Comparison

Tinytown vs Map Buddy

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

Head to head
About

Tinytown

Connect with your neighbors and discover local communities for shared interests and activities. This app focuses on fostering fun and friendship, avoiding toxic feeds and endless scrolling. Enjoy a private experience with no ads or data sharing.

Highlights
  • Discover local communities
  • Organize neighborhood events
  • Join interest-based groups
  • Ad-free experience
  • No data sharing
  • Focus on fun and friendship
Features
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Tinytown is the best way for you and your neighbors to stay in touch and have fun together. FIND YOUR VILLAGE Whether you want to join a neighborhood potluck, a dog-walking group, or a LAN party, Tinytown makes it easy to discover and build the local communities that matter most to you. BUILT FOR FUN, NOT ARGUING We're big believers in bringing people together through the power of fun so we're throwing out the toxic News Feed and saying no to the endless doomscrolling. Tinytown is designed from the ground up to help you make new friends and not for arguing with strangers. NO FUNNY BUSINESS We’re leaving the annoying ads and creepy data-mining to the other guys. There are no ads on Tinytown and your data is never shared with anyone. If we ever need money to keep the lights on, we can always sell our precious Beanie Babies. For more information, please visit: https://about.tinytown.app Join our Discord: https://ttown.app/discord Follow us on Twitter: @GetTinytown Join our community on Reddit: r/TinytownApp

About

Map Buddy

Discover, subscribe to, and create interactive maps for various purposes. Find local spots, plan events like scavenger hunts, or leave digital messages at physical locations. Includes curated, automatically updated maps with public data.

Highlights
  • Discover and subscribe to interactive maps
  • Create custom maps
  • Leave location-based digital messages
  • Find local points of interest
  • Plan scavenger hunts and events
  • Access curated, updated public data maps
Features
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Map Buddy™ lets you discover, subscribe, and create interactive maps. Use it to find food trucks, garage sales, good coffee, and more! Plan your next friendly scavenger hunt or leave surprise notes for your loved ones. Maps that you subscribe to are visible on your home map. Map Buddy is your one stop place to view all of the things that you find interesting in a single place. Map Buddy comes with a curated list of automatically updated maps. This includes Earthquakes and data sourced from San Francisco municipal sources, such as 311, 911, and fire department calls. More curated maps are added constantly! The Great Lakes Bay Region Alliance uses Map Buddy to host their STEM Passport program and to promote partnered STEM locations with Michigan students. Note that Radar Chat has been renamed to Map Buddy! The functionality of the app hasn’t changed much: you can still use Map Buddy to leave digital messages attached to physical locations. However, we feel the new name better conveys the utility that people have found with the app, not to mention “Radar Chat” never really gave users the ability to “chat”.

Screenshots

Tinytown4 screens
Map Buddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tinytown at every 3 weeks against Map Buddy's every 2 months. Map Buddy's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tinytown against 5.0 for Map Buddy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tinytown ships an update every 3 weeks, Map Buddy every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Tinytown versus Map Buddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTinytownMap Buddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Number of ratings6 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB2 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperTinytown, Inc.Phobos Rising, Inc.

Customer experience

Tinytown

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Map Buddy

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tinytown

No in-app purchases

None

Map Buddy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tinytown free?
Tinytown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Map Buddy free?
Map Buddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tinytown or Map Buddy?
Tinytown and Map Buddy are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Tinytown or Map Buddy have ads?
Neither Tinytown nor Map Buddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tinytown or Map Buddy?
Tinytown ships an update every 3 weeks, and Map Buddy every 2 months. Most recently, Tinytown was updated on October 24, 2026 and Map Buddy on October 18, 2026.

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