GoWithKid vs Placemarker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GoWithKid
Discover nearby playgrounds, zoos, and parks for your children. This app helps you find suitable family-friendly locations in unfamiliar areas, complete with photos and street view to aid your decision.
- Discover playgrounds, zoos, and parks
- Locate family-friendly places nearby
- View photos and street view of locations
- Use filters to find specific places
- Ideal for exploring unknown cities with kids
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GoWithKid helps you to find good places to go with kids. Discover playgrounds, zoos or parks! Imagine you are walking with your kids in an unknown city and your kids are tired. You don't know whether there are playgrounds, parks or cafes with a kids' corner in this neighborhood. At this moment you can open GoWithKid and instantly see places near your location. If there are a lot of places around you on the map, you can choose each of them and see photos or street view of this place. It will help you to make a decision where to go with your kids and you will know what to expect. If you want to discover definite places, you can use filters.
Placemarker
This app allows you to save and organize locations you want to revisit, offering a private alternative to other mapping services. Easily bookmark places like hotels or landmarks and share them with others. It prioritizes user data control and local storage.
- Bookmark locations
- Organize points of interest
- Share locations via SMS/social media
- Local data storage
- Privacy-focused design
- Coordinate meetups
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Placemarker lets you bookmark cool places to revisit later while respecting your privacy by design. Do many of the same things you can with Google Maps, but rest easy knowing that you control your data. - Placemark your Airbnb or hotel location - Quickly establish landmarks while traveling - Coordinate meetup destinations with your travel group - Send placemarker locations via SMS or social media - Document and organize points of interest while traveling - Rest your hands. Stop typing in addresses. - Placemarker locations are only stored locally to your device Product Promises: - We will never sell your information - We will never serve ads
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Placemarker at 7 against GoWithKid's 1. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 — 5.0 for GoWithKid against 5.0 for Placemarker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Placemarker has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on June 25, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GoWithKid | Placemarker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Anton Lavrenov | Campbell Labs LLC |
Customer experience
GoWithKid
Placemarker
In-app purchases
GoWithKid
No in-app purchases
Placemarker
No in-app purchases
