Comparison

Heritage Map vs Kyoto Unknown

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

Head to head
About

Heritage Map

Discover points of interest and business listings across Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique. Find locations, get contact information, and navigate directly to your chosen destinations.

Highlights
  • Browse Points of Interest
  • View Business Listings
  • Search for POIs and Businesses
  • Get Contact Information
  • Navigate to Destinations
Features
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The Grenada National Trust Heritage Map allows users to browse Points of Interests and business listings in Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique. Search for POIs and BLs, contact and get directions to them;

About

Kyoto Unknown

Features
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Most Kyoto guides show you the same sixteen places. This one was written by people who grew up there and never left. Kyoto Unknown is a curated guide to the city's lesser-visited spots, the favourite coffee spot to unwind with a good book, the hillside shrine with no ticket booth, the local yakitori bar with the scary owner who makes amazing food. Places chosen and curated by local Kyoto-jin, and nothing else. There are no ads. No star ratings. No user reviews crowdsourced from people who visited once. The curation is the product. If a place is listed here, someone who actually lives in Kyoto thought you should know about it. What's inside Discover — browse places by mood or category. Filter by what you're looking for: a quiet drink, somewhere to sit without ordering again, a shrine you can reach before the tour groups arrive. Map — every place on a single map, with enough context to get your bearings without staring at a screen. Filter by category from the map legend. Saved — build your own shortlist or start from the curated collections we've built. Budget Planner — budget your trip by building a collection in Saved or starting from scratch. Estimated costs included for every place. More — seasonal guides covering five distinct faces of Kyoto across the year; a Kyoto festival calendar; practical tips for getting around without feeling like a tourist; and a short Kyoto-ben phrasebook, because the dialect here is its own thing and the locals notice when you try. Kyoto rewards the kind of travel that slows down. This app is for people who want to spend an afternoon in a place that isn't on the poster, talk to someone behind a counter, and come back with something other than a queue photograph. It is free. There is nothing to subscribe to.

Screenshots

Heritage Map4 screens
Kyoto Unknown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Kyoto Unknown at every 2 days against Heritage Map's every 7 months. Heritage Map's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Heritage Map ships an update every 7 months, Kyoto Unknown every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Heritage Map versus Kyoto Unknown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHeritage MapKyoto Unknown
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB38 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPixel Perfect AppsBen Monopoli

In-app purchases

None

Heritage Map

No in-app purchases

None

Kyoto Unknown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Heritage Map free?
Heritage Map is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kyoto Unknown free?
Kyoto Unknown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Heritage Map or Kyoto Unknown have ads?
Neither Heritage Map nor Kyoto Unknown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Heritage Map or Kyoto Unknown?
Heritage Map ships an update every 7 months, and Kyoto Unknown every 2 days. Most recently, Heritage Map was updated on October 1, 2026 and Kyoto Unknown on October 5, 2026.

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