Comparison

Stack the Countries® vs Country Cruiser

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

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About

Stack the Countries®

Learn world geography through a fun, interactive game. Stack animated countries by answering questions about capitals, landmarks, and locations. Collect all countries and unlock bonus games for a comprehensive learning experience.

Highlights
  • Learn country capitals, landmarks, and locations
  • Build stacks of countries to win levels
  • Collect all 193 countries
  • Unlock bonus games: Map It! and Pile Up!
  • Focus on specific continents or the whole world
  • 193 country flash cards and interactive maps
  • Play in English, Spanish, and French
Features
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- Featured on the TODAY show! - Editor's Choice Award! - Children's Technology Review - "Stack the Countries is worth every penny and this is an educational purchase that you absolutely will not regret." - The iPhone Mom Stack the Countries® makes learning about the world fun! Watch the countries actually come to life in this colorful and dynamic game! As you learn country capitals, landmarks, geographic locations and more, you can actually touch, move and drop the animated countries anywhere on the screen. Carefully build a stack of countries that reaches the checkered line to win each level. You earn a random country for every successfully completed level. All of your countries appear on your own personalized maps of the continents. Try to collect all 193! As you earn more countries, you begin to unlock the free bonus games: Map It! and Pile Up! Three games in one! CONTROL YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE: You can choose to focus on just one specific continent or play the whole world. You can also select which types of questions are asked. LEARN BEFORE YOU PLAY: Stack the Countries provides 193 country flash cards and colorful interactive maps of the continents. Use them to brush up on your world geography before you play or as a handy reference tool. HAVE FUN LEARNING ALL ABOUT THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: ▸ Capitals ▸ Landmarks ▸ Major Cities ▸ Continents ▸ Border Countries ▸ Languages ▸ Flags ▸ Country Shapes FEATURES: ▸ More than 1000 unique questions ▸ 193 flash cards -- one for each country! ▸ Interactive maps of the continents ▸ Collect all 193 countries and track your progress on personalized maps ▸ Earn FREE bonus games: Map It! and Pile Up! ▸ Play in English, Spanish and French ▸ Works on both iPhone and iPad - a universal app ▸ Create up to six player profiles ▸ Choose any of the friendly-looking countries as your avatar ▸ High resolution pictures of famous world landmarks ▸ All games are powered by a realistic physics engine ▸ Fun sound effects and music ▸ iPhone 4 Retina Display support THREE GAMES IN ONE: STACK THE COUNTRIES: Build tall piles of countries and try to reach the checkered line. MAP IT: Tap the location of the selected country on the map. Try to complete the whole continent! PILE UP: The countries are piling up! Identify and tap them quickly to get rid of them before they reach the top. Stack the Countries® is an educational app for all ages that's actually FUN to play. Try it now and enjoy three games for the price of one! PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Stack the Countries®: - Does not contain 3rd party ads. - Does not contain in-app purchases. - Does not contain integration with social networks. - Does not use 3rd party analytics / data collection tools. - Does include links to apps by Dan Russell-Pinson in the iTunes App Store (via Performance Horizon). For more information on our privacy policy please visit: http://dan-russell-pinson.com/privacy/

About

Country Cruiser

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The world is the puzzle. Country Cruiser is four world-geography games for people who already know where Burkina Faso is — and want to get faster, sharper, and a little smug about it. — ONE MYSTERY EVERY DAY — Detective gives you a blurred country and a single clue. Six guesses to crack it. Each miss sharpens the shape and reveals another clue — a city, a river, a national dish, a record-holding mountain. Same puzzle for everyone, every day, like the geography game your group chat has been waiting for. — THREE FAST GAMES — NAME IT. A country's silhouette, or just its flag. Six guesses with distance and compass-bearing feedback on every miss. If you like Worldle, you'll recognize the moves. FINDER. Pick a continent. We name a country. You tap it on the map. Or we show its flag and you tap that. Miss too many and we start dropping facts until the answer feels obvious. FACTS. "Home of the Atacama Desert." Find it on the map. Another fact lands every few seconds — the longer you stall, the more the country tells you about itself. — WHY IT FEELS DIFFERENT — • Real coordinates. Every guess is graded by actual great-circle distance and a real compass bearing — not a fuzzy "close enough." • Facts that aren't a Wikipedia dump. Cities, rivers, sports, food, wildlife, records, culture — hand-picked, one-line clues that read like trivia, not homework. • Every country, every continent. Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, Oceania. Pinch to zoom. Drag to pan. Learn the shapes the slow way — by playing. • No accounts. No tracking. Your daily streak lives on your phone, not on someone else's server. Free, with ads. iPhone and iPad. Requires iOS 15 or later.

Screenshots

Stack the Countries®4 screens
Country Cruiser4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Country Cruiser at Free against Stack the Countries®'s $2.99. Country Cruiser also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 months). Stack the Countries®'s advantage is chart position (#11 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). On ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Country Cruiser is free to download; Stack the Countries® costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stack the Countries® ships an update every 6 months, Country Cruiser every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Stack the Countries® versus Country Cruiser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStack the Countries®Country Cruiser
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews91.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#11 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size132 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFreecloud Design, Inc.Michael White

Bugs and requests

Stack the Countries®

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Albania's position is tilted
  • Overlapping of certain countries (e.g. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan)
  • Incorrect information (e.g. Pyongyang in South Korea)
  • Game freezing or crashing
  • Progress not saving properly

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add more countries and territories (e.g. Vatican City, Western Sahara, Kosovo, Taiwan)
  • Improve accuracy of country sizes and shapes
  • Increase variety of questions (e.g. capitals, landmarks, languages, geography facts)
  • Add read-aloud option for questions
  • Introduce more game modes and difficulty levels
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  • Create a sequel with enhanced features (like Stack the States 2)

Country Cruiser

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Stack the Countries®

No in-app purchases

None

Country Cruiser

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stack the Countries® free?
Stack the Countries® costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Country Cruiser free?
Country Cruiser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Stack the Countries® or Country Cruiser have ads?
Neither Stack the Countries® nor Country Cruiser shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stack the Countries® or Country Cruiser?
Stack the Countries® ships an update every 6 months, and Country Cruiser every 10 days. Most recently, Stack the Countries® was updated on September 29, 2026 and Country Cruiser on September 18, 2026.

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