Comparison

Glopas vs ChapterWalks

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

Head to head
About

Glopas

Features
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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.

About

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.

Screenshots

Glopas4 screens
ChapterWalks4 screens

Verdict

The call

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.

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. ChapterWalks sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Glopas asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Glopas versus ChapterWalks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlopasChapterWalks
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB18 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTero NivalaLEANDRO LIGETTA

In-app purchases

None

Glopas

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

ChapterWalks

One-time10
  • 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

Questions

Is Glopas free?
Glopas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ChapterWalks free?
ChapterWalks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Glopas or ChapterWalks have ads?
Neither Glopas nor ChapterWalks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Glopas or ChapterWalks?
Glopas ships an update every 19 months, and ChapterWalks every 3 days. Most recently, Glopas was updated on September 21, 2026 and ChapterWalks on September 15, 2026.

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