PurpleMap vs Destiny
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PurpleMap
This app provides offline maps for Europe, allowing users to easily tag and search for locations. It supports dark mode and offers integration with popular map services.
- Offline European maps
- GPS location centering
- Tagging favorite locations
- Search integration (Naver, Kakao, Google)
- Dark mode support
- English and Korean language support
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Remember every place that matters with PurpleMap. Save restaurants, cafés, shops, travel spots, and personal memories as photo markers on your map. Add a name, category, address, and photo so each place is easy to recognize and find again. Features: - Save places with photos and notes - Organize places by category - Browse saved places on a map or in a searchable list - Use your current location to create a marker - Full Dark Mode support Build your own personal map, one memory at a time.
Destiny
Organize and visualize your favorite locations with custom pins, notes, and folders. Plan your perfect day by easily accessing saved places and points of interest.
- Organize places into folders
- Filter by tags
- Save notes about places
- Visualize saved locations
- Customize map pins with emojis and colors
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Organize your favorite places by sorting them into different folders, filtering them by tags, and saving notes about them. You'll find that it's really nice to visualize all your saved places when you want to plan your perfect day. Having your custom pin locations and favorite points of interests saved will help you remember all the places you like to visit. Customize your map pins with emojis, annotations, colors and more. Destiny also has extensive note taking features, as well as lists, navigation, and a browser extension for saving articles from Safari to your Destiny file browser (supported on Mac - designed for iPad). Everything you need for a day out or a wild adventure! Notes support images, styling with headers, colors, fonts, etc. Lists support map items, scheduled alerts and like notes, the content can be viewed from the browser by expanding it. This is done by tapping its icon. Destiny also supports: - imports from apps like Evernote - OCR search capability - Appearance customizations - Easy exports for backups
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Destiny at 17.2 against PurpleMap's 26.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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 PurpleMap against 5.0 for Destiny. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
PurpleMap ships an update every 42 months, Destiny every 24 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PurpleMap | Destiny |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 42 months | Every 24 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Kim | Limit Point Software |
Customer experience
PurpleMap
Destiny
In-app purchases
PurpleMap
No in-app purchases
Destiny
No in-app purchases
