Comparison

MapInvaders vs Renoir

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

Head to head
About

MapInvaders

Features
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The hunter's map for Invader's street art. Since 1998, the anonymous French artist Invader has been secretly installing Space Invader tile mosaics in cities around the world. MapInvaders puts the complete documented catalog on an interactive map โ€” so you can plan your hunt, track every flash, and never walk past one again. HUNT Browse 4,400+ mosaics pinned to their exact locations across 89 cities on six continents. Each piece shows its current status at a glance: active, destroyed, or already in your collection. Zoom into any street and see exactly what's around the corner. FLASH Mark pieces as you find them. Sync your FlashInvaders account via your unique UID to see your full collection overlaid on the map โ€” green for flashed, grey for not yet, red for lost. Filter the map to show only what's left to find. SEARCH & NAVIGATE Jump to any invader by name using the spotlight search. Browse by city. Follow optimized paths through dense areas to cover more ground in less time. Tap the recenter button to snap back to your position. INVADER DETAILS Each mosaic shows its point value, flash date, condition status, and links to reference photos โ€” everything you need before you set out. No account required to explore. No ads. No tracking. Just the map.

About

Renoir

Explore cinema through a unique mapping system that visualizes connections between films and people. Discover influential movies and the creatives behind them without external ratings or algorithmic feeds. Personalize your experience with notes and watchlists stored locally.

Highlights
  • Interactive cinema map
  • Film and person connections
  • CRI metric for film influence
  • Detailed billing and credits
  • Personal notes and watchlist
  • Curated film selection
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There are no ratings in Renoir. No stars, no scores, no averages of strangers. You watch, you keep your own record. One number does exist: the CRI. It measures influence, never quality: how much of cinema runs through a film or a person, who learned from it, what it taught, how early it arrived. The app tells you exactly what it measures and what it never will. There is a map. Films and people sit in it like planets, and any name opens into everyone they worked with and everything those people made. Cinema is one long conversation between people who watched each other work; the map lets you follow it. More than three thousand films, curated with intention. Tokyo Story is here, and Ashes and Diamonds, and The Trial, and Sholay, and Akira. Behind them stand nineteen thousand people, including the cinematographers and editors most apps never bother to hold. There is no feed. The recommendations you see are reasoned on your phone from what you have liked, or handed to you by someone. Nothing here is designed to keep you scrolling. Get recommendations from friends, hand one back. Recommendations travel with a note, and you can have three open with a person at a time. Your favorite films, directors, actors and soundtracks are yours to show on your profile, and you choose who sees them. There are no ads in Renoir and no third-party analytics. Just keep a watchlist, a log of what you have seen, and a big bag of popcorn.

Screenshots

MapInvaders3 screens
Renoir4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Renoir at weekly against MapInvaders's every 3 weeks. MapInvaders's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MapInvaders ships an update every 3 weeks, Renoir weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 4 level
MapInvaders versus Renoir: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMapInvadersRenoir
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetizationโ€”Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size3 MB132 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCharles BorelTanush Saran

In-app purchases

None

MapInvaders

No in-app purchases

None

Renoir

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MapInvaders free?
MapInvaders is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Renoir free?
Renoir is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MapInvaders or Renoir have ads?
Neither MapInvaders nor Renoir shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MapInvaders or Renoir?
MapInvaders ships an update every 3 weeks, and Renoir weekly. Most recently, MapInvaders was updated on October 17, 2026 and Renoir on October 20, 2026.

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