Comparison

Whose Land vs ALEN

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

Head to head
About

Whose Land

Explore Indigenous territories, treaties, and communities across Canada using GIS technology. Learn about land acknowledgements, treaties, and Indigenous perspectives on land through interactive maps and educational videos.

Highlights
  • Interactive maps of Indigenous territories
  • Information on treaties and agreements
  • Details on First Nations, Inuit, and Metis communities
  • Educational videos on land acknowledgements
  • Learn about Indigenous relationship to land
  • Tool for reconciliation dialogue
Features
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Explore Indigenous territories, treaties, languages and communities with Whose Land. Use the interactive map, search for a place or Nation, or choose your current location to learn more about the land around you. Browse community information, Indigenous businesses, residential and boarding school locations, leadership stories and territories by city. Learn through educational videos, frequently asked questions and lesson plans. Explore land acknowledgement resources, create a personal draft, and share information with others. Whose Land 3.0 brings a redesigned native experience to iPhone and iPad, with English and French interfaces, dark mode, accessible text and controls, and faster search using saved place results and local postal-code data. Recently accessed content is cached for reuse; an internet connection is needed for content that has not been saved and for online media. Whose Land is an educational starting point for learning, dialogue and further research. Mapped areas are approximations and do not represent definitive or legal boundaries. Data sources and credits are available in the app.

About

ALEN

Features
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ALEN presents its online learning mobile app capable of syncing with your organization’s open-sourced learning management system. Access your online learning courses, keep track of your performance, save your progress, and more. Premergency Inc. powered ALEN with a mobile application to empower learners with a dynamic tool to access their corporate online courses, user data, and additional performance and management tools. Features: * • Interactive courses and learning activities * • Access your custom learning plans * • Corporate branding options * • Build your corporate policies with ALEN’s Policy Tracker * • Create efficient forms with Form Builder * • Document Manager * • Enable reports and user performance data …and more features tailored to your organization’s needs.

Screenshots

Whose Land3 screens
ALEN3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ALEN at every 4 months against Whose Land's every 33 months. ALEN also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 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

Whose Land ships an update every 33 months, ALEN every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Whose Land versus ALEN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhose LandALEN
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 33 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB74 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTakingITGlobalPremergency Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Whose Land

No in-app purchases

None

ALEN

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Whose Land free?
Whose Land is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ALEN free?
ALEN is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Whose Land or ALEN have ads?
Neither Whose Land nor ALEN shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Whose Land or ALEN?
Whose Land ships an update every 33 months, and ALEN every 4 months. Most recently, Whose Land was updated on October 24, 2026 and ALEN on October 27, 2026.

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