Touchola vs mapnow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Touchola
Create personalized multimedia messages with voice and signature for any occasion. Share greetings with family, friends, or broadcast to the world. Express genuine sentiment through custom photos, videos, and art.
- Custom photo, video, and art creation
- Voice recording with optional text conversion
- Digital signature feature
- Occasion-specific templates
- Image editing and filters
- Sharing via Touchola network, email, text, and other social media
- Community exploration and interaction
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Touchola is a free sentiment-sharing, social platform that lets you create custom photos, videos, or art, and combine them with your actual voice and signature for that special touch! Whether it’s for someone’s birthday, a holiday, special event, or just to say "hello", you can quickly personalize greetings to family or friends, or broadcast messages to the world. Authentic Expression for Any Occasion: - Birthday - Love - Thank You - Apology - Get Well - Travel - Seasons - Holidays - Condolences - Best Wishes - New Baby - Congratulations - Thinking of You - Anniversary - Any Event Sending a Touchola is a meaningful gesture that signifies you took the time to care. Creating a Touchola involves these simple steps: 1. Select an occasion and an image for that occasion, or just Post 2. Take a photo or video 3. Record an audio message that’s converted to text [optional] 4. Sign your name [optional] * Add filters, or edit images to tailor your photos and videos * Send on the Touchola network or share via email or text * Post to other social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or Flickr * Explore and Search the Touchola community * Follow, heart, and comment on other’s posts * Customize your calendar and reminders to never miss an occasion
mapnow
Easily share unfiltered photos and videos pinned to their exact locations on a global map. Connect with friends and family by mapping your journeys and experiences. Engage with others' content through reactions and comments.
- Pin photos and videos to map locations
- Share unfiltered, time-stamped content
- Create groups for specific sharing
- React to and comment on posts
- Follow other users' adventures
- Control profile privacy
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mapnow is the easiest way to share unfiltered photos and videos on a global map with your friends. Your pictures are effortlessly pinned to their precise locations on the map based on their geolocation. Every photo and video you share is unfiltered, time-stamped, and geotagged, ensuring an unparalleled and authentic experience. - Effortlessly map your journeys, travels, and life experiences - Share your globe to friends & family - Create groups and share your content to specific individuals - Engage with other mappers' contributions using reactions and comments - Follow mappers and stay in the loop of their adventures AUTHENTICITY We exclusively feature unedited and unfiltered content, promoting authenticity and trust within mapnow's community. REAL-TIME PHOTOS & VIDEOS Capture and share moments as they happen, providing an authentic and immediate way to share experiences with your friends and followers. PRIVACY Enjoy privacy by controlling who can see your profile. Download mapnow !
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: mapnow at every 5 days against Touchola's monthly. mapnow also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%) and ratings volume (262 vs 21). Touchola's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Touchola against 4.6 for mapnow. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: mapnow has 262 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Touchola's written reviews are positive against 100% of mapnow's.
Touchola ships an update monthly, mapnow every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Touchola | mapnow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (21 ratings) — better | 4.6 (262 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 262 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 107 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Touchola LLC | NOERDEN |
Customer experience
Touchola
mapnow
In-app purchases
Touchola
No in-app purchases
mapnow
No in-app purchases
