Stickymappers vs Permanent Marker Stickers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stickymappers
Send animated stickers to express your real-time status, like being late or early. Created by the team behind the popular Citymapper transport app, it offers a fun alternative to texting.
- Animated stickers
- Real-time status sharing
- Alternative to texting
- Created by Citymapper team
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Are you late? Are you early? Did the train eat your homework? Instead of texting (SO boring), send someone a Stickymapper. By the folks that built Citymapper, the ultimate transport app for cities (Apps of the Year, Watch App of the Year, Editor's Choice (surely also Green Animated Stickers of the Year soon... )).
Permanent Marker Stickers
Enhance your iMessage conversations with a variety of permanent marker stickers. Express yourself by marking up, blacking out, or censoring messages and pictures. Customize placement, rotation, and size for a unique touch.
- Markup messages and pictures
- Blackout and censor content
- Redact sensitive information
- Express yourself with emojis and sayings
- Peel and place stickers
- Rotate and resize stickers
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Markup, blackout, censor, redact, express yourself, and leave a lasting impression with Permanent Marker Stickers for iMessage! Includes over 70 different stickers that you can peel and place on anything in your iMessage conversations. To place a sticker over a message or picture, long press on a sticker, and then drag and drop it where you want it. You can also rotate and resize stickers before dropping them by pulling apart with two fingers. If you enjoy using Permanent Marker Stickers, please take a moment to leave a review in the iMessage App Store. Thank you for the support!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Stickymappers at 4.9 against Permanent Marker Stickers's 3.9. Stickymappers also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.1). Permanent Marker Stickers's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 23 months) and review sentiment (76% vs 50%). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Stickymappers holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Permanent Marker Stickers has 73 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Stickymappers's written reviews are positive against 76% of Permanent Marker Stickers's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Stickymappers ships an update every 23 months, Permanent Marker Stickers every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stickymappers | Permanent Marker Stickers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (9 ratings) — better | 3.9 (73 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 76.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 73 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 23 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Citymapper Limited | Daniel Storm |
Customer experience
Stickymappers
Permanent Marker Stickers
Bugs and requests
Stickymappers
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Permanent Marker Stickers
Reported bugs
19 issues- Error code 529
- App won't work
- Doesn't show up in stickers
- Erased (app was removed by developer)
- Could not log on for 5 days
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- Icons aren't with the keyboard, it's separate
- App won't open/Pulls up a blank screen
- Unable to access the app directly to remove it
- Sticker section was completely blank
- White stickers don't show up for users on Light theme
- No black marker text
- Can't delete this app
- How to Open It? (takes user to keyboard)
- Can't open or delete
- Does not behave like other stickers
- Where do I open it?
- It's hiding!!! (not in library or settings)
- Can't uninstall and takes $ w/o notice
- The App doesn't work anymore
Requested features
9 requests- Fix app not working issues
- Make stickers appear correctly
- Allow app deletion
- Improve theme compatibility
- Add black marker text
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- Fix login issues
- Make marks small enough for small words
- Add more stickers
- Make stickers available for other apps like Signal
In-app purchases
Stickymappers
No in-app purchases
Permanent Marker Stickers
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Stickymappers free?
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