The Divine Comedy vs CivicMapper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Divine Comedy
Explore Dante Alighieri's epic poem with digital access to Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. View original Italian texts and popular translations, enhanced by Gustave Doré's detailed etchings.
- Complete Divine Comedy text
- Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
- Original Italian texts
- Mandelbaum translation
- Longfellow translation
- Gustave Doré etchings
- Zoomable artwork
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The complete Divine Comedy — Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso — in digital format. The app features the original Italian text alongside the celebrated translations by Mandelbaum and Longfellow, viewable by swiping horizontally through each canto. Artwork in the form of etchings by Gustave Doré has been added to every canto, and can be zoomed in to see the smallest details. FEATURES All 100 cantos of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso Original Italian text alongside the Mandelbaum and Longfellow translations Classic Gustave Doré etchings for every canto, zoomable down to the finest detail A clean, distraction-free reading experience designed for long-form reading Long cantos display in full — nothing is ever cut short Whether you're studying Dante for the first time or returning to this masterpiece of world literature, Divine Comedy gives you the text, the translations, and the artwork in one elegant app.
CivicMapper
This app provides detailed civic jurisdiction information for your current location in the United States. It identifies state, county, city, congressional districts, and census data. Enable live tracking to receive real-time updates and notifications when you cross into new jurisdictions.
- View state, county, and city jurisdictions
- Identify US Congressional and State Senate/House districts
- Access Census tract, block, and group data
- Discover Urban Areas and Combined Statistical Areas
- Live tracking with customizable intervals
- Notifications for crossing jurisdiction boundaries
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CivicMapper: Know Where You Are — and Everywhere You’ve Been — in the US. CivicMapper shows all census jurisdictions for any place in the United States — your current location, a pin you choose, or a spot you look up. Go beyond a postal address: see the state, county, city (or unincorporated area), and many more layers that most maps leave out. WHAT’S NEW • Visited Places — color in counties and cities you’ve been to on an interactive US map, and keep a running tally by state • Phone tracking — record GPS trails while CivicMapper is open, or turn on Continuous tracking to keep logging in the background • Import GPS files — bring in tracks from dedicated GPS hardware (such as a Columbus V990 data logger), review them on the map, and use them to fill Visited Places automatically • Import & export — you control your data • Hardware tips and buy links — helpful tips for a privacy-first hardware setup for geo-tracking For any location, CivicMapper can show: 1. State 2. County (or equivalent) 3. City (incorporated place) 4. County subdivision 5. US Congressional district 6. State senate district 7. State house district 8. Census tract 9. Census block group and census block 10. Urban area 11. Combined statistical area Turn on Live mode to refresh on a cadence you choose, and notice whenever you cross into a new jurisdiction — useful for geography fans, civics buffs, and anyone who works with election or census boundaries. WHY CIVICMAPPER? Popular navigation apps usually give a postal city, state, and ZIP. They often skip county and many other civic layers — and the “city” on a mailing address isn’t always inside actual city limits. Rural and unincorporated places still get a postal city based on ZIP codes. CivicMapper uses actual geographic boundaries from the US census so you see where you really are. PRIVACY Your visited places, GPS trails, and imports stay on your device. No account is required to use CivicMapper. CIVIC MAPPER PRO Visited Places, phone tracking, continuous tracking, and GPS file tools are available with Civic Mapper Pro (auto-renewable subscription), for the following prices as of this writing: • Monthly — $0.99 per month • Yearly — $7.99 per year Discover where you are — and map where you’ve been — with CivicMapper!
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Verdict
The Divine Comedy and CivicMapper both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of CivicMapper's written reviews are positive against 0% of The Divine Comedy's. CivicMapper also leads on price (Free vs $2.99). The Divine Comedy's advantage is chart position (#191 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
CivicMapper is free to download; The Divine Comedy costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for The Divine Comedy against 5.0 for CivicMapper. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of The Divine Comedy's written reviews are positive against 100% of CivicMapper's.
The Divine Comedy ships an update every 4 months, CivicMapper every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Divine Comedy | CivicMapper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #191 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 319 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bart Beekwilder | Great Sitkin Technologies LLC |
Customer experience
The Divine Comedy
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In-app purchases
The Divine Comedy
No in-app purchases
CivicMapper
No in-app purchases
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