Comparison

SmartTravelling vs aside · Berlin

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SmartTravelling

Discover curated travel guides for cities and regions worldwide, focusing on gastronomy, accommodation, and culture. Plan your trips with authentic recommendations and easily book hotels through integrated services.

Highlights
  • Premium travel guides
  • Gastronomy, accommodation, cultural recommendations
  • Over 50 cities and regions
  • Personal trip planning
  • Hotel booking integration
  • New rating system
  • My Day feature
Features
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Smart Travelling Mobile App brings you in-depth premium travel guides for our favorite cities and regions in Europe and around the world. Created by the editors of the well-known travel book series "A perfect weekend in …" and "A perfect week in …". Smart Travelling selects on two criteria: excellence and soul. The authentic and unique can be found in our guides: Special places, welcoming us as if they were old friends. Specialising in gastronomy, accommodation and cultural recommendations for travellers in over 50 cities and regions worldwide. Offers tightly curated tips on restaurants, cafes, hotels and more. Use the app to plan your trip ahead of time, or to decide what to do in the moment, by looking at our recommendations near you. Create your personal guides to plan your trip. Book hotels easily thanks to our cooperation with booking.com! - New and revamped interface - Improved Google maps functionality - New rating system - New "My Day" feature: add some locations to a "to visit" list and mark them as visited once you've been there

About

aside · Berlin

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aside gives you one Berlin recommendation at a time. Where you are, when you are, what's open right now. Tap once if you want another. No lists. No feeds. No search bar. No chat with an AI. — What it does • One card at a time • Knows the time of day, the weather, your part of town • Real BVG transit times to the door • Events and places • Six vibes: Active, Chill, Culture, Food, Nature, Offbeat • Kid-friendly filter, age-aware • English and German — For people who live here. Locals who have stopped going out. Parents with kids. Anyone who feels they are wasting living in an interesting city. The barrier is not desire. It is energy. aside handles the deciding so you can handle the going. — Free. No account, no ads, no paywall, no in-app purchases. Location is used to find what is near you and is never linked to your identity. Anonymous usage analytics can be turned off in Settings. Berlin only, for now.

Screenshots

SmartTravelling4 screens
aside · Berlin3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: aside · Berlin at none against SmartTravelling's 25. SmartTravelling's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SmartTravelling sells 24 one-off in-app purchases. aside · Berlin asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SmartTravelling ships an update fortnightly, aside · Berlin every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SmartTravelling versus aside · Berlin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartTravellingaside · Berlin
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB14 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developersmart-travellingAleksei Nikitin

In-app purchases

24 purchases

SmartTravelling

One-time24
  • Naples$4.90
  • Florence$4.90
  • Nice$4.90
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  • Deutsch$4.90
  • Berlin$5.90
  • Paris$5.90
  • London$5.90
  • Venice$5.90
  • Copenhagen$5.90
  • Munich$5.90
  • New York$5.90
  • San Francisco$5.90
  • Stockholm$5.90
  • Vienna$5.90
  • Côte d'Azur$5.90
  • Istanbul$5.90
  • Ibiza - Formentera$5.90
  • Rome$5.90
  • Piemont$5.90
  • Madrid$5.90
  • Sizilien$5.90
  • Deutsch2 variants$5.90
  • Gardasee$5.90
  • Portugal$5.90
None

aside · Berlin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SmartTravelling free?
SmartTravelling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is aside · Berlin free?
aside · Berlin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SmartTravelling or aside · Berlin have ads?
Neither SmartTravelling nor aside · Berlin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SmartTravelling or aside · Berlin?
SmartTravelling ships an update fortnightly, and aside · Berlin every 4 months. Most recently, SmartTravelling was updated on November 1, 2026 and aside · Berlin on October 25, 2026.

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