Survey Help vs MapLayers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Survey Help
This app helps you find specific locations by calculating your distance to up to four pre-set points. It continuously updates your proximity as you move, making it useful for locating geotagged spots. You can save and retrieve sets of locations for later use.
- Input up to four GPS locations
- Real-time distance updates
- Locate geotagged spots
- Save and retrieve location sets
- Input from current location
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This iPhone app allows the input of up to four locations (latitude and longitude) and provides the user's distance from each location. As the user moves the distance to the selected location updates regularly. If you have a geotag location this app could help you find the location. Four locations maximum. Locations can be entered from current location. Sets of four locations can be stored on the device for later retrieval.
MapLayers
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MapLayers is a collection of maps for outdoor activities and more! New in Version 1.4: Compass for navigating to any point on the map New in Version 1.2: App URLs to open individual charts either in app or on the web. New in Version 1.1: GPS Track Logging. You can now record and review your travels!. Discovering and downloading maps for your adventures is easy and fast. Multiple types of maps are available and multiple maps can be viewed at the same time. Custom maps can be imported as GeoPDF and we are adding more maps constantly. Featuring maps from the USGS, Bureau of Land Management and more! Each map is viewable on our custom, spherical based map engine and can be overlaid with various base maps. Your current location can also be shown on the map. SUPPORT We can help! Email team@cartolake.com LEGAL End User License Agreement: https://www.cartolake.com/about/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.cartolake.com/about/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MapLayers at 5.0 against Survey Help's 3.0. MapLayers also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 14 months) and device support (3 vs 1). Survey Help's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Survey Help sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and MapLayers sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $24.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MapLayers holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Survey Help ships an update every 14 months, MapLayers every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Survey Help | MapLayers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Bourne | CartoLake, LLC |
In-app purchases
Survey Help
- Load External Location Sets$0.99
MapLayers
- Basic Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
