Loop vs HikeGPS

Plan, navigate & track your outdoor routes – on your iPhone and Apple Watch, even offline. Whether you're hiking, cycling, running, or exploring new trails, Loop makes it simple to map, track, and navigate your adventures. Plan routes by tapping and dragging directly on the map, follow turn-by-turn navigation on your iPhone or Apple Watch – fully offline – and sync your data to Apple Health. With detailed elevation profiles, GPS tracking, and GPX import/export, Loop is your all-in-one companion for every outdoor journey. PLAN ROUTES WITH EASE Map your routes effortlessly by tapping and dragging your finger on the map. Loop helps you create custom routes based on your preferences. VIEW ELEVATION PROFILES Loop provides clear elevation profiles along your routes, helping you assess the difficulty and terrain of your journey. NAVIGATE AS YOU GO Once your route is set, Loop guides you with a clean, distraction-free navigation interface showing your position, direction, and distance remaining – so you can focus on the trail, not the screen. NAVIGATE ON APPLE WATCH – EVEN OFFLINE Leave your phone behind. Download your routes and topographic maps to your Apple Watch and follow turn-by-turn navigation right from your wrist – no phone, no signal required. Perfect for trail running, hiking, and cycling where you don't want to carry your phone or can't rely on cellular coverage. TRACK YOUR ROUTES AND SYNC WITH APPLE HEALTH Loop records your GPS data in real-time, showing distance, elevation, and average speed. It syncs seamlessly with Apple Health to keep track of your fitness data. Save recorded routes in Apple Health to monitor your performance, view detailed stats, and track your route history – all from one place. EXPLORE WITH TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS Choose from different topographic map styles to suit your adventure. Whether you're navigating steep mountain trails or flat park paths, Loop’s detailed maps help you understand the terrain better, so you can plan your routes confidently. SAVE AND SHARE YOUR ROUTES Loop lets you save unlimited routes and GPS tracks, so you can easily plan your next adventure. You can also share your custom routes with friends or workout partners, making it easy to collaborate on your next outdoor activity. EXPORT AND IMPORT GPX FILES Seamlessly import and export your routes as GPX files – perfect for sharing with others or moving routes to and from third-party GPS devices and apps. ——— You can use the app free of charge forever. Some functionality can be activated by purchasing the “Pro” version. ——— Terms of Service: https://oriberlin.notion.site/loopmaps-terms Privacy Policy: https://oriberlin.notion.site/loopmaps-privacy Contact: support@loopmaps.com

HikeGPS records your hike and shows you the trail, even without a signal. No account is required. Hiking maps distinguish trails, tracks, steps and bridleways by line style and colour, with path names, summit elevations, water and trailheads. NAME WHAT YOU SEE, WITHOUT A SIGNAL Photograph a plant, bird, insect or fungus for an identification on your phone. A model covering 150,000 taxa runs on the device. No photo is uploaded and no connection is needed. See several candidates, their shared classification and warnings for known hazards. Save sightings with the photograph, location and time. Results are suggestions, not a guarantee of identification or safety. DOWNLOAD BEFORE YOU LOSE SIGNAL Tap download and the area you are looking at is proposed at once, its size in megabytes shown before you commit. Downloaded areas render in airplane mode, and the data stays on your device. PLAN BEFORE YOU GO Sketch a route by tapping the map or entering coordinates, save it, and follow it later as a dashed guide with no signal. Import or export a GPX track from Files as an editable plan. ON YOUR WRIST See distance, time, ascent and a map from your iPhone on Apple Watch. Pause, resume, finish or drop a waypoint from the wrist. HealthKit keeps the watch workout active and supplies live heart rate; nothing is saved to Health. A connected iPhone records the hike. FIND A TRAIL NEARBY Find nearby trails with length, climb and estimated difficulty. Filter by length, distance, type and grade, or search by name. Online search uses a trail index; offline browsing uses trails already loaded on your map. BRING YOUR OWN MAP Add a map by URL as an overlay or a base map. Switch maps in the layer sheet. Offline support depends on the source; the app explains which maps can be downloaded. RECORDING THAT DOES NOT LOSE YOUR WALK Record with the screen locked and the phone pocketed. Regular checkpoints help recover an interrupted hike. If saving fails, the finished recording stays available for another attempt. Auto-pause can pause while you stand still and resume when you walk. BUILT TO BE READ OUTDOORS Distance, time and ascent in large tabular figures, over a grid you choose and reorder: pace, moving and stopped time, grade, vertical speed, GPS accuracy, bearing, battery. High-visibility mode thickens strokes for bright sun, and elevation combines GPS with the barometer where there is one, so a wobbly fix is not counted as climbing. AFTER THE HIKE Every hike keeps its route, elevation profile, waypoints and statistics. Drag the profile and a marker traces the map. Name it, add notes, export it as GPX with timestamps intact. History groups by month, with totals and a weekly distance chart. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No advertising or cross-app tracking. Anonymous usage statistics record which screens are opened, never your routes or photographs. Finished hikes can sync to your private iCloud database. Turn sync off in Settings to keep using the app locally. ALSO INCLUDED • Live Activity and Dynamic Island, with a timer that respects your pauses • Widgets for the current hike, the last one and the week • Backtrack: your route in reverse, with the bearing to the trailhead • Metric and imperial, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, dark mode • English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and both Chinese scripts PLEASE READ HikeGPS is a navigation aid. It does not replace navigation training, a paper map and compass, official trail and closure information, or emergency communication equipment. It routes over mapped paths with written turns, but has no spoken directions and no emergency or SOS capability. GPS position and elevation can be wrong, and continuous recording uses significant battery. Species identification is a guess from one photograph. Never eat or touch anything on the strength of it. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.