I am looking for information from anyone with first hand experience with the system.

I have the OnX app on my phone.  I pay the yearly fee ($99) for access for all 50 states.  Good for using around home to see information on who owns certain properties, and displays property lines which are pretty accurate.  I was also able to use it in remote Alaska on a Moose hunt.  It worked great with my phone in airplane mode, and I was able to mark locations, get distance measurements, direction etc., but I could never find the button to give me the locations of all the legal bulls in the area   It depends on what you would be using it for, and expect it to do.

I have the cheap version and use it all the time. The property owner info is invaluable just by itself.

OnX is worth the money, regardless of whether you are just buying one state or all 50. It has been worth its weight in gold on out of state trips, as well as hunting around home. It has helped me plan routes, find new properties, and even helped me out once when a landowner was disputing that I had shot a deer on his property. Showed him the map, where I was, the track that I had walked, and now we're on great terms. Like Rob has already listed, there are a ton of useful features.

It's best when your hunting buddy has it and you can bug the heck out of him making him get his phone out of his pocket every 10 min to look at the map!  😆

It's pretty cool but I like to maintain my lack of smart phone savvy, so I depend on my IT guy.

R

Quote from: Ryan Rothhaar on January 16, 2025, 09:32:41 PM
It's best when your hunting buddy has it and you can bug the heck out of him making him get his phone out of his pocket every 10 min to look at the map!  😆

It's pretty cool but I like to maintain my lack of smart phone savvy, so I depend on my IT guy.

R

Same Here.... GPS sure is great when you are in a new area, such as a TX ranch, just to navigate what roads you want to go down of the so many there are at times.

I never owned a GPS for the same reason Ryan state.

I should as to that last sentence......

Till one showed up on my phone. 

I use it every day for work and/or hunting. As far as hunting tools, it's one of the best values out there, as long as you take time to learn how to use it before you need it.

Fairly new to Onx, but have found it very helpful on negotiating property ownership.  Haven't figured out why I don't see topo yet.  I use GAIA for topo and marking locations of things.  I believe Onx has many features to offer that I should figure out exist.

Two guys I hunt with have it so they send me maps with stand locations and property lines. It's a good resource.

I am thinking about getting it for hunting on National grasslands. About ten years ago we came very close to getting arrested for tresspassing.  We thought we were on public land. We went back to the landowner and explained our error AND apologized.
In the end the owner accepted our apology and that was the end of it.
He said we were the fourth or fifth trespassers on his property and was getting tired of it. He said at least you guys apologized for it.

In that case, if we had Onyx it would have been invaluable.

Certainly a great tool for knowing ALMOST exactly where you are.  I've compared it to known property corner pins and property lines on my land and it's pretty accurate, although not 100%.  I'd say give or take 15' or so. 

Steve,

If you're using the iPhone app, you can toggle between satellite, topo and hybrid.  On the bottom right of the screen there are two buttons, one is the circle that looks like a compass, and the square above it is labeled sat/2D.  If you tap that top sat/2D square, you have options to do topo only, satellite only, or hybrid with both.  In the same area, you can switch between 2D and 3D (which I never do, I stay on 2D), and you can toggle between regular imagery and leaf off imagery, which is pretty cool.  Lots of functionality, and as someone posted earlier, get familiar with it before you need to use it in a hunt.

is it as good for public land as it is for private and property boundaries, etc?

It's just as good for public land as well.  Shows all public land, BLM, as well as private land.

Other than property boundaries, where on x really shine's is being able to approach a piece of land from all angles. Even though you're entry points are miles apart you can see patterns develop from marking sign as you see it. It also puts all Aeriel and topo maps in the palm of your hand.

We all have it on our phones, although I must admit that I'm not very good at using it....

We have a lot of NYCDEP land here in the Catskill mountains that we hunt. Areas can be 50 acres, to 500 acres.
What I personally use most, is the "mark my location"... Makes it easy to get back to the truck

Thanks for the input, I think I just maybe adding it to my phone soon.

A good friend of mine has a cabin in Michigans UP. He opted for a handheld GPS with the on x chip.

I like Basemaps I have used both onx and I like Basemap more 99% of all my hunting is in the west, I like the offline maps of basemap there satellite maps are updated regularly their tools are easy to use. I think it's around $60 a year for all 50 states.

It's a great tool for hunting. You can download areas 5-10 miles wide and still use those maps without a cell or wifi signal. Like Jed said, over time you can really hone in on specific spots in an area by marking sign, etc. Over the past 5 years or so I've built brush blinds in areas all over western MI and I mark the spots I've seen action in blue and leave regular waypoints red. It's great to pin the truck and wander off with tracking on and not worry about getting "confused".