Comparison

Locations MAP vs Spots.

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

Spots.

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Spots. is your personal place inbox — for every restaurant, café, shop, or hidden gem you come across and don't want to forget. Found a spot on Social Media? A friend texted you a coffee shop? Saw something cool on a map? Save it to Spots. in seconds, right from the share sheet — no typing, no app-switching, no losing it in your camera roll or notes app. WHY SPOTS. — No account required. Ever. — Nothing leaves your device. Your spots stay yours. — Built for speed: search, tap, save. — Designed to be genuinely nice to use, every day. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE Use the share button in Safari, Instagram, Maps, or any app and Spots. appears right in your share sheet. Confirm the place, pick a status, done. TRACK HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT A PLACE Mark spots as Want, Been, Love, or Skip. Add a 1–5 star rating. Log visits with dates and notes. Your spots evolve as your relationship with a place does. ORGANISE YOUR WAY Group spots into custom Lists — by trip, neighbourhood, or occasion. Add freeform Tags for anything else. Filter by status, category, city, neighbourhood, list, tag, or rating, and sort however you like. SEE IT ON A MAP Browse your saved spots as a list or drop into Map view to see everything around you at a glance. MAKE IT YOURS Choose your own colour palette for each status from 15 curated options. Add photos to any spot. Personalise your profile with a name and photo. YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE Spots. is local-first by design — no account, no servers, no tracking. Export your data anytime as a backup or to move to a new phone. Delete everything whenever you want, no questions asked. Spots. is built by an developer making thoughtful, no-nonsense apps. We read every piece of feedback — say hello anytime.

Screenshots

Locations MAP4 screens
Spots.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spots. at none against Locations MAP's 2. Spots. also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 65 months). Locations MAP's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Spots. asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Locations MAP ships an update every 65 months, Spots. every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Locations MAP versus Spots.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLocations MAPSpots.
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 65 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.6
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB4 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperTrade Factory Gesellschaft f�r Handel und Vertrieb mbHDaren Irlen

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Locations MAP

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

Spots.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Locations MAP free?
Locations MAP is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spots. free?
Spots. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Locations MAP or Spots. have ads?
Neither Locations MAP nor Spots. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Locations MAP or Spots.?
Locations MAP ships an update every 65 months, and Spots. every 6 days. Most recently, Locations MAP was updated on October 5, 2026 and Spots. on October 15, 2026.

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