Mapstr – Save & Follow Places

It was great app, but from last upgrade non-stop: Disconnected account, Please reconnect. What’s happened?

Best app so far to manage personal maps.

I really like to use this app. All places with description in one app!

I've tried dozens of places saving/local guide apps on appstore but this one is absolutely the best. Clean, simple, quick UI. No pushy ratings, hotels, ads, recommendations and what's not... pouring onto you till your head is blown. Just lets me save my favorite spots beautifully organized with tags. Omg. At last :) Thank you mapstr team!

As other reviews have put it, after years of feeding data into their system, now charging an extortionate amount per year is how they repay you. Sudden and without warning. Biding time for now, but look out for a suitable alternative! Edit: developer seems to want to battle the customer in a passive aggressive manner as opposed to addressing the main issue put to them head on with a legitimate answer- why suddenly start charging a subscription? I don’t care if you say it’s “only the price of a beer”. Who are you to say to people it’s only the price of anything. Fair enough you have been warning people for 2 months, however it bears no importance how long you have been warning people about your current extortions - made even more obvious by your recent surprise “offer extension”. You have been found out and that’s what you don’t like.

I’ve been a very happy user for years, adding over 1,000 places to my account. Your decision to force me to now pay £50/year simply feels extortionate. How disrespectful considering the amount of time I’ve taken to feed data into your system. *Update* since I’ve gotten a disappointing reply from you: when I create a new place that other users can then find by entering the address, providing the name and updating pictures, I would absolutely call that feeding data. It’s very disingenuous and a bit demeaning of you to say that I’m only benefitting from the data you’re providing. Getting revenue from your hard work is not in itself disrespectful. However, forcing an unannounced £50 annual subscription without any prior communication or warning in order to keep using your app is. Considering the price tag, I think you’re widely over-evaluating your app’s stickiness and usefulness. It’s a real shame considering how many people I’ve turned to in the past to say: “hey, have you heard of Mapstr?”

Sadly I will have to stop using this fun app as they moved to an extortionate subscription model if you have over 300 places saved. After raising huge crowdfunding. Yuck. £70/year is crazy for placing little pins on a map.

We’ll need paying membership to add pin on a map… I’m very disappointed… I’ll go on gmap which is free

Spent years manually building a record of places I wanted to visit. Now, suddenly, the app is £70/year, and all that time is wasted unless users accept the sudden and extortionate bait-and-switch. Despicable.

It had it be a great app, but with the latest upgrade (you either upgrade to premium or nothing, basically) they lost a long time loving user.