Wayward GPS vs Field Sentinel Mapper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wayward GPS
This app provides detailed backcountry maps with terrain, land ownership, and weather data. It's designed for outdoor enthusiasts to plan routes, track activities, and navigate safely. Access offline maps, fishing information, and trail details.
- High-resolution 3D terrain maps
- Private land ownership and parcel data
- Offline map downloads
- Fishing stream access and flow data
- Trail and bikepacking route planning
- NEXRAD radar and weather forecasts
- Wildfire and lightning strike tracking
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Wayward GPS is a free GPS map for the backcountry — one map that shows what the land is doing, who owns it, and what the sky is doing, so you can plan your own way out there. THE MAP • High-resolution terrain — some of the sharpest elevation data published, rendered in 3D with peaks that look like peaks • Private land ownership at the parcel line, with owner names where records provide them • Corner-crossing and landlocked-public-land layers to help you see where public meets public • GMU boundaries, wilderness areas, roadless areas, and USFS/BLM roads • Offline maps state by state — trails, parcels, lakes, roads — downloaded to your phone before you lose signal FISHING • Wetfoot Stream Access — stream segments of interest to anglers, drawn as robin's-egg "trout highways" (1 CFS and up), with flow data. Coverage varies, access rules vary, and records can be wrong — confirm before you go. • Tap any river for its story, plus flow and water temperature from USGS gauges when available • Stocking records where the state wildlife agency reported stocking in the last two weeks, with species counts • Whitewater and float runs with class ratings, put-ins, and take-outs TRAILS & RIDING • Thousands of trails with difficulty ratings and honest two-sentence writeups drawn largely from community data • Hike/Run and Bike modes with curated bikepacking routes • Record your tracks, then share them as clean stat cards — distance, vertical, difficulty • Plan routes, drop pins, navigate to anything WEATHER • NEXRAD radar — a composite regional view, or tap any radar dome for super-res detail • Lightning strikes that fade over ten minutes, storm cells with hail and rotation data, when the data is available • See active wildfires with perimeters and the firefighting aircraft working them • Wind flow animation, forecasts, and near-surface smoke HUNTING • GMUs, ownership, walk-in access, and terrain built for glassing country in 3D SKIING • Winter mode with terrain relief tuned for reading lines All of it free. No subscription, no paywall, no feature gates. Coverage is state by state and still growing. Information, not protection. Wayward GPS shows you data from public and community sources that can be wrong, coarse, or out of date — it is a planning tool, not a safety device, a warning system, or a substitute for official sources, your own eyes, and your own judgment. Alerts and forecasts may be delayed, incomplete, or absent, especially with no signal. In an emergency, call 911 or use your device's SOS. Built by people who fish, ride, and hunt here. Data from USGS, NHD, USFS, BLM, NOAA/NWS, state wildlife agencies, and adsb.lol.
Field Sentinel Mapper
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Field Sentinel is a professional geospatial platform for iPhone and iPad, built for teams who work where connectivity is unreliable or unavailable. Whether you support defense operations, emergency response, surveying, construction, aviation, or remote field research, Field Sentinel puts maps, GIS tools, and intelligence workflows on a single device—fully offline when you need it. WORK WITHOUT THE NETWORK • Render offline maps from GeoPackage, MBTiles, and PMTiles • Run spatial queries with SpatiaLite against local feature data • Design and edit schemas, tables, domains, and relationships in GeoPackage • Collect field data with XLSForm-compatible forms and barcode scanning • Import and export KML, KMZ, GPX, GeoJSON, Shapefile, and more PROFESSIONAL MAP & GIS EDITING • Snap-aware vertex editing with split, merge, reshape, and erase tools • Digitize points, lines, and polygons directly on live map layers • Redline annotations, symbols, and labels with GeoJSON/KML export • Terrain analysis including viewshed, slope, elevation, and 3D terrain viewing • GDAL-powered format conversion for raster and vector data ON-DEVICE AI ASSISTANT • AI chat and report drafting powered by local language models • Natural-language spatial queries against your map data • Image analysis for terrain and damage assessment from photos • Document Q&A from PDFs and field documents—processed on your device SITUATIONAL AWARENESS & COMMUNICATIONS • Team Awareness Kit (TAK) client with Cursor-on-Target messaging • GeoChat, mission packages, and live position sharing when connected • Fleet and asset tracking with proximity alerts • Optional integration with TAK Server for team coordination FIELD OPERATIONS MODULES • Surveying: COGO, traverse, leveling, area/volume, and GNSS/RTK support • Construction: earthwork, CAD/DXF overlay, BIM/IFC viewing, and PDF reports • Aviation: FAA charts, airspace layers, TFRs, flight planning, and NOTAMs • Emergency management: ICS/NIMS forms, CAP alerts, and damage assessment tools • Intelligence workflows: GEOINT analysis, change detection, and multi-source fusion BUILT FOR THE FIELD Field Sentinel is optimized for iPad and iPhone in portrait and landscape. Store tile packages, models, and databases on device. Generate professional PDF reports in the field. Use split-screen workspace tools for documents, notes, and annotations alongside your map. Field Sentinel is developed by Tech Maven Geospatial—bringing enterprise GIS, tactical awareness, and on-device intelligence to operators at the edge. Privacy: Core workflows run on your device. Network access is optional and used only for features you enable, such as TAK Server sync, chart downloads, or imagery updates. Questions or enterprise licensing: contact Tech Maven Geospatial.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Wayward GPS at weekly against Field Sentinel Mapper's every 3 weeks. Wayward GPS also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). 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.
Wayward GPS ships an update weekly, Field Sentinel Mapper every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Wayward GPS | Field Sentinel Mapper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 204 MB | 168 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wayward Navigation LLC | Tech Maven GeoSpatial LLC |
In-app purchases
Wayward GPS
No in-app purchases
Field Sentinel Mapper
No in-app purchases







