Comparison

Paws Location vs Where Am I

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

Head to head
About

Paws Location

This app uses your Apple Watch's GPS to display your current location's street address, city, region, and country. It's designed as a quick tool to find your location, useful for services like ordering taxis. A complication is also available for your watch face.

Highlights
  • View current street address
  • Display city, region, and country
  • Uses Apple Watch GPS
  • Watch face complication
  • Quick location retrieval
Features
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This app and complication is installed on the Apple Watch, and uses GPS positioning to view information about the current location. The app show an address or landmark name based on position, using the Apple Watch's built-in GPS feature. Open the app to update of the current position, and using the geographic data get an approximate estimation of street address, city, region, and country. The app is intended primarily as a handy companion to easily retrieve the street address of your current location, for instance when you need to order a taxi. The accompanying complication feature is nice-to-have on the watch face, to display location information. The complication shows the name of the city and country at the latest location update. Depending on watch face and complication type less information may be shown. Note that the complication is not updated in real time, but with some delay. Updates are dependent on the clock's update cycles for complications and the availability of GPS services. As the GPS consume battery, updates are therefore limited when the app is not active on screen.

About

Where Am I

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Do you want to know what address you are at and in which city? This is the perfect app for you! The app geolocates you and shows you the city and street where you are. In addition, you can view the coordinates, altitude, location accuracy and a detailed map of where you are. Sharing your location is easy with the integrated share button. To summarise, in the app you can see: - City - Address - Geographic coordinates - Altitude - Map And you can also: - Share the address to your contacts.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Where Am I at Free against Paws Location's $0.99. Where Am I also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On ads, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Where Am I is free to download; Paws Location costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Paws Location ships an update every 4 months, Where Am I every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Paws Location versus Where Am I: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaws LocationWhere Am I
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating2.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGrey Paws ABAndrea Montinovo

In-app purchases

None

Paws Location

No in-app purchases

None

Where Am I

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Paws Location free?
Paws Location costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Where Am I free?
Where Am I is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Paws Location or Where Am I have ads?
Neither Paws Location nor Where Am I shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Paws Location or Where Am I?
Paws Location ships an update every 4 months, and Where Am I every 2 months. Most recently, Paws Location was updated on October 26, 2026 and Where Am I on October 27, 2026.

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