Comparison

Mappin vs Destiny

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

Head to head
About

Mappin

Features
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Mappin is a practical and intuitive app for creating personalized maps. Add pins to your maps and customize them to your liking. Create maps for travel destinations, work projects, or personal interests. Mappin offers you an easy way to share and present your ideas in a visual and organized manner. You can even add pictures to your pins with Mappin, making them even more expressive. You can use your maps across devices, keeping your ideas in view and easily shareable from anywhere. Import and export your maps to share with friends and family. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRpFOuOGLe4eYpF5BPvek2HEWO1u6sbBvUwrDQTrh1oXPJT1PYR9O6rwNt0Vf9GrCvmL2Q_-mra-jN1/pub

About

Destiny

Organize and visualize your favorite locations with custom pins, notes, and folders. Plan your perfect day by easily accessing saved places and points of interest.

Highlights
  • Organize places into folders
  • Filter by tags
  • Save notes about places
  • Visualize saved locations
  • Customize map pins with emojis and colors
Features
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Organize your favorite places by sorting them into different folders, filtering them by tags, and saving notes about them. You'll find that it's really nice to visualize all your saved places when you want to plan your perfect day. Having your custom pin locations and favorite points of interests saved will help you remember all the places you like to visit. Customize your map pins with emojis, annotations, colors and more. Destiny also has extensive note taking features, as well as lists, navigation, and a browser extension for saving articles from Safari to your Destiny file browser (supported on Mac - designed for iPad). Everything you need for a day out or a wild adventure! Notes support images, styling with headers, colors, fonts, etc. Lists support map items, scheduled alerts and like notes, the content can be viewed from the browser by expanding it. This is done by tapping its icon. Destiny also supports: - imports from apps like Evernote - OCR search capability - Appearance customizations - Easy exports for backups

Screenshots

Mappin4 screens
Destiny4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Destiny at 5.0 against Mappin's 1.0. Destiny also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). Mappin's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 24 months). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Mappin sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Destiny asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Destiny holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mappin ships an update weekly, Destiny every 24 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mappin versus Destiny: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMappinDestiny
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 24 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.2
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel LangLimit Point Software

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Mappin

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year
One-time1
  • No Ads$2.99
None

Destiny

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mappin free?
Mappin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Destiny free?
Destiny is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mappin or Destiny?
Destiny is rated higher. Mappin averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Destiny averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Mappin or Destiny have ads?
Neither Mappin nor Destiny shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mappin or Destiny?
Mappin ships an update weekly, and Destiny every 24 months. Most recently, Mappin was updated on October 30, 2026 and Destiny on October 24, 2026.

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