Catchup vs maplog.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Catchup
This app helps you nurture important relationships by setting connection goals and sending gentle reminders to reach out. Track your interactions and add notes to remember details, ensuring your connections stay strong.
- Add friends and family
- Set personal connection goals
- Track conversations and meetings
- Add notes to interactions
- Receive gentle outreach reminders
- Home screen widget for tracking
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Your relationships matter. But in our busy lives, staying in touch isn't always easy. Catchup is a simple, beautiful way to nurture your most important connections through consistent touchpoints. Add the people you care about, set meaningful connection goals, and get gentle reminders to reach out. How it works: 1. Add friends and family you want to stay close with 2. Set your intentions with personal goals for how often you'd like to connect 3. Track conversations, meetings, and meaningful moments with a quick tap 4. Add notes to remember the little details of each interaction 5. Get gentle reminders when it's time to reach out Try Catchup free with 2 contacts. Upgrade to connect with unlimited friends and family and track your relationships through notifications and a home screen widget. Keep your relationships strong, one connection at a time.
maplog.
This app lets you privately share your day with friends on a map. Capture photos with location data, add captions, and see your friends' daily journeys unfold. Content is ephemeral, disappearing after about a week unless saved.
- Photos placed at real locations
- Connected into daily path
- Friends-only sharing
- Ephemeral content (deleted within a week)
- Share daily recap to Instagram
- Sign in with Apple
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maplog is a private, friends-only map you share with the people you add. Take a photo and it lands on the map exactly where you were – automatically connected into the path of your day. Add a caption, tag friends, and see everyone’s day unfold on one shared map. • Photos placed at their real location, connected into your daily path • Friends-only – only people you add (and who add you back) can see your map • Share a path or your daily recap to Instagram or your camera roll • Ephemeral by design: friends only ever see the current day. Shots and paths are permanently deleted within about a week. If you want to keep it, share it first. Sign in with Apple. Location is used while you’re in the app to place your photos. If you turn on new place alerts, iOS visit detection lets maplog nudge you when you arrive somewhere new – those places stay on your phone, and maplog never records a trail of where you go.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: maplog. at 5.0 against Catchup's 4.4. maplog. also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). Catchup's advantage is ratings volume (82 vs 7). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Catchup sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. maplog. asks for nothing beyond the download.
maplog. holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Catchup has 82 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Catchup's written reviews are positive against 100% of maplog.'s.
Catchup ships an update fortnightly, maplog. every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Catchup | maplog. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (82 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 82 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Chris Lee | Mingyou Kim |
Customer experience
Catchup
maplog.
Bugs and requests
Catchup
Reported bugs
8 issues- Cannot add contacts
- Subscription is broken and unusable
- Bug preventing upgrade to Plus
- Names and pictures no longer show
- Pro version features locked temporarily
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- Does not sync between devices
- Tracking information lost on iOS update
- Data not backing up to iCloud
Requested features
24 requests- Alphabetical sorting
- Customizable frequency
- Different types of catch-ups
- Select multiple people for a note
- Add search function
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- Add photos
- Add friend's birthday
- Call or text with WhatsApp integration
- Reminder for every 2-3 days
- Groups of people
- Indicate who was present at a catch-up
- Siri shortcut support
- Widget for one-tap connection
- Button to initiate FaceTime call
- Option to add date of last in-person hang out
- Option to add frequency of in-person hang outs
- Categorize contacts (e.g., home, work)
- Customizable reminder frequency
- Dismiss or record connection from notification
- Snooze next reminder option
- Remind me on a specific date
- Backup to iCloud
- Sync between iPhone and iPad
- Automatically count call/text as check-in
maplog.
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Catchup
- Catchup Plus$9.99
maplog.
No in-app purchases
