Go Map!! vs RTAB
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.
RTAB
This utility app enables real-time 3D scanning and mapping of environments using LiDAR or RGB-D sensors. It features online loop closure detection and map optimization for immediate feedback, with export options for various 3D formats.
- Online 3D scanning and mapping
- Loop closure detection and map correction
- Save maps in DB format
- Export in PLY, LAS, or OBJ
- Multi-session mapping
- AR/VR visualization mode
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RTAB-Map (Real-Time Appearance-Based Mapping) is an Open Source LiDAR / RGB-D / Stereo Graph-Based SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) approach based on an online incremental appearance-based loop closure detector. The loop closure detector uses a bag-of-words approach to determinate how likely a new image comes from a previous location or a new location. When a loop closure hypothesis is accepted, a new constraint is added to the map's graph, then a graph optimizer minimizes the errors in the map in real-time. An optional memory management approach can be used to limit the number of locations used for loop closure detection and graph optimization, so that real-time constraints on large-scale environnements are always respected. ARKit's visual inertial odometry (VIO) is used as the SLAM front-end for RTAB-Map (the SLAM back-end). * Note that unlike other scanning apps that optimize the map only after mapping, with RTAB-Map you get loop closure detection and map optimization online so you can have a live feedback to know when you have enough constraints in the map for good global optimization before stopping the scan. *** 3D reconstruction available only with LiDAR sensor. Features: * Online 3D scanning/mapping of the environment. * Online loop closure detection and map correction. * Save in DB format (RTAB-Map desktop and rtabmap_ros format). * Export in PLY, LAS or OBJ. * Multi-session mapping (save and continue later). * Use Apriltags to help finding loop closures in textureless environments. * Mixed AR/VR First-Person in visualization mode. * Raw ARKit data recording (up to 60 Hz!), useful to record long sessions without comprising battery life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Go Map!! at every 5 weeks against RTAB's every 4 months. Go Map!! also leads on ratings volume (339 vs 39). RTAB's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 89%). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Go Map!! against 4.8 for RTAB. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Go Map!! has 339 ratings behind it against 39, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Go Map!!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of RTAB's.
Go Map!! ships an update every 5 weeks, RTAB every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Go Map!! | RTAB |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (339 ratings) | 4.8 (39 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 339 — better | 39 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bryce Cogswell | Mathieu Labbe |
Customer experience
Go Map!!
RTAB
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
RTAB
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Go Map!!
No in-app purchases
RTAB
No in-app purchases









