Offline maps
Most leases have no signal. The map should not care.
Pick a property, pick how much detail, tap download. The satellite and topo tiles for it live on your phone, alongside your waypoints, until you remove them.
Free to mark and track. Scout adds offline maps, forecasts, wind and 3D for $30 a year.
How it works
Three taps the night before
- Choose the area. What is on screen, or one of your hunt areas (a booked lease is already one). The app pads the edges so you are never standing on the border of the download.
- Choose the detail. A slider from county scale to single trees, with the size in megabytes shown before you commit. A 300-acre farm at tree-level detail is usually under 80 MB for satellite and topo together.
- Download. Keep the app open while it runs; pause and resume from the list. Areas that overlap share tiles, so a second download of the same valley is nearly free.
Downloaded areas show as a dashed outline on the map so you know, before you set off, what will work without signal.
What works with no signal
Everything you saved, plus the maps you downloaded
Always, on every plan
- Every waypoint, shape, hunt area and track you have made, with photos you took on this phone
- Adding and editing all of the above; changes sync when you are back in signal
- GPS position, heading, walk-to bearing and distance, track recording
- The last weather you loaded, marked with how old it is
- Sunrise, sunset, legal light, moon and solunar (computed on the phone)
- Logging a hunt or a harvest
With a downloaded area (Scout)
- USGS satellite, topo and hybrid tiles for the area, to the detail you chose
- Up to 10 areas and 2 GB per phone
- Public land boundaries inside the area, when the boundary tileset is enabled
Needs signal, always
- New forecasts and the Field Ready Score
- Leases for rent and the first load of public land
- Creating a share link
The honest part
Two things to know about a browser app
Scout installs from Safari or Chrome rather than an app store. That keeps it cheap and fast to update, and it means the phone treats it a little differently from a store app:
- Install it to your Home Screen before you rely on downloads. On iPhone, Safari can clear a website's storage after a week of not using it; an installed app is exempt. The app asks the phone to keep its storage and tells you whether it agreed.
- Track recording needs the screen on. A browser app cannot run GPS in the background. For a walk in, that is a few minutes with the phone in your hand; it is not a substitute for an all-day breadcrumb trail.
If those are deal-breakers, onX and HuntStand are native apps and do both. Here is the side-by-side.
Put your lease on your phone.
Make a free account, open the map, and start marking. Install it from your browser; there is nothing to download from an app store.