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The engineering team was relocated to the Mail.Ru Group office in Moscow to continue working on the project. In November 2014, was acquired by Mail.Ru Group for 542 million rubles (around US$14 million at that time) to be integrated with My.com, and the app was made free of charge. The team won a nine-week traineeship in Silicon Valley as a prize. In 2012, MapsWithMe came in first in the Startup Monthly competition in Vilnius.

The application was initially developed by Zurich-based MapsWithMe GmbH with a development office in Minsk. On Nov 2020 Group sold to the payment processor Daegu Limited, part of, which changed the application user interface and content, which led the free software community to develop Organic Maps in response. In early 2017 the philosophy of the app changed, leading it to be supported by adverts. Yury Melnichek was leading the project from November 2013 until April 2016 when Evgeny Lisovskiy took over. Under the leadership of Alexander, MapsWithMe got its first 2.5M users worldwide.

was founded by Yury Melnichek, Alexander Borsuk, Viktor Govako and Siarhei Rachytski. First, the whole team has developed an application in Belarus and Switzerland.