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Free vs Pro, free trials and restoring purchases
What the free Mountain Passes app includes, what Pro adds, how the two-week free trial works, and how to restore a purchase on a new phone.
This guide is still being written. The steps below are an outline and may not match the app exactly yet.
Free gives you the full collection: automatic pass detection on every ride, the whole catalogue, posters and achievements. Pro adds the tools to plan, relive and share: the passes ahead with 5 km alerts, trips, ride photos and the Ride Story timeline, the bucket list, poster previews, GPX and Apple Health import, and Siri control.
What is in each plan
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Auto-log passes via GPS during rides | Yes | Yes |
| Browse the whole catalogue, filters and map | Yes | Yes |
| Live ride tracking with auto-pause | Yes | Yes |
| Unlimited photos per pass visit | Yes | Yes |
| Unlock vintage posters by visiting passes | Yes | Yes |
| Earn achievements | Yes | Yes |
| Places, notes, manual visits | Yes | Yes |
| Nearest passes with driving ETA and 5 km alerts | Yes | |
| Driving time to a pass on its page | Yes | |
| Trips: combine rides into multi-day adventures | Yes | |
| Ride photos and the full Ride Story timeline | Yes | |
| Bucket list | Yes | |
| Preview all 311 posters before you visit | Yes | |
| GPX import and export, Apple Health import | Yes | |
| Siri and Shortcuts ride control | Yes | |
| Automatic weather | Planned; not yet available |
Automatic weather is planned as a Pro feature. It is not available in the current release; selecting the weather manually on a visit remains free. Choose Pro for the features available today.
Pro purchases support ongoing development and maintenance of Mountain Passes. Subscriptions also help fund the services behind future features such as automatic weather. Monthly, yearly and lifetime options all unlock the available Pro features.
Plans, prices and the free trial
| Plan | Price | Free trial |
|---|---|---|
| Pro Monthly | €4.99 per month | 2 weeks |
| Pro Yearly | €24.99 per year | 2 weeks |
| Pro Lifetime | €59.99 once | none; it is a one-time purchase |
These are the App Store prices in euro; outside the euro area the App Store shows the equivalent in your currency. The trial converts to a paid subscription unless you cancel before the two weeks are up. All three plans support Family Sharing, so one purchase can cover the family group.
Find the plans under Home › Settings › Upgrade to Pro.
Steps: restore a purchase on a new phone
- Sign in to the App Store with the same Apple Account you bought Pro with.
- In Mountain Passes open Home › Settings › Upgrade to Pro.
- Tap Restore Purchases. Settings shows a Pro badge once it has worked.
Manage or cancel
Subscriptions are handled by Apple: iOS Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions › Mountain Passes. Cancelling keeps Pro until the end of the paid period. Your rides, visits and posters are never removed when Pro ends; only the Pro tools lock again.
Troubleshooting
- Restore finds nothing. The phone is signed in to a different Apple Account, or the purchase was made by another member of the family group whose sharing is switched off.
- Charged after the trial. Refunds go through Apple: reportaproblem.apple.com.
- The plans will not load. The App Store needs a connection. Try again on Wi-Fi, or check Settings › Screen Time › Content & Privacy Restrictions › iTunes & App Store Purchases on a managed phone.