Comparison

Mapillary vs Take PRO

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

Take PRO

Features
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Take PRO is your AI photographer. Point the camera at a person, a plate, a street at dusk — it tells you exactly what to do next. One instruction at a time. Step back. Tilt the phone. Wait for the light. Then take the shot. WHAT YOU GET • Live coaching for composition, light, and pose • A score on every photo, so you can see what worked • Voice: say what you want — “make me look taller” — and it plans the frame • On-device finishing that tightens the crop and the look • Portraits, food, cities, landscapes — the scenes you actually shoot HOW IT WORKS 1. Open the camera 2. Follow the one line on screen 3. Shoot. See the score. Improve this photo, or take a better one FREE AND PRO Five photo sessions each month are included. Take PRO unlocks unlimited sessions, every scene and style, voice planning, scoring, and finishing. SUBSCRIPTIONS Take PRO is an auto-renewable subscription, billed monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. It renews automatically unless you turn it off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Prices are shown in the app and may vary by region. Privacy: camera, microphone, and speech recognition are used only to guide you and take the photo. Pictures stay on your iPhone unless you save them to Photos. Link to EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Mapillary4 screens
Take PRO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mapillary at none against Take PRO's 2. Mapillary also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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. Take PRO sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Mapillary asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Mapillary versus Take PRO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMapillaryTake PRO
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (21 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews41.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMapillary ABKrzysztof Guz

In-app purchases

None

Mapillary

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Take PRO

Subscriptions2
  • Take PRO Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Take PRO Yearly$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Mapillary free?
Mapillary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Take PRO free?
Take PRO is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mapillary or Take PRO have ads?
Neither Mapillary nor Take PRO shows ads.

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