Comparison

SmartShanghai vs Travisaro

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

Head to head
About

SmartShanghai

Access a comprehensive directory of over 16,000 Shanghai businesses, events, and classifieds. Discover nearby venues, happy hours, and essential city information. Find housing, jobs, and buy/sell items with this city guide.

Highlights
  • 16,000+ business directory
  • Location-based venue discovery
  • Curated editorial content
  • Comprehensive events calendar
  • Housing and job classifieds
  • Buy & Sell marketplace
  • Emergency contact information
Features
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Discover and bookmark the best of Shanghai. SmartShanghai is Shanghai’s longest-running online English-language city guide. For over 20 years, our editors on the ground have been discovering, reviewing and curating the places, events and things worth knowing about. From restaurants and bars to exhibitions, concerts, family activities and hidden neighborhood spots, we help you find the best of Shanghai — and save the things you want to come back to. Discover Browse our hand-picked selection of restaurants, bars, cafés, shops and other places around Shanghai. Save Your Favorites Bookmark places, events and articles you want to come back to and build your own Shanghai list. What’s On Find things happening around the city, from live music and nightlife to exhibitions, markets, dining events and family activities. Editorial Guides, recommendations and stories from our Shanghai-based editorial team, covering the city for more than 20 years. Housing Browse apartments for rent across Shanghai, with thousands of current listings from local agencies and landlords. Tickets Discover upcoming shows and events and buy tickets directly through SmartShanghai. Essential Shanghai Practical information for living in and visiting Shanghai, including useful services and emergency information. Whether you’ve just arrived, are visiting for a few days, or have lived here for years, SmartShanghai helps you discover more of Shanghai — and keep track of the places you don’t want to forget.

About

Travisaro

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The border has your exact number. Do you? Travisaro counts your Schengen 90/180 days, tourist visa days and residency days, then tells you the exact date you have to leave. WHY DOING THIS BY HAND STOPS WORKING Schengen 90/180 is the rule most people get wrong. It is a rolling window, not a calendar year, so a trip you took eight months ago can still be eating your allowance today. Add a second visa, a residency permit, or a passport with different rules, and a spreadsheet stops being reliable exactly when the answer matters most. A VISA TRACKER THAT KNOWS THE ACTUAL RULE Not every visa counts days the same way. Travisaro applies six different rule models: rolling windows, total day pools, duration from first entry, single validity periods, unlimited residency, and transit visas that track nothing at all. Add a visa once and it uses the right one. DAY COUNTING YOU CAN ACT ON See days used, days remaining, and your exit by date on one card, kept current as you travel. When a limit gets close you hear about it while you can still change the plan, not at the desk. SCAN A BOARDING PASS, SKIP THE TYPING Photograph a boarding pass or ticket. Travisaro reads every flight on it, closes the trip you are leaving, opens the one you are entering on the landing date, and offers to create the matching visa with the country and dates already filled in. Multi leg tickets and domestic connections are handled in the same pass. TAX RESIDENCY AND THE 183 DAY RULE Days counted per country for the calendar year, so the 183 day threshold stops being a thing you estimate in your head in December. A TRAVEL MAP OF WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN Tag countries as visited, lived in, or want to go, and watch the map fill in. Turn on visa access and it recolours by where your passport gets in without a visa, so planning the next trip starts from what is actually open to you. Spin the globe, or flatten it to a world map. PASSPORT POWER See your passport's ranking and compare it side by side with any other. Useful if you hold two, or are deciding which one to travel on. TRIP TRACKER AND TRAVEL HISTORY Every trip, flight and visa on one timeline. Old visas move to history instead of vanishing, so you can answer a border question about last year without digging through email. TRAVEL WRAPPED Your year as a story you can share. Countries, days, longest stay, furthest point. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY MOVE Digital nomads working across borders. Expats on residency permits. Business travellers in and out of Schengen every month. Dual citizens juggling two passports. Anyone who has ever counted days on their fingers at an airport. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your travel history is yours. Accounts are private until you choose otherwise, and you can delete your account and everything in it from Settings at any time. Travisaro is a personal record keeping and calculation tool. It is not immigration advice and it does not submit applications on your behalf. Always confirm your situation with the relevant embassy or consulate.

Screenshots

SmartShanghai4 screens
Travisaro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Travisaro at every 4 days against SmartShanghai's every 3 months. SmartShanghai's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SmartShanghai ships an update every 3 months, Travisaro every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SmartShanghai versus Travisaro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartShanghaiTravisaro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (561 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews39.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings561 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB3 MB
Age rating12+12+
Developer上海煌飞商务咨询有限公司Andrei Chernykh

Bugs and requests

SmartShanghai

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Venues randomly disappearing from the app
  • Inability to access favorites after updates
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS devices
  • Frequent crashes and freezes

Requested features

4 requests
  • Improve search and filtering functionality
  • Add ability to rate and review venues
  • Integrate more location-based features
  • Provide regular content updates

Travisaro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SmartShanghai

No in-app purchases

None

Travisaro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SmartShanghai free?
SmartShanghai is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Travisaro free?
Travisaro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SmartShanghai or Travisaro have ads?
Neither SmartShanghai nor Travisaro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SmartShanghai or Travisaro?
SmartShanghai ships an update every 3 months, and Travisaro every 4 days. Most recently, SmartShanghai was updated on October 24, 2026 and Travisaro on October 8, 2026.

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