WorldMobile vs Backyard Explorer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WorldMobile
This travel app consolidates all your trip details, notifications, and resources in one place. It allows you to easily contact your travel consultant, update your profile, and receive flight alerts. Designed for existing customers, it streamlines travel planning and management.
- Centralized trip library
- Profile updates and preferences
- Flight status notifications
- Contact travel consultant
- Access booking tools
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WorldMobile is your ultimate travel assistant. Eliminate the need to organize emails and search multiple sites to prepare for your journey. Simply login to WorldMobile to contact your designated travel consultant and easily view your trips, notifications, and travel resources in one central space. WorldMobile is designed exclusively for World Travel, Inc. customers and their travelers. To access WorldMobile, you must have an active traveler profile with World Travel, Inc. STAY ORGANIZED WITH YOUR TRIP LIBRARY: Easily view and share your historical and upcoming trips. ON THE GO PROFILE UPDATES: Keep your traveler profile current, with on demand, secure access to your memberships and travel preferences. FLIGHT NOTIFICATIONS: Enable push notifications to stay informed of flight status changes, gate assignments, and potential misconnects. BOOK A TRIP: Easily access your travel booking tool or contact your travel consultant.
Backyard Explorer
Discover the history and hidden stories of your surroundings with an audio guide that automatically narrates as you walk. Explore different historical perspectives and unlock new content through optional subscriptions.
- Automatic GPS-triggered audio narration
- Multiple themed walking tours
- Interactive map that reveals as you explore
- Live narration for real-world events
- Museum collection tours
- User-published and discoverable routes
- Personal exploration log and achievements
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Backyard turns any walk into a story. Wherever you are, a talking tree guide narrates real, fact-checked history and hidden stories about the exact block you're standing on, triggered automatically as you walk. No planning, no searching, no tapping through a list of stops. Just walk, and listen. SAME STREETS, FIVE DIFFERENT WALKS Pick a mood before you start, and hear the same city told a completely different way: Time Machine: what this spot looked like decades ago Hidden City: secrets hiding in plain sight Dark Side: unsolved mysteries and dark history Behind the Scenes: film locations and celebrity history Unfiltered: raw, funny, opinionated, like walking with a local friend who knows everything A MAP YOU HAVE TO EARN The map starts completely dark. Nothing shows, not a street, not a pin, until you've actually walked there. Every step you take reveals it for good. Other explorers' published routes stay invisible too, until you've personally discovered that exact spot yourself, so your map becomes a real record of your own exploration. REAL-WORLD EVENTS, NARRATED LIVE Backyard Events ties narration to real runs, parades, and festivals happening right now. Walk into an event's zone and the story shifts to be about what's actually happening around you, not just the block's usual history. MUSEUM TOURS GPS doesn't work indoors, so museum collections get their own kind of tour: fixed, narrated stops through a real museum's own collection, starting with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, advanced with a tap whenever you're ready for the next piece. DISCOVER AND REPLAY Browse routes other explorers have published and walk them yourself, hearing their original narration play back as you retrace their steps. Publish your own walks for others to discover. YOUR OWN EXPLORATION LOG Every walk is saved: distance, duration, and the story behind every stop, so you can relive it anytime. Track tours completed, distance walked, cities visited, and badges earned along the way. BACKYARD EXPLORER (OPTIONAL) Unlock Dark Side, Behind the Scenes, and Unfiltered moods, Dramatic and Warm narration voices, a higher daily story limit, and the ability to ask a question out loud anywhere on your walk. Backyard is free to download and use. Backyard Explorer is an optional subscription (monthly or annual) for anyone who wants more. Every street has a story. Go find it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://backyardexplorer.org/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: WorldMobile at none against Backyard Explorer's 2. WorldMobile also leads on ratings volume (39 vs 1). Backyard Explorer's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Backyard Explorer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. WorldMobile asks for nothing beyond the download.
Backyard Explorer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WorldMobile has 39 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
WorldMobile ships an update every 5 months, Backyard Explorer fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WorldMobile | Backyard Explorer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (39 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | World Travel Inc. | KELLY LEUNG |
Customer experience
WorldMobile
Backyard Explorer
In-app purchases
WorldMobile
No in-app purchases
Backyard Explorer
- Backyard Explorer$4.991 Month
- Backyard Explorer Annual$39.991 Year
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