Ascend Maps vs Piningo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ascend Maps
This app provides customizable outdoor maps with offline capabilities. It features 3D terrain, track recording, saved places management, and the ability to save map tiles for offline use. Explore the outdoors with detailed, personalized navigation tools.
- Offline search
- 3D terrain
- Track recording and editing
- Saved places management
- Customizable map styles
- Offline map tile saving
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Ascend is an open source app for vector and raster maps. Features include 3D terrain, offline search, track recording and editing, managing saved places, saving map tiles for offline use, and more. CUSTOMIZABLE * Includes a simple, customizable style for OpenStreetMap vector tiles with modes for hiking, biking, and transit. * Overlay customizable hillshading, shaded relief, contour lines, and slope angle shading calculated in real-time over any base map. * Supports plugins for search, routing, map sources and more. * Add new online map sources and combine layers to create new maps. * Generate and import your own vector tiles. COMPREHENSIVE * Offline search * Wikipedia search * Manage saved places * Show geotagged photos from your Photo Library. * Create and edit routes * Record and edit tracks for hiking, fitness, and more * Save map tiles for offline use Learn more at https://github.com/styluslabs/maps
Piningo
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Piningo is a private map for places you want to remember. Drop pins at your current location, organize them with your own categories, and come back later when you need them. Use it to keep track of cherry trees in bloom, public toilets, water fountains, bookstores, picnic spots, brunch places, or any other real-world place that is useful to you. Piningo is designed as a personal memory tool: - your pins stay on your devices - no account is required - no social feed or public sharing is built into the app - no cloud backend is used for pin storage On iPhone you can: - save a pin at your current location - assign one or more categories to the same pin - add notes - filter the map by category - edit pin notes, categories, and location later - customize categories with names, icons, and colors On Apple Watch you can: - quickly check your location - save a pin from your wrist - choose a category fast - create a category directly on watch - keep collecting pins offline and sync them back when your iPhone is nearby again Piningo is for building a map that is truly yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Piningo at every 4 days against Ascend Maps's every 6 months. Ascend Maps's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ascend Maps ships an update every 6 months, Piningo every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ascend Maps | Piningo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew White | bambooapps |
In-app purchases
Ascend Maps
No in-app purchases
Piningo
No in-app purchases






