Comparison

Mapillary vs KartaView

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

Head to head
About

Mapillary

This platform allows anyone to capture and contribute street-level imagery from any location using any camera. It combines these images into a collaborative, navigable view of the world, enhanced by computer vision for smoother viewing and automated data extraction. The collected data can be used to improve maps, cities, and mobility.

Highlights
  • Capture street-level imagery with any camera
  • Collaborative global street-level view
  • Computer vision for data extraction
  • Privacy blurring of faces and license plates
  • Access and explore millions of images
  • Integrates with mapping tools
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Mapillary is the street-level imagery platform that scales and automates mapping using collaboration, cameras, and computer vision. Anyone can capture images of any place, as often as needed, with any camera—including smartphones. Mapillary combines all images into a collaborative street-level view of the world that’s available for anyone to explore and use for improving maps, cities, and mobility. Computer vision technology provides a smooth viewing experience and speeds up mapping through machine-extracted map data. Capturing with the Mapillary mobile app is the easiest way to join our contributor network. Let’s get started! CREATE YOUR OWN STREET-LEVEL VIEWS You control when and where to capture to create the freshest street-level imagery. Mapillary’s technology combines all images into a navigable view and blurs faces and license plates for privacy. ACCESS AND OPEN UP DATA Mapillary contributors are people, organizations, companies, and governments in 190 countries. Millions of images are added to the dataset every week, which you can explore right here in the mobile app. MAKE BETTER MAPS Use imagery and machine-extracted data to add details to maps and geospatial datasets. Mapillary integrates with tools like OpenStreetMap iD editor and JOSM, HERE Map Creator, and ArcGIS. To access the available map data, go to mapillary.com/app.

About

KartaView

This app allows users to contribute street-level imagery to an open platform. Upload photos from your smartphone to help detect features like signs and road curvature, which can then be used to improve OpenStreetMap data.

Highlights
  • Contribute street-level imagery
  • Upload photos with smartphone
  • Open source apps
  • Automatic feature detection (signs, lanes, curvature)
  • Improve OpenStreetMap data
Features
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KartaView is a free and open platform for street level imagery. Anyone can contribute images with a smartphone and the open source apps. After upload, KartaView will detect salient features from the uploaded images such as signs, lanes and road curvature. Using both new and familiar tools, anyone can then use these and other features gleaned from the images to improve OpenStreetMap.

Screenshots

Mapillary4 screens
KartaView4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Mapillary at 4.6 against KartaView's 2.6. Mapillary also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (41% vs 24%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mapillary holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 19 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Mapillary's written reviews are positive against 24% of KartaView's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mapillary ships an update every 2 weeks, KartaView every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mapillary versus KartaView: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMapillaryKartaView
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (21 ratings) — better2.6 (19 ratings)
Positive reviews41.2% of reviews — better23.8% of reviews
Number of ratings21 — better19
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.1
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB30 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperMapillary ABGrab.com

Customer experience

Mapillary

All ratings21 ratings
Positive90.5%
Neutral4.8%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews114 reviews
Positive41.2%
Neutral10.5%
Negative48.2%

KartaView

All ratings19 ratings
Positive36.8%
Neutral10.5%
Negative52.6%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive23.8%
Neutral16.7%
Negative59.5%

In-app purchases

None

Mapillary

No in-app purchases

None

KartaView

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mapillary free?
Mapillary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is KartaView free?
KartaView is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mapillary or KartaView?
Mapillary is rated higher. Mapillary averages 4.6 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while KartaView averages 2.6 from 19 ratings.
Do Mapillary or KartaView have ads?
Neither Mapillary nor KartaView shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mapillary or KartaView?
Mapillary ships an update every 2 weeks, and KartaView every 3 months. Most recently, Mapillary was updated on September 3, 2026 and KartaView on August 21, 2026.

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