Comparison

Photos in Maps vs Plotagon Studio

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Photos in Maps

Create unique portraits and photo exhibitions by overlaying your photos with country flags and outlines. Personalize your creations with animations, effects, and text. Share your global pride with friends and family.

Highlights
  • Overlay photos with country outlines
  • Integrate national flags
  • Add custom animations and effects
  • Apply shadowing and fonts
  • Save and share creations
  • Over 180 country outlines
Features
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Proud of where you come from? Now you can show it off in fun, creative and elegant way all for free, using the Photos in Maps (PIM) app! PIM allows you to become a global ambassador and show your smile to the world! Using PIM, you can create awesome unique portraits and awesome photo exhibitions using any photo and a huge array of flags, countries and effects! With PIM, you can become your country’s mascot; the app features more than 180 country outlines! Each country outline links to their national flag, and at the touch of a button you can adjust a huge spectrum of visual effects that blend your photo and flag in unprecedented detail. You choose how you want to add custom animations, graphics, effects, shadowing, fonts, and the country flags for each national outline. You can save, share and develop your new pictures in an intuitive and easy system that you can share to all of your contacts on social media! You are your country, so show it off with style!

About

Plotagon Studio

Easily create professional-looking animated videos from your ideas. This app provides a rich library of visuals, voices, and tools to craft stories, from fan fiction to educational content. Transform your narratives into shareable video masterpieces in seven simple steps.

Highlights
  • Intuitive storyboard creation
  • Diverse location library
  • Customizable actor creation
  • Dialogue and voice-over recording
  • Actor emotions and actions
  • Video editing tools (camera angles, fades, filters)
  • Save and share as video file
Features
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With this app, we aspire to enable anyone with an idea to effortlessly make professional-looking animated videos.  Our customers have used this app to create fan fiction, original narratives, social stories, training material, educational videos, advertising content and much more. Plotagon Studio comes with a rich library of visual content, lifelike voices and creative tools to help bring your stories to life. Have you got an idea and wonder what to do next? Follow along:
 Step 1: Download this app, obviously!
 Step 2: Start creating a Plot. Plots are intuitive storyboards that help you easily organize, preview, and develop your story.
 Step 3: Pick a location that visualises your story.
 Step 4: Add actors. Create them yourself or pick ones from our library.
 Step 5: Write dialogues, record voice overs, give your actors emotions and actions, add audio effects.
 Step 6: Develop your story with our creative tools that allow you to be a video editor in-app. Change camera angles, apply fades and filters.
 Step 7: Save the Plot as a video file. Share your film masterpiece with friends, family, and on social media! That's it! Seven easy steps to becoming the next big content creator internet sensation!* Educate, entertain and inspire with the best DIY animated movie maker! *Disclaimer: Individual results may vary depending on the quality and virality of produced content! ;-) If you have read this far, we thank you for your attention. We also hope you are convinced that Plotagon Studio is worth your time. Give it a try and let us know what you think at support@plotagon.com. Privacy Policy: 
https://www.plotagon.com/v2/privacy-policy/
 Terms of Service:
 https://www.plotagon.com/v2/terms-of-use/

Screenshots

Photos in Maps4 screens
Plotagon Studio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Plotagon Studio at Free against Photos in Maps's $1.99. Plotagon Studio also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (700 vs 148). Photos in Maps's advantage is review sentiment (71% vs 52%). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Plotagon Studio is free to download; Photos in Maps costs $1.99 up front. Photos in Maps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Plotagon Studio sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Photos in Maps against 4.5 for Plotagon Studio. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 148 and 700 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Photos in Maps's written reviews are positive against 52% of Plotagon Studio's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Photos in Maps ships an update every 4 months, Plotagon Studio monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Photos in Maps versus Plotagon Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhotos in MapsPlotagon Studio
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (148 ratings) — better4.5 (700 ratings)
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews — better52.0% of reviews
Number of ratings148700 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB216 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMotion Apps ABPlotagon

Customer experience

Photos in Maps

All ratings148 ratings
Positive91.9%
Neutral1.4%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive70.6%
Neutral2.9%
Negative26.5%

Plotagon Studio

All ratings700 ratings
Positive85.4%
Neutral4.1%
Negative10.4%
Written reviews152 reviews
Positive52.0%
Neutral11.8%
Negative36.2%

Bugs and requests

Photos in Maps

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Plotagon Studio

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Videos freezing or not loading properly
  • Subscription issues and features disappearing
  • Landscape mode not working as expected

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more voices and sound options
  • Improve video export and playback
  • Allow more free scenes and characters
  • Bring back Acapella voices from Plotagon Story

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Photos in Maps

One-time1
  • PRO Version$1.99
4 purchases

Plotagon Studio

Subscriptions4
  • CREATOR PLAN - Weekly3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • PRO PLAN - Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • CREATOR PLAN - Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
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  • PRO PLAN - Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month

Questions

Is Photos in Maps free?
Photos in Maps costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Plotagon Studio free?
Plotagon Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Photos in Maps or Plotagon Studio?
Photos in Maps is rated higher. Photos in Maps averages 4.6 out of 5 from 148 ratings, while Plotagon Studio averages 4.5 from 700 ratings.
Do Photos in Maps or Plotagon Studio have ads?
Neither Photos in Maps nor Plotagon Studio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Photos in Maps or Plotagon Studio?
Photos in Maps ships an update every 4 months, and Plotagon Studio monthly. Most recently, Photos in Maps was updated on September 20, 2026 and Plotagon Studio on September 22, 2026.

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