Comparison

Locations MAP vs PennyLocator

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

Head to head
About

Locations MAP

Create a personal catalog of your favorite places with detailed information, photos, and custom categories. Share your discovered locations with friends and easily navigate to them.

Highlights
  • Create custom location catalogs
  • Add photos, links, and contact info
  • Organize locations into custom categories
  • Share locations with friends via email
  • Direct navigation links to locations
  • Import coordinates from photos
  • Mark locations as favorites
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Discover your own locations, collect them, and share them with friends. The Locations MAP is your own catalog of your favorite places. It's like an album, just like you'd find in photos, but with significantly more features and information. Thanks to iCloud sync, you always have the same data on all your devices (Mac, iPad, and iPhone). You can add a homepage link, a phone number, an email address, information text, and a photo to each location. You can then assign the location to one of your categories. You can also create your own categories, including the MAP icon, and customize them to your liking. With just a few clicks, you can then email your locations to friends. Recommend this app to your friends, and they can save your favorite places themselves. Thanks to the direct link to the route, your friends will also find the best way to your favorite places. The Locations MAP app has numerous useful features to make it easy and fun to use. One of the most important features is the quick and easy creation of new locations. In addition to searching for an address, you can also directly enter GPS data. If you want to create a location that you already have a picture of in your photos, the coordinates will be imported directly from the image (if available). You can also tap directly on the map (long-touch) to select a new location. If you want to capture a location on the spot, simply use the camera function to create a new one. You can also mark selected locations as "Favorites." You can find new locations, sorted by date, in the "Last Added" list. On the map on the home page, you can see your locations in the respective category. In the category list, you can select which locations (by category) should be displayed on the map. This was just a small introduction to the extensive features of this app. We hope you enjoy discovering, collecting, and sharing interesting places on our wonderful planet.

About

PennyLocator

Discover and locate machines that press pennies worldwide. View detailed information, mark visited or desired machines, and navigate directly to their location. Enable notifications to never miss a nearby penny machine.

Highlights
  • Worldwide machine map
  • Detailed machine information
  • Track visited machines
  • Mark machines for future visits
  • Navigation to machines
  • Push notifications for nearby machines
Features
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PennyMe helps with the collection of pressed pennies. Those neat coins that you can imprint with a picture of a tourist attraction if you turn the crank of the machine. PennyMe displays all machines worldwide on a map and displays detailed information about a machine upon selection. Tick off machines you visited to keep track of your collected pennies. Or mark a machine for a later visit. PennyMe also helps you to easily navigate to any machine. And it shows its address, a picture of the machine and other details. Our recommendation: Turn on push notifications & never miss out again on a nearby penny! Conceptualization & development: Nina Wiedemann & Jannis Born Icon design: Max Tiessen Open-source contributors: Zain Malik

Screenshots

Locations MAP4 screens
PennyLocator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PennyLocator at none against Locations MAP's 2. PennyLocator also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 65 months) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). Locations MAP's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 78%). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Locations MAP sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. PennyLocator asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Locations MAP ships an update every 65 months, PennyLocator every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Locations MAP versus PennyLocator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLocations MAPPennyLocator
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (45 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better78.3% of reviews
Number of ratings—45 — better
Update frequencyEvery 65 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB5 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperTrade Factory Gesellschaft f�r Handel und Vertrieb mbHJannis Born

Customer experience

Locations MAP

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PennyLocator

All ratings43 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral4.7%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive78.3%
Neutral13.0%
Negative8.7%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Locations MAP

One-time2
  • Remove advertising$2.99
  • Lock Locations$4.99
None

PennyLocator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Locations MAP free?
Locations MAP is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PennyLocator free?
PennyLocator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Locations MAP or PennyLocator have ads?
Neither Locations MAP nor PennyLocator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Locations MAP or PennyLocator?
Locations MAP ships an update every 65 months, and PennyLocator every 3 weeks. Most recently, Locations MAP was updated on November 3, 2026 and PennyLocator on November 7, 2026.

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