Comparison

Map Log vs Bulletin

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

Head to head
About

Map Log

Record notes, photos, and voice memos directly onto a map. Organize your entries by category with custom icons and colors. Search your saved locations and share them via email.

Highlights
  • Geotagged notes with photos and voice recordings
  • Customizable map icons and colored notes
  • Address lookup and full-text search
  • Organize notes by category
  • Email sharing
  • Backup and restore functionality
Features
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Map Log is an application that can write notes on a map. You can write notes on the map anywhere you want to. Leave notes, photos, voice records in that place more and more, then create your own maps. Of course, also available as a regular note app. Features - Displaying Icons on a map Set your favorite icons to each category and display it on a map. - Address Lookup Find a location from an address you input. - Organizing notes Manage your notes for each category. - Colored Notes Choose a background color of your notes for each category. - Searching notes Supports full-text search. - Saving Images Save multiple photos to a note. - Voice Recording Save the recorded voice to a note. - Email Send your notes by email. - Backup And Restore Restore notes from saved backup files or save a backup file through the web browser. The computer must be contacted to the same local network with iPhone. - Sorting notes Sort notes by creation dates, update dates, title

About

Bulletin

Create versatile digital boards for organizing ideas, plans, and personal projects. This app offers a flexible infinite canvas with various block types for text, images, links, and more. Collaborate with others or work offline, with options to customize appearance and organize content.

Highlights
  • Infinite canvas for unlimited board size
  • Diverse block types (text, image, link, drawing)
  • Pro blocks for lists, progress bars, and trackers
  • Extensive customization options for block and board appearance
  • iCloud sync across Mac, iPad, and iPhone
  • Real-time collaboration on shared boards
  • Offline functionality and Spotlight search integration
Features
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Bulletin is an infinite canvas for anything you can imagine — mood boards, mind maps, plans, habit trackers, or a home for everything you keep meaning to get to. Add blocks, arrange them however you like, and make every one of them look exactly the way you want. BLOCKS TO BUILD WITH • Image — photos and animated GIFs, with a built-in cropper • Text — rich text in any font on your device • Shape — rectangles, diamonds and circles, with text inside for diagrams • Line & Arrow — snap to blocks and keep following them as they move, with customizable heads at either end of an arrow • Link — paste a URL for a preview card, or embed the live site right on your board • Drawing — sketch with Apple Pencil on iPad, and view it on every device POWERFUL PRO BLOCKS • Todo List — nest tasks as deep as you like, and drag them between blocks to build your own Kanban • Progress Bar — a simple, satisfying visual indicator • Recurring Tracker — progress or checkmark style, for habits, chores and anything that repeats • Calendar Tracker — a beautiful calendar heatmap • More on the way MADE TO BE YOURS • Style it block by block — board background, fonts, colors, padding, corner radius, borders, shadows, rotation. Nobody should be locked into one design. • A real infinite canvas — built natively for speed, so your board can grow as large as you want • Search — find any block from anywhere in the app, and choose which blocks are searchable. Boards and blocks appear in Spotlight too, and open right where you left them. • Folders — organize boards into folders, nested as deep as you need • Scenes — save named views of a board and jump straight back to them • Light and dark — pick your appearance and design for both; your colors are saved separately for each SYNC AND SHARING • iCloud sync — design on your Mac and pick it up on iPad or iPhone, right where you left off • iCloud sharing — invite people to collaborate on a board • Yours alone — everything lives in your own iCloud. No accounts, no tracking, no data collection. Works offline. Bulletin is free: unlimited boards, unlimited basic blocks, and up to 5 Pro blocks at a time. Unlock Bulletin Pro with a single one-time purchase — no subscriptions, ever — for unlimited Pro blocks. Bulletin Pro supports Family Sharing, so one purchase covers your whole family.

Screenshots

Map Log4 screens
Bulletin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bulletin at Free against Map Log's $1.99. Bulletin also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Map Log's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). On rating, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Bulletin is free to download; Map Log costs $1.99 up front. Bulletin sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Map Log asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Map Log against 5.0 for Bulletin. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Map Log's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bulletin's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Map Log ships an update every 3 months, Bulletin weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Map Log versus Bulletin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMap LogBulletin
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB11 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperMocologyIn The Middle (SG)

Customer experience

Map Log

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral15.0%
Negative10.0%

Bulletin

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Map Log

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Bulletin

One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$39.99

Questions

Is Map Log free?
Map Log costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bulletin free?
Bulletin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Map Log or Bulletin?
Map Log and Bulletin are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Map Log or Bulletin have ads?
Neither Map Log nor Bulletin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Map Log or Bulletin?
Map Log ships an update every 3 months, and Bulletin weekly. Most recently, Map Log was updated on September 16, 2026 and Bulletin on September 21, 2026.

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