Locations MAP vs LifesJournal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
LifesJournal
Automatically and privately records your journeys and visited locations without manual input. It builds a searchable archive of your travels, offering insights into your movement patterns and surfacing meaningful memories. Integrates with health data for a holistic view of your wellbeing.
- Automatic location tracking
- Visual timeline of visits
- Smart place recognition
- Visit history search
- Geographic footprint maps
- Memory surfacing
- Apple Health integration
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Life's Journal automatically and privately records every place you visit and every journey you take — no manual check-ins, no tapping, no effort. Just live your life and let the app build a beautiful, searchable archive of everywhere you've been. An app that only gets better, with even richer data, the longer you use it! TIMELINE See your day unfold in a rich, visual timeline. Every visit is logged with the place name, duration, and how you got there — whether walking, driving, cycling, or flying. Add notes, attach photos, and mark your favorites. SMART PLACES Your visits aren't just GPS coordinates. Life's Journal recognizes actual place names like "Starbucks" or "Central Park" instead of street addresses. Every location becomes a place in your personal database with visit history, categories, notes, and photos. HAVE I BEEN HERE BEFORE? Ever walk into a restaurant and think "I've definitely been here before… but when? And who was I with?" Life's Journal knows. Ask Siri "Have I been here before with Life's Journal?" or press the button in the app and instantly get the answer — how many times you've visited, when you were last there, and how you got there. No more racking your brain. Your journal remembers what you forgot. STATS & ANALYTICS Discover patterns in how you move through the world. See your visits, distance traveled, time spent, and transport modes broken down by day, week, month, or any custom date range. COVERAGE EXPLORER Visualize your geographic footprint on interactive maps. Track which countries, US states, and counties you've visited. With Street Coverage (beta), see every road you've traveled in your favorite cities, or try to visit every street in your hometown. MEMORY LANE Life's Journal surfaces meaningful memories automatically — visit anniversaries, milestones like your 50th trip to a favorite spot, places you haven't been in a while, and travel highlights. The longer you use it, the richer your memories become. Tap the memory banner and relive the day! HEALTH INTEGRATION Connect with Apple Health to see steps, distance, calories, heart rate, and workouts correlated with your visits. Understand how your movement patterns connect to your wellbeing. PHOTOS The app automatically detects photos taken during your visits and suggests attaching them. Build a visual record of your life tied to the places you've been. SIRI & SHORTCUTS Ask Siri "Have I been here before?" to instantly check your visit history at any location. MORE FEATURES • Home screen and lock screen widgets • Apple Watch companion app • Search and filter across all visits by name, category, date, or notes • Import history from GPX, CSV, and JSON files • Export your complete journal as a backup • Customizable notifications for daily recaps, milestones, and weekly digests • All data stored privately on your device Life's Journal is free to use with core tracking, timeline, places, and basic stats. Upgrade to Premium for Health Dashboard, Memory Lane, full Coverage Explorer, Street Coverage, advanced search, and more. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gist.github.com/GravyTrainInc/4be781b5c45ed250d7df1e085acf132e
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: LifesJournal at every 3 weeks against Locations MAP's every 65 months. On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Locations MAP sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and LifesJournal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Locations MAP ships an update every 65 months, LifesJournal every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Locations MAP | LifesJournal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 65 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trade Factory Gesellschaft f�r Handel und Vertrieb mbH | GTrain Inc |
Customer experience
Locations MAP
LifesJournal
In-app purchases
Locations MAP
- Remove advertising$2.99
- Lock Locations$4.99
LifesJournal
- Monthly 3.99$3.991 Month
- Yearly$39.991 Year









