AR Globe vs GlobeViewer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AR Globe
Explore historical globes in your own space using augmented reality. Move around, zoom in, and even go inside these detailed 3D models. It serves as both an educational tool for history and an engaging interactive experience.
- Explore historic globes in AR
- Move and interact with globes in 3D
- Zoom and rotate globes
- Explore globes from the inside
- Educational history tool
- Interactive game experience
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AR Globe allows users to explore historic and old globes in their own space. The old globes float in your room in front of you – you can move towards them and around them using your screen, as well as move inside of them. They can be zoomed in and out and turned as well. 7 different globes can be explored in great detail. AR Globe is both an educational tool for understanding history and a wonderful game at the same time.
GlobeViewer
Explore Earth with a high-resolution 3D globe and topography maps. View surface, underwater, and topographical details, with real-time event overlays. Access extensive geographical data for offline use.
- Interactive 3D globe
- High-resolution topography maps
- Surface and underwater views
- Real-time event overlays
- Offline data caching
- Extensive place names and geographical features
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GlobeViewer is a high resolution 3D terrestrial globe with topography and surface maps. This app enables a high-quality view of the surface of our blue planet. It is divided into two areas: the rotatable, global view as an interactive globe and a high-resolution 3D map representation of the Earth's topography. - Interactive 3D globe with surface, underwater and topography maps - High-resolution 3D topography map set of the entire Earth's surface - divided into 22,912 individual tiles. You can load 110 different regions onto the interactive globe, which then present the many individual tiles in a meaningful, connected way and reload them automatically. The app initially only contains the textures for the globe in low resolution. All required downloads are automatically loaded from our server. A total of around 105 GB of data is available. The data remains in the cache on your device for offline use, but can be deleted at any time in the main menu. Furthermore, all events recorded by the GDACS, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, etc., are entered on the globe. The 3D topography map is based on the elevation data from the NASA Terra probe, which recorded 83° of the northern and southern hemispheres between 2000 and 2013 - this is the result of the ASTER3-DEM. With version 0.10.0, the map is enriched with around 7.5 million place names from geonames.org. This means that all the towns, mountains, lakes, deserts and many other geographical features entered there are shown on the map. From version 0.12.0, data from OpenStreetMaps (buildings, borders, streets...) is also available on the tiles - but only for the demos and the purchased maps. Use the tutorial in the app to get started quickly or read the manual to find out which functions are included in this app. Since the app is still under development, some functions may still change. We hope you enjoy using GlobeViewer!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AR Globe at 4.6 against GlobeViewer's 3.4. AR Globe also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 11) and ads (none vs shown). GlobeViewer's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 0%). On price, ratings volume, device support 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
Both are free to download. GlobeViewer sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. AR Globe asks for nothing beyond the download.
AR Globe holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of AR Globe's written reviews are positive against 33% of GlobeViewer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | AR Globe | GlobeViewer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better | 3.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 5 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 235 MB | 236 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Rumsey | RAB-Software |
Customer experience
AR Globe
GlobeViewer
In-app purchases
AR Globe
No in-app purchases
GlobeViewer
- 4K & Polar Regions$0.99
- 4K & South America$2.99
- 4K & Pacific$2.99
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- 4K & Japan/Korea/Taiwan$2.99
- 8K & North America$4.99
- 8K & Australia$4.99
- 8K & China$4.99
- 8K & Russia$4.99
- 8K & Europe$4.99
- 8K Pass$8.99
- Professional Version$14.99
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