ExploreHere vs PennyLocator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ExploreHere
This app transforms your drives into engaging audio journeys. It automatically plays stories about historic landmarks and hidden places as you travel, allowing for a hands-free and immersive discovery experience.
- Hands-free audio stories
- Automatic landmark discovery
- Walking and driving tours
- Offline access (Pro)
- Nearby history alerts
- Save favorite stops (Pro)
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Turn every drive into a story. ExploreHere is a hands-free road trip guide that plays stories automatically as you travel. Discover historic landmarks, hidden places, and unforgettable moments, without ever touching your phone. Whether you're cruising cross-country, exploring a small town, or wandering a new city, ExploreHere reveals the stories that shaped the places around you. Made for the Road - 240,000+ Historic Landmarks across the U.S. - Auto-Play Audio as you pass places worth knowing - Hands-Free Travel Mode for safe driving - Walking & Driving Tours through cities, parks, and scenic highways - Nearby History Alerts so you never miss a story Pro Features - Offline access for no-service road trips - High-Quality Immersive Audio - View public lands, national parks & forests and native lands - Smart proximity alerts - Save and organize favorite stops Perfect For Road trippers • RV travelers • National park explorers • History lovers • Families on vacation • Curious travelers ExploreHere transforms highways into story-filled journeys and ordinary stops into unforgettable discoveries. See the history around you. Start exploring today. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: http://explorehere.app/privacy
PennyLocator
Discover and locate machines that press pennies worldwide. View detailed information, mark visited or desired machines, and navigate directly to their location. Enable notifications to never miss a nearby penny machine.
- Worldwide machine map
- Detailed machine information
- Track visited machines
- Mark machines for future visits
- Navigation to machines
- Push notifications for nearby machines
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PennyMe helps with the collection of pressed pennies. Those neat coins that you can imprint with a picture of a tourist attraction if you turn the crank of the machine. PennyMe displays all machines worldwide on a map and displays detailed information about a machine upon selection. Tick off machines you visited to keep track of your collected pennies. Or mark a machine for a later visit. PennyMe also helps you to easily navigate to any machine. And it shows its address, a picture of the machine and other details. Our recommendation: Turn on push notifications & never miss out again on a nearby penny! Conceptualization & development: Nina Wiedemann & Jannis Born Icon design: Max Tiessen Open-source contributors: Zain Malik
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PennyLocator at none against ExploreHere's 10. PennyLocator also leads on review sentiment (78% vs 67%). ExploreHere's advantage is ratings volume (810 vs 45) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, 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. ExploreHere sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.00 per month. PennyLocator asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for ExploreHere against 4.8 for PennyLocator. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ExploreHere has 810 ratings behind it against 45, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of ExploreHere's written reviews are positive against 78% of PennyLocator's.
ExploreHere ships an update every 10 days, PennyLocator every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.
| Parameter | ExploreHere | PennyLocator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (810 ratings) | 4.8 (45 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 78.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 810 — better | 45 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #84 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 160 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wesley Vance | Jannis Born |
Customer experience
ExploreHere
PennyLocator
Bugs and requests
ExploreHere
Reported bugs
8 issues- App crashes when viewing multiple items
- Crashes on app launch/opening
- Continuous tracking feature not working on iPhone
- CarPlay compatibility issues
- Audio descriptions cut off mid-sentence
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- Double charging incidents
- App freezing and becoming unresponsive
- Incomplete marker database coverage
Requested features
8 requests- Automatic audio reading when passing markers for drivers
- City-based browsing instead of marker name search
- Improved voice quality and complete audio descriptions
- Better map visibility with lighter road colors
- Automatic location detection on app launch
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- Free filtering options without upgrade requirement
- Continuous tracking feature improvement
- Offline marker access capability
PennyLocator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ExploreHere
- Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$2.001 Month
- Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$4.001 Month
- Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
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- Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$10.001 Month
- Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$10.001 Year
- Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$16.001 Year
- Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$20.001 Year
- Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$35.991 Year
- Pro - Lifetime$60.00
PennyLocator
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is ExploreHere free?
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