Comparison

MapNotes vs Timemark Donelist

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

Head to head
About

MapNotes

Pin notes and tasks to specific locations on a map. Organize information with categories, attach files, and set reminders. Features iCloud backup for data safety.

Highlights
  • Location-based notes
  • Categorized organization
  • Attach files and images
  • Powerful filters
  • Reminders and due dates
  • iCloud backup
Features
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MapNotes is the ultimate app for saving and organizing your location-based notes. Whether you're a traveler, a professional, or just someone who loves to stay organized, MapNotes lets you pin notes to specific locations, attach important files, and keep track of tasks effortlessly. Key Features: Location-Based Notes: Create and save notes tied to any location, helping you stay organized and never miss a detail no matter where you are. Categorized Organization: Assign your notes to custom categories, making it easy to group related information together for quick access. Attach Files and Images: Keep all your information in one place by attaching files and images directly to your notes. Powerful Filters: Filter your notes based on category or customer to quickly find what you need. Reminders and Due Dates: Stay on top of your tasks with due date reminders. Get notified 24 hours before, and a final reminder 1 hour before the due date. iCloud Backup: Keep your data safe with automatic iCloud backups, so you never lose a note. Organize your thoughts and tasks like never before with MapNotes – your personal location-based note assistant. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Timemark Donelist

Features
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You've tried every time-tracking app. None of them stuck. It's not you. It's the friction. Scrolling time wheels. Tapping through categories. Switching between "deep work" and "shallow work." By the time you've logged a session, you've lost the thing you were trying to measure. We rebuilt time tracking from the ground up. Speak, don't tap Press the Action Button on your iPhone, or tap once on your Apple Watch. Just say what you did: "Spent 90 minutes writing the proposal, took a 10-minute scroll break." On-device AI parses, segments, and categorizes it — automatically — into a clean Markdown file. Hardware-level frictionless capture Built natively around iOS Shortcuts. From impulse to logged entry in under two seconds. No unlocking, no app-opening, no category-picking. Your data never leaves your phone Everything lives in a local folder on your device. Not on our servers. Not in iCloud (unless you decide to). Not even visible to us. If this app disappears tomorrow, your archive stays intact — forever. Built on the Obsidian philosophy Under the hood, it's just a folder of Markdown files. Drop it into your Obsidian vault and your time data instantly plays with Dataview, backlinks, daily notes, and graph view. Any Obsidian plugin would love to do this — but plugins can't reach into iOS Shortcuts. We can. Built for: Knowledge workers who've abandoned every other tracker Apple Watch / iPhone power users Obsidian users and PKM enthusiasts Privacy-first, local-first believers Quantified Self practitioners Readers of Lyubishchev who want to actually see their lives The point of tracking time isn't to optimize yourself. It's to be honest with yourself about how you actually spend your one short life. Make logging feel like breathing. Keywords (English): time tracking, voice journaling, Obsidian, Markdown, local-first, Apple Watch, Shortcuts, quantified self, productivity, daily log, privacy, deep work

Screenshots

MapNotes4 screens
Timemark Donelist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timemark Donelist at none against MapNotes's 1. MapNotes's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 17.0). On price, 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. MapNotes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $39.99 per year. Timemark Donelist asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MapNotes ships an update weekly, Timemark Donelist every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
MapNotes versus Timemark Donelist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMapNotesTimemark Donelist
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAwesome Digital LLC凡 何

In-app purchases

1 purchases

MapNotes

Subscriptions1
  • Premium3 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

Timemark Donelist

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MapNotes free?
MapNotes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timemark Donelist free?
Timemark Donelist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MapNotes or Timemark Donelist have ads?
Neither MapNotes nor Timemark Donelist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MapNotes or Timemark Donelist?
MapNotes ships an update weekly, and Timemark Donelist every 3 weeks. Most recently, MapNotes was updated on October 3, 2026 and Timemark Donelist on October 7, 2026.

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