Glopas vs ChapterWalks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Glopas
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Glopas is an easy to use and safe audio guide application for cities, tourist sights and parks to offer audio guidance serviced. Download this application if you are visiting a place with Glopas audio guide service. Stories are best heard with ear phones / a headset. Guiding goes on automatically when proceeding the sight, based on your GPS location. Stories can also be played by browsing the sights on map, unless the sights are set as secret (you can hear the guiding on a secret sight only by visiting the sight). Glopas is working together with music players. It pauses music while a story is being played, and resumes music after the story finishes. Audio files are downloaded and later removed automatically based on your GPS location or map view, within selected quota for media files. You can also download audio files by browsing to the target destination when accessed to a wifi. Do this if your target region doesn't have mobile network coverage or mobile network access is expensive. An orange marker colour indicates when media files is cached.
ChapterWalks
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ChapterWalks makes audio walking tours of places the guidebooks rush. Not the twenty cities every tour app already covers. Roman ruins on an African plain, baroque towns built from stone that carves like wood, a Silk Road city most travel apps have never heard of. Places worth a guided walk that rarely get a good one. HOW IT WORKS Buy a tour, download it, and walk. Each stop plays where you're standing — the app offers the right audio as you reach each place, or you can play any stop manually. Download before you go: the audio and every stop's text need no signal on the walk. WHAT IT COSTS Every tour is $4.99, yours forever. All Tours, Forever is $79.99 — every current and future tour, one payment. No subscription, nothing renews, no ads. Stop 1 of every tour is free, full length, before you pay anything. HOW IT'S MADE The narration is written with AI, fact-checked against published sources claim by claim, and reviewed by a human before release. Every factual claim cites a source you can read in the app. We're open about all of this because we think the tours stand on it. Narration is in English.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Glopas at none against ChapterWalks's 10. Glopas also leads on device support (3 vs 1). ChapterWalks's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 19 months). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. ChapterWalks sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Glopas asks for nothing beyond the download.
Glopas ships an update every 19 months, ChapterWalks every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Glopas | ChapterWalks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tero Nivala | LEANDRO LIGETTA |
In-app purchases
Glopas
No in-app purchases
ChapterWalks
- Otranto tour$4.99
- Ronda tour$4.99
- Samarkand tour$4.99
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- Seville tour$4.99
- Volubilis tour$4.99
- Taormina tour$4.99
- Istanbul tour$4.99
- One Tour Credit$4.99
- Istanbul Balat tour$4.99
- All Tours, Forever$79.99
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