Comparison

YouMap vs Pile & Face

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

Head to head
About

YouMap

Create and share custom maps with your community. Collaborate with friends to build local guides, track hidden gems, or map community causes. Discover hyper-local insights from locals and experts.

Highlights
  • Custom community maps
  • Collaborative map building
  • Real-time post sharing
  • Customizable post templates
  • Hyper-local discovery
  • Map setup wizard
Features
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YouMap is the social mapping platform designed for people who actually go places. Whether you are planning a cross-country road trip with friends, tracking the best hidden ramen spots in the city, building a local guide for your neighborhood, or mapping the causes and interests your community cares about. YouMap turns your interests into a living, breathing community. Most maps are static and generic. YouMap is different. Every map starts as a blank canvas where you and your community can add posts, and share what's happening in real time. It is one part social network, one part community builder, and entirely yours. BUILD YOUR WORLD, YOUR WAY • Custom Communities: Create maps for anything from “Best Dog Parks” to “Secret Skate Spots” to causes your community advocates for. • Collaborate with Friends: Invite others to add their own posts, photos, and tips. • Pro-Level Tools: Post templates give your map structure and style. Use custom post templates to make your map’s content richer. New maps come with basic built-in templates so contributors can start posting right away. • Hyper-Local Discovery: Find maps created by locals and experts who know the area better than any algorithm. FROM FIRST POST TO THRIVING COMMUNITY Don’t worry about a blank screen. Our Map Setup wizard guides you through every step of building your community identity, setting the rules, and growing your audience. You bring the ideas; we provide the structure. KEEP YOUR WORLD ORGANIZED With a redesigned sidebar and an infinite-scroll library, your maps are always one tap away. Join other creators, travelers, and locals building a more human map of the world.

About

Pile & Face

Discover and organize cultural outings and leisure activities while connecting with new people. Find events based on your artistic and leisure preferences, and share geolocated memories with friends or the community. Create and share your own events to build a digital diary of your experiences.

Highlights
  • Organize cultural outings
  • Connect with new friends
  • Discover events based on preferences
  • Share geolocated memories
  • Create and share custom events
  • Outing guide for France
Features
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Pile & Face is the best way to organize your cultural outings and leisure activities while making new friends! Thanks to Pile&Face, you cultivate your encounters! And it's free! User Guide The application requires you to log in: • via your Apple account • via your Google account • via your Facebook account • via your email address and a dedicated password to register Once logged in, you need to upload a photo and enter a nickname, then several options are available to you: • You can activate the search for companionship. Your profile will then be visible to other users of the application, and you can propose cultural or leisure outings to other members. • You can indicate your artistic or leisure preferences. To optimize your searches, you can answer a short questionnaire that will automatically target the museums, exhibitions, monuments, and leisure activities most likely to appeal to you. • You can select a reduced search radius to define a maximum distance for our outing proposals. • The application allows you to capture geolocated memories and share them with your friends or the entire community. You can create one memory per day. An option allows you to set the frequency of notifications inviting you to capture a memory with a photo and a comment. A map will then summarize your memories in chronological order. The application’s interest lies in a few specific features: • A complete and regularly updated outing guide concerning museums, exhibitions, monuments, and all kinds of leisure activities throughout France. You can directly obtain tickets for your outings through our partner ticketing service. • The power of search engine suggestions according to your tastes. This application is made for those who are looking for original outing ideas, who do not want to miss a beautiful exhibition or a show near them. • A social network that connects French or foreign visitors eager for meetings and sharing. Generally, the application allows for organizing cultural outings accompanied by other enlightened amateurs. Cultivate your encounters with Pile&Face! • The possibility to create and share your own events (exhibitions, garage sales, fairs, sports activities, etc.). In a more personal way, you can create a digital diary that also offers a geographical map of all the moments that have marked you at the very place of your memories. So have fun and enjoy the great wealth of French cultural heritage alone or with someone!

Screenshots

YouMap4 screens
Pile & Face4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Pile & Face at none against YouMap's shown. Pile & Face also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, update cadence 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
YouMap versus Pile & Face: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYouMapPile & Face
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size160 MB57 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperYouMapEVALUTION

Customer experience

YouMap

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

Pile & Face

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

In-app purchases

None

YouMap

No in-app purchases

None

Pile & Face

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is YouMap free?
YouMap is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pile & Face free?
Pile & Face is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do YouMap or Pile & Face have ads?
YouMap shows ads; Pile & Face does not.
Which is updated more often, YouMap or Pile & Face?
YouMap ships an update every 3 weeks, and Pile & Face every 3 weeks. Most recently, YouMap was updated on November 7, 2026 and Pile & Face on November 4, 2026.

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