
  • Seasonal leaderboards and rewards
  • Private and public sharing options
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Your Local Social, Sports & Outdoor Community. Meet. Compete. Explore. Drop Meetups or Challenges on Local Sports Courts. Find new spots for fishing, hiking, camping, cycling, dirt biking, ATV riding, 4x4 off-roading & more. Challenge route courses with checkpoints and time leaderboards. Meet / Compete in basketball, fishing, running, biking, climbing and more. Climb seasonal leaderboards and earn rewards. Pin your favorite spots and plan group adventure or travel meetups on an interactive map. Share precise coordinates for fishing holes, trailheads, or off-road rally points. Save photos and videos to personal hotspots so you can revisit (and share) adventures anytime. Discover hidden riding routes, fishing access, campsites, hiking paths, climbing crags, and off-road lines. Search by activity, location, or distance. Build your crew. Connect with friends and like-minded adventurers. Share pins and media privately with your group or post publicly to the Backwood community. Swap insider tips, recommend trails, and coordinate group outings—seamlessly. No AI. No data brokers. No tracking. No spam. No BS. Join your local Social, Sports & Outdoors Community. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://backwood.app/privacy

About

Outerly

Discover curated walking groups for social outings in your city. Answer personality questions to get matched with strangers for planned routes and secret endpoint meetups. Currently available in select East Coast cities.

Highlights
  • Curated group matching
  • Planned walking routes
  • Secret endpoint meetups
  • Personality-based matching
  • City-specific outings
Features
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Find your people, one walk at a time. Outerly matches you into a small, curated group of strangers for a fully planned walking outing in your city. You answer some personality questions and book your outing, and we'll do the rest. You'll get a starting point where you meet your group, a snapshot of each participant you've been matched with, a locally-made walking route, and an endpoint at a secret location where all of the small groups that day meet up together. Currently live in DC, Baltimore, and Philly, with new locations added regularly!

Screenshots

Backwood4 screens
Outerly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Outerly at none against Backwood's 7. Outerly also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 days). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Backwood sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Outerly asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Backwood against 4.9 for Outerly. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Backwood ships an update every 6 days, Outerly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Backwood versus Outerly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackwoodOuterly
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (13 ratings) — better4.9 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB49 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperTech G LabsUrban Outdoors

Customer experience

Backwood

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Outerly

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Backwood

Subscriptions2
  • Backwood Monthly Supporter$4.991 Month
  • Backwood Yearly Supporter$59.991 Year
One-time5
  • 5,000 Backwood Credits$4.99
  • 10,000 Backwood Credits$9.99
  • 15,000 Backwood Credits$14.99
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  • 25,000 Backwood Credits$24.99
  • 50,000 Backwood Credits$49.99
None

Outerly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Backwood free?
Backwood is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Outerly free?
Outerly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Backwood or Outerly?
Backwood is rated higher. Backwood averages 5.0 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Outerly averages 4.9 from 7 ratings.
Do Backwood or Outerly have ads?
Neither Backwood nor Outerly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Backwood or Outerly?
Backwood ships an update every 6 days, and Outerly every 2 days. Most recently, Backwood was updated on November 4, 2026 and Outerly on October 31, 2026.

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