Comparison

MyPlaces! vs Assist Maps

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Assist Maps

Easily mark and save your favorite locations on a map. Integrate your saved spots with Google Maps or the native Maps app. Share your location with attached map images and measure distances.

Highlights
  • Save and edit map points
  • Integrate with Google Maps
  • Integrate with native Maps app
  • Display compass on map
  • Share location via email
  • Distance measurement
  • Display altitude
Features
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Assist Maps lets you pin your favorite places on your own map. Keep shops, clients, travel spots and anything else you want to remember, sorted into groups. PIN PLACES ON THE MAP - Move the map to set a spot, then save it with a title, notes, a URL, a date and a photo - The address is filled in automatically from the location - Choose from 95 pin icons to tell places apart at a glance - Long-press a pin and drag it to move it ORGANIZE WITH GROUPS - Sort places into up to 20 groups and show or hide each group with the buttons on the map - Sort the list by your own order, name, date added, or nearest first SEARCH - Find your saved places and shops or landmarks on the map from one search field - Search again from your recent searches DETAILS AND DIRECTIONS - See the address and coordinates, and show a route on this app's map (driving or walking) - Open a place in Maps, Google Maps or Yahoo! Car Navi - Share a place as text with a Maps link TOOLS - Measure Distance: trace a path on the map - Elevation: your current altitude and the elevation at the map center - Compass - Look Around - Share Map Image: create an image of the map with your pins DATA AND BACKUP - Your data stays on your device. No account or sign-in is required - Export and restore backups - Sync between your own iPhone and iPad through iCloud (only when you turn it on in Settings) - Places, groups and photos from earlier versions carry over as they are EASY TO USE - On iPad, the list and the map sit side by side - Supports Dark Mode, larger text and VoiceOver - 14 languages: Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Polish, Turkish and Russian LOCATION AND PRIVACY Your location is used only when you need it, such as showing where you are or getting directions, never just because the app launched. Your places and photos are never sent to the developer. ADS The app is free. To keep it running, it shows an ad at the bottom of the screen. In Settings you can watch a short video to the end and hide ads until midnight. PLEASE NOTE - The elevation at the map center is a reference value from elevation data such as the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) and Terrain Tiles on AWS - Routes, distances and elevations are estimates. Do not use the app while driving

Screenshots

MyPlaces!4 screens
Assist Maps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Assist Maps at none against MyPlaces!'s 1. MyPlaces!'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (78% vs 44%). On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MyPlaces! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Assist Maps asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for MyPlaces! against 4.8 for Assist Maps. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MyPlaces! has 84 ratings behind it against 5, 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 44% of Assist Maps's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MyPlaces! ships an update every 2 weeks, Assist Maps monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
MyPlaces! versus Assist Maps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMyPlaces!Assist Maps
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (84 ratings)4.8 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.9% of reviews — better43.6% of reviews
Number of ratings84 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Lost ProjectNanshu Kaneshiro

Customer experience

MyPlaces!

All ratings82 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral4.9%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews77 reviews
Positive77.9%
Neutral9.1%
Negative13.0%

Assist Maps

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive43.6%
Neutral12.8%
Negative43.6%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

MyPlaces!

One-time1
  • PRO Mode$8.99
None

Assist Maps

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MyPlaces! free?
MyPlaces! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Assist Maps free?
Assist Maps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MyPlaces! or Assist Maps?
Assist Maps is rated higher. MyPlaces! averages 4.7 out of 5 from 84 ratings, while Assist Maps averages 4.8 from 5 ratings.
Do MyPlaces! or Assist Maps have ads?
Assist Maps shows ads; MyPlaces! does not.
Which is updated more often, MyPlaces! or Assist Maps?
MyPlaces! ships an update every 2 weeks, and Assist Maps monthly. Most recently, MyPlaces! was updated on November 10, 2026 and Assist Maps on November 11, 2026.

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