Valley Metro vs Fillmap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Valley Metro
Plan your transit journeys in metro Phoenix with real-time bus and light rail tracking. Easily manage fares, earn savings with Smart Fare, and receive service alerts for a seamless travel experience.
- Smart Fare payment and savings
- Step-by-step trip planning
- Real-time bus and light rail location
- Service alerts and notifications
- Save favorite stops and routes
- Account loading and transaction history
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The Valley Metro app is your tool for taking transit in the metro Phoenix area. Smart Fare makes taking transit even easier – load your account, scan every time you ride and the more you ride, the more you save! You’ll never pay more than the Smart Fare daily, weekly and monthly fare. Trip planning helps you get where you want to go with step-by-step navigation and real-time location for bus and light rail. Features: - Load your account and scan the QR code at the purple fare reader - View your transaction history - Set up autoload or load your account with cash at select retail locations - Plan your trip with step-by-step navigation - Locate your bus or train in real time - Save your favorite stops and routes - Get service alerts and account notifications
Fillmap
Easily mark visited regions on a world map, adding notes, dates, and photos to your travel memories. Organize your experiences by category or year, and leverage automatic data input from your photos. Share your progress across devices with iCloud sync.
- Mark visited regions on a world map
- Add memos, dates, and photos to entries
- Organize by custom categories and year
- Automatic date and location from photos
- iCloud sync for multi-device management
- One-tap batch registration with 'AutoFill'
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'Fillmap-World’ is a simple app to fill regions over a map of the World. You can keep track of places that you have visited. ▼Simple operation Just tap on the region to register a record. Let's fill in the map of the world as much as you can! ▼Easy management You can save a memo or date/time along with photos so that you won't forget your happy memories. ▼Register categories as many as you want You can register categories as many as you want, and display and manage the map for each category. You can also display the map by year. ▼Helpful input assistance function! Automatically set the date and location information of the photo in the record! You can also register from the 'Photos' app on iOS. ▼Useful function of data linkage! You can share the data with multiple iOS devices via iCloud. You can manage the memories on any devices. ▼One tap batch registration! Easy to get started with 'AutoFill' function. It reads all iOS photos and register records by year and region. Let's start 'Fillmap-World’ by this function! ▼For recording! For planning! Versatile app! This app can be used for recording memories, studying, travel planning, etc. Please use the app however you like. ▼About Pay Contents This app include some pay contents. - Title of auto-renewing subscription Hide Ads - Length of subscription 1 month - Price of subscription USD $0.99 per month - Restore in case of model change You can restore the pay contents you have purchased when you change the iOS model. Open the 'Hide Ads' screen via 'Settings' and tap 'Restore' button to log in the iTunes with the same Apple ID when you purchased the contents. - How to confirm the purchase state You can confirm the purchase state of Hide Ads and its expiration date in 'Hide Ads' screen. - Cancel subscription You can cancel the Hide Ads as follows: Go to 'Settings' of iPhone > 'Apple ID, iCloud, iTunes & App Store' on the top > 'Subscriptions' > Select this app and tap on 'Cancel Subscription'. - Automatic continuous charges Subscription will be automatically renewed unless it is canceled before 24 hours of the expiration date. The charges will be incurred within 24 hours of the expiration date. - Attention Cancelation is available only at 'Settings' of iPhone. Charges of the month cannot be canceled. Charges will incur via the purchaser's Apple account. - Terms of Use https://gosyuin-map.seesaa.net/article/481770892.html - Privacy policy https://gosyuin-map.seesaa.net/article/481953721.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fillmap at 100% against Valley Metro's 25%. Fillmap also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). Valley Metro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Fillmap sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Valley Metro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fillmap holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Valley Metro has 10K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Valley Metro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fillmap's.
Valley Metro ships an update every 4 months, Fillmap every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Valley Metro | Fillmap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (10K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 146 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | REGIONAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY | Tateaki Uehara |
Customer experience
Valley Metro
Fillmap
Bugs and requests
Valley Metro
Reported bugs
4 issues- Brightness glitches
- Login/authentication issues
- Disappearing bus locations
- Unreliable schedule updates
Requested features
4 requests- Add monthly/weekly pass options
- Integrate with Apple Wallet
- Improve real-time tracking accuracy
- Provide more fare payment options
Fillmap
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Valley Metro
No in-app purchases
Fillmap
- Hide Ads1 Month trial$0.991 Month









