Scratch My Map vs pin map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scratch My Map
This app allows users to virtually "scratch" visited countries on a map, share travel experiences with friends, and discover information about destinations. It acts as a social network for travelers to connect, plan trips, and exchange advice.
- Scratch visited countries
- Create trip history with media
- View friends' travel maps
- Rate and comment on countries
- Get country information
- Connect with other travelers
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How often and where my friends traveling? What are the most popular countries in the world? What are their impressions and estimations? How and where they exchange currency, find a route, understand language, behave in each country? Have a lot of questions during travel planning? Now you don't have to waste hours in google, travel forums/conferences or asking friends to know more about a country and current situation there. Open ScratchMyMap to: “scratch" countries to show friends where have you been, plan to be and rate countries; create your trip history with impressions, images, audio and video description; see trip history of your friends and left them comments; help friends know more about your “scratched” countries; see friends and countries list ranking; get all actual structured information and know what world think about each country in one click. We seek to solve people's problems in difficult travel (planning) situations: anticipate unexpected situations in different countries, learn the nuances and most importantly - allow the user to ask for advice from friends/users (who may already have "scratch" the country) or in countries' chat function. The main purpose of our project is to create a social network to connect all travelers around the world to help them connect each other and share experience: find right route, estimate duration and budget, help with basic language/cultural/history questions.
pin map
Map your travels by pinning visited locations with details like dates, photos, and travel companions. Discover new destinations through friends' pins and an explore page, and plan future adventures with a wishlist feature.
- Personalized travel map
- Pin visited locations
- Add travel dates and photos
- Catalog travel buddies
- Discover friends' travels
- Wishlist for future trips
- Track travel stats
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Pinplanet is a free travel app where users can pin the places they’ve traveled on their personalized planet. These pins can include travel dates, spots hit, reviews, photos, and travel buddies to catalog every detail of your trips (so you actually remember them). Your home feed is where you’ll see where in the world your friends have pinned. We have an explore page where you can search for and follow new friends, and see where other travelers have pinned so far to inspire your future trips. You can even copy pins/spots directly on to your wishlist. Your profile includes your planet that shows all of your pins in each country at once. The profile also includes your travel stats including percentage of the world’s countries and percentage of the world’s continents. Finally, pinplanet’s wishlist feature allows you to begin planning upcoming trips which can be converted to a pin when you return. Send us an email at hello@pinplanetapp.com if you run into any issues or have feedback. We’d love to hear from you! Instagram, TikTok: @pinplanet X: @pinplanet Pinplanet - pin where you’ve been.
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Verdict
Scratch My Map and pin map both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of pin map's written reviews are positive against 50% of Scratch My Map's. pin map also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (100 vs 2). Scratch My Map's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. pin map sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Scratch My Map asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Scratch My Map against 4.9 for pin map. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: pin map has 100 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Scratch My Map's written reviews are positive against 100% of pin map's.
Scratch My Map ships an update every 2 months, pin map weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scratch My Map | pin map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (100 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 100 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Igor Steblii | pinplanet co. |
Customer experience
Scratch My Map
pin map
In-app purchases
Scratch My Map
No in-app purchases
pin map
- ice cream sized tip$1.99
- sandwich sized tip$7.99
- breakfast buffet sized tip$14.99









