Honest comparison  ·  Prices checked September 2026

Hunt smarter for less

Most hunters end up paying for a mapping app, a research app, and then keep their dope card in a notebook, and memories in a photo album. Here is what each one costs, what each does well, and why HuntLeague belongs alongside them rather than instead of them.

What it costs

Annual pricing, checked September 2026. Every app on this page also has a free tier or a free trial.

Membership Per year Coverage
HuntLeague — free $0 Hunt logs, 200+ map layers, public land in 50 states, HL Ballistics, leagues, watches
HuntLeague — the League Pass $14.99 Everything above plus draw odds, unit insights, offline topo by the whole hunt unit, detail imagery, Field Link
onX Hunt Premium — one state $34.99 Mapping, one state
onX Hunt Premium — two states $49.99 Mapping, two states
onX Hunt Elite $99.99 Mapping, 50 states and Canada
GOHUNT Insider $168 ($14/mo, billed annually) Draw odds, unit research, and offline maps for 50 states with public and private land
HuntStand Pro $34.99 ($2.92/mo, billed annually) Nationwide mapping — parcel boundaries, owner names, public land, offline
HuntStand Ultimate $99.99 ($8.33/mo, billed annually) Everything in Pro plus rut maps and 15-day game activity forecasts
BaseMap Pro $39.99 Nationwide mapping — 800+ layers, parcels and owner names, offline, outdoor journal

Offline maps are not all the same shape. Most apps have you drag a box across the map and download whatever falls inside it — onX’s own instructions are to tile several of them in a grid to cover a larger area without leaving gaps. HuntLeague downloads the unit itself. Search a hunt unit by name and take all of it — contours, roads with their seasonal use, trails, water and trailheads — with no boxes to line up and nothing to miss along an edge. Eleven western states so far.

Worth noting what parcel data costs. HuntStand and BaseMap both include nationwide parcel boundaries with owner names, at $34.99 and $39.99. onX charges $34.99 for one state and $99.99 for the country. If landowner detail everywhere is what you are buying, those two are the value on this page and we are not going to pretend otherwise.

Sources: onX pricing, GOHUNT memberships, HuntStand subscriptions and BaseMap’s App Store listing, all checked September 2026. All names and logos are trademarks of their respective owners. HuntLeague is not affiliated with any of these companies.

What they do well

We would rather tell you the truth than win an argument. Plenty of our own hunters carry one of these too. When two is one and one is none, it is better to have a backup and validate than to end up on the wrong side of a property line, a draw result, or a hazardous situation.

onX Hunt

Deep, polished mapping with landowner names and parcel detail, and a long head start on data licensing. If parcel-level private land research is the core of how you hunt, it is the industry standard.

GOHUNT

Serious draw odds and application research, with filtering built for a hunter applying in many states. Insider also includes their own offline mapping for all 50 states with public and private land color-coded, so it is a mapping app as well as a research one. Insider+ adds one-on-one e-scouting and an application service if you want someone else to handle the paperwork.

HuntStand

Built around private land and whitetails. Pro puts nationwide parcel boundaries and owner names on your phone for $34.99 — the same price onX charges for a single state, and a third of what onX asks for the whole country. Ultimate adds rut maps and 15-day game activity forecasts. If you hunt the same few properties every season, it is a lot of map for the money.

BaseMap

The most layers of anyone here — 800-plus — with nationwide parcels and owner names, 3D Earth view and real-time location sharing, all in at $39.99. It is also the only one of these four that records anything beyond a pin: an Outdoor Journal where you attach a photo or a waypoint, write what happened, and choose who sees it. If you want a strong map with a harvest log on the side, BaseMap covers a lot of ground for the money.

What HuntLeague adds to them

HuntLeague is open on the range day, the scouting trip, the climb with a loaded pack, and the morning it finally comes together. Every sighting, sound, sign, shot and blood trail is its own event with its own time and GPS. Your season is more than pins on a map, it’s a story and we believe in the power of story. It’s what inspires us to climb the next hill and pave the way for others to follow.

The whole season, not just the season opener

  • Hunt logs with a timeline — sightings, sounds, sign, shots, blood, each stamped with time and GPS.
  • Photos, video, audio and notes attached to the moment they happened.
  • Your own patterns — what you saw, when, and in what weather, read back to you.
  • Scouts, range days and shooting matches logged the same way as hunts, so the off-season counts too.

More than maps

  • Leagues and leaderboards — titles and prize packages from our league partners.
  • Daily challenges — a reason to open it in February, not just October.
  • Shooting activities — 3D archery, clay pigeons, NRL Hunter.
  • HL Ballistics — DOPE card on your phone, Apple Watch and 111 Garmin watches.
  • Field Link, Safety Watch and SOS — your party on the map, someone at home who knows where you are, and a three second hold that tells them all at once.

Log it in HuntLeague. Send it anywhere.

You do not have to pick. Log in the field in HuntLeague, because it is faster there and it keeps far more of the story, then send the spots that matter wherever else you keep them.

  1. 1
    Log it where logging is fastest. A sighting is a species, a count and a tap. It carries the time, your GPS and the weather on its own, and a photo, a clip or a voice note if you have one. No typing a note into a pin.
  2. 2
    Keep the detail HuntLeague keeps. A pin in a mapping app is a dot and a label. A HuntLeague event sits on a hunt timeline with everything around it — what you saw before it, the shot, the blood trail, how the day ended.
  3. 3
    Then export. Waypoints and tracks come out as GPX or KML, the formats every mapping app reads. Send them to onX, to GOHUNT, to a Garmin, or to a buddy by text or QR.
  4. 4
    Bring things back the same way. Import waypoints and KML areas into HuntLeague, so the spots you have collected elsewhere over the years come with you.
One more thing

We are not in this for the money

HuntLeague was originally built as a private hunting journal for a group of elk hunting buddies who wanted a better tool, so we could all learn from one another and have some friendly competition along the way.

If the cost of the League Pass is preventing you from having the tool you need this year in the field, reach out and tell us your situation. We are good people who love sharing our passion with other hunters.

We also believe in sacrifice, hard work, and eliminating excuses, because we think it makes you better.

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