Comparison

Campound vs Boondockr

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

Head to head
About

Campound

Features
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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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Boondockr

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Log your favourite camping spots, campsites and van life stays, even with no signal. Share finished stays with campers you follow, and keep your 14-day limit in view. WILL IT CHARGE YOUR BATTERIES? (PRO) • Solar Potential for every spot — estimated peak sun-hours and daily watt-hours for your panel • Season- and elevation-aware, works fully offline • Know before you commit to a remote site COMMUNITY • Follow other campers and see the spots they share, right on your map • Share your own finds — only after you've moved on, so your live location is never exposed • Save any shared spot to your own journal LOG A SPOT IN SECONDS • GPS location, photo, cell signal, road quality and how level the ground is • Rate overall, views, cleanliness and quiet • Record amenities — power, water, toilets, showers, WiFi, dump, dog-friendly, van access, tent sites, shade NEVER OVERSTAY • The 14-day dispersed-camping limit, front and center: "Day 6 of 14 · 8 days left" • Live Activity and widget keep the countdown on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Glance at the day on your Apple Watch FIND THE RIGHT SPOT AGAIN • Search your spots and notes • Filter by must-haves — dog-friendly, potable water, quiet and more • Sort by nearest to where you're standing BRINGING YOUR SPOTS? • Import saved places from any CSV export in a couple of taps — names, notes, categories and altitude all come across • Export as GPX or CSV any time — your data is always yours WORKS WITH ZERO SIGNAL • Offline-first by design — GPS needs no bars • Your journal lives on your device; you choose what to share BOONDOCKR PRO Everything above is free, except where marked Pro. Pro adds the power features for full-timers: • iCloud sync and backup across your devices • Offline map downloads — save whole regions • Sun, shade and solar intel for every spot • Move-on reminders before your limit • Custom stay limits and unlimited photos ———— Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://anchoriintel.com/boondockr-privacy

Screenshots

Campound4 screens
Boondockr4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Campound at none against Boondockr's 2. Boondockr's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days). On price, ads, device support 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. Boondockr sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Campound asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Campound ships an update every 10 days, Boondockr every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Campound versus Boondockr: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCampoundBoondockr
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael WhiteStuart McMillan

In-app purchases

None

Campound

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Boondockr

Subscriptions2
  • Boondockr Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Boondockr Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Campound free?
Campound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Boondockr free?
Boondockr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Campound or Boondockr have ads?
Neither Campound nor Boondockr shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Campound or Boondockr?
Campound ships an update every 10 days, and Boondockr every 3 days. Most recently, Campound was updated on October 7, 2026 and Boondockr on October 22, 2026.

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