Comparison

Knot vs Maplora

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

Head to head
About

Knot

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Knot turns your map into a journal. Every place you've been holds something. The friend you met there. The conversation that stuck with you. The ordinary afternoon you'd otherwise forget. Knot gives you somewhere to put it. Drop a pin, write down what happened, and your map slowly becomes a record of your life as you actually lived it. WHY A MAP Most journals organize memories by date. But that isn't how we remember. You walk past a coffee shop and the whole evening comes back. You see a street name and remember who lived there. Place is the thread that pulls memory loose. Knot is built around that idea. Instead of scrolling backward through entries, you look at where you've been and everything comes with it. WHAT YOU CAN DO Drop a pin anywhere and attach a memory to it Note the people you were with and how you know them Write as much or as little as you want, from a sentence to a full entry Watch your map fill in over time as a picture of where your life has actually happened Revisit any pin whenever you want to remember FOR PEOPLE, NOT JUST PLACES Knot started as a way to keep track of people. Where you met someone, what you talked about, what they mentioned they were working on. It's the kind of detail that matters and disappears fast. Pin it, and it's there the next time you're in touch. YOUR MEMORIES STAY YOURS Knot stores everything on your device. Your pins, your notes, and your people never leave your phone. There's no feed, no followers, and nothing to perform. This is a private record, kept for you. QUIET BY DESIGN No streaks. No notifications nagging you to log your day. No metrics telling you how you're doing at remembering your own life. Open Knot when you have something worth keeping, and close it when you're done. Start with one pin. See what your map looks like in a year.

About

Maplora

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Maplora is your personal travel atlas. Color in every country you have been to, then watch your world fill in on a living 3D globe or a clean flat map. One purchase. No subscription, no account, no cloud, no tracking. Everything you record stays on your iPhone. YOUR WORLD, IN COLOR - Mark any country Visited, Want to Go or Home - Spin a real 3D globe, or work quickly on a flat map - Seven views: status, visited, wishlist, favorites, memories, a single year, and a heat map of the places you keep going back to - All 197 countries and 7 continents, Antarctica included - Eight themes that repaint the whole world, from warm parchment to deep sea REMEMBER EVERY TRIP - Log as many trips per country as you like, with dates, cities and notes - Ten trip types: holiday, business, backpacking, road trip, adventure, family, couple, solo, cruise and other - Rate a country, mark it a favorite, keep a private note on it - Add photos to any country and keep them beside the pin SEE HOW FAR YOU HAVE COME - The number everyone asks you for: exactly what percentage of the world you have explored - Progress for each of the seven continents - Year recaps with countries, new countries, days away and trips - A full timeline of every trip, newest first - 22 milestones to unlock, from your first country to all 197 COLLECT YOUR PASSPORT - Every visited country earns its own stamp, marked with the year you first went - Watch your passport page fill up trip by trip SHARE IT PROPERLY - Build a share card from your map, globe, passport, statistics, year recap, stamps or bucket list - Four shapes for stories, feed posts, squares and wide screens - Export a full PDF travel report with your countries, trips, photos, stamps and milestones - Everything renders on your device at high resolution. Nothing is uploaded PLAN WHAT COMES NEXT - Put countries on your wishlist with a priority and a target year - Where next? draws real suggestions from your own map: places near the countries you loved, and continents you have barely touched GENUINELY YOURS - Works completely offline, including the very first time you open it - No account, ever - Export your whole atlas as one readable file whenever you want, and import it back - A safety snapshot is kept before anything destructive, so nothing is one tap from gone - No analytics, no tracking, no ads Maplora is for anyone who has traveled enough that they can no longer hold it all in their head. Passport stamps fade, camera rolls turn into a mess, and memory is not a filing system. This is the record that lasts. Privacy Policy: https://apps.husofttech.com/maplora/privacy Terms of Use: https://apps.husofttech.com/maplora/terms Support: https://apps.husofttech.com/support Buy Maplora once and start coloring in your world.

Screenshots

Knot4 screens
Maplora4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Knot at Free against Maplora's $19.99. Knot also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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

Knot is free to download; Maplora costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 3 level
Knot versus Maplora: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKnotMaplora
PriceFree — better$19.99
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWilliam SuelingHuseyin Bicen

In-app purchases

None

Knot

No in-app purchases

None

Maplora

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Knot free?
Knot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Maplora free?
Maplora costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Knot or Maplora have ads?
Neither Knot nor Maplora shows ads.

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