MatchaFacts about Mapstr are as of October 2026, from its App Store and Google Play listings, its website and its FAQ (links at the end).
The short answer
Mapstr is a map of saved places. Restaurants, cafés, shops, hotels, hikes: you pin them, tag them in your own colours, add notes and photos, and mark them To try or Tried. Mapstr says it has more than 4 million users.
Matcha is an iPhone app about the food itself. You score each dish, and your scores turn into rankings: your best pizza, your best ramen, your best matcha latte, across every city you’ve eaten in.
If you save all kinds of places, or you’re on Android, Mapstr does more. If you mostly save food and want to know which dish was best, pick Matcha.
How they rate
Mapstr lets you give 1 to 5 stars to a place you’ve marked as tried. Only you and the people you share your map with see the rating, and Mapstr shows no average. You can sort places by those stars, best first, but they rate the place, not a dish.
Matcha scores the dish, from 1 to 10 in half steps, with a photo, price and note if you want them. One restaurant can hold a 9.5 carbonara and a 6 tiramisu. Every food gets its own ranking, plus rankings by city, restaurant and year. On the map, each restaurant’s pin shows its best dish’s score.
Lists, maps and friends
Mapstr is built to be shared. Maps are public by default, like an Instagram account, and you can make yours private or keep single places secret. You can follow maps from friends, magazines, guides and creators, and invite up to 20 people to a collaborative map. Sharing a reel or a TikTok video to Mapstr picks out the places mentioned in it.
Matcha has no public map, feed or followers. You share on purpose: an image of your top 5 or your #1, a “Send my places” link that copies your places into a friend’s Want to try (they need Matcha), or a shared list through iCloud. In a shared list you see a friend’s score only after you’ve scored the dish yourself.
Price and platforms
Mapstr is free up to 300 places, with no ads. Mapstr Plus removes the limit and adds a visits journal, bulk edits and alerts near saved places, with a 7-day free trial. The US App Store lists Plus from $5.99 a month or $32.99 a year, and Mapstr’s FAQ gives €59 a year or €7.90 a month in Europe. Mapstr runs on iPhone, Android, Apple Watch and the web, where adding places needs Plus.
Matcha is a free download with a 7-day free trial, then $9.99/year, or $0.99/week. Other plans may show in the app, and nothing is free after the trial. It’s iPhone only, needs iOS 26 or later, comes in 9 languages and has no ads or account. It’s in App Store review now. More on pricing.
Moving from Mapstr to Matcha
Matcha has no Mapstr import. It imports shared Google Maps list links, up to 3,000 places per list. If your places are also in a Google Maps list, share that list to Matcha, untick what you don’t want, and the places land on your map (step by step). Matcha can’t read Mapstr’s CSV or GeoJSON export. You can also keep both apps: Mapstr for hotels and sights, Matcha for the food.
More detail: Mapstr alternative. More apps: Matcha alternatives.
Sources
- Mapstr on the App Store and Google Play
- Mapstr website, FAQ and legal notice
- Mapstr help: importing places, Instagram and TikTok, collaborative maps
