Idaho · an honest comparison
The others sell you Idaho. We only make Idaho.
onX, Avenza and AllTrails are national products, and Idaho is one state out of fifty to all three. Huck is the whole state — every trail, every forest road, the agencies' own closures — offline, on CarPlay, for nothing.
Free, no account, no trial. Every figure below is one you can check.
The same map, every year, at four prices
What it costs to have Idaho on your phone when there is no signal. Annual list prices, checked October 26, 2026.
$0
Huck — the whole state, closures included
$29.99
onX Backcountry, or $99.99 for Elite
$35.99
AllTrails+, for offline
$34.99
Avenza Plus
All three discount hard and often, so check before you buy. Huck does not discount, because $0 does not go on sale.
The short version
- Huck — every trail and forest road in Idaho, offline, free, with the agencies' own closures and fire orders on the trail you are standing on. Idaho only.
- onX — a national subscription app with private landowner names. Idaho is one of fifty states in it. onX Offroad's free version saves one offline map; more maps, and the car screen, take a subscription.
- Avenza — a reader for the agency's published PDFs. The MVUM it shows is the legal document, and that matters; but it is a picture printed from data we carry live, one map at a time, and it ages from the day it is issued.
- AllTrails — photos and reviews on more than 500,000 curated trails worldwide. A curated subset of Idaho, and offline maps need the paid tier.
The thing none of them do
A closure order finds the trail you were about to walk
When a forest closes country, it issues a polygon and a document — not a note on one trail. Huck reads the order, works out every trail that runs through it, and puts the closure on the map and on each of those trail cards — with the order number, the issuing district and its phone number, in the agency's own words.
At the last update, the largest single closure order covered 434 trails. On a PDF map, every one of them still reads as open. On a national app, you find out from a review, if someone wrote one.
The closure on the trail in front of you is free and always will be — a safety notice only paying users see would be worth less than not shipping it. The statewide layer that draws the closure and area orders the agencies publish, all at once, for planning, is free as well, since 1.5.1.
Side by side
Checked October 26, 2026. Prices are annual list prices, and all three of the others discount hard and often — check before you buy, and take the promotional price seriously, because it is usually available.
| Huck | onX | Avenza | AllTrails | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Offline map of all of Idaho | Free | Subscription | Per map, if one exists | Paid tier, by trail, park or area |
| Annual list price | $0, or $24.99 for Huck+ | Backcountry $29.99, Elite $99.99 | Free app; Plus $34.99 | Free app; Plus $35.99 |
| Coverage | Idaho, all of it | National | Whatever PDFs are published | Worldwide, curated trails |
| Miles of Idaho trail and road | 34,531 trail · 56,450 road | Large, not published as a figure | Whatever the PDF shows | Curated subset |
| Agency closure orders, on the trail | Yes, within a day | Open and closed trails (Offroad); source not stated | Only when the PDF is reissued | Community reports |
| How current the trail data is | Checked daily, from the agencies | Regular updates | The date the PDF was issued | Continuous, community-led |
| Fire perimeters & NWS alerts | Yes, free | Wildfire and weather layers | No | No |
| CarPlay | Yes, free | Yes (Offroad and Hunt), with a subscription | No | No |
| Land ownership | Public land, with Huck+ | Private owners: one state with Hunt Premium, all with Elite | If drawn on the PDF | No |
| Photos, reviews, community | No | Some | No | Yes |
| Account required | No | Yes | For purchases | Yes |
| Android | Yes, Android 7.0 or later; no Android Auto | Yes | Yes | Yes |
And if you hunt
Huck+ is $24.99. onX charges $99.99 for the tier that competes with it.
One subscription, every tool below, all of Idaho, all offline — built for the people who actually hunt and ride this country rather than for fifty states at once. It is the same data an outfitter pays for, on the phone in your pocket, at a quarter of the price of the tier you would have to buy elsewhere.
Every season, every hunt
Tap any spot: season dates across all ten species and whether each is open right now — from IDFG's printed rules, offline.
Draw odds & success rates
What it took to draw each controlled hunt and how hunters actually did, from IDFG's own published statistics.
Wind check
Mark the wind on the compass and see exactly where your scent carries before you commit to a stalk.
Slope & aspect
Every hillside tinted by the direction it faces. Find the north-slope timber and the south-facing feed before you climb.
Hunt units
Every Idaho GMU with boundaries and elk zones, offline — and the unit you are standing in, right now.
Controlled hunt areas
Every draw boundary by species, and which one you are inside.
Wildlife management areas
The ground Idaho Fish and Game manages for wildlife, outlined and named on the map alongside the hunt units.
Public land
National forest, wilderness, BLM and state endowment ground, each its own color, so whose ground you are on is a glance.
Campgrounds & lookouts
Forest Service and BLM campgrounds, fire lookouts and rental cabins on the map and in search — fees, water and toilets as the agency lists them, and the Recreation.gov page to check dates where there is one.
Weather downloads
Pull the forecast while you still have bars, read it at camp.
Snow depth
Inches on the ground at every SNOTEL station in and around Idaho, with the week behind it — and on each trail card, the nearby station closest in height to the trail's high point.
Satellite imagery
Offline aerial packs for every region — see the clearcut before you plan around it.
Cell coverage
Where you will have bars and where you will not, so you know before you go where the phone stops being a phone.
Legal to ride
The Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map on your offline map. Pick your machine and every route legally open to it turns green — solid is yearlong, dashed is seasonal, and the dates are the legal season, not the snow.
Sun, moon & solunar
Moonrise, moonset, the moon's phase and the solunar peaks where you stand, for any day — worked out on the phone, so it answers in a canyon.
Ride & hike stats
What you actually did: moving and stopped time, best sustained speed, descent, high point and average grade, read off the track you recorded and kept on the phone.
Documents pocket
Your tags, permits and your own maps carried inside Huck — stored on the phone, never uploaded, and readable with no signal at the check station. On Android, Huck shows photos here but not yet PDFs.
And it keeps growing. Every tool above shipped in the first year, and new ones land with the regular data refresh rather than at renewal time. The map, the trails, the turn-by-turn, and the closure on the trail in front of you are never part of it — that is the safety loop, and it stays free permanently. Since 1.5.1, the statewide closure layer and trail season dates are free as well.
What actually makes Huck different
Not the map. Everyone has a map. It is that Huck reads the same notices the ranger district publishes, and puts them on the trail you were about to walk.
The closure finds you
When a forest issues an area closure, it is a polygon covering country, not a note on one trail. Huck works out every trail that runs through it — the largest order at the last update covered 434 of them — and each of those trails says so on its own card, with the order name, the issuing office and its phone number.
It is the source, not a picture of it
Huck reads the Forest Service, BLM and Idaho Parks & Recreation feeds directly — the same data an agency PDF is printed from. A printed map is a snapshot of that data on the day it went to press, and forest roads change. Ours is checked every day, so a route added last season is on it and a closure signed this morning is on it.
The forest roads are the route
56,450 miles of forest, primitive and public road, routable turn-by-turn with no signal. Most trail apps treat the drive in as somebody else's problem and hand you off to Google at the point where the pavement — and the data — ends.
Nothing is collected
No account, no sign-up, no tracking. Your location is used on the phone; the only request Huck makes with it is a Huck+ hunt forecast that you ask for, to the National Weather Service. The App Store privacy label says "Data Not Collected," and Google Play's data safety section says "No data collected." That is a claim the other three cannot make, because their products genuinely need the account.
The questions people actually ask
Is it really free, or free for now?
Really free, permanently. The map, every trail and forest road, the fire and weather alerts, CarPlay, and the closure or restriction on the trail you are looking at are the free tier and are not moving out of it. Since 1.5.1, the statewide closure layer and trail season dates are free as well. Huck+ is $24.99 a year for the planning and hunting tools above — sport tooling, never safety information.
What is the catch on "no account"?
There isn't one. There is no sign-up, no email, no profile. Your location is used on the phone; the only request Huck makes with it is a Huck+ hunt forecast that you ask for, to the National Weather Service. The App Store privacy label reads "Data Not Collected", Google Play's data safety section reads "No data collected", and the privacy policy lists everything the app does send, and to whom.
Does it work with no signal at all?
That is the entire point. You download a region at home; after that the map, the search, your position, the trail detail and turn-by-turn to a trailhead all run on the phone. Airplane mode, dead zone, deep canyon.
Only Idaho? That seems limiting.
It is the reason the rest of this page is true. Idaho gets every agency feed read daily, every closure resolved to the individual trails it shuts, and 34,531 miles of trail instead of a curated selection — because it is the only state we have to get right.
How current is the trail data?
Checked every day against the Forest Service, BLM and Idaho Parks & Recreation feeds. Closures and restrictions reach a phone on the next launch — no app update, no user action.
Is there an Android version?
Yes. Huck is on Google Play for Android 7.0 or later, with the offline maps, closures, turn-by-turn and Huck+. A few things are iPhone-only: CarPlay (there is no Android Auto version), live stats on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island — Android shows a notification while it records instead — and, for now, showing PDFs in the documents pocket, sending the map picture with a shared trail, and opening a shared Huck link straight in the app. Huck+ is bought through each store separately, so a subscription from the App Store does not unlock it on Android, or the other way around. On iPhone, Huck needs iOS 18.0 or later.
The whole Idaho map is free. There is nothing to lose by checking.
No account, no trial, no card. The Panhandle is built in; the other five regions download free.