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onX Offroad: Trail Maps & GPS
onXmaps, Inc. · Utilities

We analyzed this app across 3 independent signals and corroborated nothing unfair. That is a signal, not an audit.

Nothing unfair corroborated · unauditedConfidence: High3 signal sources614 reviews scannedNot human-reviewedas of 2026-10-04
 Which version this describes

This analysis describes version 26.37.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 26.37.0, updated 2026-09-22.

What the analysis found

Each finding shows what agreed and how strongly. Automated analysis

One source only — shown, not confirmed 5

A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.

Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 614 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.8% of 614 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 614 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.8% of 614 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 614 reviews scanned)

What reviewers said

Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.

Trial converts to a charge

Scam — Canceled my free trial and still got charged

1★ · App Store · 2026-07-09

Scam — They let you sign up for a free trial, but there is NO WAY to cancel it before they charge you the full price. It won’t even show up on your subscriptions on App Store

1★ · App Store · 2026-07-05

Not efficient — Not good for local trails wasn’t what I expected and it charged me for the monthly subscription when I only wanted the free trial terrible experience.

1★ · App Store · 2026-04-01

Hard to cancel

Great app, just expensive — This app is amazing, I had a free trial I used on my trip to Utah. The only issue I have is price. My family does quite a bit of off-roading throughout the year, but not on a weekly basis like some people…

3★ · App Store · 2026-08-18

Cant cancel — For you to just cancel your subscription you gotta download a whole different app. Tried calling to cancel and I thought I did got charged anyway. Quite frustrated and disappointed. App itself does work good though

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-17

Scam — They let you sign up for a free trial, but there is NO WAY to cancel it before they charge you the full price. It won’t even show up on your subscriptions on App Store

1★ · App Store · 2026-07-05

Paywall blocks the basics

Unusable with incessant “upgrade now” popup — Literally every 3 seconds I’m in the app, I have to close yet another “upgrade now” popup. Free version of the app is completely unusable. I was thinking about upgrading but this is so…

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-06

They make you pay for safety!! — I was hoping to use this app to track some wildfires that are actively in progress in my area as onX was the first app to pop up when I was trying to find this information. But onX has decided to lock this…

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-23

Paywall — You have to pay for anything worthwhile on this app. Lame. Let’s stop gatekeeping 😬

2★ · App Store · 2026-05-31

Aggressive ad load

Awesome! — New to off roading and especially here in Texas I’m able to find off roading parks and trails that don’t get a lot of advertising. Texas makes you work for it!

5★ · App Store · 2026-09-25

Obtrusive pop-up ads — Can’t look at the map without constant pop-up ads trying to sell you a subscription.

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-31

Constant ads even when paid — This app does not offer anything special outside of giving you access to trail reviews from other drivers, which tend to not be very informative and mostly consist of pictures of their car Pop-up adds every…

2★ · App Store · 2026-08-30

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

Not what it advertised — I saw this app on instagram, and it said you could use it to find camping spots for free. That information does not seem to be readily available. Waste of time.

2★ · App Store · 2026-09-10

Rude and un-navigable — Impossible to access the app without tapping through 10 minutes of screen prompts that are practically ads. Then it demands you to sign up for its subscription or it’s a dead app. Hate false advertising, and being…

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-10

PAID SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED FOR MAP USE — Saw an instagram ad and it advertised as free map for camping and trialing but once you answer the 100 questions they have placed out for you it the app forces you to enter a card so you can do the…

3★ · App Store · 2026-06-14

How the automated analysis works

Automated, corroborated, and never human-reviewed without a person.

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

 Not yet human-reviewed

Several measurements above say “Not assessed” because no artefact we hold can answer them. A human review is what resolves those — and it can remove a favourable band as easily as add one.

Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

 How this page was produced
Analyzed 2026-10-04 Version analyzed: 26.37.03 independent signals614 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.