Connected Earth vs Inside Earth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Connected Earth
Explore global transportation and communication networks. Visualize roads, railways, shipping lanes, and flight routes, along with submarine internet cables, to understand Earth's interconnectedness. Gain a unified perspective of our planet and the systems that link us.
- Global transportation visualization
- Communication network mapping
- Interactive Earth view
- Submarine cable layer
- Unified planet perspective
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Discover how we travel and communicate across the globe. Planet Earth is interconnected in countless ways. Explore this connectedness from a global perspective. Visualize overlaying roads, railways, navigable rivers, shipping lanes, and flight routes to uncover how we move across the planet. Dive into the intricate relationships between transport and communication networks. Activate the internet connection layer to reveal submarine cables and see how the world's populated areas interact. Gain insight into the incredible systems that link us together and raise awareness of the amazing planet we call home. Learn to see the world as one unified planet, where we are all interconnected and together.
Inside Earth
Explore the Earth's interior by virtually peeling back its layers. Understand the composition of the crust, mantle, and core. Learn about tectonic plates, volcanism, and earthquakes.
- Interactive layer peeling
- Tectonic plate visualization
- Volcanism and earthquake explanation
- Compositional learning
- Geological process discovery
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What's inside our planet? Peel away layers to discover their composition. Learn how earth's crust is divided into tectonic plates. Discover how volcanism and earthquakes occur wherever these plates meet.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Inside Earth at 100% against Connected Earth's 33%. Inside Earth also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 91 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Inside Earth holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inside Earth has 48 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Connected Earth's written reviews are positive against 100% of Inside Earth's.
Connected Earth ships an update every 91 months, Inside Earth fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Connected Earth | Inside Earth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) | 4.7 (48 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 48 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 91 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 190 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Celestial Dynamics AG | Sebastian Andre |
Customer experience
Connected Earth
Inside Earth
In-app purchases
Connected Earth
No in-app purchases
Inside Earth
No in-app purchases
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