onx backcountry vs onx hunt vs alltrails vs...?

[eyeguy]

$ of us will be hunting in western wyoming big blocks of public land without much issue of wandering onto private. So think showing trail systems and mapping routes and looking around with a 3d type depiction for scouting high country mule deer type habitat is what we will need. Any experience with above 3 or others that can save routes and mark waypoints and show terrain and accurate trail systems?

 

[Poser]

I have all 3, though I have not used AllTrails in a good while.

OnX Backcountry: You can often get it for quite a bit cheaper than OnX Hunt as they runs sales on it throughout the year. Trail info, map functions are the same, though you don't get unit info or the hunting specific icons such as elk, sheep goats, wallows etc for the waypoints. I personally only use OnX Backcountry for ski touring as the winter overlays and integrated avalanche forecasts info is useful and convenient.

OnX Hunt probably wouldn't offer any real advantages for the purposes of one hunt in the middle of public land, but for hunting different species in different units, its absolutely worth it.

Ethically, AllTrails is owned by Outside which does a good amount of public land advocacy. OnX is independently/privately held with also a good track record of public land advocacy, though some amount of that is hunting specific since OnX Hunt is their flagship app. Their CEO sits on the board of the Theodore Roosevelt Foundation, for example.

 

[fngTony]

I’m one of the few people that thinks all trails does a good job of giving trail descriptions. And it does have a tracking feature, but it really wants you to be on a actual trail and even then let’s say you decided to turn around before meeting your destination, it gets all mad and confused at you. It also seemed to burn my battery harder than on X. I think if I was strictly just someone hiking well-known trails it would be great but once you’re trying to look at geographical features land owners property boundaries things like that then onX is much better. Although I haven’t played with on recently since they changed up how you track where you go. Also didn’t care for the satellite view with all trails it gives kind of a weird shading to it and from what I noticed it makes it look like there might be a canyon somewhere but in reality it’s not there.