Comparison

Life2App Activity Step Tracker vs Mapling

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

Head to head
About

Life2App Activity Step Tracker

This app visualizes where your time is spent by tracking movement and location. Earn rewards, unlock achievements, and customize your avatar while monitoring daily progress on an interactive map.

Highlights
  • Track walking, biking, and driving
  • Monitor time spent at home, work, or study
  • View detailed activity stats and history
  • Earn in-app rewards for activity
  • Unlock achievements and customize avatar
  • Interactive 2D/3D maps
  • QR and barcode scanner
Features
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Life2App — Track Your Daily Life See where your time really goes. Life2App helps you track movement and monitor time spent at places that matter — like home, work, or study. Turn your routine into progress on an interactive map. Track Your Day, Your Way — Track walking, biking, driving, and movement — Add home, work, or study areas to your map — Monitor time spent in each area — Follow your daily progress over time Life2App gives you a simple way to understand and visualize your daily life. Make Everyday Life More Engaging — Earn in-app rewards for staying active — Unlock achievements based on your lifestyle — Scan QR codes and barcodes — Customize your avatar — Compete on the global leaderboard — Use the in-game store to enhance your experience Whether you're commuting, studying, working, or relaxing — every part of your day counts. Features — Manual home / work / study area setup — Activity detection (walk, bike, drive) — Time tracking by location — QR & barcode scanner — In-game store — Global leaderboard — Background mode — Quests, Daily, and Monthly Tasks Start tracking your daily life today.

About

Mapling

Features
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Never wonder "where was I yesterday?" again. Mapling quietly records the places you visit and the journeys between them, turning everyday life into a private map and timeline. It is free to start. Coming from Google Maps Timeline? Import your exported file and keep years of history. AUTOMATIC, NO BUTTONS Cafés, stations, the office, a day trip. Mapling records each stop and the walk or train ride between them in the background. There is nothing to start or stop. A MAP THAT GROWS WITH YOU The places you return to grow on your map, shaped by how often you go and how long you stay. RELIVE ANY DAY See where you were, when, and how you got there, with the path you actually walked drawn on the map. Scroll from one day into the next on a single timeline. FIND ANY PLACE BY GENRE The Places tab lists everywhere you've been. Filter by food, culture, sports and more, and sort by recent, frequent, visited once or longest stay. SHARE A DAY WITH FRIENDS ONLY Invite friends who use Mapling and show them a day, and no one else. Choose who sees each share, and find the shares you receive in the app whenever you like. TRAVEL JOURNAL, WRITTEN FOR YOU Every stop on a trip is kept in order, without typing a thing. MOVE OVER FROM GOOGLE MAPS TIMELINE Works with exports from your phone and from Google Takeout, old format or new. ALSO • Open a day's history from a photo taken there • Personal rankings saved with your own conditions • Commute alerts with the train you can still catch and how fast to walk • Place search using names, categories and official website information • Correct, add or delete a recorded visit • Confirm uncertain visits from Apple Watch • The weather where you spent each day (in Japan, from Japan Meteorological Agency AMeDAS observations) • Support for iPhone Duo HEALTH INTEGRATION When you turn it on in Settings, step counts recorded in the Health app, by Apple Watch above all, are read to tell stays and travel apart more accurately. Only step records are read; nothing is written to Health, and no other data such as heart rate is read. OPTIONAL AI ASSIST Only if you turn it on in Settings, an external AI service helps judge where you stayed and how you travelled. It receives clues such as times and travel speed, never coordinates, place names or anything that identifies your account. PRIVACY AND CONTROL Your history is private by default. When sharing, you choose who sees it (friends only, or anyone with the link) and the day, places and photos. Location data is never used for advertising or tracking across other companies' apps or websites. Settings let you delete individual records, choose a retention period, export data, erase all recorded data or delete the account. Only if you turn on usage sharing, app openings, which tabs are used, and technical information about the device, app and OS are sent to TelemetryDeck. It is off unless you turn it on, and can be changed in Settings at any time. No location, place names, history or account information is sent. Automatic recording requires Always and Precise Location access. To determine travel mode and draw the route you took, movement locations are kept on the device for up to seven days and route coordinates are synced to your account.

Screenshots

Life2App Activity Step Tracker4 screens
Mapling4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mapling at none against Life2App Activity Step Tracker's 9. Mapling also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). Life2App Activity Step Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Life2App Activity Step Tracker sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Mapling asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Life2App Activity Step Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Mapling every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Life2App Activity Step Tracker versus Mapling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLife2App Activity Step TrackerMapling
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (17 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size248 MB45 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperKonstantin MaslennikovMaterialchain

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Life2App Activity Step Tracker

Subscriptions4
  • Ad-Free Experience$2.991 Month
  • VIP Access$4.991 Month
  • Ad-Free Experience$19.991 Year
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  • VIP Access$29.991 Year
One-time5
  • Star Knight Avatar$2.99
  • Star Princess Avatar$2.99
  • Cool Rabbit Avatar$2.99
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  • Legendary No. 10$5.99
  • Elite Forward$5.99
None

Mapling

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Life2App Activity Step Tracker free?
Life2App Activity Step Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mapling free?
Mapling is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Life2App Activity Step Tracker or Mapling have ads?
Life2App Activity Step Tracker shows ads; Mapling does not.
Which is updated more often, Life2App Activity Step Tracker or Mapling?
Life2App Activity Step Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Mapling every 2 days. Most recently, Life2App Activity Step Tracker was updated on November 4, 2026 and Mapling on November 10, 2026.

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