Tinytown vs Map Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Discover local communities
- Organize neighborhood events
- Join interest-based groups
- Ad-free experience
- No data sharing
- Focus on fun and friendship
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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
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.
- 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
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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”.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Tinytown | Map Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tinytown, Inc. | Phobos Rising, Inc. |
Customer experience
Tinytown
Map Buddy
In-app purchases
Tinytown
No in-app purchases
Map Buddy
No in-app purchases









