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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 |
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.