Hiking Project vs FXL Loopsy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hiking Project
Discover and navigate over 74,000 miles of trails with detailed GPS route information, elevation profiles, and high-resolution maps. Find featured hikes near you or in a searched area, with insights from local experts. Download trails for offline use, ensuring you can explore even without cell reception.
- GPS route information
- Elevation profiles
- Interactive trail maps
- Offline trail downloads
- High-resolution photos
- Local expert insights
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Hiking Project is your comprehensive guide to the best hikes near you, wherever you are. With the thoroughness of a printed map, we offer full GPS route info, elevation profiles, interactive features, photos, and more. Like a guidebook, we suggest the best featured hikes to explore—either near your current location or in an area you search for. Local experts show you the highlights, challenging features, and insights you need to plan a great day on the trails. • Find over 74,000 miles of trail to hike with your crew. • New trails are constantly added to our incredibly detailed hiking database. • Your exact location is shown on the trail. • Downloaded trails work offline for when you’re off the grid. (No cell reception required!) • Enjoy high-resolution photos and detailed topographical trail maps. • We’ll sync with your to-do list and check ins on HikingProject.com. By using GPS, we can show your location on trails and vertical profiles. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
FXL Loopsy
Enhance your fitness routine with a vast library of exercises and customizable training programs. Features include voice guidance, a built-in timer, and daily updated workouts, all available for free.
- Huge exercise base
- New training programs
- Custom training constructor
- Voice guidance
- Cyclic timer
- Daily updated trainings
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With this application, your workouts will never be as before! - a huge base of exercises - new training programs - constructor for your own trainings - voice guidance - built-in cyclically timer - daily updated trainings And many more features for FREE
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FXL Loopsy at every 4 days against Hiking Project's every 6 weeks. FXL Loopsy also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Hiking Project's advantage is ratings volume (2K vs 2). On price, rating, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Hiking Project against 4.5 for FXL Loopsy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hiking Project has 2K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Hiking Project ships an update every 6 weeks, FXL Loopsy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hiking Project | FXL Loopsy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (2K ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adventure Projects Inc. | Andrii Tischenko |
Customer experience
Hiking Project
FXL Loopsy
Bugs and requests
Hiking Project
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes when trying to record hikes
- Offline maps frequently fail to load
- Elevation data sometimes inaccurate
- Syncing issues between app and website
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to record and track hikes
- Improve search and filtering options
- Expand trail coverage to more regions
- Add weather forecasts and other useful info
- Improve offline map reliability and functionality
FXL Loopsy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hiking Project
No in-app purchases
FXL Loopsy
No in-app purchases
Questions
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