MapShifter vs Ryval
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MapShifter
Transform your everyday maps into stylized, game-inspired worlds with turn-by-turn navigation and offline capabilities. Explore millions of places with unique visual themes and track your journeys.
- Customizable game-inspired map skins
- Turn-by-turn navigation for driving, walking, cycling
- Offline map downloads
- Place search with millions of locations
- Journey tracking with achievements
- Apple Watch and CarPlay support
- Home Screen widgets
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Your city, but reskinned by video games. Same streets. Same GPS. Whole different vibe. MapShifter replaces your everyday map with hand-crafted, game-inspired worlds — and gives you turn-by-turn navigation, place search, and offline maps inside each one. A map that evolves as you explore. FEATURES • Swap live between six map skins without losing your route • Turn-by-turn navigation for driving, walking, and cycling • Real search — restaurants, ATMs, landmarks — millions of places from OpenStreetMap • Offline maps — download any region and roam without a signal • Journey tracker — visited countries, history, streaks, and achievements • Apple Watch companion — the map on your wrist, in your favorite skin • CarPlay — your themed map, position arrow, route, search, and turn-by-turn guidance on the car display • Home Screen widgets — a live mini-map styled to match your theme SKINS AT LAUNCH • Old Wild Frontier II — sepia tones, serif typography, trail dust • Great Street Empire: SA — bold, graffiti-flavored urban cartography • Great Street Empire V — modern, dark style • Voxel Realm — pixelated, cubed, lush green biomes • Cybershock 2099 — dark, modern, glowy districts • Wastefield 4 — phosphor-green glow, radiated terrain New skins drop regularly. PRIVACY FIRST • No accounts. Install, open, go. • No ads, ever. • Anonymous product analytics and crash diagnostics; no advertising, attribution, or tracking SDKs. • We don't operate a server that logs your location. • We don't build behavioral profiles or sell data. MapShifter is an independent indie project — a love letter to the games that made us fall in love with maps. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any game studio, publisher, or franchise referenced. Every skin is original artwork and typography inspired by broader cartographic styles. All trademarks remain the property of their respective owners. Built on open foundations: OpenStreetMap (map data, © OSM contributors, ODbL), MapLibre (rendering), Project OSRM (routing), Photon + Nominatim (search), Wikidata (place info). Huge thanks to the communities behind each. Download free. Pick your world. Start exploring. Support: support@mapshifter.com Website: https://mapshifter.com/ Privacy: https://mapshifter.com/privacy.html Terms: https://mapshifter.com/terms.html
Ryval
Automatically track your motorcycle or car journeys without needing to start or stop recording. It logs distance, speed, and route, and saves it once you've parked. You can also manually record trips and view your driving history and statistics.
- Automatic background trip detection
- Manual trip recording
- Detailed ride statistics (distance, speed, time)
- Route mapping
- Vehicle logbook
- Friend sharing and live beacon
- Privacy controls for shared data
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Ryval tracks what you ride and what you drive, without you having to remember to. Get on the bike or get in the car and go. Ryval detects the journey in the background, records the route, and saves it the moment you stop — distance, moving time, top speed and the shape of where you went, waiting for you by the time you've parked. NO START BUTTON • Nothing to press before you leave, nothing to stop when you arrive • Runs in the background and saves the Ride the moment it ends • A notification tells you it's there — and never fires while you're still moving • Works with no signal; a Ride recorded out of range syncs when you're back • Stopped for fuel and got two Rides? Ryval offers to make them one again OR START ONE YOURSELF • Tap record when you want to watch it happen • Live distance, moving and stopped time, average and top speed, elevation YOUR ROUTE, ON A REAL MAP • Every Ride draws its Trace over a full-screen map • Distance, moving time, top speed, and the Vehicle you took • The map on your Ride is free, in full, forever THE LOGBOOK Everything you have ever ridden or driven, in one place. Total distance, total moving time, on the road since, how many times around the world that adds up to, your longest Ride and the fastest you have been — all free. MONTHLY POSTCARDS Make three Rides in a month and Ryval builds you a Postcard: the month's Rides, distance and moving time, and the shape of your longest one — exported as a single image worth sending. THE GARAGE • Every bike and every car you own, with photos, make, model and year • Pick a Default Vehicle and your Rides attribute themselves • Each keeps its own Rides and distance FRIENDS • Add someone with an Invite Link that works in any group chat • See their last 30 days, their Garage, and the Rides they choose to share • Beacon shows Friends where you are while you travel, and stops when you do • Watch a Friend's Beacon move live on the map while they ride • You choose who sees your Beacon and who sees your Rides, per Friend, and either can go off in a tap NO SPEED RANKING Ryval never ranks riders by speed. Your top speed is yours: it shows on your own Ride and on the cards you share, never as a position on a board. PRIVACY Your full-resolution traces never leave your phone. What syncs is a simplified shape of at most 48 points, so Friends see the line of a Ride, not the turn-by-turn. A Beacon reaches nobody but Friends you added yourself. FREE, AND RYVAL PRO Ryval is free forever: unlimited automatic capture, every Ride in full on its map, your Logbook totals, a Vehicle in the Garage, this month's Postcard, every still Share Card over a map or your own photo, Friends and Beacons — with no trial to run out. Ryval Pro adds: • Live lean angle: how far you lean into every corner, as you ride • Each Ride's profile against the map, with corners, braking and g-force • Flyover videos: your Ride flown over in 3D, ready to share • Your Logbook in depth: Rhythm across 52 weeks, more Peaks, and when and where you ride • An unlimited Garage, for every bike and car you own • Every Postcard you have earned, not only the month you are in • Home Screen widgets • Every Rider Model on the map, beyond the free bike and car Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Ryval needs Always location and Motion & Fitness access to detect Rides in the background. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Install Ryval, ride or drive the way you already do, and open it when you've parked. Terms of Use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wvxNbVMron0wFaosaYEW6VAB-j0AtSxHtbyUMhJvNs0/edit Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zuH7th2OKOUt_AyBEhSHcFJs38B6t2E834QOGEDaPdw/edit
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MapShifter at none against Ryval's 3. MapShifter also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1). Ryval's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price and update cadence 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. Ryval sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. MapShifter asks for nothing beyond the download.
MapShifter ships an update weekly, Ryval every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MapShifter | Ryval |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (19 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 127 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Filipp Bazun | Michal Parkitny |
In-app purchases
MapShifter
No in-app purchases
Ryval
- Ryval Pro$2.997 Days
- Ryval Pro$6.991 Month
- Ryval Pro7 Days trial$39.991 Year






