Comparison

Let's Go Places vs Bright Map

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

Head to head
About

Let's Go Places

This app helps children prepare for common outings like visiting the grocery store, park, or doctor's office. It uses friendly pictures and spoken captions to guide them through each experience. Designed to reduce anxiety and build confidence for children, especially those with autism.

Highlights
  • Social modeling for common trips
  • Visual aids with friendly pictures
  • Spoken captions for learning
  • Preparation for doctor and dentist visits
  • Guidance for park and restaurant outings
  • Supports bus rides and haircuts
Features
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Let's Go Places is an intuitive social modeling app for all children learning what to expect for common trips around the neighborhood. Trips include: - Grocery store - Park - Restaurant - Haircut - Dentist - Doctor - Bus ride - Speech Therapist Friendly pictures invite exploration by little ones. Each trip is a series of photos with short captions; displayed as text and spoken by the children. Our son is autistic. His first successful doctor visit, including a shot, was holding a social modeling app. This is my way of giving back to the community.

About

Bright Map

This app provides visual tools and structured support for individuals with autism, designed by professionals for caregivers and educators. It helps build independence and reduce overwhelm through customizable schedules, token boards, and behavior tracking.

Highlights
  • Token Boards
  • Visual Schedule Builder
  • ABC Behavior Tracking
  • Social Story Builder
  • Countdown Timer
  • PECS-style Communication Tools
Features
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Bright Map is a professional toolbox designed to support daily life with autism for caregivers, educators, and ABA providers. Built by behavior professionals and designed with real families in mind, Bright Map helps create structure, support independence, and reduce overwhelm — without complicated systems or paper materials. Bright Map requires a paid subscription to access all tools. The app is free to download and previews are available to view, but active use of features requires an active subscription. Individual Subscriptions are $8.99/month and include full access to all Bright Map tools for up to three children: • Token Boards with customizable reinforcers • Visual Schedule builder with multiple schedule creation • ABC Behavior Tracking • Frequency Data Tracking • Social Story builder with read-aloud feature • Countdown Timer • Choice Boards • Task Analysis with customizable chaining procedures • PECS-style communication tools • First-Then Boards • Multiple child profiles with secure settings Clinic Subscriptions are $90/month and allows for an unlimited number of team members to be added to your organization. Each team member gains access to all of the above listed individual tools. Additional subscription Information: • Bright Map offers auto-renewing subscription plans. • Payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. • Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. • Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. • Subscriptions can be managed and canceled in your App Store account settings or within the app. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://brightmap.app/privacy-policy Support: https://brightmap.app/support

Screenshots

Let's Go Places4 screens
Bright Map4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Let's Go Places at none against Bright Map's 2. Let's Go Places also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Bright Map's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bright Map sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Let's Go Places 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 Let's Go Places against 5.0 for Bright Map. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Let's Go Places versus Bright Map: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLet's Go PlacesBright Map
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 18 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDon HansonLauran Lee

Customer experience

Let's Go Places

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bright Map

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Let's Go Places

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Bright Map

Subscriptions2
  • INDIVIDUAL SUBSCRIPTION7 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • CLINIC SUBSCRIPTION7 Days trial$89.991 Month

Questions

Is Let's Go Places free?
Let's Go Places is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bright Map free?
Bright Map is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Let's Go Places or Bright Map?
Let's Go Places and Bright Map are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Let's Go Places or Bright Map have ads?
Neither Let's Go Places nor Bright Map shows ads.

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