Mapillary vs STARCLIP
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
STARCLIP
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Film the game. Tap the star on every goal. Upload to YouTube. Chapters already done. STARCLIP is a camera app that makes sports filming fun and effortless. THE PROBLEM You film your kid's soccer game and upload it to YouTube. Then the real work starts — rewatching the entire game, noting timestamps for every goal and highlight, typing them into the description. It takes forever. THE SOLUTION Tap the star while recording. Goal, great save, amazing play — one tap in the moment. When you stop recording, YouTube-ready chapter timestamps are already in your clipboard. Just paste. How it works: 1. Start recording the game in Video mode 2. Tap the star whenever something great happens 3. Stop recording — timestamps auto-copied 4. Paste into YouTube description — chapters done INSTANT LAUNCH Camera is live the millisecond you tap the icon. Ready before kickoff. PRECISION ZOOM DIAL Long-press to reveal a semicircle dial for smooth zoom. Catch the action on the far side of the pitch. For parents filming games. For club members on camera duty. Film it. Tap it. Enjoy it later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: STARCLIP at every 2 days against Mapillary's every 2 weeks. Mapillary's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.5). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mapillary ships an update every 2 weeks, STARCLIP every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mapillary | STARCLIP |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (21 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 41.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mapillary AB | Tetsushi Kaneko |
In-app purchases
Mapillary
No in-app purchases
STARCLIP
No in-app purchases









