Ground Score Metal Detecting vs Dtecto
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ground Score Metal Detecting
Organize your metal detecting adventures, log your discoveries, and connect with a global community of enthusiasts. Track hunts, map finds, and share your treasures.
- Hunt tracking with settings and time
- GPS mapping of finds
- Finds gallery for discoveries
- Community feed for sharing and tips
- Recovery helper directory
- Dashboard with hunt statistics
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Unearth More with Ground Score – The #1 Metal Detecting App Ground Score is a metal detecting app built to help you stay organized and connected. Track your hunts, log finds, save photos, and connect with detectorists around the world — all in one place. Whether you’re relic hunting, beach detecting, coin shooting, or searching for lost rings, Ground Score helps you stay organized, research smarter, and get more out of every hunt. Key Features Hunt Tracking Log hunt dates, locations, detector settings, and total hunt time. GPS Mapping Pin finds, revisit productive spots, and build your personal treasure map. Finds Gallery Upload and organize photos of coins, relics, jewelry, and other discoveries. Community Feed Share finds, ask questions, exchange tips, and connect with detectorists worldwide. Recovery Helper Directory Help others recover lost items or search our free directory to find a ring finder near you. Dashboard & Insights View hunt stats, track total finds and time detecting, and spot trends to improve future hunts. Perfect For • Relic hunters, coin shooters, and beach detectorists • Gold prospectors and ring finders • Beginners and seasoned detectorists alike. Ground Score replaces messy notebooks and buckets of finds with a modern, easy-to-use metal detecting app — built by detectorists, for detectorists. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Dtecto
This app helps metal detectorists track their hunts, log finds with photos and GPS data, and identify dug items. It also features a community for sharing discoveries and advanced LiDAR maps for terrain analysis.
- Track hunt distance, duration, and GPS routes
- Log finds with photos, GPS, notes, and categories
- Color-coded find map with private spot saving
- Community feed for sharing and interacting with detectorists
- LiDAR terrain maps for relic hunting
- On-the-spot identification of dug items
- Build a searchable library of hobby finds
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Dtecto is the metal detectorist's field companion. Track your hunts, share your finds, and connect with detectorists who get it. Everything the hobby needs in one app. TRACK EVERY HUNT Start a hunt when you step on site. Dtecto records your steps, distance, and duration, and with Pro, your full GPS route on a map you can study later. Your hunt routes are private, always. EVERY FIND, SEARCHABLE FOREVER Photo, GPS, notes, category. Build the permanent record of your hobby and find that silver dime from two summers ago in seconds. YOUR MAP Every find pinned, color-coded by category. Save private spots on productive ground. With Pro, see community finds on the map. READ THE LAND, FIND THE HISTORY One Layers button switches the map between Map and Satellite and stacks the overlays that matter. Public lands color-coded by managing agency (USFS, BLM, NPS, and more) with detecting rules and agency links a tap away. Rivers, streams, and lakes. Historic places from the National Register and OpenStreetMap with photos and Wikipedia summaries. Civil War, Revolutionary War, and 1812 battlefield boundaries. USGS abandoned mines across the West and Midwest. Density bubbles show the productive country from any zoom, and map search flies you to any address or coordinates. TIME-TRAVEL THE GROUND: HISTORIC MAPS (PRO) Drape century-old maps over the modern world and fade between them with an opacity slider. The full USGS Historical Topographic collection (178,000 sheets, 1879 to the 2000s) covers the entire US, plus historic surveys across France, Switzerland, Spain, Norway, and Germany, and old GLO plats for Minnesota and Iowa. Find the mill, homestead, schoolhouse, or road that isn't there anymore. Try it free with a 4-minute preview. A COMMUNITY OF DETECTORISTS ONLY Post your finds, or just share the story of the hunt with a text update, photos optional. Follow diggers whose ground produces, like and comment without the noise of a generic social network. Earn your spot on the Top Detectorists leaderboard: every public find and every like moves you up the monthly and all-time boards. Report and block tools on every post and comment keep it civil. KNOW BEFORE YOU GO A quick pre-flight strip reads the day at a glance: daylight left, current weather, and a detecting-conditions verdict from Ideal to Poor. Tap it for the full breakdown so you know whether it's worth grabbing the shovel. SEE THE GROUND LIKE NEVER BEFORE: LIDAR TERRAIN (PRO) High-resolution LiDAR hillshade reveals old roadbeds, foundations, terraces, and forgotten paths that satellite imagery can't show. Three rendering modes tuned for relic hunters. IDENTIFY WHAT YOU DUG Not sure what you pulled from the ground? Snap a photo and get a likely ID in seconds: what it is, the era, and a confidence score. Coins, buttons, relics, and jewelry, identified on the spot and saved to your library. FREE VS PRO Free includes hunt logging, your find library, the community feed, text posts, the Top Detectorists leaderboard, daily conditions, your personal find map, public lands and waterway overlays, map search, and 3 identifications per month. Dtecto Pro unlocks LiDAR terrain, historic map overlays, historic places, battlefields, and abandoned-mine overlays, GPS route maps for every hunt, community find pins, unlimited identifications, and the Pro badge. $9.99/month or $79.99/year after a 14-day free trial. Cancel anytime. Terms of Use: https://dtecto.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://dtecto.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ground Score Metal Detecting at every 4 days against Dtecto's fortnightly. 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. Ground Score Metal Detecting sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and Dtecto sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. 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 Ground Score Metal Detecting against 5.0 for Dtecto. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 10 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Ground Score Metal Detecting ships an update every 4 days, Dtecto fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ground Score Metal Detecting | Dtecto |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ground Score LLC | RICARDO ANDRES MEDINA SERRA |
Customer experience
Ground Score Metal Detecting
Dtecto
In-app purchases
Ground Score Metal Detecting
- Ground Score Pro7 Days trial$1.991 Month
Dtecto
- Dtecto Pro Monthly14 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Dtecto Pro Yearly14 Days trial$79.991 Year
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