Create Own Map vs CPD District Map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Create Own Map
Create custom offline maps of your surroundings to navigate easily. Mark important locations like home, parking, or favorite spots with custom icons. Ideal for those with poor direction or who dislike reading complex maps.
- Create custom offline maps
- Navigate without internet
- Drop and name location pins
- Assign custom icons to pins
- Track and draw routes
- Save and open created maps
- View street address with internet
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This app helps you create a custom map of your neighborhood and navigate without the need for internet connection or any pre-downloaded map. This app is particularly useful for anybody who has a poor sense of direction, or who can not read maps with so many uninteresting street names and directions. Let's assume you have just moved into a new home and you don't want to get lost when traveling around. This app helps you find your way back home easily. Another practical use of this app is to find where you have parked your car, find your favorite restaurant, store, hotel, or a particular building in a neighborhood. What the app does is that it tracks you and draws your route constantly. You can drop a pin on any location that you are interested in. You can give the pin a name and assign it an icon using a variety of image options. In this way, you will have a clear view of the region you are interested in. You can follow the route to take you back to the departing point. You can save the created map. The next time you can open it and follow the route to take you to the location pins. If the internet connection is available too, then tapping the current location will show you the street address and the address is also saved with the location pins. In order to delete or rename a saved map, swipe the desired row in your map book and select the appropriate action. The premium version enables the save and open features.
CPD District Map
This app provides an interactive map of Chicago, displaying district and beat boundaries in real-time. It helps users identify their current location, search by address, and access quick links for precinct calls and navigation. Additional layers like satellite and street view enhance the mapping experience.
- Real-time location display
- District/Beat boundary visualization
- Address search functionality
- Quick links to precinct and navigation
- Satellite and street view layers
- Saves last searched address
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Interactive map of Chicago showing all District and District Beat boundaries. Features Include: •Know your location...Displays and/or speaks your current location in realtime. •Displays current District/Beat. •Search by address. •Quick links to: Call Precinct, My Location, Navigate to District, Official District website. •Layers: Beat Borders, District Borders, Satellite and Street View. •Associate additional phone numbers with District. •Saves last searched address. Source data obtained from https://data.cityofchicago.org/. Data curation by application developer which includes but not limited to:\n\nMap visualization (source is in CSV/Text format), border and fill colors, association address with District/Beat, etc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CPD District Map at 5.0 against Create Own Map's 1.3. CPD District Map also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 17 months). Create Own Map's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price 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
Both are free to download. Create Own Map sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CPD District Map asks for nothing beyond the download.
CPD District Map holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Create Own Map ships an update every 17 months, CPD District Map every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Create Own Map | CPD District Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bita Sobhani | JC Accounting & Innovative Technologies, Inc |
Customer experience
Create Own Map
CPD District Map
In-app purchases
Create Own Map
- Premium$1.99
CPD District Map
No in-app purchases
Questions
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