Make My Trail vs Drag4Distance
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Make My Trail
Record outdoor activities and convert them into interactive, shareable trails. Get distance-and-direction navigation to waypoints and receive arrival notifications. The app points the way along trails and toward your created waypoints.
- Record outdoor activities
- Convert tracks to interactive trails
- Shareable trails
- Waypoint creation
- Distance and direction navigation
- Arrival notifications
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Questions? Please click on CONTACT US on our support web site. We respond to all customer inquiries promptly. Make My Trail turns your iPhone or GPS-equipped iPad into a powerful tool for recording your outdoor activities and converting them into interactive trails that you can share, analyze, and follow again. Interactive trails are more than lines on a map. They change color as you traverse them, and trigger alerts if you wander too far off the trail. Tap interactive trails to select them and access trails features. Make My Trail also lets you create waypoints: providing you with distance-and-direction navigation assistance, or with a few taps you can access Maps turn-by-turn navigation to any waypoint you create. Make My Trail will notify you upon arrival at any waypoint you set - even if the app is minimized while recording your track. With Make My Trail you're not just a blue dot on the map: the app literally points the way along the trails and toward the waypoints that you create. Track recording continues when the app is minimized, which is much easier on the battery than recording with the app in the foreground. But... PLEASE NOTE: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Drag4Distance
Easily measure the distance of any route by dragging your finger across the map. Quickly locate your current position and clear previous routes with simple gestures or buttons. Ideal for travelers and runners planning their journeys.
- Drag to measure routes
- Locate current position
- Clear routes by shaking
- Trash button to clear
- Regional distance display
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Measure any distance by drawing it. Drag your finger along a road, trail or river on the map, and Drag4Distance shows the distance instantly. Planning a run, a walk or a bike ride? Checking how far it is to the beach, across a park, or around the block? Just trace the route and see how far it is: no typing in addresses, no turn-by-turn directions, no fuss.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Drag4Distance at 67% against Make My Trail's 0%. Drag4Distance also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (36 vs 3). Make My Trail's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 8 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Drag4Distance holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drag4Distance has 36 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Make My Trail's written reviews are positive against 67% of Drag4Distance's.
Make My Trail ships an update every 4 months, Drag4Distance every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Make My Trail | Drag4Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (3 ratings) | 4.7 (36 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 36 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Digital Confections LLC | Michael Critchley |
Customer experience
Make My Trail
Drag4Distance
In-app purchases
Make My Trail
No in-app purchases
Drag4Distance
No in-app purchases
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