Comparison

States Visited vs Trāce

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

Head to head
About

States Visited

Easily track visited states and counties on a map with customizable visualization modes. Save, share, and view statistics of your travels, all while working perfectly offline. Includes a dark mode for comfortable use.

Highlights
  • Visualize visited states/counties on map
  • States flag or fill color modes
  • Save map to image
  • Share map
  • Offline functionality
  • Dark mode
Features
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How much of America have you really explored? States Visited is the ultimate travel map app that lets you track every state — and every county — you've visited across the USA. Whether you're road-tripping coast to coast or checking off counties one by one, watch your personal map come alive as you color in your journey. Go beyond states — track all 3,143 counties. Most travel map apps stop at the state level. States Visited lets you dive deeper and mark individual counties, giving you a detailed picture of just how much of the country you've truly covered. Perfect for county collectors, road warriors, and anyone chasing the goal of visiting all 50 states — and beyond. Make your map yours. Choose how to display your travels: fill states with their official flags for a bold, iconic look, or use custom colors to create your own style. Save your map as a high-resolution image or share it directly with friends, family, and fellow travelers. Features: Track visited states AND counties on an interactive US map Visualize your travels with state flags or custom fill colors Save your map as an image Share your map instantly on social media or with friends View detailed travel statistics to see your progress Clean, intuitive interface — mark a state or county in seconds Works perfectly offline — no internet needed Dark mode support Whether you're a weekend adventurer, a cross-country road tripper, or a business traveler logging miles, States Visited turns every trip into progress on your personal map. How far will you go?

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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. FILL YOUR MAP FROM YOUR PHOTOS Your photo library already knows where you've been. Trāce reads the location saved on your pictures, works out the countries and US states, and shows you what it found so you can confirm it. All of it happens on your phone: it reads where and when, never the pictures themselves, and nothing is sent anywhere. Nothing is marked until you say so. A TIMELINE OF YOUR TRIPS The dates on your photos put your travel in order, trip by trip, with the states a road trip crossed counted inside it. Tell Trāce which places are just everyday life and they stay off it. You can type in the older trips your phone was never around for. 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 - Fill your map from your photo library in about a minute, then confirm what it found - Tap a country on the globe, or tap the box on any row, to mark it Visited, Lived, Booked or Want to visit - See your trips as a timeline, and add the older ones by hand - 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, your states or your trips as a card in your current theme, to Instagram, Messages, or anywhere - Keep your map and your trips 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. Reading your photos happens entirely on your phone, and no picture, and nothing read from one, ever leaves it. 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.

Screenshots

States Visited4 screens
Trāce4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Trāce at 4.3 against States Visited's 2.5. Trāce also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 28 months). States Visited's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 4). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Trāce holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

States Visited ships an update every 28 months, Trāce every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
States Visited versus Trāce: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStates VisitedTrāce
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (13 ratings)4.3 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 28 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael YankovichHYTimes Group, LLC

Customer experience

States Visited

All ratings11 ratings
Positive18.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative81.8%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%

Trāce

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

States Visited

No in-app purchases

None

Trāce

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is States Visited free?
States Visited is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Trāce free?
Trāce is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, States Visited or Trāce?
Trāce is rated higher. States Visited averages 2.5 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Trāce averages 4.3 from 4 ratings.
Do States Visited or Trāce have ads?
States Visited shows ads; Trāce does not.
Which is updated more often, States Visited or Trāce?
States Visited ships an update every 28 months, and Trāce every 2 months. Most recently, States Visited was updated on November 3, 2026 and Trāce on November 10, 2026.

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