OffTrail vs SyncDash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
OffTrail
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OffTrail is free, offline-first adventure navigation built for motorcycles, 4Γ4s, SSV/UTVs, bicycles and overland explorers. No ads. No subscriptions. Just explore. NAVIGATE ANYWHERE Pick a destination and let OffTrail build the route. Choose how you want to ride, from paved roads to off-road tracks, or create a Round Trip of 25, 50, 100, 150 or 200 km that brings you back to where you started. See distance, time, elevation and surface information before you go. FOLLOW ANY GPX Already have a route? Import GPX files from Files, AirDrop, email or the iOS share sheet and ride. Keep up to five tracks visible at once, each with its own colour. Organise tracks and recordings into collections and keep important places as waypoints. TURN-BY-TURN OffTrail shows upcoming turns and distances directly on the ride screen, with spoken directions to help keep your eyes on the trail. Turn guidance also works directly from GPX tracks without requiring a data connection. Go off track and OffTrail shows the distance and direction to the closest re-entry point. Wrong Way detection warns you if you're heading back along the track. ROUTES BUILT FOR ADVENTURE OffTrail isn't limited to the fastest road between two points. Choose routing profiles designed for motorcycles, 4Γ4s, bicycles and different kinds of riding, including Road Fun and Road Fast. Route calculation requires a network connection. Once your route and maps are ready, navigation can continue offline. OFFLINE MAPS Download maps before you leave and keep navigating when coverage disappears. OffTrail's own basemap puts the adventure network first: forestry roads, tracks, paths and trails remain easy to see instead of disappearing beneath the urban road network. Satellite imagery is also available when online. CARPLAY Bring OffTrail to your vehicle display. See your route and position, browse tracks and recent destinations, search for places and POIs, get native turn cards and spoken directions, and navigate using downloaded maps without mobile coverage. Start a ride on the phone and continue on CarPlay. GROUP RIDE Create a Group Ride and share a short code with your friends. Up to 15 riders can see each other live on the map. Temporary signal loss won't immediately make someone disappear, and sharing ends with the session. Group Ride is opt-in. Ride solo and your location isn't shared. RECORD YOUR ADVENTURES Recording can start automatically and continue while the screen is locked, or use Record mode to create a named recording and add waypoints along the way. Export your rides as GPX whenever you want. BUILT FOR RIDING β’ Motorcycle, 4Γ4, SSV/UTV and bicycle adventures β’ GPX import and export β’ Route planning and Round Trips β’ Offline maps β’ Turn-by-turn and voice guidance β’ CarPlay β’ Group Ride for up to 15 riders β’ Tracks, recordings, collections and waypoints β’ Handlebar remote support β’ Metric and imperial units β’ English, Portuguese and Spanish PRIVACY Your riding history stays on your device. Location is shared only when you explicitly use features that require it, such as Group Ride. Optional anonymous usage and crash diagnostics help improve OffTrail. Read the full privacy policy at offtrailapp.com/privacy. OffTrail is free. No ads. No subscriptions. Built by an adventure rider, for adventure riders. The road is optional.
SyncDash
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Ride the route you planned. You spent an evening at your desk drawing a canyon loop in your favorite web-based route planner β such as REVER, Scenic or Furkot β and exported it as a GPX. Then every navigation app asks you for a destination and picks its own way there β usually the fast way, on exactly the roads you were trying to avoid. SyncDash imports your GPX and follows the line you drew. FOLLOW YOUR OWN ROUTE Import a GPX from any planner. SyncDash reads the via points you chose while planning and builds turn-by-turn guidance along your intended route, using Apple's own street names and distances. Announcements come at a mile, a quarter mile, and at the turn. Ride off the route and guidance goes quiet rather than reading you a stale instruction β one tap puts you back on it. WHEN THE ROAD ISN'T ON THE MAP Dirt, forest road, BDR track. If a road can't be routed, SyncDash draws your planned line and gives no turn guidance at all, rather than inventing turns from the shape of the track. It never claims to know more than it does. VOICE NOTES THAT KNOW WHERE THEY WERE Push record and talk. Every take is stamped with the exact wall clock and the GPS fix at that moment, so the thought you had at mile 40 stays attached to mile 40. Drop a marker with the Action Button or by asking Siri, without taking a hand off the bar. WORKS WITH YOUR HELMET Any Bluetooth headset, or the phone's own microphone. The app shows which one it is actually recording from, and warns you when that's the wrong one β before you lose an hour of narration to wind noise. YOUR ACTION CAMERA, ON CUE Register a GoPro or Insta360 once and SyncDash starts and stops it with your ride over Bluetooth, shows its battery and storage, and records exactly when each clip began β as the camera confirms it. CARPLAY A moving map on the head unit showing your route, your track and your position, with controls sized for gloves: start a ride, record, drop a marker, and rejoin the route when you've left it. AFTER THE RIDE Replay the ride with your own voice playing over the moving map. Distance, climb, top speed, and speed and elevation charts. Photos and videos you shot along the way are matched to the ride by time and place, straight from your library β nothing is copied. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account, no sign-in, no server. A ride leaves your phone only when you share it, or when you set up backup to a cloud folder you choose β as a standard GPX anyone can open, or as a single-file Ride package. Heart rate never goes into an automatic backup. HEART RATE FROM YOUR APPLE WATCH Wear an Apple Watch and your heart rate appears on the ride afterwards, charted beside your speed and climb, straight from Apple Health. With the unlock, starting a ride also starts a workout on the Watch, so heart rate is read every few seconds and the ride is saved to Fitness β and MARK and End Ride are on your wrist. FREE TO RIDE Everything about riding is free and unlimited: import your route, follow it, use CarPlay, record a ride of any length, narrate it, replay it, and share the track as a plain GPX with anyone. A one-time purchase adds sharing your voice notes, sharing a whole ride as a single-file Ride package, automatic backup of finished rides to your own cloud folder, and a workout on your Apple Watch with every ride. No subscription.
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Verdict
OffTrail and SyncDash are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. OffTrail sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and SyncDash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | OffTrail | SyncDash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | β |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 β better | 17.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ricardo Costa | David Jolley |
In-app purchases
OffTrail
- Small coffee$1.99
- Medium coffee$2.99
- Tall coffee$4.99
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- Pizza$9.99
- Dinner$24.99
SyncDash
- SyncDash Unlock$14.99









