Comparison

MapOn vs Footprints

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. ONE SCAN COMPLETES THE WHOLE COUNTRY All it needs is your photos' GPS metadata. Background scanning sorts through thousands of photos automatically — no manual entry, your travel history builds itself on the map. 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 Edit photos like in PPT to build your own travel book, auto-synced to the cloud. Customize everything from cover to inside pages. GLOBAL RANKINGS Compare visited regions with other users on 1-month, 3-month, and lifetime scales. Search friends by nickname. 5 LANGUAGES Fully translated in Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish. YOUR PHOTOS STAY SAFE Only the GPS metadata is read — your actual photos never leave your device. All processing happens locally. — 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

Footprints

Features
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Every street you walk becomes part of your map. Automatic tracking, beautiful heatmaps, neighborhood coverage — all private, all on your device. Description Every walk leaves a mark. Footprints quietly records the streets you walk and paints them onto a beautiful personal heatmap. Watch your city fill with color as you explore — one street, one park, one neighborhood at a time. YOUR WALKING HEATMAP See every street you've ever walked at a glance. Frequently-walked routes glow brighter. Switch between visit frequency, speed, direction flows, a hand-drawn pencil trace, or road coverage. CONQUER NEIGHBORHOODS Footprints knows your city's neighborhoods (powered by OpenStreetMap) and tracks how much of each you've covered. FULLY AUTOMATIC Turn on auto-tracking once. Footprints detects when you start walking and records automatically — no need to open the app. Battery-aware idle mode keeps drain minimal. YOUR EXPLORATION STORY Newly discovered areas, exploration streaks, and daily and weekly distance and walking time. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your location history never leaves your iPhone. No account, no cloud, no ads. Export your data as JSON anytime — it's yours. MAP STYLES FOR EVERY MOOD Light and dark themes, Mapbox Standard with day/night lighting, outdoors terrain, and satellite imagery. Footprints uses "Always" location permission for automatic background tracking and Motion & Fitness for instant walk detection. Both are explained in-app before the system prompts; your location history never leaves the device.

Screenshots

MapOn4 screens
Footprints4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Footprints at none against MapOn's 10. Footprints also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). 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. MapOn sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $6.09 per month. Footprints asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
MapOn versus Footprints: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMapOnFootprints
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size156 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJEONGLYUL YANGTandy

In-app purchases

10 purchases

MapOn

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Plus$6.091 Month
  • Premium Plus7 Days trial$51.001 Year
One-time8
  • MapOn — Hong Kong Map$1.99
  • MapOn — Macau Map$1.99
  • MapOn — Nauru Map$1.99
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  • MapOn — Kiribati Map$1.99
  • MapOn — Kosovo Map$1.99
  • 3 Map Bundle Credits$5.99
  • 5 Map Bundle Credits$9.99
  • 10 Map Bundle Credits$14.99
None

Footprints

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MapOn free?
MapOn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Footprints free?
Footprints is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MapOn or Footprints have ads?
MapOn shows ads; Footprints does not.

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