Mapstr – Save & Follow Places

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Last verified 28 Jul 2026

4.7 2517 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Fun and Helpful!!

   I absolutely love mapstr whenever I have a day off I love to go explore news places right in my own backyard! Or if I am coincidentally in the area of a place I’ve marked I always try to make a stop, thanks to alerts that you can set. I could rave Al day about the customization of this app truly but, I did come here to say 2 things, one, that I wish there was a function where you could pin something and it would recommend you others like it or things others near that location have pinned! I think it would be a great addition because sometimes place really are hidden. Two maybe having a toggle function where you could see reviews for the place you’ve pinned if you wanted. I love having my own personal map but sometimes for places I haven’t been a review would be helpful. I understand that’s what the internet is for but having it streamlined into one place is just a little more convenient. I love this app with all my heart and regardless of what I think I will continue to use it forever :)

   RiverrxX · 28 Jul 2026

2. 5/5If you don't live under a rock, this app is for YOU

   What a great little app! I found out about the app in a column on the Air France magazine last year and I can't believe how handy it's been since. I travel a good amount and I love tagging great restaurants in every city that I go to, and the ability to share makes it even more handy. Having the option to tag different categories (restaurants, discotheques, stores, etc) also makes it easy to look for all your saved places at a glance, and the list option sorts places based on distance, so if you save recommendations from friends you can find out how close you are to all of them and make a decision based on that. Legitimately very happy, and I wish the developer a lot of success!

   JuanKmil0 · 28 Jul 2026

3. 1/5Subscription pricing is not worth it

   I had been using this app for years, recommending it to friends, and generally loved the features. The one functionality complaint I initially had was that it doesn’t show a dot or even general area of where you are so it is harder to see proximity to your pins. But I understand it’s not a maps app so fair. Now, with being charged a subscription to add pins over 300, I will switch back to Google Maps and saving pins in my lists there. I understand that this is a product and needs to be profitable, but a subscription model is so disappointing. If there was a one time payment, I would do that in a heartbeat and I would be willing to pay a decent amount if it was a one-time fee. But with subscriptions these days, there is no guarantee that the model won’t change or prices will be hiked in the future. So while I can easily afford the current pricing, I don’t want to risk losing my pins when the payment models change and I can no longer justify a monthly/yearly charge for an app when there are free alternatives available. TLDR: I’d be willing to pay for this app, but not in its current subscription form.

   gwenifer · 28 Jul 2026

4. 1/5New Subscriptions - Limited Saves

   I really enjoyed this app when I first got it for saving and labeling different places I’d love to visit… until today. I open the app, and am greeted by some ridiculous video of some guy letting users know how excited they are about introducing a new paid membership for “additional perks”. The perks of course being simply USING the app as it was originally intended. I am now unable to add any more locations to my map without paying 80 DOLLARS a year for mapstr plus. How stupid. Now that Google Maps has updated their saved locations feature and labeling options, I’ll have to transition back. It’s very disheartening that the creators of this app seriously think their product is worth 80$ a year when they haven’t even added anything substantial in the past year or so that I’ve had it. If you want to save more than 300 locations on your map (trust me, it adds up very quickly), then don’t waste your time downloading this app unless you’re willing to pay 80$ a year for it. I plan on doing some hunting to see if I can find a similar app that hasn’t completely sold out like this app unfortunately has.

   New 80$ Pay-Wall · 28 Jul 2026

5. 3/5Evolving towards bloat

   When I first found Mapstr about three years ago I recommended it to many of my friends out of my excitement with what it was then and hopes for its future. Unfortunately, the app seems to me to have been on a fairly constant trajectory towards feature bloat that has made the core experience harder to use and appears to have degraded performance. I wish the tremendous effort that it must have taken to convert this app to a social network would have been instead directed to making improvements to the UX of the core experience of adding and viewing places. Specifically the biggest issue to me is content density: there is lots of whitespace in the UI, there is much less information displayed about a place than in other map apps (so that I have never been able to meaningfully rely on Mapstr for this info), and many touch targets are too small by modern standards. Also important to me is performance, especially on app launch, which is unfortunately much slower than other apps (and often banners appear which further distract from accessing the map quickly). On the social side, I would have been quite happy with the simple ability to share lists/categories/map via link, and no concept of “friends” whatsoever. HOWEVER, I have a lot of respect for the developer, which seems to be a really small team, possibly just one engineer. Persevering with a project like this, where your competition is all massive companies, for as long as you have (without selling out!) is impressive and commendable. I still think Mapstr has potential if the development focus can be returned to the core experience.

   Bogidawn · 28 Jul 2026

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