Trailmonger vs onX Hunt

onX Hunt is the best-known hunting GPS app, built around property boundaries and landowner information. Trailmonger covers the same ground — offline maps, property lines, hunt units, GPS recording — as one app for every outdoor activity, at a lower price, with offline maps free for everyone. Here is where each one is genuinely better.

onX Hunt pricing and features verified September 2026 from public sources; both change over time — check their site for current details.

How much does each app cost?

Trailmonger Pro is $19.99 per year (or $3.99 per month) and covers all 50 states. onX Hunt Premium is $34.99 per year for one state ($49.99 for two); seeing property lines in every state requires onX Elite at $99.99 per year. Trailmonger’s offline maps, recording, and safety features are free without any subscription; on onX those require a membership.

The gap is wider than the sticker price suggests, because onX splits the outdoors across four apps — Hunt, Offroad, Backcountry, and Fish — each with its own subscription, and many hunters pair onX Elite with a separate draw-research service. A hunter who also fishes and runs a side-by-side can spend well over $200 a year across those subscriptions. Trailmonger is one $19.99 app for all of it.

How fresh is the property data?

This is the question that matters most and gets asked least. Every mapping app’s ownership data has an age, because county records update on their own schedules — what differs is whether the app tells you. onX’s FAQ states that it updates private land ownership “every 1-2 years,” with faster refreshes in active regions, but the app does not show a date on the parcel you are standing on.

Trailmonger publishes the import date for every state’s parcel data — on the map, inside offline packs, and openly on our data freshness page, which lists all 45 covered states with their sources and dates, including the ones where our data is older than we would like. You should not have to guess how current the boundary is before you knock on a door or take a shot.

What does onX do better?

Property data in all 50 states — Trailmonger’s parcel coverage is 45 states today, and if your state is not on that list yet, onX has it. onX Elite also carries hunt-planning research tools (draw odds, unit research, partner discounts) that Trailmonger does not attempt, an optional recent-satellite-imagery layer, and a decade of history in hunting GPS.

What does Trailmonger do better?

Offline maps are free for everyone, forever — no membership, no cap, and downloads never expire or demand an update in the field. One $19.99 subscription covers hunting, fishing, off-roading, hiking, and paddling, where onX splits those into four separate apps with separate subscriptions. Every parcel card shows the date of the underlying county data, and those dates are published openly rather than only in the app, so you know exactly how current the ownership information is instead of guessing. And safety features — active fires, cell coverage, emergency location sharing — are never paywalled.

Is Trailmonger a good onX alternative?

Yes, if you want property lines and offline maps without a $99.99/year all-state subscription, or if you would rather carry one app for every season instead of one per activity. Not yet, if you need parcel data in a state Trailmonger does not cover, or if onX Elite’s draw-research tools are central to how you plan hunts. The FAQ covers what is in the free tier and how the property data works.