MapPic vs MapAlbum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MapPic
Organize and rediscover your photos by location and time. This app transforms your photo library into an interactive map and timeline, allowing you to instantly find any picture. It offers a built-in camera and premium features for advanced organization and insights.
- Map photos by GPS data
- Interactive timeline view
- Built-in camera with smart albums
- Offline functionality
- Privacy-focused, no cloud storage
- Premium features for insights and heatmaps
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Stop endless scrolling. Find any photo instantly. MapPic transforms your photo library into a powerful timeline and interactive map. Jump straight to any year, month, or location. No more digging through thousands of photos. Rediscover where your life happened. Explore Photos by Location • Automatically map photos using GPS data • Smart clustering keeps your map clean and easy to navigate • Multiple map styles to explore your memories • Tap any location to view all photos from that place Built-In Camera with Smart Albums • Capture photos directly from the map • Save instantly to custom albums • Organize your photos as you go MapPic Premium • Unlimited timeline history • Share places as beautiful map cards • Photo insights and custom graphs • Travel heatmaps of your adventures • Custom map pins with colors and symbols Private by Design • No cloud storage • No account required • Works fully offline • No ads, ever Your photos stay 100% on your device. -- Web: https://dro1d.org Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy: https://dro1d.org/mappic-privacy.html
MapAlbum
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Select which albums to display using the albums menu. Works with both your personal albums and albums shared with you. Photos with location appear as markers on the map—single photos show individually, while photos in the same approximate location are grouped into clusters with a count badge. Tap a single photo marker to view it full-screen. Tap a marker with multiple photos to open a gallery view where you can scroll through thumbnails and select which photo to view full-screen. As you zoom in and out, clusters intelligently split and merge with smooth animations. When a cluster splits, one marker stays in place while new markers emerge and move to their positions. Zooming out reverses this, with markers merging back into their parent clusters. The first time you select a particular set of albums containing many photos, there may be a loading period—usually fast but can be up to a minute for around 5,000 photos—while clustering information is calculated. A loading animation appears in the top right during this process. After the initial calculation, your photos appear immediately on subsequent app opens, even after restarting your phone. Loading only reoccurs if photos are added to or removed from your selected albums. During loading, the previous set of photos remains visible and interactive until the update completes. Unviewed photos are highlighted in blue—both individual markers and cluster markers containing unviewed photos. Once you open and close a cluster gallery, all photos in that cluster are marked as viewed and the blue outline disappears. MapAlbum works best with up to 5,000 photos total. Note: Tapping on a marker that has thousands of photos may cause the app to crash when trying to open the gallery view due to device memory limitations. This will be fixed soon.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MapAlbum at none against MapPic's 2. MapPic's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.2). 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
Both are free to download. MapPic sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. MapAlbum asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | MapPic | MapAlbum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | DRO1D LABS LIMITED | Radoslav Filipov |
In-app purchases
MapPic
- MapPic Premium Yearly14 Days trial$9.991 Year
- MapPic Premium Lifetime$29.99
MapAlbum
No in-app purchases
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