Comparison

LNKT vs Dtecto

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

Head to head
About

LNKT

This app provides real-time GPS tracking and location sharing for enhanced safety and peace of mind. It offers features like safety zones, emergency alerts, and offline tracking for outdoor adventures, ensuring you stay connected with loved ones.

Highlights
  • Live location sharing
  • Family and personal safety alerts
  • Customizable safety zones
  • Offline tracking for remote areas
  • Route and trail recording
  • Emergency preparedness features
  • Detailed mapping tools
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LNKT is the all-in-one location sharing, family safety, outdoor safety, GPS tracking, and emergency preparedness app built for people who refuse to leave safety to chance. Whether you're hiking, hunting, camping, fishing, running, traveling, off-roading, boating, working remotely, or simply making sure loved ones get home safely, LNKT helps you stay connected with the people who matter most. Unlike traditional GPS tracking apps, LNKT is designed around peace of mind. Know where your family is, receive location-based alerts, create safety zones, share your live location in real time, and stay informed when someone arrives, leaves, or needs help. WHY PEOPLE CHOOSE LNKT • Live Location Sharing Share your real-time GPS location with trusted family members, friends, teammates, and emergency contacts. See live movement updates and know where loved ones are when it matters most. • Family Safety & Personal Safety Keep tabs on family members, children, aging parents, spouses, and friends. Receive instant notifications when someone arrives safely or leaves a designated location. • Safety Areas & Geofence Alerts Create custom safety zones around homes, campsites, schools, hunting properties, workplaces, trailheads, farms, ranches, and other important locations. Get automatic entry and exit notifications through advanced geofencing technology. • Outdoor Adventure Tracking Perfect for hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, kayaking, trail running, mountain biking, ATV riding, snowmobiling, overlanding, off-roading, and backcountry exploration. • MTN Mode Offline Tracking When cellular coverage disappears, LNKT continues recording breadcrumb trails so your route can be uploaded once service returns. Ideal for remote locations, mountains, forests, public land, and backcountry adventures. • GPS Trails & Route Tracking Create, save, and follow custom routes. Track movement history, review travel paths, and stay on course during outdoor activities. • Emergency Preparedness Help loved ones know where you are during emergencies, unexpected delays, vehicle breakdowns, accidents, severe weather events, or remote-area incidents. • Location-Based Notifications Receive intelligent alerts based on movement and location activity. Stay informed without constantly checking your phone. • Detailed Mapping Tools Explore satellite maps, terrain maps, hybrid maps, and street maps. View waypoints, routes, safety areas, and shared locations from a single easy-to-use platform. • Waypoints & Custom Markers Save important locations using customizable waypoints and map markers. Organize campsites, parking areas, hunting stands, fishing spots, meeting locations, landmarks, and more. BUILT FOR • Families • Parents • Outdoor enthusiasts • Hikers • Hunters • Campers • Runners • Cyclists • Boaters • Anglers • Off-roaders • Farmers • Ranchers • Travelers • Adventure seekers • Search and rescue preparation • Anyone who values safety and connection POPULAR USE CASES Know when your child arrives at school. Track a family member during a road trip. Monitor a loved one traveling alone. Stay connected during hunting and fishing trips. Share your live location while hiking or running. Create safety zones around important locations. Track outdoor adventures and backcountry routes. Provide peace of mind during emergencies. LNKT combines live location sharing, GPS tracking, family safety, geofence alerts, route tracking, outdoor navigation, offline tracking, waypoint management, and emergency preparedness into one powerful platform. Stay connected. Stay informed. Stay safe. Stay Close. Go Far. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

LNKT4 screens
Dtecto4 screens

Verdict

The call

LNKT and Dtecto are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. LNKT sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LNKT against 5.0 for Dtecto. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 10 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
LNKT versus Dtecto: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLNKTDtecto
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (16 ratings)5.0 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings16 — better10
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size138 MB173 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLNKTRICARDO ANDRES MEDINA SERRA

Customer experience

LNKT

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dtecto

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

LNKT

Subscriptions2
  • LNKT Pro14 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • LNKT Pro$99.991 Year
2 purchases

Dtecto

Subscriptions2
  • Dtecto Pro Monthly14 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Dtecto Pro Yearly14 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is LNKT free?
LNKT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dtecto free?
Dtecto is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, LNKT or Dtecto?
LNKT and Dtecto are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 16 and 10 ratings respectively.
Do LNKT or Dtecto have ads?
Neither LNKT nor Dtecto shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LNKT or Dtecto?
LNKT ships an update fortnightly, and Dtecto fortnightly. Most recently, LNKT was updated on November 5, 2026 and Dtecto on October 31, 2026.

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