Comparison

Mapillary vs Arcastash

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

Arcastash

Features
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Arcastash is a privacy-first media manager for saving and organizing video, audio, and images. SAVE Open the share sheet on any page in Safari and choose "Arcastash." The app scans the page, finds video, audio, and image candidates, and lets you pick what to save — including saving several items at once (Pro). ORGANIZE Sort saved media into folders. Anything you'd rather keep private can go into the Hidden folder, protected by Face ID / Touch ID (Pro). PLAY Everything you save plays back anytime, with no network needed — video with a custom scrubber, images with pinch-to-zoom, and audio playback, all built in. BUILT-IN BROWSER (Pro) Save directly from pages that require you to be logged in, using the app's own built-in browser. PRIVACY Arcastash contains no advertising SDK and no analytics SDK of any kind. Everything you save, your browsing history, and your Face ID / Touch ID authentication results stay on your device — none of it is ever sent anywhere. As the one exception: when on-device analysis alone can't find anything to save, you can tap "Analyze in the cloud" yourself to try cloud-assisted analysis. This is entirely optional and never runs automatically. Only the URL of the page you're viewing is sent, along with an anonymous device identifier used to track your free usage allowance — never your name, email, or any other information that identifies you. See the Privacy Policy for details. ARCASTASH PRO (one-time purchase, price varies by region) Unlocks the built-in browser, the Hidden folder, multi-item batch saving, and removes the free tier's limits on saved items and folders. Arcastash is a general-purpose tool for saving media from pages you've chosen to open yourself. It does not work with DRM-protected or streaming-protected content, and should not be used in a way that violates a site's terms of service. You're responsible for checking the copyright and terms of anything you save.

Screenshots

Mapillary4 screens
Arcastash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mapillary at none against Arcastash's 1. Mapillary also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Arcastash's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). 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. Arcastash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Mapillary asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mapillary ships an update every 2 weeks, Arcastash every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mapillary versus Arcastash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMapillaryArcastash
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (21 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews41.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB2 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperMapillary ABMasaki Naito

In-app purchases

None

Mapillary

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Arcastash

One-time1
  • Arcastash Pro$5.99

Questions

Is Mapillary free?
Mapillary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Arcastash free?
Arcastash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mapillary or Arcastash have ads?
Neither Mapillary nor Arcastash shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mapillary or Arcastash?
Mapillary ships an update every 2 weeks, and Arcastash every 3 days. Most recently, Mapillary was updated on October 4, 2026 and Arcastash on September 29, 2026.

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