Visit Big Bend! vs Trāce
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Visit Big Bend!
Discover attractions, accommodations, dining, and shopping in Big Bend and Brewster County. Plan your perfect day based on your interests, timeframe, and location, and share your custom itinerary with friends.
- Personalized day experiences
- Real-time event feed
- Upcoming event listings
- Customizable itinerary planning
- Social sharing of plans
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The Visit Big Bend! app will help you discover all the places you can explore, stay, dine, shop and meet in Big Bend! • Experience the perfect day based on your interests, timeframe, and location • Browse the feed of what's happening now • View upcoming events near you • Add events and places to your own customized plan • Share events, places, and your custom plan with friends
Trāce
Map your travels by marking countries and US states you've visited, lived in, or want to see. Track your progress with statistics on countries, continents, and world coverage. Share visually appealing maps of your journeys.
- Mark countries and US states with custom statuses
- Visualize travel progress on a world map
- Track statistics for countries and continents
- Generate shareable map images
- Switch between light and dark map styles
- Offline functionality
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Trāce is a map of everywhere you've been, and it's free. No subscription, no ads, no account. Mark the countries you've visited, lived in, have booked, or want to see next. Trāce fills them in on a world map that's been drawn to look like an atlas rather than a satnav: no roads, no buildings, no pins, just land, water, borders and names. It's a globe, so you can spin it and zoom right in. It keeps the count for you. How many countries, how many continents, and what share of the world that really is. THE PLACES THAT AREN'T THEIR OWN COUNTRY Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, Macau, Greenland, Guam, Aruba, the US and British Virgin Islands, French Polynesia, the Cayman Islands and more. 44 territories in all, counted separately from the 198 countries, so your country total stays honest. ALL 50 US STATES States get their own map, their own stats and their own share card, Washington DC included. Other travel trackers charge extra for states. Here it's part of the app. FIVE THEMES Paper, Daybreak, Tide, Midnight and Ember. Your theme goes everywhere: the map, the lists, the share card, and the app icon on your Home Screen. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Tap a country on the globe, or tap the box on any row, to mark it Visited, Lived, Booked or Want to visit - Read a list of countries without checking a key, because each status has its own mark - Add 44 territories and islands, counted separately from countries - Track all 50 US states and Washington DC on their own map - Browse your places by continent, with progress for each one - Search for the small places that are hard to hit on a globe - Share your map as a card in your current theme, to Instagram, Messages, or anywhere - Keep your map on your other devices through your own iCloud - Use it offline. No signal needed WHAT IT COSTS Nothing. Other travel maps charge for US states, for regions, or for a subscription. Trāce gives you all of it free, with no ads and no in-app purchases. PRIVATE BY DESIGN There's no account to make and nothing to cancel. Your travel history lives on your device and syncs through your own iCloud if you want it on more than one. It never touches a server of ours, and we never see your map. Trāce is the free flagship of the Āpex Suite from HYTimes App Studio. Start with the first country you remember. The map does the rest.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Visit Big Bend! at 319 against Trāce's 2. Visit Big Bend! also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Trāce's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Trāce holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visit Big Bend! has 319 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Visit Big Bend! ships an update every 4 months, Trāce every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Visit Big Bend! | Trāce |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (319 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 319 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brewster County Tourism Council & Visit Big Bend | Dennis Hodgson |
Customer experience
Visit Big Bend!
Trāce
In-app purchases
Visit Big Bend!
No in-app purchases
Trāce
No in-app purchases









