Mapstr is great for collecting places to try. Remember is for the places you've already been — and everything you lived there.
Free up to 100 entries · Unlock unlimited for €4.99 once · iOS 17+
Mapstr is great at one thing: saving places you want to go. A bakery you spotted, a bar a friend swears by, restaurants to try on your next trip. If that's what you need — a shared address book on a map — Mapstr does it well.
But a lot of people reach for a map app for a different reason. Not "where should I go next", but "what did I actually live this year". That's a journal, not a bookmark list — and it's what Remember is built for.
Discovery, recommendations, planning ahead, sharing with friends. Points forward — places you might visit.
Journaling, looking back, private memories with places attached. Points back — the life you've already lived.
If you want the social, "where to go" side, Mapstr is the better tool and we won't pretend otherwise. If you want to journal your life and see it on a map, keep reading.
A Mapstr pin says here's a good restaurant. A Remember entry says here's the evening we had there, who I was with, why it mattered.
| Mapstr | Remember | |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Discover and save places to try | Journal the moments you've lived |
| Time direction | Forward — places to go | Backward — life already lived |
| Social | Following, sharing, recommendations | No account, fully private |
| Free tier | 300 places, then Mapstr Plus subscription | 100 entries free |
| Paid model | Yearly subscription | One-time €4.99 |
| Data storage | Cloud (global database) | On-device only |
| Platforms | iOS, Android, Web | iPhone only (iOS 17+) |
Mapstr's free tier caps at 300 places, and unlocking more means Mapstr Plus, a yearly subscription. Remember works the other way: free up to 100 entries, then a single one-time €4.99 to unlock everything. No renewal, no annual bill.
€4.99 once. No yearly renewal, no monthly charge, no "your plan is expiring" emails. Your journal stays yours.
Unlimited entries, all 100 categories, no feature tiers. A one-time purchase unlocks the full app, permanently.
No signup, no email address, no profile. Download, open, start journaling. There's nowhere to log in because there's nothing to log into.
Mapstr is social at its core — following, sharing, a global database of places. Remember is the opposite: no account, no cloud, nothing shared. Your journal lives on your iPhone and never leaves it. Privacy isn't a toggle here; it's the default, because there's nowhere else for your data to go.
There's nowhere to sign up. No email, no password, no profile. Your journal is on your device and that's the only place it exists.
Entries stay on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded to any server — not because of a setting, but because there's simply nowhere for it to go.
Developed and published from Bavaria. Fully GDPR compliant. No third-party tracking, no analytics SDKs, no ads.
Mapstr does things Remember doesn't: friend recommendations, cloud sync, a web version, table reservations, importing from Google Maps. If those matter to you, Mapstr is the right choice. Remember is for one job done well — a private, subscription-free journal of your life, on a map.
You can't follow friends, see recommendations, or share places. Remember is a private journal, not a social network. That's intentional.
No Android, no web version, no cross-device sync. Remember is built for one platform and built well for it.
Your journal lives on your iPhone. There's no iCloud backup or sync to other devices in the current version.
Remember is built by an indie studio from the Bavarian Alps. We built it for one job done well: a private, subscription-free journal of your life, on a map.
The idea is simple. You've already been somewhere. You lived something there. You want to remember it — not add it to a list of places to try. Remember is for that half of the map experience: the part that's about the past, not the future.
Questions? Reach us directly at support@remember-journal.com.
Common questions about switching from Mapstr.
Yes. Remember is free up to 100 entries, then a one-time €4.99 — no yearly subscription.
Mapstr saves places you want to visit and shares them with friends. Remember journals the moments you've lived and pins them to a private map. Different jobs: discovery vs. memory.
Completely. There's no account and no cloud — everything stays on your iPhone. Nothing is shared or uploaded.
No. Remember is a private journal, not a social network. If you want friend recommendations, Mapstr is the better fit.
Yes. Because your data is on-device, it works with no signal — useful when travelling.
Made in Bavaria by an independent developer. No ads, no account, no subscription.
Download on App Store — FreeFree to 100 entries · €4.99 once for unlimited · iOS 17+