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まっぷるリンク: official Mapple guidebook and trip planner app
By Mei-Lin Chua
Contributing editor, apps and storefronts
- Guidebook spots on a map, with one-tap directions
- Trip notes that turn clipped spots into a route on the map
- Mapple guidebook ebooks, bought singly or by subscription
- Suggestions that are said to fit your tastes more as you use it
- Free ebook for paper guide readers via the QR code in the appendix
- Daily tourism, dining and event news, plus editors' picks
A guidebook publisher's app for trip ideas and planning
まっぷるリンク is the official app from the publisher behind the Mapple (まっぷる) travel guidebook series. It is aimed at people choosing their next trip, sketching out a route, or looking something up while already away. The listing splits its use into three stages: before the trip, during it, and after it.
Most of the content comes from the Mapple editorial team. The listing ties the information to the travel magazine Mapple Magazine, which it says has been published for 36 years.
It fits best when you have a loose idea of where to go. Editors' picks, seasonal features and a personalised mode sit alongside the ebooks, so the searching and the reading happen in one place.
Finding places to visit and keeping up with news
The app carries tourism, dining and event information that the listing says is updated every day. Editors' picks and seasonal feature articles appear in it, so you can see what is currently worth visiting without opening a printed guide.
A personalised mode adds suggestions on top of that. The listing says the suggestions match your preferences and become more tailored the more you use the app.
This suits the stage where you have not chosen a destination yet. It also works for a trip you have already planned, when you want current information about a place.
Planning a trip with trip notes and the map
The trip notes feature, called 旅ノート, is the one the listing marks as new. You clip spots and articles into folders of your own, so the places you want to visit are gathered together.
The itinerary is linked to the map. The route you build appears as a path on the map, which the listing describes as a way to simulate travel between places before you set off.
Notes sit alongside the clips. The listing gives examples such as a packing list, information found on social media, and important contact details, all kept in the same place.
Reading Mapple guidebook ebooks on your phone
The app is also an ebook library for Mapple guidebooks. The listing names domestic area and theme editions, overseas editions, and series such as sweets, roadside stations (道の駅), hot-spring inns (温泉やど), drives, and Color Plus. Some overseas areas, such as Europe and the Americas, are not covered.
Readers of the paper guidebook can add the matching ebook for free by scanning the QR code in the book's appendix.
Other ebooks are bought in the app as in-app purchases. Single volumes can be bought one at a time. Subscriptions are also offered: Premium Mini includes a three-month trial, Premium runs for one year, and Premium Plus runs for one year and covers both domestic and overseas editions. Overseas editions are only included in Premium Plus. The listing also advertises a one-month free trial of the Kantō-Kōshin-Etsu scenic guide, running until the end of July.
Using maps and guides while travelling
Map-linked spot search shows places from the guidebooks on a map, along with the latest nearby information. A single tap gives directions to a place.
Some ebooks and maps can be viewed offline once downloaded. The listing notes that not every map in the magazine is supported, and that viewing and downloading content uses your mobile carrier's data charges.
The listing says the content reflects roughly the time it was reported, so menus, prices and opening days can change afterwards, and places may close temporarily.
What's new
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About this APK
The build we hold is まっぷるリンク - 自分にぴったりな旅が見つかる・作れる 27.4 (APK) for Android 6.0 and up.
- Version
- 27.4
- 272
- Requires Android
- 6.0+
- Size
- 88 MB
- Target Android
- 15
- Package ID
- jp.mappleon.android.mapplelink
- Format
- APK
- Malware scan
- Clean on 63 engines
- Permissions
- 26 declared · 7 sensitive
- Approximate location
- Camera
- Location in the background
- Modify files on your device
- Modify system settings
- Precise location
- Read phone status and identity
- Signed by
- CN=Yukinobu Hanaoka, O=MAPPLE ON
- Certificate SHA-256
- c6d945f69060f75fd23c6f88a60622ebc0b39ab55157751cfd1c82b4e05ac2d9
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