How Much Does HuntWise Cost in 2026?

Short answer: HuntWise Pro costs $59.99 per year (or $19.99 per month) and HuntWise Elite costs $119.99 per year (or $39.99 per month), per the Apple App Store's in-app purchase list as of July 2026. HuntWise's own site advertises the same plans as "$4.99/mo" and "$9.99/mo" billed annually — that's the annual price divided by twelve, not a monthly billing option.

If you went looking for huntwise.com/pricing and hit an error page, you're not alone — as of this writing, HuntWise's official /pricing URL returns a "Something didn't go quite right" 404. The live plan table lives on their /ultimate-hunting-app page instead. That's part of why pricing questions about this app get asked so often.

01HuntWise pricing at a glance (2026)

Two things worth calling out:

• The "per month" framing hides a 12-month commitment. $4.99/mo sounds like pocket change; it's a $59.99 annual charge. Nothing dishonest about the math, but know what you're agreeing to.
• Monthly billing is expensive. Paying month-to-month for Elite runs $479.88 over a year — four times the annual plan. If you only hunt October through December, three months of Pro at $19.99 ($59.97) costs about the same as a full year, which makes monthly billing hard to recommend for anyone.

02The 7-day free trial

HuntWise pushes a 7-day free trial hard at signup. Standard advice applies: start the trial when you can actually use the app in the field — during a scouting weekend or the opener, not on a whim — and set a calendar reminder for day six, because the subscription starts automatically when the trial ends.

03Is there a free version of HuntWise?

Sort of, and this is where honest reporting gets fuzzy. The app is free to download, and HuntWise's marketing copy references coverage "from Basic to Pro," implying a free Basic level exists. But HuntWise doesn't publish a clear feature list for what you get without paying, and the signup flow steers you straight into the trial. We couldn't verify the exact boundaries of the free tier from any official source — so if you've seen claims about what free HuntWise does or doesn't include (ads, feature limits), treat them as unconfirmed. What's certain: the features HuntWise markets — HuntCast, mapping layers, land ownership — sit behind Pro or Elite.

04Pro vs Elite: what's the difference?

Both paid tiers include the core mapping product: land boundaries for all 50 states, owner info with phone lookup, 3D mapping plus roughly 250 additional layers, and WindCast wind forecasting.

The gap between them comes down to forecast depth and two Elite-only tools:

If you're deciding between them: the 15-day HuntCast and RutCast are the real pitch for Elite, and they matter most to whitetail hunters planning vacation days around the rut. If you hunt weekends when you can regardless of forecast, Pro covers the mapping and the 7-day window is plenty.

One absence worth noting: HuntWise lists no trail-camera integration or AI photo analysis on any tier. If sorting trail-cam photos is part of your workflow, HuntWise isn't built for it — that's a genuine gap against onX Elite and others.

05Is HuntWise worth it?

Where HuntWise earns its keep: the forecasting suite. HuntCast, WindCast, and RutCast form a coherent "when should I hunt" product, and hunters who like algorithmic hunt-timing get a longer forecast window (15 days on Elite) than most competitors offer. The nationwide land boundaries and owner phone lookup on both paid tiers are also a fair inclusion at the Pro price — you don't pay extra for nationwide coverage the way you do with onX's state-by-state Premium tiers.

Where it's harder to justify: $119.99/yr for Elite is the most expensive mainstream hunting-app subscription going — more than onX Elite ($99.99). You're paying that premium for a longer forecast and rut detection, not for more map. And the murky free tier plus the 404ing pricing page make it unnecessarily hard to know what you're buying before the trial clock starts.

06The free alternative

If what you actually want is hunt timing plus a trail-cam workflow without a subscription, Trail Pro Intel is free to use: a solunar- and barometric-pressure-based Hunt Forecast scored 0–100 per day, AI trail-camera analysis that tags 50+ species and scores antler class from your SD card, offline maps, and field notes. Pro — $1.99/mo or $19.99/yr, a third of HuntWise Pro — extends the forecast to 7 and 10 days and adds monthly AI credits.

Fair trade-offs in HuntWise's favor: Trail Pro Intel has no land-ownership or parcel data, and no 15-day forecast window. If owner phone lookup is why you're paying, HuntWise Pro does something Trail Pro Intel doesn't.

For the full head-to-head, see Trail Pro Intel vs HuntWise, and for the broader field, the best free hunting apps in 2026.

07Bottom line

• HuntWise in 2026: Pro $59.99/yr ($19.99/mo), Elite $119.99/yr ($39.99/mo); the site's "$4.99/$9.99 per month" is annual billing divided by twelve.
• The official /pricing page currently 404s — the plan table is on huntwise.com/ultimate-hunting-app.
• A free level appears to exist but its limits aren't published; the 7-day trial auto-converts, so set a reminder.
• Elite's case is the 15-day HuntCast and RutCast; Pro is the sane choice for most, and free alternatives cover forecast-plus-trail-cam workflows.