Back in Time vs TopoTablet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Back in Time
Explore the history of the Universe, Earth, Life, and Civilization through an immersive, interactive journey. This app uses custom animations, timelines, and interesting facts to bring historical events to life. It's designed to help users understand the connections between events and see the bigger picture.
- Interactive timeline of events
- Custom animations and videos
- Over 350 remarkable images
- Little-known interesting facts
- Offline access
- Multilingual support
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• "The coolest history textbook you’ll find on the iPad" - The New York Times • Winner of the WSA Mobile Award • Top1 iPad Book in US, UK, FR, ES, China… and 34 more Countries • Featured by The New York Times (Top10 iPad Apps of the year) • Featured by the American Photo Magazine (Top 10 Photo eBooks of the year) For iPhone/iPod touch download - Back in Time for iPhone Back in Time will take you on a stunning exploration of the history of our Universe, Earth, Life and Civilization. A journey through time where each event is documented with social and historical context, several images, an illustrative timeline and little-known interesting facts. Custom made animations bring those events to life, creating an interesting, immersive learning experience. An imaginary clock will guide you through this quest, proposing a simple analogy: the entire Universe started 24 hours ago. The Big Bang, the source of time and space, is the first event in our journey – the clock reads 0:00 hours. Today, 13.7 billion years later, the clock reads midnight. In between is a sequence of key events that has brought us to where we are today. Explore them, place them in perspective, see how they relate and understand the connections. We invite you to take a step back and see the whole picture. :::: REVIEWS :::: “...a beautifully executed lesson on the history of the universe and the evolution of life on earth. Great for high school students or parents who’d like to tutor younger children and enjoy a first-rate experience of their own...” - Bob Tedeschi, The New York Times “The iPad could use more apps like this one.” - The Daily “...the best iPad apps are those that combine coffee table-styled books with the fluid nature of the iPad’s interface. Back in Time is just that, it’s the story of the entire history of our universe made interactive on the iPad.” - Casey Chan, Gizmodo (App of the Day) “Back in Time is utterly gorgeous in its presentation. (...) The app is so easy to navigate that it is a delight to explore. Landka could scarcely have done a better job in putting everything together.” - Gwen Phua, Appmodo :::: FEATURES :::: Designed for iPad; 47 chapters; Over 350 remarkable images; 60+ amazing animations and videos; 40+ illustrated timelines; More than 200 little-known interesting facts; Music by the composer Rodrigo Leão; Developed in 7 different languages (English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese); No internet connection required.
TopoTablet
Explore the world in a superheli, testing your knowledge of capitals and major cities. Race against the clock to find over 240 locations, using a hint system for challenging spots. Compete for a top spot on the online high score table in this fun and educational game.
- World capitals and cities quiz
- Time-based challenges
- Hint system
- Online high score table
- Educational gameplay
- Explore land and seas
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Test your knowledge of the capitals and the big cities of the entire world. Fly around in your superheli that is able to cross all the known land and seas. Try to build up time by finding each place, and use your accumulated time sparingly because there will be 240+ places that will probably will not be so easy to find. Find those places before time runs out, otherwise you will crash and explode. Luckily there is a hint system that will help you find those really, really though places. A fun game for young and old, and also very educational. Try to find as much of those places to enter the top 10 of the online hiscore table!
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: TopoTablet at Free against Back in Time's $7.99. TopoTablet also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 84%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). Back in Time's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (27 vs 2). On update cadence, 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
TopoTablet is free to download; Back in Time costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Back in Time holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Back in Time has 27 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Back in Time's written reviews are positive against 100% of TopoTablet's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Back in Time ships an update every 7 months, TopoTablet every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Back in Time | TopoTablet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (27 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 836 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Landka | Frans Kramer |
Customer experience
Back in Time
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In-app purchases
Back in Time
No in-app purchases
TopoTablet
No in-app purchases
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