GPSnote vs Contact Map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GPSnote
Pinpoint locations on a map to add notes, descriptions, and details. Automatically capture location information and organize all your annotations in a searchable list. Sync across devices and easily export your data.
- Add notes by tapping, current location, or search
- Reposition notes easily
- Automatic country and city details
- Organized list of all notes
- Global search for locations
- iCloud sync across devices
- Export notes via File Sharing
- Open notes directly in Maps for navigation
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• Add Notes Anywhere – Drop a pin by tapping the map, using your current location, or searching for any place • Move Notes Freely – Reposition notes effortlessly as your ideas evolve • Automatic Location Details – Country and city are added automatically using precise reverse geocoding • All Notes, One List – View and manage every saved note in a clear, organised list • Global Search – Find locations anywhere in the world and attach notes instantly • iCloud Sync – Your notes stay perfectly in sync across all your devices • Easy Export – Export notes via File Sharing using Finder or iTunes when connected to a computer • Built-in Directions – Open any note directly in Maps for turn-by-turn navigation
Contact Map
Visualize your phonebook contacts with postal addresses on a map. Quickly locate friends, family, or business contacts and initiate navigation or view their details directly from the map interface. Offers customizable marker styles for easy identification.
- Display contacts with postal addresses on a map
- Search contacts by name
- Quick actions: navigate, view details
- Customizable marker styles
- Locate leads, customers, friends, and family
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This app displays your phonebook contacts on a map, focusing on those with a postal address. You can easily locate your contacts—whether they're leads, customers, friends, or family. Key Features Various marker styles: standard, starred, or by contact name Search contacts by name Quick actions for each contact: Start navigation Open contact details Please note that this app requires a paid subscription to access all its features. Your Apple ID account will be charged on the last day of your free trial. Your subscription will automatically renew at the end of each billing period unless canceled 24 hours before the expiration date. [Legal - Licensed Application End User License Agreement - Apple](https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Contact Map at Free against GPSnote's $0.99. Contact Map also leads on rating (4.5 vs 2.8) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). GPSnote's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and device support (5 vs 3). On 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
Contact Map is free to download; GPSnote costs $0.99 up front. Contact Map sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. GPSnote asks for nothing beyond the download.
Contact Map holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of GPSnote's written reviews are positive against 67% of Contact Map's.
GPSnote ships an update every 2 months, Contact Map every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GPSnote | Contact Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.8 (12 ratings) | 4.5 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.7% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vlad Alexa | Starship Coder |
Customer experience
GPSnote
Contact Map
Bugs and requests
GPSnote
Reported bugs
27 issues- Crashes every time trying to search a location
- Points (pins) get lost
- Cannot place any notes on iPhone
- App doesn't load properly
- App crashes upon search
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- App crashes when you search
- Crashing every time trying to add a city to pin
- App crashes when searching a city
- App crashes on iPhone and iPads when hitting search
- App stopped working with iOS 7
- App crashes when opened
- App force closes after hitting search
- App crashes on open
- App doesn't seem to work on iOS 6
- Nothing happens when pressing 'yes' for 'do you want to create a note'
- App simply does not work
- App crashes constantly (free version)
- Search doesn't always work
- Map zooms out too far every time
- Display jumps to somewhere else on the planet sometimes
- Notes say '(null)'
- Google Maps seems damaged after installing this app
- Problems with German umlauts make the app a torture
- Map zooms out to about 500 miles
- Transition from satellite view to map view can be inconsistent
- Low memory warnings
- App is unusable due to low memory warnings
Requested features
27 requests- Add different colors to pins
- Option to send all information to email at once
- Add ability to create backup files via email
- Optional inner country boundaries (states, provinces)
- Ability to place markers with GPS coordinates
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- Built-in GPS format converter
- Add ability to add pictures to pins
- Show distance from each pin
- Ability to make many layers to filter notes
- Improve search functionality
- Make house numbers visible for every lot
- Sync to Foursquare
- Display date for pins
- Display lat/long rather than place name on pin
- Ability to view list of all pins with information
- Ability to export the list of pins
- Search function to pull in addresses
- Integrate with 411, address book, or Google Maps
- Ability to move pins
- Handwrite notes
- Add longitude and latitude coordinates to pin locations
- Add hybrid view
- Option to add additional fields to notes
- Option to have multiple pin colors
- Ability to calculate fastest route between stops
- Add ability to add locations manually
- Allow opening route in GPS apps (Waze, Google Maps, Apple Maps)
Contact Map
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
GPSnote
No in-app purchases
Contact Map
- Weekly Plan3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Contact on Map Yearly Plan$12.991 Year
- Anual Plan$19.991 Year
- Plus version$49.99
