Go Map!! vs Free Map Tools
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Go Map!!
Contribute to the world's largest collaborative map by adding and editing points of interest, streets, paths, and more. Track your location, resolve notes, and work offline with full undo/redo capabilities. Explore existing map data and see who made recent edits.
- Create and edit OpenStreetMap data
- Add points of interest, streets, and paths
- Track location and heading
- Create and resolve notes
- Offline editing with later upload
- Full undo/redo support
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Go Map!! lets you create and edit information in OpenStreetMap, the free crowd-sourced map of your neighborhood and the world. Add shops and restaurants, streets, cycling and hiking paths, buildings, lakes and rivers. • Quickly add points of interest • Edit nodes, ways and areas • Track your location and heading • Create and resolve Notes • Supports arbitrary tag values • Full undo/redo support • Work offline and upload your changes later • Bing, Mapbox and Mapnik backgrounds, or customize with your own • See who last edited an object and when • Find other mappers nearby • Search for places using Nominatim • Free! No ads or in-app purchases For more information visit www.OpenStreetMap.org Free registration and acceptance of the OpenStreetMap licensing terms is required to upload your changes. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Free Map Tools
This app offers a suite of map-based utilities for measuring distances, calculating areas, and visualizing radii. It can also determine travelable distances within a set time and find antipodal points on the globe. Useful for planning, analysis, and geographical exploration.
- Measure distance and area
- Plot radius around a point
- Calculate travelable distance/time
- Find distance between two locations
- Locate antipodal points
- Find zip/postcodes within a radius
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Free Map Tools is a collection of tools based on maps. These tools allow you to perform various functions for a wide range of applications. You can measure distances and areas. You can also send or share the map as an image to indicate the area, route or radius you have plotted. The Radius Around Point tool lets you plot a distance radius on a map. You specify the centre point, the radius and other features such as colour. You can then visualise the radius to see the area covered. The Measure Distance tool lets you plot a route on a map and find out the distance covered in various units. It also uses your GPS sensor to plot the route automatically. The Area Calculator Tool lets you draw an area on the map and find the measurement of the area enclosed. The Find How Far I Can Travel tool will show how far you can drive or walk within a set time. For example, how far can I get if I drive for 60 minutes from my current location. How Far is it Between allows you to find the road and crow-flies distance between 2 addresses. It also shows both routes on the map. The Map Tunnelling Tool allows you to find out where on the globe your antipodal point is. You can also find the antipode of any custom location. Country Specific Tools ———————————————- For the following countries: ∙USA ∙UK You can use the following tools: ∙The zip/postcodes found inside a radius ∙The distance between two zip/postcodes
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Go Map!! at 4.8 against Free Map Tools's 4.0. Go Map!! also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (89% vs 68%). Free Map Tools's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Go Map!! holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Go Map!! has 339 ratings behind it against 61, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Go Map!!'s written reviews are positive against 68% of Free Map Tools's.
Go Map!! ships an update every 5 weeks, Free Map Tools fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Go Map!! | Free Map Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (339 ratings) — better | 4.0 (61 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better | 67.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 339 — better | 61 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bryce Cogswell | GV Software Solutions Limited |
Customer experience
Go Map!!
Free Map Tools
User reviews
Go Map!!
From 339 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Intuitive and easy to use
- 👍 Powerful editing features
- 🚀 Responsive and fast
- 👍 Helpful presets and autocomplete
- 🚀 Great for on-the-go mapping
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
- 🔍 Cluttered interface in some areas
- 🔍 Blurry satellite imagery
- 🔍 Limited tag options
- 🔍 Confusing upload process
Free Map Tools
From 61 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🗺️ Useful for planning
- 📏 Calculates distances accurately
- 📍 Radius circle overlay
- ✈️ Good for VFR navigation
Room to improve
- 😠 Annoying ads
- 📉 Inaccurate driving estimates
- 🚧 Not good for rural roads
- 🐌 Slow performance
- ❌ Elevation tool missing
Bugs and requests
Go Map!!
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on iOS 13 and older
- Issues with uploading changes
- Inconsistent behavior with GPX tracks
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to select and edit multiple objects
- Option to overlay other map data sources
- More advanced tag editing capabilities
- Improved GPX track management
- Ability to set map offset
Free Map Tools
Reported bugs
9 issues- App crashes frequently
- Track My Route feature doesn't work
- Elevation tool is missing/not functional
- Radius map saving/emailing issue
- Inaccurate travel time estimates
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- Air miles feature not working
- No postcode input option
- App does not work on iPad
- Map radius tool is inaccurate
Requested features
13 requests- Calculate distance of each leg
- Add elevation tool
- Improve contrast for route saving
- List for saved routes
- Improve 'how far can I travel' algorithm for UK roads
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- Add German language option
- In-app purchase to remove ads
- Add sea level riser tool
- Show highways on map
- Track up vs top down map view
- Chevron blue arrow for direction
- ETA at truck driving speeds
- Population tool
In-app purchases
Go Map!!
No in-app purchases
Free Map Tools
No in-app purchases
Questions
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