What should a hunting map app have?
A hunting map app should show public and private land with owner names, hunting units, maps that work with no signal, shooting light, wind and tracks; of the 21 features in this checklist the free FilledTag app has 14 in full, 4 in part and lacks 3, and its property lines with owner names cover 14 states so far (app state list, 21 October 2026).
Data updated October 23, 2026, from the app's feature list and state list of 21 and 22 October 2026.
The checklist
Use it on any app you are thinking about. The last two columns are FilledTag's own answer, including what it does not do.
| Feature | Why a hunter needs it | FilledTag | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public and private land, by who manages it | The first question on any piece of ground is whether you may be on it. | Yes | All 50 states, coloured by manager from the BLM Surface Management Agency layer. |
| Property lines and the owner's name | Next to private ground, the line and the owner tell you where to stop and whom to ask. | Partly | In the app: property lines in 28 states and the owner's name in 14 of them (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and 10 more), wherever the county or state shares its parcel map. None yet in the other 22 states. On the website map: Colorado and Idaho. |
| Hunting units, districts or zones | Seasons, quotas and licences are set by unit. | Yes | All 50 states, from each state wildlife agency, kept on the phone for use with no signal. |
| Maps that work with no signal | Most hunting country has none. | Yes | Topo, USGS aerial photo, land ownership, roads, contour lines, property lines with owners and every switched-on layer. The store's satellite picture cannot be saved by any app; the USGS aerial is saved instead. |
| Shooting light | In many states legal hours run from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset (Montana FWP 2026 regulations, page 24, for one). | Yes | For any spot, worked out on the phone with no signal, with a wake-up alarm worked back from legal light. |
| Wind for the hours ahead | The wind decides which seat you can sit. | Yes | Hourly wind, temperature and sky from the National Weather Service. |
| Record a track | To find the way back to the truck, or to a downed animal, in the dark. | Yes | Records with the phone locked; stops by itself after 12 hours; saves as GPX. |
| Pins for what you find | A rub, a wallow, a gate or the truck. | Yes | More than 60 pin types, the same on every device you sign in on. |
| Bring points in from another app | Years of waypoints should not be stuck in an old app. | Partly | The website map imports GPX and KML. The iPhone app does not yet. |
| Roads open to vehicles | A road on the map is not always a road you may drive. | Yes | Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads and trails. |
| Walking path and climb | A mile on the map can be a hard mile on the ground. | Yes | A path over the ground with distance, climb and time on foot, and a warning where it crosses private land. It does not yet route around private land by itself. |
| Where the game is generally found | Range maps narrow a big state to the ground worth a look. | Yes | 885 state-by-animal entries, 710 with a range map from the state agency or the USGS. No sightings or animal locations. |
| Fires and old burns | Burns change access and feed. | Yes | Current fire perimeters and past burns since 2000. |
| What you can see from a spot | To pick a glassing point before you climb to it. | Yes | The ground in view within about 2 miles, drawn on the map, from USGS elevation. |
| 3D terrain | To read a basin before you walk into it. | Partly | On iPhone. Not on Android. |
| Share with your hunting party | Everyone sees the same spots. | Yes | A shared group map. |
| Weather radar | To see a storm coming in. | No | Not in the app. |
| Moon phase and solunar tables | Some hunters plan around them. | No | Not in the app. |
| Hunt journal and harvest log | A record of each season to plan the next. | No | Not in the app. |
| An Android app | Not every hunter carries an iPhone. | Partly | In testing; iPhone is in the App Store. |
| Price | The map is something you need every trip. | Free | Every map feature is free, offline maps included. There is no paid tier. |
Which features matter most?
Land ownership, owner names and maps that work with no signal. Every other feature helps you hunt better; those three keep you legal when you have no way to look anything up. Before you trust any app with them, put the phone in airplane mode at home and open the ground you mean to hunt.
How sure can you be of the land lines?
Property lines on every hunting map come from county records, which vary from county to county and can be months behind a sale. We checked 30 random points against the agency records and published the result, misses included, on how accurate FilledTag is.