Categorize! vs WhereWas
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Categorize!
Test your observation skills by finding and grouping similar items. This game challenges you to identify patterns and categorize elements effectively.
- Find similar elements
- Group items
- Pattern recognition
- Observation skills test
- Categorization challenges
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Find similar elements and group them.
WhereWas
A daily game where you guess the location of photos from your camera roll. Earn lives and rounds by guessing correctly, and collect your wins on a personal globe. Offers optional in-app purchases for more gameplay.
- Guess photo locations from camera roll
- Daily one-life gameplay
- Three rounds per day
- Map-based guessing
- Collect wins on a personal globe
- Optional in-app purchases for more gameplay
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"GEO-GUESSER FOR YOUR CAMERA ROLL" Your greatest memories are trapped in your camera roll. So we made a daily game to show you a set of your own photos and you have to guess where in the world they were taken. You get one life per day and three rounds to play, each round with one photo. WHERE WAS THIS TAKEN? We show you a photo from your camera roll, you have to guess where it was taken. Forgot? You have one life or the game is over. Lives reset the next day. FIND IT ON THE MAP Zoom into the correct location on the map. Tap the map to place a pin. If your pin is close enough to the actual location, you win and can play more rounds. COLLECT YOUR WINS Every time you guess a photo correctly, it gets displayed on your globe for you to view when you're out of lives or rounds for the day. GET MORE LIVES AND ROUNDS If you want to play more, you can pay for 3x the lives and almost double the rounds (5 photos). You also can skip hard photos and you get a hint on the back of each photo. COMPLETELY PRIVATE AND SECURE - YOUR PHOTOS NEVER LEAVE YOUR IPHONE To play this game, you need give the app Photo Library Access. Your photos remain on your device and are only seen by you. We read the geographic data from your images without seeing the images themselves. NO ADS AND PLAY FOR FREE FOREVER WhereWas has no ads and is free to play forever. If you want to play more, you can buy WhereWas Plus for more lives and rounds.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: WhereWas at 100% against Categorize!'s 0%. Categorize!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. WhereWas sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Categorize! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on September 18, 2026.
| Parameter | Categorize! | WhereWas |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 197 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noor Creative, LLC | AppClub, LLC |
Customer experience
Categorize!
WhereWas
In-app purchases
Categorize!
No in-app purchases
WhereWas
- Plus Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Plus Yearly$24.991 Year
