MoveLog vs Mapling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MoveLog
Record and map all your walks, runs, and drives. Track distance, time, pace, and steps with GPS. Review your activity history, set goals, and earn badges.
- GPS route recording
- Activity tracking (distance, time, pace, steps)
- Route history and filtering
- Activity heatmap and badges
- Lock Screen and Dynamic Island integration
- GPX export (Pro feature)
- Offline maps (Pro feature)
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Every walk, every run, every drive — kept on one map. MOVE LOG records your movement with GPS and keeps it as a trail on the map. Walking, running, cycling, driving or taking the train: distance, time, pace and steps are tallied automatically, so you can look back on any day whenever you like. RECORD • One tap to start, with five ways to travel — each in its own color • Your route is drawn on the map as you move • Distance and time on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island (Live Activity) • GPS accuracy shown at a glance, with a notification when the signal weakens • The moment you stop, the recording is saved. Name it later — nothing is lost LOOK BACK • Splits and pace for every kilometer • Elevation gain and an elevation profile • History you can filter by activity and by period • All Routes Map — every recording layered onto a single map • Share a route as an image KEEP GOING • Streaks and a monthly distance goal • A 16-week activity heatmap • 13 achievement badges • A weekly summary notification, which you can turn off MOVELOG PRO (auto-renewing subscription) • No banner ads • Route Correction — snaps gaps from tunnels and underground sections back onto the road. Detours you did not actually take are rejected, corrected stretches are drawn as a dashed line, and you can undo the whole thing • GPX Export — with timestamps and elevation, ready to import elsewhere • Offline Maps — save route maps and open them with no signal • Calorie estimates, based on MET values and your weight (walking, running, cycling) • Detailed statistics — a weekly distance chart and your personal bests • Custom route colors • Retroactive Recording — forget to press start and you can still go back up to 30 minutes PRIVACY The locations, routes and step counts you record stay on your device. They are never sent to the developer's servers, and there is no account to create. Note: drawing the map, correcting routes and building offline maps use Apple's map services, so coordinates are sent to Apple for those purposes. WHO IT IS FOR • Anyone who wants a record of a daily walk or run • Anyone who wants a log of their commute and everyday trips • Anyone who wants to keep a trip or a drive as a memory
Mapling
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Mapling at none against MoveLog's shown. Mapling also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
MoveLog ships an update every 6 weeks, Mapling every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MoveLog | Mapling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | koichi hashimoto | Materialchain |
In-app purchases
MoveLog
No in-app purchases
Mapling
No in-app purchases









