GPS Mapper vs TacMap

GPS Mapper is the all-in-one tool for tracking, mapping, and organizing your outdoor life. Drop grids to visualize map coverage, record trails with live stats, pin waypoints, plan routes, measure distances, add image overlays, view your location history, organize with groups and tags, and track it all with a detailed app experience. Whether you're a hiker logging every step, a cyclist tracking new roads, or someone who wants every outdoor activity tracked in one place — GPS Mapper is built for it. GRID EXPLORATION - Place rectangular grids anywhere, or map any-shaped area with freeform grids - 10 grid detail sizes, from 16 cells up to 2,500 cells - Cells auto-fill as you move through them via GPS - Optionally mark cells from geotagged photos and recorded trails - Track completion percentage for every grid TRAIL RECORDING - Record GPS trails with live distance, duration, elevation, pace, speed, and more - Tag trails with your own custom labels - Replay recorded trails on the map with animated Playback PINS - Drop custom pins anywhere - Organize with icons, colors, and names ROUTES - Draw custom multi-waypoint routes, or auto-generate a road-following route to a destination - Save and view your routes on the map RANGE FINDER - Measure point-to-point distances directly on the map - Save measurements with custom names and colors - Great for golf, hunting, surveying, and more NAVIGATION - Navigate to your elements with the in-app compass direct feature - Use Apple Maps to navigate to any element IMAGE OVERLAYS - Place photos on the map as georeferenced overlays - Adjust position, scale, rotation, and transparency - Perfect for historical maps, trail maps, or site plans GROUPS - Bundle any mix of grids, pins, trails, routes, ranges, and overlays - Organize trips and projects - Sort and manage from one place TAGS - Create custom tags and apply them to any element - Filter your map elements by tag to find exactly what you need - Use tags across element types for flexible organization LOCATION SHARING - See friends' real-time locations on your map PHOTOS ON MAP - View geotagged photos from your photos library on the map - Find and share your photos straight from the map ANALYTICS DASHBOARD - Apple Health integration — steps, distance, calories, exercise minutes, and heart rate shown alongside your activity - Daily and weekly activity — what you've added each week, your most active days, daily averages, and per-type breakdowns - Exploration progress — total grids, cells mapped, cells visited, completion rate, and your most-explored area - Your collection at a glance — a visual breakdown of grids, trails, pins, routes, ranges, and overlays - Detailed stats for every element type — distances, lengths, counts, and more - Build your own layout — reorder, show, or hide cards to focus on the metrics that matter to you IMPORT & EXPORT - Import and export GPX files - Full backup and restore of your data — always free - Share your elements with friends CUSTOMIZATION - Coordinate display in Decimal Degrees, DDM, DMS, UTM, and MGRS - Standard, Satellite, and Hybrid map styles - Toggle POIs, traffic, compass, and scale - Interactive tutorials - Customizable analytics dashboard layout - Custom sort orders for every element type - Customize backgrounds across your screens PREMIUM Upgrade to unlock: - Unlimited grids, trails, pins, routes, ranges, and image overlays - Freeform grids — map any-shaped area - Advanced analytics dashboard with Apple Health - Navigation — in-app compass + Apple Maps directions to any element - Trail Playback — replay recorded trails - Location history with time-range filtering on the map - Configurable GPS update intervals - See up to 20 friends' locations (free: 2) - Customize backgrounds across your screens Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

TacMap is an offline map for the field: unlock once, with no subscription. No TacMap account, ads or behavioural analytics. Built for hiking, hunting, overlanding, search and rescue, surveying and MGRS navigation. MAPS WITHOUT A CONNECTION • Import PDF, GeoPDF and MBTiles maps and keep several to switch between. • GeoPDFs are placed in the sheet's own projection and datum, so the MGRS grid lines up with the printed grid. • Calibrate a plain PDF, including a scan or photo of a paper map saved as PDF, from three or more grid references (MGRS, UTM or latitude/longitude) and see how accurate each one is. • Maps stay sharp as you zoom in, and can be saved as offline tiles. • Use imported maps offline, without country restrictions. • Online basemaps, terrain elevation and weather are optional and require a connection. NAVIGATE AND PLAN • Read your position in MGRS, UTM or latitude/longitude. • Keep the map North Up or rotate it with your heading. • Measure distances, areas and bearings in degrees or NATO mils. • Add waypoints, draw lines and areas, and organise them into layers. • Use search-and-rescue, points-of-interest, airsoft and NATO APP-6 symbols. • Record your route and export GPX tracks. • See the elevation profile and line of sight along any line. Uses online lookups. • Red night mode protects your night vision. • Offline sun and moon times, and range rings around any symbol. WORK TOGETHER • Share drawings and symbols with your team over end-to-end encrypted Unit Sync. • Optionally share your callsign, position and heading with your unit. • Send encrypted text or reports to the room or a selected live unit with TacMap Chat. • Screen-off location sharing has a separate switch. Updates depend on the operating system and connection. • The relay cannot decrypt mission content, but sees admission, routing, session and control data, Chat recipients, IP addresses, timing and data size. “Routed” is not delivery or read proof; member status is relay-reported. YOUR DATA, YOUR TOOLS • Import and export GeoJSON, KML and KMZ, for QGIS, Google Earth and ATAK. • Export mission objects together; recorded tracks remain separate GPX files. • Mission data is encrypted in app-private storage. Imported maps remain in private, device-protected storage. • Online basemaps and lookups are off at first launch and can be enabled independently. While enabled, providers receive your IP address and requested map area, search query or coordinates. Coordinate and mission search stays on-device. • Optional Face ID or Touch ID app lock. For iPhone and iPad. ENGLISH AND GERMAN Choose English, German or Device language in Settings. Your own names, notes and messages remain unchanged. UNLOCK ONCE Try TacMap free for three days, then unlock with a one-time purchase. No subscription. The App Store shows your local price.