Comparison

MapOn vs Mapsake

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

Head to head
About

MapOn

Automatically color-codes visited regions on a personal map using photo GPS data. It supports extensive coverage for South Korea, Japan, the US, and over 100 other countries. Share your travel achievements with friends through customizable cards and photobook albums.

Highlights
  • Automatic map coloring from photo GPS
  • Extensive country and region coverage
  • Shareable travel achievement cards
  • Cloud-synced photobook albums
  • Global user rankings
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Beyond the places you've forgotten, onto the map. MapOn reads location data from photos in your gallery and paints the districts, cities, and countries you've visited onto your personal map. BUILD YOUR MAP FROM PHOTOS Photos with readable location data can add the places you have visited to your map. Results depend on photo metadata and access permissions. DOMESTIC AND OVERSEAS COVERAGE • South Korea: 17 metropolitan/provincial regions, 250+ city·county·district units • Japan: 47 prefectures + 1,800+ municipalities (dual-tone fill) • United States: 50 states + 63 National Parks auto-matched • Philippines: 81 provinces • 100+ other countries via automatic reverse geocoding JOURNEY SHARE CARD A magazine-style achievement card combining your visit stats, progress, and ranking on a single page. Pinch and pan to compose your shot, then share with friends in one tap. PHOTOBOOK TRAVEL ALBUMS Arrange photos to create your own travel book and customize its pages. GLOBAL RANKINGS Compare visited regions with other users on 1-month, 3-month, and lifetime scales. Search friends by nickname. 5 LANGUAGES Available in Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish. HOW DATA IS USED The photo library is read on your device to create your visit map. Location searches, sync, sharing, and other features may send relevant data to external services. See the privacy policy for details. — You'll know when you arrive at your next destination. MapOn will have already painted it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Mapsake

This app creates a private, local travel atlas of visited, lived-in, and future destinations. It visualizes your travels on a satellite globe with customizable coloring and photo pins. Import data from various sources and share personalized travel stat cards.

Highlights
  • Private, local-first travel atlas
  • Satellite globe visualization
  • Photo pin drops with details
  • Data import from multiple sources
  • Shareable travel stat cards
  • Offline gazetteer search
  • Achievement tracking
Features
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Turn years of travel photos into a living atlas. Mapsake builds a private travel map of the places you've visited, lived, and want to see next. Start with your photo library, import the travel history you already have, or add places yourself, then explore it all on a beautiful 3D globe. Free with no ads or required account. Movement is optional. Record routes and stops on iPhone or Watch, keep history private, and control recording, battery use, and storage. BUILD YOUR MAP FAST • Find visited countries, regions, cities, and airports from your photo library. Photo dates and locations are processed on your device. • Build your first map from Photos in one clear step, then add any other source whenever you want. • Import from Immich, Nomads, Skratch, Visited, Flighty, FlightRadar24, ForeFlight, Tripsy, Polarsteps, and Airbnb. • Search a bundled offline gazetteer with more than 230,000 places. • Scan a passport stamp and confirm the suggested country. • Back up, restore, and export your data as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML. EXPLORE A LIVING ATLAS • Switch between Visited, Lived, Next, and Combined lenses. • Zoom from a satellite globe to countries, regions, cities, and airports. • Recolor your map by photo count, recency, or days on the ground. • Open any mapped place to revisit its photos, dates, notes, and story. LIGHT UP THE WORLD WITH MAPLIGHT • Turn Apple Photos and Immich metadata into permanent illuminated discoveries, without background GPS. • See estimated land coverage, countries, origins, source breakdowns, yearly history, and a chronological reveal reel. • Keep exact Maplight data private. Share totals with friends or separately opt into a generalized public view. FIND THE PHOTO YOU REMEMBER • Photo Explorer searches mapped photos by place, year, camera, source, note, elevation, speed, favorites, screenshots, and edits. • Use everyday phrases, browse automatic collections, search a map area, follow a timeline, save searches, and organize with private tags and ratings. • Search and organization happen on your device. YOUR TRAVEL PASSPORT • Share polished cards for countries, continents, flags, time spent, Travel DNA, body clock, and more. • Create a looping globe reel, a shaded data map, or an annual Rewind. • Filter cards by region and year, then choose your own colors. • Turn your timeline into editable trips with names, notes, dates, cover photos, split and merge controls, and shareable Trip Capsules. • Unlock more than 200 achievements, including geographic, photo, and history milestones from every region of the world. MEMORIES, CONNECTED • Relive On This Day and Then & Now. • Choose an Atlas Digest for important discoveries, a weekly memory roundup, daily On This Day reminders, or no notifications. • Constellations privately finds visual threads between photos from distant places and turns them into an explorable sky and match-cut film. • Keep favorite photos and private notes for the places that matter most. TRAVEL TOGETHER, PRIVATELY • Invite a friend with a link, QR code, or nearby sharing. • Compare maps, continents, and shared achievements. • Choose which travel lenses each friend can see and stop sharing at any time. ON EVERY SCREEN Mapsake runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV, with Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy widgets, Siri and Shortcuts, Spotlight, an iMessage app, stickers, and a Share Extension. Available in English, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Korean, Italian, French, German, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Mapsake has no advertising SDK and collects no analytics. Core places and photo organization stay local. Private Maplight origins and selected organization can sync through your iCloud without photo pixels or exact raw coordinates. Optional friend and public features share only what you choose. You can export or delete your data at any time. Privacy Policy: https://mapsake.app/privacy Mapsake. Your world, three ways.

Screenshots

MapOn4 screens
Mapsake4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mapsake at 100% against MapOn's 33%. Mapsake also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 14) and ads (none vs shown). MapOn's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MapOn sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Mapsake asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
MapOn versus Mapsake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMapOnMapsake
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size262 MB200 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJEONGLYUL YANGCole Jelinek

Customer experience

MapOn

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral66.7%
Negative0.0%

Mapsake

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

14 purchases

MapOn

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Plus7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Premium Plus7 Days trial$51.001 Year
One-time12
  • MapOn — Hong Kong Map$1.99
  • MapOn — Macau Map$1.99
  • MapOn — Nauru Map$1.99
Show 9 more
  • MapOn — Kiribati Map$1.99
  • MapOn — Kosovo Map$2.99
  • 10 Stamps$2.99
  • 3 Map Bundle Credits$5.99
  • 30 Stamps$7.99
  • 5 Map Bundle Credits$9.99
  • 50 Stamps$11.99
  • 10 Map Bundle Credits$14.99
  • 100 Stamps$24.99
None

Mapsake

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MapOn free?
MapOn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mapsake free?
Mapsake is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MapOn or Mapsake have ads?
MapOn shows ads; Mapsake does not.
Which is updated more often, MapOn or Mapsake?
MapOn ships an update every 2 days, and Mapsake every 2 days. Most recently, MapOn was updated on October 29, 2026 and Mapsake on October 28, 2026.

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