Photos in Maps vs Plotagon Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
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.
- 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
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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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Plotagon Studio at Free against Photos in Maps's $1.99. Plotagon Studio also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (765 vs 148). Photos in Maps's advantage is review sentiment (71% vs 53%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). 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
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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Photos in Maps against 4.5 for Plotagon Studio. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plotagon Studio has 765 ratings behind it against 148, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Photos in Maps's written reviews are positive against 53% of Plotagon Studio's.
Photos in Maps ships an update every 4 months, Plotagon Studio every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.
| Parameter | Photos in Maps | Plotagon Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (148 ratings) — better | 4.5 (765 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews — better | 52.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 148 | 765 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 180 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Motion Apps AB | Plotagon |
Customer experience
Photos in Maps
Plotagon Studio
User reviews
Photos in Maps
From 148 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great concept and idea
- 👍 Small and simple app
- 👍 Versatile and good
- 👍 Free to use
- 👍 Nice application
Room to improve
- 🐛 Missing country maps (Canada, Ireland, USA)
- 🐛 Incorrect map shapes (some African countries, India)
- 🐛 Issues with photo loading/organization
- 🐛 App crashes after payment
- 🐛 Purchased unlock not persisting
Plotagon Studio
From 765 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and efficient
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 💡 Ability to use multiple characters
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitches and stability issues
- 🔒 Limited free features
- 💰 Expensive subscription model
Bugs and requests
Photos in Maps
Reported bugs
8 issues- App not working after payment
- Purchased unlock not persisting
- App closes after payment
- USA map is a blob (North America only)
- Old photos not found
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- Map boundaries incorrect (India)
- Incorrect map shapes for Chad, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
- App crashes after payment
Requested features
14 requests- Add Australia map
- Add USA map
- Add historical country map
- Add all US states
- Add missing UN members
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- Add Ireland
- Make map shape customizable
- Add Vatican City
- Add Kurdistan map
- Add country flags as a filter
- Add new photo instead of white background
- Add 50 states in the US for placing pictures
- Add Kurdistan map
- Add USA state map for placing pictures
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
Photos in Maps
- PRO Version$1.99
Plotagon Studio
- 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
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