Comparison

Future History vs weguide.app

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. 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

weguide.app

Explore cities with user-generated tours featuring routes, stops, and multimedia information. Become a guide and share your local knowledge with others, transforming the world into your personal audio guide.

Highlights
  • Discover city tours
  • Create your own tours
  • Multimedia information (video/audio)
  • Route with multiple stops
  • Local guide content
Features
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With weguide, you can discover cities with tours from locals or become a guide yourself. Each tour consists of a route with various stops and information from video and audio files. Like an audio guide in a museum, but for the whole world.

Screenshots

Future History4 screens
weguide.app4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: weguide.app at none against Future History's 17. weguide.app also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 67%). On price, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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. Future History sells 17 one-off in-app purchases. weguide.app asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Future History ships an update every 3 months, weguide.app every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Future History versus weguide.app: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFuture Historyweguide.app
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews87.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.616 — better
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB124 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRolf MathisWeguide GmbH

Customer experience

Future History

All ratings10 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative22.2%

weguide.app

Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%

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
None

weguide.app

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Future History free?
Future History is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is weguide.app free?
weguide.app is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Future History or weguide.app have ads?
Neither Future History nor weguide.app shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Future History or weguide.app?
Future History ships an update every 3 months, and weguide.app every 6 weeks. Most recently, Future History was updated on November 2, 2026 and weguide.app on November 3, 2026.

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