MapRun vs Cricket Central
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MapRun
Experience orienteering with a smartphone app that handles timing and punching, eliminating the need for physical course setup. Enjoy instant feedback on your performance, including your track, personal results, and leaderboard rankings.
- Smartphone timing and punching
- No physical course setup needed
- Instant performance feedback
- Track your route
- Personal results and leaderboards
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MapRun enables a form of Orienteering that uses a SmartPhone App for punching and timing, avoiding the need to put out flags and units on the course. This saves time and effort for organisers, courses can be left open for extended periods of time, and instant feedback is provided with track, personal result and leaderboard results in the App.
Cricket Central
The official app for the New Zealand cricket community. Access fixtures, ladders, results, and player stats. Logged-in participants can sync their schedules for instant match updates.
- Fixtures, ladders, and results
- Player and team statistics
- Favorite players, teams, and competitions
- Sync personal fixtures to schedule
- Instant match updates
- Official New Zealand cricket community app
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Introducing the official mobile app for everyone involved in the New Zealand Cricket Community. Cricket Central is the official free iOS app for the New Zealand cricket community, featuring fixtures, ladders, results and stats from PlayHQ. Fans can favourite players, teams and competitions, while logged-in participants get their fixtures synced to their schedule with instant match updates.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cricket Central at 4.6 against MapRun's 3.7. Cricket Central also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 57%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.
Cricket Central holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of MapRun's written reviews are positive against 67% of Cricket Central's.
MapRun ships an update every 2 weeks, Cricket Central fortnightly. Both last shipped on September 21, 2026.
| Parameter | MapRun | Cricket Central |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PETER EFFENEY | PlayHQ |
Customer experience
MapRun
Cricket Central
In-app purchases
MapRun
No in-app purchases
Cricket Central
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Which has better reviews, MapRun or Cricket Central?
Do MapRun or Cricket Central have ads?
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