Map Across vs Horizon Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Map Across
Discover locations where multiple points of interest overlap, allowing you to plan efficient trips. Search for combinations of places like bars and cinemas, or landmarks and museums, to find areas where you can experience them all in one visit. The app supports advanced search logic and precise distance calculations for accurate results.
- Find overlapping points of interest
- Advanced search logic with AND/OR
- Precise geospatial calculations
- Supports walking and driving distances
- Export results to Apple Maps
- Ad-free and privacy-focused
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*** Find One Place That Has It All. Watch a movie and walk to a bar on the same night? Not a problem. Plan to visit a landmark, explore a museum, and buy gifts during one busy afternoon? Also easy. Map Across helps you find places where everything overlaps — so you can do more in a single stop. *** What Map Across Does Map Across is a powerful tool to search for types of places and find the overlapping areas. So you can go to all the types in one single time. Simply search for "bar" and "cinema", or "landmark", "museum", and "gift shop". And the overlapping area will appear on the map. Pick one and make one visit to enjoy them all. *** Advanced Search Logic Customized search conditions are fully supported. And even more. Not sure of seafood or sushi? Try searching for "seafood" OR "sushi", AND other places you want to visit at the same time. Map Acoss does the logic for you. *** Works Across Towns and Cities On a road trip and planning for the next stop? Map Across handles large search areas, finding your perfect destination across towns. *** Find Interesting Places There is no limitation on imagination! Explore anywhere on the map, search, overlap, and share! *** Precise Geometry Supported by accurate geospatial calculation, Map Across is able to work on thousands of search results and present the accurate overlapping area on the map. You can assign from 100 meters walking distance, to 10km driving distance. Map Across does the math. *** Follow System Language Map Across is powered by Apple Maps’ search engine and supports searches in your device’s local language—just like the Maps app you already know. *** Export results Finding the right places is just the beginning — you can export them to Apple Maps right away for easy navigation. *** Privacy Matters Map Across does not collect any user data and contains no third-party services. The app is completely ad-free — no tracking, no ads, no distractions. Map Across is free to use. Subscribe to unlock advanced search features and more search slots. Start your free 7-day trial today! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://github.com/MapAcross/map-across-privacy/blob/main/privacy.html Privacy Notice: This app does not collect any personal user information. Location Usage: This app uses your device’s location only to provide relevant nearby places based on your search criteria. Location data is not collected. Location access is optional — you can still search and find overlapping areas without it. However, without location access, the app won’t be able to center the map on your current position.
Horizon Diary
This app offers a visually stunning and private journaling experience for travelers. It uses AI to enhance writing, visualize keywords in 3D, and track moods with lunar phases. Capture memories with coordinates and multimedia, all synced privately via iCloud.
- AI-powered writing assistance
- 3D dynamic thought planet visualization
- Lunar mood tracking with sentiment analysis
- Automatic coordinate capture and map integration
- High-quality multimedia rendering for sharing
- Private iCloud synchronization
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Horizon Diary A private writing space designed for long-form travel journals. Some journeys end up as little more than a camera roll full of photos. Others become stories you keep for years. Horizon Diary is made for the latter. It preserves the photos, places, weather, and feelings of the moment, while giving you the space to write the full story—so a single day or an entire journey can be revisited years later. ◆ Capture it as it happens Take a photo or record a video up to 60 seconds long and add a caption. You can also speak your thoughts and have them turned into subtitles. Your diary can record your location, nearby places, weather, and temperature, making it easy to look back on the moment in full. ◆ Write your way Horizon Diary supports long-form editing, autosave, undo, and redo, along with flexible layouts for titles, paragraphs, and images. Start with a single sentence or answer a gentle daily prompt. Unfinished entries stay right where you left them, and missed days can be written later. Once saved, you’ll see a mood score for the day, along with a few lines that reflect the tone of your writing. On devices that support Apple Intelligence (iOS 26 or later), you can also polish your writing or turn scattered notes into a complete diary entry—all processed on device. ◆ Words and images, one journey Add photos and videos to your diary and bring words and images together in the same story. Browse and view photos and videos full screen; when exporting, you can further refine the layout. ◆ See where the story has taken you My Footprints brings every diary entry together on a single map, grouped by place. Switch to Discover Nearby to find restaurants, attractions, and quiet corners around you, then write from there. Milestones place anniversaries, birthdays, and first visits on your calendar, returning every year. ◆ Discover what you keep writing about Monthly data gives you an at-a-glance view of entries, check-in days, and places visited, while monthly archives collect a month’s memories on one page. Insights uses your own words to create a word cloud for the last 7 days, 30 days, year, or all time—tap any word to return to the days it appeared. Search any phrase to go straight back to the moment; On This Day quietly brings the same date from a year ago back to you. ◆ Moments and places worth sharing Photos and text can be freely arranged in the preview, with photos you can drag, zoom, and crop until they look just right. Export a diary entry as a single long image or split it across multiple pages, with paper backgrounds including Pure White, Warm Beige, and Forest Mist. Share it in just a few steps. ◆ Your privacy, protected When iCloud is enabled, your content is stored in your own private iCloud database—no separate account, no ads, and no third-party tracking. Switch freely between multiple themes and paper backgrounds, export all your diaries for backup at any time, and enjoy support for 11 languages. Horizon Diary is for: • People who love writing long-form travel journals • People who want to save words, photos, and videos together • People who want to organize years of travel memories • People who value privacy and long-term preservation • People who want their diary to become a personal travel work Write what you see—and who you become.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Map Across at Free against Horizon Diary's $1.99. On review sentiment, update cadence, 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
Map Across is free to download; Horizon Diary costs $1.99 up front. Map Across sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Horizon Diary sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Map Across ships an update fortnightly, Horizon Diary weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Map Across | Horizon Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yue Liu | 嘉豪 李 |
Customer experience
Map Across
Horizon Diary
In-app purchases
Map Across
- Weekly Plan (1 Week)$1.997 Days
- Monthly Plan (1 Month)7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Yearly Plan (1 Year)7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Yearly to Lifetime Upgrade$5.99
- Lifetime Access$29.99
Horizon Diary
- Small Tip$0.99
- Generous Support$2.99









