Comparison

Campound vs DogMaps

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

Head to head
About

Campound

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Find a spot on your public lands. Campound maps national parks, national forests, BLM land, and wilderness — along with the trails, forest roads, and OHV routes that run through them — and helps you find a place to camp. Built to keep working offline, because the best camping is exactly where the cell bars disappear. Plan it on Wi-Fi. Live it off-grid. FIND A SPOT Search reservable campgrounds by date range and see live Recreation.gov availability — the nights actually open, not just a directory. Tap any site for info, ratings, reviews, and an availability calendar. KNOW WHOSE LAND YOU'RE ON Color-coded PAD-US ownership shows national parks, forests, BLM, wilderness, monuments, and state, local, tribal and private land at a glance, with a toggleable legend. Essential for dispersed camping. PLAN A TRIP Build a trip from any mix of campgrounds, trails, forest roads, OHV and BLM routes, and your own points and lines. Drop in a driving route and Campound finds the campgrounds along the corridor with availability — or skip pavement entirely and stitch an off-piste itinerary that never touches a developed site. TRAILS & ROUTES Tap National Forest trails, Forest Service roads, OHV and BLM routes, search them in the current view, and open any route for an elevation profile with gain, loss and distance. NAVIGATE THERE Turn-by-turn navigation to any campground, trailhead, or marked point — voice prompts, ETA, live drift-recalc. The hybrid router drives the paved portion via Mapbox, then takes over with its own A* across Forest Service, BLM, and OHV roads that mainstream nav apps don't cover. The off-road portion runs on the bundled tiles, so you keep going when the signal doesn't. On a trail destination, it switches to follow-the-polyline mode with off-trail and approaching-end cues. MAP IT YOUR WAY Four basemaps — Street, Topo, Satellite, and an offline coordinate Grid. Locate yourself with one tap, jump to any place by search or coordinates, and save campgrounds, rec areas, routes, and your own points to Favorites with optional 1–5 star ratings. MARK YOUR OWN Draw points, lines and polygons styled by a customizable dictionary of pin types, capture GPS as you move, and pin geotagged photos that cluster on the map and open in a carousel. Saves on-device; syncs when online. Export points, lines and full-res photos as a single .campound archive and share via Mail, AirDrop or Files. Import any .campound (Skip or Update on duplicates, IDs preserved). The underlying GeoJSON opens in QGIS, Google Earth, or any GIS tool. Your data is yours. iPHONE, iPAD & APPLE WATCH Universal app — one download, three devices. iPad gets side-by-side detail panels for planning a route on the couch. Apple Watch captures waypoints and tracks hands-free and mirrors the phone's live turn-by-turn with haptics 400 m before each turn, on completion, and at arrival. A guaranteed-delivery outbox means nothing your watch records is ever lost. WORKS OFFLINE Maps for all 50 states ship inside the app — no download step. The map, saved spots, trail search, and the off-road portion of navigation all keep working with no connection. The basemap falls back to a coordinate grid when signal drops and restores when you're back. (Live availability, place search, and paved-road routing need a signal — Campound tells you clearly when they do.) FREE. NO ACCOUNT. No subscription. No ads. No account to create. No tracking. Just open it and go. DATA YOU CAN TRUST Built on authoritative public datasets: Recreation.gov / RIDB for campgrounds, availability, and reviews; USGS PAD-US for protected-area boundaries; USFS and BLM for trails, roads, and routes; basemaps from OpenFreeMap, OpenTopoMap, and Esri; elevation from Open-Elevation; on-road directions from Mapbox. Campound is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by NPS, USFS, BLM, or Recreation.gov. Always confirm current regulations and conditions with the managing agency before you travel.

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DogMaps

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Every dog person knows the feeling. You're two hours down the highway, the dog is doing the thing in the back seat, and you have no idea where the next decent place to stop actually is. Dog Maps answers that in one tap. I NEED TO STOP One button. Instantly ranked places to pull over near you, sorted by what's genuinely close and genuinely usable.. including dog parks, trailheads, rest areas, and open public land. No scrolling, no guessing, no pulling into a gas station hoping for a patch of grass. WHAT YOU'LL FIND - 18,000+ dog parks across the country - 10,000+ trailheads - 3,700+ highway rest areas - 24/7 emergency vets with one-tap calling - Regular vets and clinics - Beaches, with their actual leash rules - Off-leash and on-leash areas, labeled honestly THE PUBLIC LAND MAP This is the part nobody else does properly. Dog Maps draws National Forest, BLM, National Park, state and local land right on the map, so you can see at a glance where you're actually allowed to take your dog. And it only paints land that's open.. closed and restricted parcels are never shown as usable. If it's green, you can probably be there. TRIP PLANNER Tell it where you're headed and when you're leaving. It builds a break schedule along the route at the cadence you pick, shows what each detour costs in minutes rather than miles, and hands the whole multi-stop route to Apple Maps when you're ready to drive. WHAT'S BETWEEN YOU AND THERE Active wildfire perimeters and National Weather Service warnings overlay the map, so you can see what's on your route before you commit to it. Hazard data can lag.. always confirm urgent conditions with official sources. DOG MAPS PRO A single one-time purchase unlocks unlimited trip planning, the full public land map, surface water layers, and every hazard overlay. No subscription, ever. BUILT THE WAY IT SHOULD BE No account. No sign-up. No reviews to wade through, no feed, no social anything. It opens to a map and it tells you where to go. Made by one person who drives a lot, with dogs.

Screenshots

Campound4 screens
DogMaps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Campound at none against DogMaps's 1. Campound also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DogMaps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Campound asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Campound versus DogMaps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCampoundDogMaps
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael Whitedavid bailey

In-app purchases

None

Campound

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

DogMaps

One-time1
  • DogMaps Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Campound free?
Campound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DogMaps free?
DogMaps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Campound or DogMaps have ads?
Neither Campound nor DogMaps shows ads.

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