Comparison

Local Notes vs MyTripLog.App

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

Head to head
About

Local Notes

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Ever find yourself trying to remember the name of that one specific taco place, or the exact spot where a hiking trail got confusing? Most of us keep these mental notes, but they are easy to lose. Local Notes: Map Your Memories is your private, map-based journal for every place you want to remember. This is not a social network or a public review site. It is a space for your eyes only. Pin personal ratings, photos, and reminders to real-world locations. Whether it is a favorite coffee shop, a hidden park bench, or a hotel from your last vacation, Local Notes keeps those details organized and searchable on a map. Capture your world with ease: - Quick Pins: Long-press anywhere on the map to drop a pin, or use "Note at Current Location" to save a memory exactly where you are standing. - Post-it Style Markers: Customize your map with 10 themed color palettes (like Miami, Rio, or Bora Bora) to keep your notes visually organized. - Private Content: Write up to 10,000 characters per note, attach photos, and set star ratings without worrying about a public feed. - Specialized Templates: Use structured fields for Restaurants (cuisine, price, meal type), Hikes (difficulty, distance, trail type), Hotels, and more. Your data stays private and secure. Local Notes uses on-device encryption with keys stored in your secure keychain. Start in Guest Mode to keep everything stored locally, or sign in to sync your notes across devices via the cloud. Core Features: - Search and pin places using Google Maps integration. - Four note types: Experience, Tip, Plan, and Warning. - View notes in split, full map, list, or masonry grid modes. - Home screen widgets for nearby notes or single-note pinning. - Export your data as PDF or CSV. - Full accessibility support for VoiceOver. Subscription Tiers: - Free: $0. Includes up to 25 notes, 1 nearby alert, cloud backups, and offline support (contains ads). - Plus: $4.99 (one-time payment). Everything in Free plus zero ads, up to 100 notes, 3 collections, 3 nearby alerts, photos, smart search, and basic stats. - Pro: $1.99/mo or $19.99/year. Unlocks everything including unlimited notes and collections, travel mode, shared collections, smart templates, PDF exports, and full web app access. Stop relying on your memory and start mapping your world. Download Local Notes today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

MyTripLog.App

Document your journeys by capturing waypoints with notes and photos. The app organizes these into a readable, day-by-day story on an interactive map, preserving your travel memories.

Highlights
  • Capture waypoints with location and time
  • Add notes and photos to waypoints
  • Organize trips into day-by-day stories
  • Interactive map view of journeys
  • Offline functionality with sync
  • Share trips via link
  • Export to cloud storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive)
Features
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Every stop. Every photo. Every story. Yours. MyTripLog turns a journey into a living story. You capture waypoints as you go — a place, the moment you were there, a note, a photo — and the app builds them into a map and a story you can actually read back years later. Capture in seconds. A waypoint takes a tap or two. Your location and the time are filled in for you. Notes and photos are optional and can always be added later — the log is the point, the photos are a bonus. IT READS LIKE A STORY, NOT A FOLDER Open a trip and it reads back to you: day by day, place by place, your notes running alongside your photos on the map you actually walked. Not a grid of thumbnails and a pin cloud — an account of the journey, in the order you lived it, that still makes sense to someone who wasn't there. Including you, in ten years. YOU WRITE IT AS YOU GO, IN SECONDS A waypoint is one place, one moment. Two taps while you're standing there — the location and time fill themselves in — and a sentence about why it mattered. That sentence is the part a photo can never carry, and the reason the trip still means something later. Two-tap capture; snap a photo and let it place the waypoint for you Works offline, syncs when you're back in signal Notes, ratings, and categories on any waypoint Every trip on an interactive map, day by day Share a trip with a link — no account needed to read it YOUR PHOTOS STAY YOURS Full-resolution photos go straight into your own Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive — untouched, no downscaling, no re-encoding. MyTripLog organises them into clean folders by trip, by day, by waypoint, so you can browse them anywhere, even without this app. We never hold your originals, and deleting a trip here doesn't delete them there. TURN THE STORY INTO SOMETHING YOU KEEP At mytriplog.app, in your browser on a bigger screen, the same trip becomes a printable journal, a route-map poster, or a slideshow — and a full archive you can save into your own cloud: readable HTML, a GPX route, and your photos. Same account, same trips. Capture the story on your phone. Make something of it on the web. mytriplog.app

Screenshots

Local Notes4 screens
MyTripLog.App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MyTripLog.App at none against Local Notes's 3. MyTripLog.App also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price 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. Local Notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. MyTripLog.App asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Local Notes ships an update every 3 weeks, MyTripLog.App weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Local Notes versus MyTripLog.App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLocal NotesMyTripLog.App
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNicholas SaulinoEtan Rozin

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Local Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Local Notes Pro (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • Local Notes Pro (Yearly)$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Local Notes Plus$4.99
None

MyTripLog.App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Local Notes free?
Local Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MyTripLog.App free?
MyTripLog.App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Local Notes or MyTripLog.App have ads?
Local Notes shows ads; MyTripLog.App does not.
Which is updated more often, Local Notes or MyTripLog.App?
Local Notes ships an update every 3 weeks, and MyTripLog.App weekly. Most recently, Local Notes was updated on October 7, 2026 and MyTripLog.App on October 29, 2026.

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