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onX Maps
Land ownership and offline navigation apps sold as separate subscriptions per activity: Hunt, Offroad, Backcountry
As of 1 September 2026, onX Maps's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A family of GPS mapping apps built around private land ownership boundaries, sold as genuinely separate products, onX Hunt, onX Offroad and onX Backcountry, each with its own subscription. Softwr lists it under Maps. onX Maps is made by onX, Inc., available on iOS, Android, Web.
Overview
What onX Maps does
onX overlays land ownership boundaries, public and private, on detailed topographic and satellite maps, with offline download, waypoint marking and GPS tracking aimed at users who need to know precisely whose land they are on. It began with onX Hunt and expanded into onX Offroad for off-highway vehicle use and onX Backcountry for skiing, hiking and general backcountry travel. The fact that most affects a buying decision is that these are not tiers of one app; they are separate apps with separate subscriptions and separate content, each with its own Elite tier adding nationwide private land ownership data, recent satellite imagery and partner discounts. Someone who both hunts and rides off-road cannot buy one onX subscription and use both; they need two. That is a real cost multiplier that a first-time buyer researching one onX product would not necessarily expect. Buyers are hunters, off-roaders and backcountry travellers who specifically need land ownership boundary data, which general navigation apps like Gaia GPS or AllTrails do not emphasise to the same degree. The trade-off is cost: needing two or three onX products for different activities means paying two or three separate annual fees rather than one.
What people use it for
- A hunter who needs to know exact private and public land boundaries before crossing onto a property
- An off-road driver planning a trail route with land ownership and access data
- A backcountry skier or hiker wanting offline terrain maps without cell signal
- Someone who does two or more of these activities and needs to budget for two or three separate subscriptions
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The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about onX Maps.
- Hunt, Offroad and Backcountry are entirely separate subscriptions, so a user needing more than one activity pays for more than one product with no combined bundle discount.
- Elite-tier pricing at roughly $99.99 a year per product is expensive if a buyer only occasionally needs the private land ownership data it adds.
- The apps are US and Canada focused, with more limited usefulness for international travel compared to a global mapping product.
- Land ownership data, while extensive, can lag real-world changes in property boundaries in fast-changing areas.
- It is not a general-purpose hiking or trail-review app in the way AllTrails or Gaia GPS are, so casual hikers without a land-boundary need may find the focus narrower than expected.
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of onX Maps
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- onX MapsvsAllTrails
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- onX MapsvsTrailforks
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Pricing
What onX Maps costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
onX Hunt Elite
$99.99 /yr
- Nationwide private land ownership data
- Recent satellite imagery
- Offline maps
onX Offroad Premium
$34.99 /yr
- Trail and land ownership maps for off-road use
- Offline maps
onX Offroad Elite
$99.99 /yr
- Everything in Premium plus nationwide land ownership and recent imagery
onX Backcountry
$29.99 /yr
- Backcountry ski and hike focused maps
- Offline maps
- Avalanche and terrain data
Capabilities
Features
Land ownership boundaries
Public and private land boundary data overlaid on the map
Offline maps
Downloadable maps for use without a signal
Waypoint and track marking
GPS waypoint marking and track recording for navigation
Elite tier private land data
Nationwide land ownership data and recent satellite imagery on the Elite tier
3D terrain view
Topographic terrain rendered in 3D for route planning
Weather overlay
Live weather layered on the map for trip planning
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Can I use one onX subscription for both hunting and off-roading?
No, onX Hunt, onX Offroad and onX Backcountry are separate apps with separate subscriptions.
What does the Elite tier add?
Elite tiers add nationwide private land ownership data, more recent satellite imagery and partner discounts on top of the base Premium tier.
Does onX work outside the US?
Coverage is strongest in the US and Canada; usefulness elsewhere is limited.
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