Comparison

Lizgo vs Places

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

Head to head
About

Lizgo

Plan trips and discover new places with friends. Save and organize locations into themed boards, add details, and collaborate in real-time. Track visited spots and build a visual record of your adventures.

Highlights
  • Collaborative map for organizing places
  • Create themed boards for any adventure
  • Save locations with automatic business info
  • Real-time collaboration with friends
  • Map and List views with filtering
  • Track visited locations
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Plan adventures together. Never forget a recommendation again. Lizgo is the collaborative map for organizing places you want to explore. Whether you're planning a trip with friends, saving restaurant recommendations, or building your ultimate bucket list of spots to visit — Lizgo makes it effortless to collect, organize, and share locations with the people you care about. CREATE BOARDS FOR ANY ADVENTURE Organize your places into themed boards like "Tokyo Trip 2025," "Date Night Spots," or "Best Coffee in the City." Each board is your shared canvas for collecting the places that matter. DROP PINS, ADD DETAILS Save any location with a single tap. Lizgo automatically captures business info, addresses, phone numbers, and photos. Add personal notes, assign categories, and mark places as visited to track your progress. COLLABORATE IN REAL-TIME Invite friends with a simple 6-character code. Everyone can add pins, leave notes, and contribute ideas. See exactly who added what with the activity feed — perfect for group trips where everyone has suggestions. TWO WAYS TO EXPLORE Switch seamlessly between Map view to see your pins geographically and List view to browse everything at a glance. Filter by category to find exactly what you're looking for. TRACK YOUR ADVENTURES Mark pins as visited to build a visual record of everywhere you've been. Watch your boards transform from wishlists into memories. FEATURES • Interactive map with custom pins • Organize locations into shareable boards • Real-time collaboration with friends and family • Activity feed showing all board updates • 7 default categories + unlimited custom categories • Automatic business info capture • Personal notes on every pin • Visited tracking • Beautiful, intuitive interface Start planning your next adventure with Lizgo.

About

Places

Features
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Plan trips together. Add places to a shared map, invite friends to edit or view, and vote on your favorites together. Everyone sees updates the moment they happen, no sending links back and forth, no one working from an outdated list. Import places from travel videos, social posts, and articles by pasting a link. The app reads through the content, finds every place mentioned, and drops them onto your map as pins automatically. A single TikTok or Instagram Reel about the best food spots in Seoul can populate an entire day's itinerary in seconds. PLAN WITH FRIENDS Every map is a shared workspace. Invite friends, family, or fellow travelers to edit together in real time. Vote on favorite spots, leave notes on individual places, and see each other's additions as they happen. IMPORT FROM ANYWHERE Paste a link to a travel video, social post, or article and the app finds every place mentioned and drops it onto your map. Search and add places manually too, each one comes with a photo, description, and local name automatically. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY Group places into days, categories, or neighborhoods. Assign colors to find things at a glance, add personal notes to individual spots, and collapse groups you're not focused on yet. Each place shows its name, local script, and a short description so nothing gets lost in translation. SHARE WITH ANYONE Every map can get a link anyone can open without an account. Share a short code in a caption or message for even easier access. Viewers can explore the full map, editors can jump in and start contributing. WORKS WHERE YOU ARE Smooth on phone, tablet, and desktop. Places sync the moment they are added across all devices. PRO FEATURES Upgrade to export your maps as CSV, PDF, or KML for use in other mapping tools. Add up to four of your own photos per place. Get unlimited public link views and a custom short share code. Whether you are planning a weekend away, building a local guide, or saving every place from your favorite travel content: this is the map for it. — Not affiliated with TikTok, Instagram, or any other platform. Places Pro is an optional auto-renewable subscription that unlocks more photos per place, unlimited public-link views, and a short, shareable map link. Payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings after purchase. Subscriptions are subject to the Apple Licensed Application End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Lizgo4 screens
Places4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lizgo at none against Places's 2. Places's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 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. Places sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Lizgo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lizgo ships an update every 6 months, Places every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on June 20, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Lizgo versus Places: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLizgoPlaces
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB22 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperHammer Creative LLCBunch Software

In-app purchases

None

Lizgo

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Places

Subscriptions2
  • Places Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Places Pro Yearly$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Lizgo free?
Lizgo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Places free?
Places is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lizgo or Places have ads?
Neither Lizgo nor Places shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lizgo or Places?
Lizgo ships an update every 6 months, and Places every 11 days. Most recently, Lizgo was updated on June 20, 2026 and Places on September 14, 2026.

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