Comparison

Future History vs 2goTours

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

Head to head
About

Future History

Explore historical locations through augmented reality, overlaying past views onto your current surroundings. Access audio and text guides to uncover hidden stories and compare historical images with present-day views.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality historical overlays
  • Interactive image sliders
  • Audio and text guides
  • Map-based navigation
  • User-generated content upload
  • Virtual time travel experiences
Features
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Welcome to Future History. Point your smartphone or tablet at an interesting location and take a look into the past through your display. Features: - Choose a place on the map, start the navigation and dive into the past. - Merge past eras with the here and now through augmented reality and superimpositions in the right perspective. - Start audio and text to learn more about the hidden stories of this place. - Add your preferred pictures to the collection, write comments and share them with your friends. - Start a virtual journey through time from your sofa. For many places, there are interactive image sliders between historic images and current photos with identical angles. Partners: Cities and tour agencies are our partners and use Future History - for group tours to superimpose historical views on location and as a lasting memory of the guided tour - for individuals and small groups as a self-guided tour with and audioguide feature, route planner and superimpositions on location. Freiburg: Guided tour: http://www.vistatour.de/fh/fh_texte.htm Self-guided tour: https://www.freiburg-living-history.de/self-guided-tour/ Wiesbaden: Guided tour: https://www1.wiesbaden.de/microsites/tourismus/entdecken-erleben/zeitreise-wiesbaden.php Self-guided tour: https://www1.wiesbaden.de/microsites/tourismus/entdecken-erleben/self-guided-tour.php Darmstadt: Self-guided tour: https://www.darmstadt-tourismus.de/besuch/service/darmstadt-apps/mathildenhoehe-app.htmlhrte Tour: Pforzheim: Self-guided tour: https://www.pforzheim.de/tourismus/stadtfuehrungen/digitale-stadtfuehrungen-und-erlebnisse.html Magdeburg Self-guided tour: https://www.magdeburg.de/Start/B%C3%BCrger-Stadt/Leben-in-Magdeburg/Umwelt/Klimaschutzportal/Nachhaltiger-Konsum/Gratisb%C3%B6rse/index.php?La=1&NavID=37.768&object=tx|557.2877.1& Hansestadt Gardelegen Self-guided tour: https://www.gardelegen.de/die-stadt/aktuelles/eintrag/digitale-stadtfuehrung Authors: You can become an author, too, by uploading your own historical images and by helping make hidden stories visible. Here’s just a few good reasons to do so: transparent urban planning, commitment for the cityscape, monument conservation and a sound historic centre, interest in architecture and urban history as well as realizing educational projects. Find more information under www.future-history.eu

About

2goTours

Features
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2gotours is a self-guided narrated GPS driving tour app. It includes driving tours, walking tours, city guides and tours with bus and train options. All the benefits of a tour guide but with more independence and freedom.

Screenshots

Future History4 screens
2goTours4 screens

Verdict

The call

Future History and 2goTours are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Future History sells 17 one-off in-app purchases and 2goTours sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Future History ships an update every 3 months, 2goTours every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and August 28, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Future History versus 2goTours: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFuture History2goTours
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB131 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRolf MathisBlack Forest Tours

In-app purchases

17 purchases

Future History

One-time17
  • Шрамы 23. Февраля 1945-го года$0.99
  • Self-guided Tour, English$3.99
  • Selfguided-Tour (German)$3.99
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  • Audiovisual Self-Guided Tour$3.99
  • Stadtrundgang Bayreuth$3.99
  • City Tour Bayreuth$3.99
  • Cathedral & fishermens quarter$3.99
  • Ulmer Geld regiert die Welt$3.99
  • Bayreuth Past Present svenska$3.99
  • Bayreuth Past Present (Polski)$3.99
  • Bayreuth Past Present Italiano$3.99
  • Self-guided Tour, Deutsch$3.99
  • Bayreuth pasado y presente$3.99
  • Stadtführung Freiburg$4.99
  • Self guided tour Breisach$4.99
  • Selfguided Tour of Freiburg$4.99
  • Digital Self-Guided Tour Basel$6.99
7 purchases

2goTours

One-time7
  • Freiburg Walking Tour$3.99
  • Freiburg Adventure Hike$3.99
  • Top of Freiburg Hike$3.99
Show 4 more
  • Freiburg Beergarden Hike$3.99
  • Ravenna Gorge Hike$4.99
  • Baden-Baden Walking Tour$4.99
  • Freiburg Bundle$11.99

Questions

Is Future History free?
Future History is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 2goTours free?
2goTours is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Future History or 2goTours have ads?
Neither Future History nor 2goTours shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Future History or 2goTours?
Future History ships an update every 3 months, and 2goTours every 6 weeks. Most recently, Future History was updated on September 23, 2026 and 2goTours on August 28, 2026.

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