# Local Notes: Map Your Memories — GPS Reminders & Place Alerts > GPS Reminders & Place Alerts (iPhone/iPad app by Nicholas Saulino.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/local-notes-map-your-memories/id6760214651 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Nicholas Saulino](https://appshunter.io/developer/1883274628) - Category: Travel, Productivity - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 75 MB - Languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish - Released: 2026-04-24 - Data updated: 2026-07-09 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/local-notes-map-your-memories/id6760214651/reviews.md ## What is Local Notes? Ever find yourself trying to remember the name of that one specific taco place, or the exact spot where a hiking trail got confusing? Most of us keep these mental notes, but they are easy to lose. Local Notes: Map Your Memories is your private, map-based journal for every place you want to remember. This is not a social network or a public review site. It is a space for your eyes only. Pin personal ratings, photos, and reminders to real-world locations. Whether it is a favorite coffee shop, a hidden park bench, or a hotel from your last vacation, Local Notes keeps those details organized and searchable on a map. Capture your world with ease: - Quick Pins: Long-press anywhere on the map to drop a pin, or use "Note at Current Location" to save a memory exactly where you are standing. - Post-it Style Markers: Customize your map with 10 themed color palettes (like Miami, Rio, or Bora Bora) to keep your notes visually organized. - Private Content: Write up to 10,000 characters per note, attach photos, and set star ratings without worrying about a public feed. - Specialized Templates: Use structured fields for Restaurants (cuisine, price, meal type), Hikes (difficulty, distance, trail type), Hotels, and more. Your data stays private and secure. Local Notes uses on-device encryption with keys stored in your secure keychain. Start in Guest Mode to keep everything stored locally, or sign in to sync your notes across devices via the cloud. Core Features: - Search and pin places using Google Maps integration. - Four note types: Experience, Tip, Plan, and Warning. - View notes in split, full map, list, or masonry grid modes. - Home screen widgets for nearby notes or single-note pinning. - Export your data as PDF or CSV. - Full accessibility support for VoiceOver. Subscription Tiers: - Free: $0. Includes up to 25 notes, 1 nearby alert, cloud backups, and offline support (contains ads). - Plus: $4.99 (one-time payment). Everything in Free plus zero ads, up to 100 notes, 3 collections, 3 nearby alerts, photos, smart search, and basic stats. - Pro: $1.99/mo or $19.99/year. Unlocks everything including unlimited notes and collections, travel mode, shared collections, smart templates, PDF exports, and full web app access. Stop relying on your memory and start mapping your world. Download Local Notes today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Local Notes Pro (Yearly) | $19.99 | per year | | Local Notes Pro (Monthly) | $1.99 | per month | **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Local Notes Plus | $4.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.57.2 — 2026-07-02 • Offline note-taking: jot a note with no signal and it saves instantly - the form closes right away and your note appears immediately. Link a Google place later when you're back online • Notes with no place linked now show a marker so they're easy to find and link later, plus a setting to mute the save-time reminder • Browsing your notes in CarPlay is now available on every plan • Live Updates (Pro): approach updates now end when you arrive, and distances read correctly in either direction ### 1.55.3 — 2026-06-13 • New (Plus): CarPlay support - your nearest places on the CarPlay map, with pins in your marker colors. Tap a place to see its notes, tap a note to hear it read aloud. Filter by type, page through places, and send "Navigate here" to Apple Maps • Improved: The app now offers to turn on location right after the welcome tour, so the map shows your position from the start ### 1.53.0 — 2026-05-22 • New (Pro): Live Activities for nearby notes - lock-screen and Dynamic Island card that updates as you get closer to a place • New (Pro): Live Activity for travel mode - one persistent surface that walks you through a multi-stop trip and updates as you go • New: Share Extension - share addresses, Google / Apple Maps URLs, photos with GPS, or plain text from any app straight into Local Notes • New: StandBy and lock-screen widgets - new accessory sizes for the multi-note and place-notes widgets • New: Multi-note widget pagination - chevron buttons to scroll through more notes than fit at once • New: Spotlight indexing - your notes are now searchable from the iOS system search • New: Map filter chips - filter the map by note type or collection right from the home screen • Improved: Onboarding tour is now per-user instead of per-device, and skips when you already have notes • Improved: Cleaner "X new notes nearby" notification grouping, consistent across all six languages • Improved: Travel mode reliability - faster timeouts, cleaner cancellation, and a fix for a rare hang on Optimized Route • Improved: Tier comparison sheet now shows Live Activities as a Pro feature, aligned across the app, web, and store listings • Fixed: Several edge cases in guest sign-out that could leave stale data behind • Note: This release raises the minimum supported OS to iOS 17. Older devices stay on the previous build automatically. ### 1.47.28 — 2026-04-29 • Fixed a rare crash on iOS during background events while the device was locked. Geofence triggers and widget refreshes now work reliably after the device has been unlocked once since boot. • Behind-the-scenes stability and crash-reporting improvements. ### 1.0 — 2026-04-24 No release notes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-09.*