# Startmapp — user reviews > 26 indexed App Store user reviews of Startmapp by Tom Melters, rated 4.80/5 from 462 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/startmapp/id1564657534/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/startmapp/id1564657534.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 408 · 4★ 35 · 3★ 12 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 5 ## What do users think of Startmapp? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Simple and unpretentious - 👍 Useful for business plan creation - 👍 Breaks down complex concepts - 👍 Inspiring and motivating - 👍 Slick and easy to use interface - 👍 Great for new entrepreneurs - 👍 Understandable language - 👍 Fun to use - 👍 Good for think tank exercises - 👍 Simplifies daunting tasks - 👍 Well worth the cost - 👍 Guides through business plan pieces - 👍 Motivating and fun **Cons** - 💸 Not entirely free, paywall encountered - 🐛 App crashes when entering projection information - 🐛 Cannot collapse keyboard to submit feedback - 🐛 App stopped working after premium purchase - 🐛 Cannot export business plan after completion - ❓ Wording in modules can be confusing - ❓ Financial section could be less technical - ❓ Inefficient UI on iPad **Commonly reported bugs** - Cannot enter email or business name - App closes when entering projection information - Submit button inaccessible after keyboard input in feedback - App stopped working after premium purchase - Cannot export business plan **Most requested features** - Option to upload personal notes - AI to generate accumulation of ideas - Options to improve writing - Option to upload photos/art - Dark mode - Better iPad optimization ## Newest reviews (7 of 26) ### 5/5 — I love this app *2023-03-29* Every business owner should begin with this app ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2023-02-23* Writing a business plan from scratch is extremely intimidating and quite daunting. This app is awesome. It takes the pain and suffering out of the whole process and makes it quite fun. ### 5/5 — Great job *2023-02-19* I had fun the entire time ### 5/5 — Do it *2023-01-07* I came to do research on electronic BP options for clients and I must say that I am pleasantly surprised by this app. Overall, this is a great app and really is a tool new business owners can use to help them with their business planning process. Even though it is competition for my business, I would highly recommend it. I will probably send clients here when they want an electronic option instead of creating my own tool. The final product, the actual business plan could be grossly better and the financial section could be a little less accountanty or techy, but as an accountant, I understand the challenge of explaining financial data to non-financial people, so all in all, I think this designer and developer did an amazing job! ### 5/5 — Great App *2023-01-02* I love this app! I hate all the clutter and overly bloated guides out there that try and make you follow high level Ivy League collage terminology just to creat a plan for your company. It has been proven time and time again by many of the great companies out there that simplicity is often times the key to sucsess. With this app they make it simple to follow a basic guided process and then use all the creativity within the specific categories to clarify and define the perimeters of your buisness. have needed something like this for a long time and it is well worth it. If there was one thing I would suggest it is that the program is better optimized for IPad. I use my IPad for everything and it is a bit inefficient to have a phone sized window on the IPad. Of corse Instagram still hasn’t figured out how to optimize their platform for IPad yet and they area huge so I guess it isn’t necessary for all developers but I think it certainly would be nice to have. Thank you for this app! Joel ### 5/5 — Super Slick Interface! *2022-09-03* This app is awesome and really guides you through putting together a business plan and helps you work through all the pieces of starting a business! You can now export your plan as a pdf I see too, definitely going to use that for the next grant submission! ### 5/5 — Motivating and Fun! *2022-02-07* I have a business idea and know I need a plan and a vision… but knowing where to start or what questions to answer next is daunting! “The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.” - Tim Ferriss Startmapp is not only an excellent guide to working through those questions and knowing what comes next in making my business plan, it‘s motivating and fun to use! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not free *2024-06-19, version 1.26* You get part way into it and then they make you pay to continue. ### 1/5 — ? *2022-05-13, version 1.6* After paying the 20 dollars for the premium the app stopped working… ### 2/5 — I really love this app but… *2023-01-07* I have enjoyed using this app for my business plan creation. I sadly got disappointed when I tried to enter my projection information and once I started answering questions the app keeps closing on me! I hope this gets fixed because I want to complete my plan before January ends. **Developer response:** Hi, thank you for the kind feedback! I've released a new update (1.16). Could you update your app and check if this resolves the issue? If you need any help, please send us a message on hello@startmapp.com! ### 2/5 — Good Until You’re Finished Then It’s a Useless Waste OF Time! *2022-08-31* You can’t export the business plan when you’re done! “They are still working on this feature” !?!?!?!??!? Why can’t we export the business plan? That is one of the most important parts. Is there plans to add that? I paid for the upgrade thinking I could export it when it was done! So dumb. Why would you even have this app available?? It was good up until I couldn’t export my work I’d spend days working on!!!! **Developer response:** Hi, thank you for your feedback! This feature is now available in our latest update (1.12). ### 3/5 — Read before downloading!! *2025-07-28* This app is great but why can’t I put in my email without having problems or put in my business name!! I was hoping it would work 😞 ### 3/5 — Cop *2025-07-05, version 1.30* And passeee ### 4/5 — I like it. *2026-01-16, version 1.30* I already have my business plan created. I used this to see if I left out any gaps or needed information. I’ll pay the 20.00 to support this because I think it’s useful for people to have an option to create a simple plan to start their business journey. Tech side: there could be an option to upload your personal notes from your ideas, use A.I to generate a well written accumulation of your ideas to fit into your drafts. Ask so with options to improve writing. Another option: to upload photos or art that users have created to display the vision. ### 4/5 — So far so good *2024-04-19* I like to slick and easy to use interface so far. I do wish you could preview what your business plan looked like though. Also some of the wording in the modules can be confusing and I’ve had to reread it a few times; but overall it’s a pretty nice little app to simplify something that can feel daunting. ### 4/5 — Make a dark mode and bugs *2023-01-15* It’s a good app. Needs a dark mode. There are also bugs: like I tried to submit this as private feedback on the app but when you attempt to do that you can’t press the submit button because there is no way to collapse the keyboard and actually access it after typing out your text in the feedback field. ### 5/5 — Amazing app for small business starters! *2026-03-02* Exactly what I was looking for, simple and unpretentious ## Most praised reviews (9 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Smartmapp *2025-02-02* This is a great app and you should download it when you want to start a business ### 5/5 — So far , I am impressed. *2024-10-09* This app is instrumental in converting concepts into a comprehensive business plan, providing you answer questions completely. ### 5/5 — Nice app *2024-07-15, version 1.26* Cool ### 5/5 — Awesome App *2024-06-29* This app is amazing! It breaks everything down in simple terms to build a comprehensive business plan. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2024-05-29* This app really helps me to be inspired and not to give up on my dreams, even if my dream is to help every worker in the world and my dream seems to be to big, I can start with my own small business and help my community and then grow if I get recognition and succeed at the small non profit business ### 5/5 — Great job *2023-10-01* You guys have what I need I will recommend to other businesses owners ### 5/5 — Easy to understand *2023-06-24* So far I love this app. I love how some parts are free and they really let you get into the app to know if you really want to buy it. also I love that its understandable, not to say that I’m a slow person, but Its put it in terms that I understand. ### 5/5 — Such an AMAZING app! *2023-04-10* I’m an fresh entrepreneur so I don’t know a much of stuff yet but wow, this app helped so much! I would’ve given up if I would’ve used anything else because it seems so confusing! Even if I was still confused with something, I could easily check out a link attached. Wonderful app, and cheers to success 🥹 ### 5/5 — Mason *2023-04-03, version 1.19* Great think tank exercise --- *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 2026-09-11.*