Drawing On Map vs Dashing for EmDash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drawing On Map
Annotate maps with drawings, notes, and photos. Plan routes, mark locations, and share your creations easily. Supports Apple Pencil and syncs across devices.
- Draw directly on maps
- Pen, pencil, highlighter, eraser tools
- Shapes, text, and photo annotations
- Save and share annotated maps
- Apple Pencil support
- iCloud sync across devices
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Draw on any map. Plan trips, mark places, add notes. This app lets you draw and write on maps. Mark a meeting spot, draw a route, highlight an area, or add notes. Everything stays on the map so you can find it later. Easy drawing tools Use pen, pencil, highlighter, or eraser. Add shapes like lines, rectangles, arrows, and circles. Pick any color. Make lines thick or thin. Add text or photos. Your maps will look clear and easy to read. Saving and sharing Save your map with all your drawings and notes. Share it with friends or coworkers. Great for giving directions, planning trips, or showing project locations. Works with Apple Pencil Draw with Apple Pencil for smooth, precise lines. iCloud Sync Your maps sync across all your Apple devices. Start on iPhone, continue on iPad. Features: * Draw directly on maps * Pen, pencil, highlighter, eraser * Lines, rectangles, arrows, circles * Text, Photos * Many colors and line sizes * Save and share your maps * Apple Pencil support * iCloud Sync across devices
Dashing for EmDash
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Dashing is a writing desk for your EmDash site, made for iPhone and iPad. WRITE AND PUBLISH - A rich text editor with headings, lists, links, images, tables and HTML blocks - Save drafts, publish now or schedule for later, and update published posts - Keep writing offline: your words stay on this device and are sent when you are back online - Translations, saved sections and byline credits - Focus mode on iPad MEDIA - Upload photos and videos from Photos, Files and the camera, or drop them in - Alt text, captions, focal points and folders for your media library COMMENTS - Moderate with a swipe: approve, mark as spam or move to the trash - Read and answer the comments on any post MANAGE YOUR SITE - People and roles, bylines, categories and tags, menus, sections, widgets, redirects and site settings - Plugins, access tokens, backups and site export MADE FOR IPAD - A sidebar, several windows, the menu bar and keyboard shortcuts WRITING SUGGESTIONS - On devices with Apple Intelligence, Dashing can suggest ideas, titles, outlines, excerpts and tags with Apple's on-device model. Suggestions are made on your device and added only when you choose them. TRY THE DEMO - Explore a sample site with no account. The demo runs entirely on your device, even in airplane mode. PRIVACY - Dashing sends your content only to the sites you connect. No analytics, no tracking. Works with sites running EmDash 1.0.1 or higher. A few advanced tasks open your site's web admin in the browser.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dashing for EmDash at every 3 days against Drawing On Map's every 2 weeks. 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.
Drawing On Map ships an update every 2 weeks, Dashing for EmDash every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drawing On Map | Dashing for EmDash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (25 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 26.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 327APPS, LLC | LVL35 LLC |
In-app purchases
Drawing On Map
No in-app purchases
Dashing for EmDash
No in-app purchases
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