Maptera vs Rex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Maptera
This app helps you save and organize locations you want to visit or revisit. Easily pin favorite spots, bookmark places for future trips, and share recommendations with friends. Build a personal map of memories and travel plans.
- Pin places in seconds
- Bookmark locations for wishlists
- Mark places as visited or to-visit
- Organize places into collections
- Share favorite spots with friends
- Discover new places from trusted sources
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Ever saved a place in your notes or sent yourself a link you forgot about? Maptera is your personal travel map, built to bookmark places, pin favourite spots, and save locations you want to visit or revisit. Whether it’s a coffee shop in your own city, a hotel for your next trip, or a hidden gem a friend told you about, Maptera helps you remember, organise, and share places that matter. With Maptera, you can: • Pin places in seconds: coffee shops, beaches, hotels, restaurants, museums, and more • Bookmark locations to build your travel wishlist • Mark places as visited or to-visit • Organise your places into collections • Share your favourite spots with friends • Discover new places by exploring maps from people you trust • Build a personal map that reflects your taste, memories, and travel plans No more forgetting that amazing brunch place or beach trail someone recommended. Maptera is the easiest way to plan trips, track memories, and create your own city guide. It’s not just for travel, bookmark everyday places too: • A local jazz bar • Your go-to café • A sunset viewpoint • A spot you don’t want to lose Pin it. Bookmark it. Share it. Discover more. And the best part? It was built by two brothers who just wanted a better way to remember the places that mattered.
Rex
Log and rank your favorite places, from restaurants to hikes, based on personal comparisons. See trusted recommendations from your friends and build shared lists for planning trips or saving spots.
- Log and rank places easily
- Personalized pairwise comparisons
- Friend-based recommendations
- Track restaurants, museums, hikes, and more
- Create and share custom lists
- Request recommendations from friends
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Taste, ranked by the people you trust. Rex is where you log the places you love, rank them against everything else you've tried, and see what your friends actually recommend. HOW IT WORKS • Been somewhere great? Add it in seconds. • Rex compares it head-to-head against your past experiences to find its true place on your list. • Your friends see it, save it, and ask you for more. WHAT YOU GET • Ranked, not rated. Pairwise comparisons build a personal ranking that actually means something. • Your circle, not the crowd. Recommendations come from friends, not anonymous reviewers. Rex is private by default: no public profiles, no follower counts. • Every experience, not just food. Restaurants, museums, hikes, hotels, bars, cafés — anything worth remembering has a place in Rex. • A feed worth checking. Every log, like, and rec request from your circle, in one place. • Lists worth keeping. Build and share lists solo or with friends — plan a trip, collect the classics, or save want-to-try spots for later. • Ask, don't guess. Craving ramen in a new city? Post a rec request and get answers from the people whose taste you actually trust. Your next favorite place is one friend away.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Rex at every 4 days against Maptera's every 3 weeks. Maptera's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). 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 — 5.0 for Maptera against 5.0 for Rex. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Maptera has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Maptera ships an update every 3 weeks, Rex every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Maptera | Rex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patryk Zatorski | Anant Goyal |
Customer experience
Maptera
Rex
In-app purchases
Maptera
No in-app purchases
Rex
No in-app purchases









