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Pin Drop vs BatchGeo
BatchGeo turns the address column of a spreadsheet into a map and makes that trick feel ordinary. The catch shows up later, when the map needs editing in the field, sharing with a team or keeping private. This is a pragmatic comparison for anyone weighing the switch during a mid-year tool review.
Publish a map vs run one
BatchGeo turns a spreadsheet into a map once. Pin Drop is the map your team runs every week.
Re-upload vs live editing
Change the sheet and republish, or edit the pin in place and everyone sees it.
A shared link vs a private map
A link anyone can open, or a map shared only with named people.
A snapshot vs a system of record
A picture of last Tuesday's sheet, or the place the notes actually live.
When the spreadsheet map stops being enough.
Most mapping projects begin the same way. Someone has a spreadsheet with a column of addresses, a column of names and a status column somebody keeps half updated. It does its job until the day it needs to be seen as a map. That is the moment BatchGeo earned its reputation: paste a spreadsheet, get a screen of pins, share a link. For a one-off view it is hard to beat.
The trouble is that the work rarely stays a one-off. The territory grows, the site list doubles, a second person needs to edit it, a rep wants to add a note from a car park in Leeds at 4pm on a wet Tuesday. The spreadsheet map was built to display a dataset once. The job in front of most teams is to run an operation every working week, and every change to the ground truth becomes a small re-upload, so by the third month the map and the sheet have quietly drifted apart.
BatchGeo is good at the thing it was designed for. The question is not whether it works, but whether a paste-and-publish tool is the right shape for a team that lives in its map five days a week.
Side by side
How Pin Drop compares with BatchGeo
The capabilities that matter when you move your map across.
Capability
Pin Drop
BatchGeo
How it works
From a task list to a map of where the work happens.
01
Import what you already have
Bring locations across from a spreadsheet, CSV or export. Every place maps instantly, no rebuild.
02
Shape it around how you work
Tag, group and add the custom fields your team uses, so the map matches your operation, not a generic template.
03
Put it in the team's hands
Everyone works from the same live map on the phone they carry. Work logged in the field shows up for the office without an update being sent.
Why operations teams switch
Less chasing, less overlap, less admin.
One shared truth
Place-based work on one live map, not scattered across rows that don't show where anything is.
Clear ownership
Know who covers what and where at a glance, without a sheet to keep in sync.
No duplicated work
Everyone sees what has already been covered, so effort isn't repeated.
Less admin
No double entry and no status meeting to find out where things stand.
Move from BatchGeo to Pin Drop.
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Verified organisations
613
At $1B+ revenue
360
10,000+ employees
17+
Sectors represented
Amazon
Nike
Adobe
Oracle
Pfizer
Nestlé
PepsiCo
Mars
Walmart
Whole Foods
M&S
Mastercard
Capital One
Barclays
AT&T
Toyota
Volvo
Bosch
Bayer
BASF
Philips
UPS
Kuehne+Nagel
BT Group
NHS
Abbott
ADP
Cargill
Veolia
Paramount
Made to fit
Built around how you work.
Shaped to your team
Every team runs it differently. Coordinate a region, record what happened on the ground, or see it all at a glance. How you assemble it is yours.
No big bang
Import what you have, invite who needs it and work from the phone in their pocket. No migration project, no training week.
FAQS
Questions you might have
Is Pin Drop a replacement for BatchGeo?
Yes, for teams who need a living map rather than a one-off. BatchGeo turns a spreadsheet into a map you publish. Pin Drop is a shared map your team edits in place, from the field, every week.
Can I import my BatchGeo spreadsheet into Pin Drop?
Yes. Import the same spreadsheet or CSV you paste into BatchGeo, organise the pins into shared maps and add notes, photos and visits. It syncs across mobile and desktop, with no re-upload to refresh the map.
Can I keep my Pin Drop map private?
Yes. Nothing in Pin Drop is public until you decide it is. You share individual pins or tags rather than publishing your whole map, you choose how long each link stays live, and you can revoke it at any time. Profiles work the same way: people ask to follow you, and you can remove a follower whenever you like. That is the difference between a map you can put client detail on and one you cannot.
Can I use Pin Drop alongside BatchGeo?
Yes. Keep BatchGeo for the one-off maps you publish from a spreadsheet. Use Pin Drop for the places your team goes back to, where notes, photos and visits build up against each pin over time. The same CSV feeds both.
How much does Pin Drop cost compared with BatchGeo?
Pin Drop is billed per seat, with a 14 day trial that takes no card. The free plan is for personal use, so business use starts on the trial or a paid plan. See the pricing page for current plans. Run the numbers on your real usage rather than on map size or the number of maps.
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