OffTrail vs SyncDash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OffTrail
Navigate off-road adventures with this app, offering offline maps, GPX track import, and route creation. Enjoy turn-by-turn directions, group ride tracking, and adventure recording, even without a signal.
- Offline GPX track import
- Custom route creation
- Turn-by-turn spoken directions
- Offline map downloads
- Real-time group ride tracking
- Adventure recording and sharing
- CarPlay integration
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Adventure navigation made simple. OffTrail is built for adventure motorcycles, 4x4 and off-road exploration. Import a GPX, create your own route, download the maps you need and ride — even when the signal disappears. Free. No account required. Just pick a route and ride. GPX NAVIGATION • Open GPX tracks directly from Files, AirDrop, email or the share sheet. • Load up to 5 tracks at the same time, each with its own colour. • Turn-by-turn cues and spoken directions, each bend announced at the right moment. • A course-up navigation view designed for the trail. • Go off track and OffTrail shows the distance and direction back to the closest point. • Wrong-way warning if you start riding the track backwards. CREATE YOUR OWN ROUTES Don't have a GPX? Build the ride directly in OffTrail. • Generate routes to a destination. • Choose the type of riding you want, with profiles for off-road motorcycles and 4x4, plus Road Fun and Road Fast. • Create Round Trips of 25, 50, 100, 150 or 200 km that bring you back to where you started. Route calculation requires an internet connection. Once your route and maps are ready, you can follow them offline. CARPLAY Put OffTrail where you need it: right in front of you. Navigate your tracks and routes on CarPlay with native turn cards, spoken directions and a riding-focused map — even on downloaded maps with no mobile coverage. OFFLINE MAPS Adventure doesn't stop when mobile coverage does. • Download maps for 100+ countries. • Navigate downloaded areas without a mobile connection. • Maps designed to keep trails and tracks easy to see while riding. • Satellite imagery when online. GROUP RIDE Riding with friends? Create a Group Ride and share the 6-digit code. • Up to 15 riders in the same group. • See the group on the map in real time. • No account required. Group locations aren't stored as ride history. Live Group Ride tracking requires a network connection. RECORD & SHARE YOUR ADVENTURES Record where you've been, add waypoints along the way and export the ride as GPX. Turn a ride — or a track you're planning — into an OffTrail share card for friends or social media. BUILT FOR REAL RIDING • Motorcycle, 4x4 and road route profiles. • Tracks, recordings, collections and waypoints. • Handlebar remote support. • Metric and imperial units. • English, Portuguese, Spanish and French. • CarPlay. • Auto Lock for compatible external displays, to prevent accidental touches on rough terrain. PRIVACY Your riding history stays on your device. Your location is only shared when you use a feature that needs it, such as Group Ride. Anonymous usage and crash diagnostics help improve OffTrail. SIMPLE BY DESIGN OffTrail started because we wanted an adventure navigation app that was simple, fast and functional. Pick a route. Then ride. OffTrail — See what you're missing.
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 — such as REVER, Scenic or Furkot — and exported it as a GPX. Then every navigation app asks you for a destination and picks its own way there — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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
The clearest difference is update cadence: OffTrail at every 5 days against SyncDash's monthly. 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. 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.
OffTrail ships an update every 5 days, SyncDash monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OffTrail | SyncDash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 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









