MyPlaces! vs MapMarkup
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MyPlaces!
Easily save, annotate, organize, and share your favorite locations. Add notes, pictures, and organize them into folders for trips or personal memories. View your saved places on a map or a customizable list.
- Save current position or search for places
- Attach text notes and pictures
- Organize places into folders
- View places on a map or list
- Export and share locations
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Did you ever need to remember a special place where you have been or have to plan an itinerary for one of your trips? MyPlaces is an application for iPhone and iPad that allows you to store, annotate, organize and share your favorite places in a simple and intuitive way. Found an interesting place? Save your current position with the auto location feature or use the search tool to find places far away from you searching by name or by GPS coordinates. Attach notes and pictures Assign a title to your places, include text notes and images that you can choose from your camera roll or take directly with the device camera. Every place in the right folder Keep all your places in order by organizing them into folders. For example, you are spending your holidays in London and you want to remember the most beautiful places you visited? Create a folder named "Holiday in London" and add the places in which you have been, perhaps attaching some nice pictures. See your places the way you like Choose whether to show your places on a map or a list. The list is customizable and allows you to choose which information to display. The map instead allows you to compare the places with your current position. Export and share your places Thanks to the export features of MyPlaces you can export or share your places in many formats.
MapMarkup
Create custom maps with annotations like arrows and labels to share directions or locations. Draw on road or satellite views and save unlimited markups. Log places you've visited or recommend restaurants.
- Add arrows, labels, and freehand drawings
- Unlimited map markups
- Draw on road or satellite maps
- Share maps via social media and email
- Log visited places and recommendations
- No data gathering
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The easiest way to create custom maps! Telling your friends where the party is or informing your colleagues how to get to the client’s address is very important, so make it easy with MapMarkup. Add arrows, labels and more to highlight the details and share! You can add unlimited markup to your global map and MapMarkup will remember it all. There’s no need to re-create a map ever. Freehand lines and shapes in different colours allow you to make it easy for your friends to get to exactly where they need to go, and you can draw on road maps or satellite images as well. Share maps to facebook, twitter, email and more. You can add several maps to a message too, so letting people know about that tricky motorway exit on the way to your place is easy. You can even use MapMarkup to log places you’ve been to, or note good places to eat! Unlike other mapping apps, we never gather any of your data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MapMarkup at none against MyPlaces!'s 1. MapMarkup also leads on iOS requirement (9.3 vs 15.0). MyPlaces!'s advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 24 months) and review sentiment (78% vs 50%). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. MyPlaces! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MapMarkup asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for MyPlaces! against 4.8 for MapMarkup. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MyPlaces! has 82 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of MyPlaces!'s written reviews are positive against 50% of MapMarkup's.
MyPlaces! ships an update every 2 weeks, MapMarkup every 24 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MyPlaces! | MapMarkup |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (82 ratings) | 4.8 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.9% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 82 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 24 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Lost Project | Stratospherix Ltd |
Customer experience
MyPlaces!
MapMarkup
In-app purchases
MyPlaces!
- PRO Mode$8.99
MapMarkup
No in-app purchases







