Map Notes My Location vs Map Marker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Map Notes My Location
Easily save and edit latitude and longitude coordinates on a map. Utilize GPS to pinpoint your current location or search for places by keyword to add notes.
- Save and edit location coordinates
- Use GPS for current location
- Search map by keyword
- Add notes to locations
- Simple map interface
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Easy simple map memo free app that saves and edits the latitude and longitude of the location specified on the map. Use GPS to get current location and map search with keyword.
Map Marker
Organize your favorite places with custom markers, descriptions, and photos. Create folders, search for locations, and even measure distances and areas. Collaborate with friends and sync your maps across devices.
- Customizable map markers
- Organize markers into folders
- Search and create markers from locations
- Measure distances and areas
- Cloud sync and collaboration
- Import/export KML/KMZ files
- Custom fields for markers
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This app uses Google Maps and other sources in order to allow you to place markers even without internet connection. If you have any issues with the app, please contact me by email, I will most likely be able to help. Features: • Set a title, a description, a date, a color, an icon and pictures for each marker, and move them freely on the map • Organise your markers into different folders • Browse and organize your markers easily from the text-searchable markers list • Search places from various sources and create a new marker from the result • Open a marker's location in any other map application already installed • Navigate to a marker's location with the integrated compass • Display and copy marker GPS coordinates to clipboard with one click • Display a marker's address if available • Create path-markers and measure their distance easily • Create polygon-surface-markers and measure their perimeter and area easily • Create circle-surface-markers and measure perimeter and area easily • Create GPS tracks recorded from your device location • Share a captured image of the current map • Share markers as KML files • Import markers from a QR code • Import/export markers from/to KML or KMZ files • Import your Google Maps favorite locations (those marked with a star) • Exported KML files are compatible with most other map softwares such as Google Earth • Custom fields for markers: Checkbox, Date, Email, Text, Multi-choice, Phone, Web link • Create templates for custom fields per folder: the child markers will inherit their parent folder's custom fields Premium features: • Save your markers on the cloud with WebDAV, Google Drive or Dropbox • Collaborate with your friends by sharing your map cloud folder with them: anyone with access to the map folder can modify it and changes will be synced to everyone using the folder • Restore previous versions of your cloud map folder • One time purchase for a lifetime upgrade on your Apple account with an unlimited number of iOS devices • No ads Used permissions: • Get your location => to locate you on the map • Access to external storage => to export, save and import to/from files
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Map Marker at 88% against Map Notes My Location's 40%. Map Marker also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 12 months). Map Notes My Location's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price 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. Map Marker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Map Notes My Location asks for nothing beyond the download.
Map Marker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Map Marker has 341 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Map Notes My Location's written reviews are positive against 88% of Map Marker's.
Map Notes My Location ships an update every 12 months, Map Marker every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Map Notes My Location | Map Marker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) | 4.8 (341 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 87.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 341 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SHIGETO TAKAGI | Sebastien BIERO |
Customer experience
Map Notes My Location
Map Marker
Bugs and requests
Map Notes My Location
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Map Marker
Reported bugs
3 issues- Markers disappearing after updates
- Inability to delete individual markers
- Compatibility issues with newer OS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to rearrange marker order
- Option to print or export maps
- Improved search and filtering
- Sync across devices and accounts
- More marker/icon customization
In-app purchases
Map Notes My Location
No in-app purchases
Map Marker
- Map Marker premium$11.99
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