Trip Hopping vs Hitchmap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trip Hopping
Discover spontaneous travel opportunities with a community-driven platform. Find rides, accommodation, and meetups globally. Share your journey and track friends on a dynamic map.
- Live spontaneous meetups
- Find rides and accommodation
- Global travel search
- Track travel friends
- Map-based notes and tips
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Trip Hopping fuels community-driven travel. Go "Live" for spontaneous meetups, rides, and hosting. Search for where to stay and how to get there, all in one place. Flights, buses, rideshares, hitchhiking, couch-surfing, hostels, campsites — everything. Plus, you can keep track of where your travel friends are and leave notes and tips all over the map.
Hitchmap
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Hitchmap is a simple app to make hitchhiking easier, faster, and safer. Hitchhikers around the world submit about 10,000 reviews of hitchhiking spots a year to Hitchmap, which are presented on our map. These reviews allow you to quickly discover where to stand in your city to start hitchhiking in a certain direction! Once you're on the highway, the reviews can show you the best transfer points, such as gas stations, to find new rides.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hitchmap at every 2 days against Trip Hopping's every 10 days. Hitchmap also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Trip Hopping ships an update every 10 days, Hitchmap every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trip Hopping | Hitchmap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 132 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kenneth Flannery | Hitchmap |
In-app purchases
Trip Hopping
No in-app purchases
Hitchmap
No in-app purchases
