Comparison

MyPlaces! vs Contact Map

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

Contact Map

Visualize your contacts' addresses and create custom maps with unlimited pins, emojis, and images. Organize locations, search for places, and share your maps with others. Offers synchronization and backup options for seamless data management.

Highlights
  • View contacts' addresses on map
  • Create unlimited custom maps and pins
  • Add emojis and images to pins
  • Import contacts and contact groups
  • Share maps and pins
  • Search for locations and businesses
  • Synchronize across multiple devices
Features
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• The Contact Map offers you countless possibilities. You can view your contacts' addresses on the map, create pins anywhere on the map or at your location, search for locations, and more. • Create unlimited maps and place as many pins, emojis and images as you want on each map. There are no limits.* • The Contact Map gives you the perfect overview of all your places. Features: • Create an unlimited* number of maps • Create unlimited* pins, markers, emojis and images - 9 pin colors / 9 marker colors / emojis / images - At the current location - At any location - Move pins on the map • Import contacts - All contacts - Selected contacts - Update contacts - Contact groups** - Selected contacts from contact groups** • Share maps with your friends • Information about each pin - Title and subtitle (optional with current date) - Images - Notes - Distance to current location - Coordinates - Address is loaded automatically and can be edited manually - Show address directly on the map • Synchronization** and backup** - Create an account and connect up to 5 devices of your choice simultaneously. - Create backups of all or selected maps. - Synchronize the maps and pins of your devices. • More features: - Search function - search for cities, restaurants, shops and more - phone numbers and websites are displayed directly if available - List of all pins with search function - alphabetically, by distance, by date or sorted as desired - Export CSV documents of your pins** - Import pins using CSV documents** - Merge maps* - Combine maps - 3D Touch shortcut for quick marking of the location - Create pins on the Apple Watch - Choice between the Apple map and Google Maps - Location and compass function - Show map in 3D - Share pins - Navigate to pins in the maps app or on Google Maps - Set the preferred map type (standard, satellite, hybrid) - Night mode (iOS 13 and higher) - Various settings _________________ Contact Map Premium & Business - Thanks to Contact Map Premium you get the following additional features: Unlimited pins, unlimited maps, send / download maps up to 1'000 pins - Thanks to Contact Map Business you get the following additional features: Unlimited pins, unlimited maps, send / download maps up to 8'000 pins, contact group import, CSV export / import, synchronize your devices, secure backup of all data, account for up to 5 devices - Your subscription will automatically renew for the price and period listed above until you cancel it in your iTunes account at least 24 hours before it expires. - A subscription that has already begun cannot be cancelled for the current term, but only for the next term. - If you choose not to subscribe to Premium / Business or cancel your subscription, you can continue to use the Contact Map for free. _________________ *In the free version you can place up to 10 pins per map and create up to 3 maps. To create more, you need a Premium or Business subscription. **For these functions you need a business subscription. Privacy policy: https://www.livantis.ch/privacy-policy-maps-apps Terms of use: https://www.livantis.ch/terms-of-use-maps-apps By using the Contact Map, you agree to our privacy policy linked in the App and on the App Store. © 2023 Livantis GmbH

Screenshots

MyPlaces!4 screens
Contact Map4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: MyPlaces! at 4.7 against Contact Map's 3.6. MyPlaces! also leads on review sentiment (78% vs 51%) and ratings volume (84 vs 19). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Contact Map sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MyPlaces! holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 84 and 19 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of MyPlaces!'s written reviews are positive against 51% of Contact Map's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MyPlaces! ships an update every 2 weeks, Contact Map fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MyPlaces! versus Contact Map: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMyPlaces!Contact Map
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (84 ratings) — better3.6 (19 ratings)
Positive reviews77.9% of reviews — better51.3% of reviews
Number of ratings84 — better19
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Lost ProjectNicolas Schotten

Customer experience

MyPlaces!

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

Contact Map

All ratings19 ratings
Positive68.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative31.6%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive51.3%
Neutral2.6%
Negative46.2%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

MyPlaces!

One-time1
  • PRO Mode$8.99
4 purchases

Contact Map

Subscriptions4
  • Premium$9.991 Month
  • Business$39.991 Month
  • Premium1 Month trial$59.991 Year
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  • Business1 Month trial$249.991 Year

Questions

Is MyPlaces! free?
MyPlaces! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Contact Map free?
Contact Map is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MyPlaces! or Contact Map?
MyPlaces! is rated higher. MyPlaces! averages 4.7 out of 5 from 84 ratings, while Contact Map averages 3.6 from 19 ratings.
Do MyPlaces! or Contact Map have ads?
Neither MyPlaces! nor Contact Map shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MyPlaces! or Contact Map?
MyPlaces! ships an update every 2 weeks, and Contact Map fortnightly. Most recently, MyPlaces! was updated on November 1, 2026 and Contact Map on November 2, 2026.

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