Little Printers vs Mapspot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Little Printers
This app allows you to send messages and designs to your Little Printer device. Share your printer with friends and family to send them custom prints. It revives classic printing features and adds new ways to create.
- Send messages to Little Printer
- Share printer with friends
- Print directly from other apps
- Classic Poster Font and Dithergram
- New Quickdraw feature
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Bring your Little Printer back to life! Little Printers is a new iOS app and IoT platform that lets you send messages to your Little Printer. Share your printer with your friends and they can send messages too. The app brings back old favourite message types like Poster Font and Dithergram as well as new features including Quickdraw and the ability to print directly from other apps. If you have a Little Printer you want to get working, you first need to update the bridge so it can talk with this app, see https://nordprojects.co/projects/littleprinters/ for full instructions. Brought to you by Nord Projects.
Mapspot
Claim virtual space tied to real-world locations, linking them to your social media. Build your presence, connect with others nearby, and discover digital gateways to user profiles.
- Claim exclusive 100-foot virtual spots
- Link spots to social media profiles
- Discover and connect with nearby users
- Swap or gift virtual spots
- Build digital presence and visibility
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Mapspot® lets you place virtual Spots on the world map that connect directly to your social profile, creating new ways for people to discover you both online and in the real world. Place Spots in busy, high-traffic locations to increase your visibility, attract new visitors, and drive more engagement to your profile and content. Everyone starts with one free Spot. You can expand your presence by subscribing for additional Spots or earn up to 10 Spots by referring friends. With Spot Swap™, you can also trade Spots with other users, send and receive offers, or gift Spots directly to someone else. Platform rules: - Each person may have only one Mapspot account. - Your free Spot must be placed outside a major city. - Spots on the same account must be at least two miles apart. - An active subscription is required to place additional Spots. - Subscribers may place one Spot per major city. Subscriptions renew automatically each month unless canceled. Payment is charged to your App Store account at confirmation of purchase, and renewal may be charged within 24 hours before the next billing period begins. You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time in your App Store subscription settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid billing period. Legal Privacy Policy: https://mapspot.com/privacypolicy Terms of Service: https://mapspot.com/termsofservice End User License Agreement (EULA): https://mapspot.com/enduserlicenseagreement Disclaimer: https://mapspot.com/disclaimer
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Little Printers at none against Mapspot's 10. Mapspot's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 45 months) and ratings volume (51 vs 6). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Mapspot sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Little Printers asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Little Printers against 4.9 for Mapspot. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mapspot has 51 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Little Printers ships an update every 45 months, Mapspot every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Little Printers | Mapspot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 4.9 (51 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 51 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 45 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Nord Projects | Mapspot Inc. |
Customer experience
Little Printers
Mapspot
In-app purchases
Little Printers
No in-app purchases
Mapspot
- 1/2 virtual acre$1.991 Month
- 1.5 virtual acres$5.991 Month
- 2.5 virtual acres$9.991 Month
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