Lokimaps vs Maptrails
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lokimaps
Access detailed topographic maps for outdoor adventures, even without a signal. Plan routes, record your trips, and find your way with GPS tracking. Organize saved locations and tracks, and import/export GPX files for seamless navigation.
- Offline topographic map downloads
- Route planning and recording
- GPS track following and guidance
- GPX import/export
- Saved places, routes, and tracks organization
- Live Activity integration
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Know the terrain before you leave the road. Lokimaps brings official topographic maps of Finland, Sweden, Norway and Spain to your iPhone and iPad, along with worldwide outdoor mapping, and lets you download them for the places where mobile coverage ends. Plan a route at home, save the area to your device, then follow your line and record the trip. Whether you hike, hunt, fish, paddle, ski or cycle, Lokimaps is made for people who like to read the map and make their own plan. PLAN YOUR OWN ROUTE Draw a route, drag its waypoints and check the distance before you set out. Measure distances, bearings and areas on the map, then save the plan or start navigating straight from the planner. With PRO and a connection, Lokimaps can also calculate walking, cycling or driving routes along trails and roads. TAKE IT OFFLINE Download your trip area before you go. Without mobile data, you still see your GPS position, follow saved routes and tracks, head for saved places and record your journey. FIND YOUR WAY THERE AND BACK Follow a planned route or imported GPX track, or get direct guidance to a saved place like your car or camp. See the distance remaining, get an alert if you leave the route and reverse it for the trip back. On supported devices, a Live Activity shows navigation progress on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. REMEMBER WHERE YOU'VE BEEN Record GPS tracks and review trip statistics. Save campsites, fishing spots and other places worth returning to, then organize places, routes and tracks into folders. Import and export GPX, and turn on iCloud sync to keep saved items on your devices signed in to the same Apple Account. FIELD TOOLS Search places, addresses and coordinates in all supported formats. Display and copy WGS84 coordinates and use degrees without PRO. PRO adds grid coordinates such as UTM and MGRS, plus NATO mils and Finnish piiru. Adjust GPS accuracy to balance precision and battery life. INCLUDED WITHOUT PRO Pick one main outdoor map during setup: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Spain or Worldwide. Without a subscription you also get: - Offline downloads of your chosen map - GPS track recording - Following saved routes and GPX tracks, plus direct guidance to saved places - GPX import and export - Saved places, routes and tracks in folders, with optional iCloud sync LOKIMAPS PRO PRO opens the full map collection and specialist tools: - Every main map, with compatible country maps combined so you can cross borders without switching - Finnish aerial imagery, property boundaries and historic maps, plus Finnish and Norwegian nautical charts - Registered Norwegian hiking trails with available difficulty, surface and marking details - Image layers: photograph or scan a paper map, match four landmarks and use it offline - Calculated walking, cycling and driving routes - Compatible WMS/WMTS maps and WFS layers, plus Layer AI to help find public map sources - Oma riista hunting areas offline in Finland - Start group location sharing, protected by end-to-end encryption. Your position updates in the background while you record a track. PRO is an optional auto-renewable subscription with monthly and yearly plans. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Good to know: online search, route calculation and location sharing need a connection. Apple road and satellite maps, historic maps and custom map sources can't be downloaded for offline use. Image layers stay on the device where you add them. Map and layer coverage varies by source. Nautical charts are for reference, not navigation. Background GPS use can reduce battery life. Pick your map, save your area and plan your next trip. Privacy Policy: https://www.lokimaps.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.lokimaps.com/terms
Maptrails
Explore the outdoors with a feature-rich map browser designed for hiking, hunting, and orienteering. Plan routes, save locations, measure distances, and access various map styles. Pro features unlock custom map layers, data imports, and advanced drawing tools.
- Offline map downloads
- Map markers and iCloud sync
- Distance measurement and path drawing
- Custom map layers and data import
- Weather forecasts
- GPX track recording and export
- GPS location sharing
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Maptrails is a modern map browser that packs an amazing experience for hiking, hunting, orienteering, or just enjoying your time outdoors. Only Maptrails offers full featured apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. The app comes preconfigured with a large selection of built-in maps in topographic, nautical, and aerial imagery styles. Save places as map markers that sync between your devices over iCloud. It is easy and fun to measure distances and draw paths on the map, or use Look Around to see street level imagery at any address. Maptrails Pro one-time purchase unlocks a professional grade feature set. Add your own maps and data layers from standard APIs, and bring in GeoJSON, GPX, IMG, KML or Shapefile data. You can even draw notes directly on the map using touch or pencil! Maptrails makes it easy to plan your upcoming hike by letting you download map tiles for offline use, view up-to-date weather forecasts, or draw tracks on the map and save them to GPX files. During your hike, record the route to a GPX track or workout in Health app, and graph out its speed and altitude data. For hunters, integration with Oma Riista lets you import hunting areas using area code. Share your current GPS location with a private group of other Maptrails users. Build your own dog tracker by installing separate Beacon app to another device and pairing it with Maptrails. Its position can then be tracked on the map in Maptrails. Maptrails Pro one-time purchase unlocks full functionality • Use folders to organize tracks and markers • Attach images to markers from photo library • Track other devices with Beacon app installed • Import hunting areas from Oma Riista service • Get weather forecast for targeted location • Draw notes on map using touch or pencil • Import tile maps from web using browser • Download map areas for offline use • Share your GPS location with groups • Draw tracks on map and save as GPX files • Import GPX files and view them on map • View workout routes from Health app • Record workouts and export to GPX • Add Vector Tile, Tile Map, WMTS and WMS maps • Add GeoJSON, GPX, IMG, KML and Shapefile map layers • Get new features in future versions If some map available via open data APIs is not yet included, or you want to make your maps available in Maptrails, please email me at feedback@freshbits.fi. Also follow on Instagram at @KartastoApp. This app has been built by one developer as a hobby project during many evenings and weekends. Please be nice and take this into account when giving feedback. Icon symbol credit to Wolf Böse (Creative Commons).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Maptrails at 85% against Lokimaps's 0%. Maptrails also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (8 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Lokimaps sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Maptrails sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Maptrails holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Lokimaps's written reviews are positive against 85% of Maptrails's.
Lokimaps ships an update every 6 days, Maptrails every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lokimaps | Maptrails |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 84.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shingle Oy | Pasi Salenius |
Customer experience
Lokimaps
Maptrails
In-app purchases
Lokimaps
- PRO3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Topo maps Norway$4.991 Year
- Topo maps - Sweden$4.991 Year
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- Topo maps - World$8.991 Year
- Historic maps Finland$8.991 Year
- Nautical chart - Finland$14.991 Year
- PRO3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Topo maps with premise$38.991 Year
- PRO - Lifetime$89.99
Maptrails
- Maptrails Pro$24.99









