Comparison

Mariners vs Plotted

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Mariners

Engage with upcoming events, access biblical resources, and connect with the community. This app facilitates spiritual growth and participation in church activities.

Highlights
  • View upcoming events
  • Access biblical content
  • Community engagement tools
  • Give to the church
Features
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Connect and engage with the Mariners app! You will be able to view upcoming events, give, read the Bible, and more!

About

Plotted

Visually log your travels, split expenses effortlessly, and create a photo journal of your adventures. This app combines expense tracking with a personal map that fills in as you visit new places, making it easy to remember where you've been and who paid for what.

Highlights
  • AI-powered receipt scanning
  • Smart expense splitting
  • Personalized travel map
  • Trip photo journals
  • Group trip collaboration
  • Follower feed for published trips
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Plotted is the visual way to log trips, split expenses, and remember where you've been. Think Splitwise — but instead of just a list of debts, every meal, hotel, and Uber lands on your map and on your trip's photo journal. Look back six months later and you'll see exactly where you went, who paid, what you ate, and the photos you took. Log a trip in seconds Snap a photo of a receipt and Plotted reads the venue, the items, the total, and the tip automatically. Use Quick Receipt for one-off dinners, or create a full trip when you're planning a weekend with friends. Split fairly, no math required Add stays, activities, and expenses. Mark who paid. Skip a dinner? You don't get billed for it. When the trip ends, Plotted shows everyone exactly what they owe each other — no spreadsheets, no awkward Venmo requests. A map that fills in as you go Every venue you log drops a pin on your personal map. Restaurants you loved in Lisbon, the hotel in Tokyo, the coffee shop you keep going back to — all there, color-coded by category, with the photos and receipts attached. Bring everyone in Invite friends who use Plotted to co-edit the trip, or just type a name for friends who don't. Everyone sees the same activities, photos, and split math in real time. Share what you want, keep the rest private Closed trips can be published to your followers' feed — they'll see where you went, who you were with, and the photos. The per-person splits stay private to the group. Features • Receipt scanning with one tap (powered by AI) • Stays, activities, expenses with smart splitting • Personal map showing every place you've been • Trip cover photos and per-activity photo strips • Group invites for app users, free-text names for everyone else • Followers feed with closed published trips • Profile spending summary with category breakdown chart • Pull a route for each day of a trip from your activities • Settle-up math that handles treats, subset participants, and multi-payer dinners Why Plotted? Splitting expenses is a solved problem. What no app does well is help you remember the trip — the venues, the order of stops, the photos, the people. Plotted treats expense tracking and trip memory as the same thing. The receipt isn't just a debt to settle; it's a pin on a map you'll come back to. Privacy is opt-in everywhere. Trips are private to members by default. The map is yours alone until you publish. Free to download. No subscription required.

Screenshots

Mariners3 screens
Plotted4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Plotted at every 5 days against Mariners's every 6 months. Mariners's advantage is ratings volume (61 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Mariners against 5.0 for Plotted. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mariners has 61 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mariners ships an update every 6 months, Plotted every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mariners versus Plotted: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarinersPlotted
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (61 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings61 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB17 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMariners ChurchConan Wen

Customer experience

Mariners

All ratings61 ratings
Positive98.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%

Plotted

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mariners

No in-app purchases

None

Plotted

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mariners free?
Mariners is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Plotted free?
Plotted is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mariners or Plotted?
Plotted is rated higher. Mariners averages 4.9 out of 5 from 61 ratings, while Plotted averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Mariners or Plotted have ads?
Neither Mariners nor Plotted shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mariners or Plotted?
Mariners ships an update every 6 months, and Plotted every 5 days. Most recently, Mariners was updated on October 8, 2026 and Plotted on September 16, 2026.

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