Geospike vs Tripcast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Geospike
Record your travels by creating location-based entries with photos and notes. Group these entries into trips and share them with friends and family, even while you're on the go. This app allows you to build a travel history and easily find your way back to memorable spots.
- Record locations with photos and notes
- Create and group entries into trips
- Share individual entries or entire trips
- Build a travel history
- Offline logging capability
- Find your way back to logged places
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Record your travels, share with friends, and find your way back to places you've been—all while building a travel history. With Geospike you can instantly record where you are, attaching photos and notes to your location, creating what we call a 'spike'. Geospike is a great way to capture and share moments on-the-go, from visiting landmarks to having coffee with your friends. There is no "checking-in" to predefined places and you can log a spike without an internet connection, making it especially great for places off the beaten path. Start a trip, and and the places you log will be grouped together on a trip map. You can share individual spikes, or the whole trip (even while it's in progress) so friends and family can follow your journey as you go. Whether you're traveling around the world or exploring your own neighborhood, Geospike is the perfect app for capturing and sharing your travels.
Tripcast
Share your travel experiences privately with friends and family. Create trip albums, receive live photo updates, and collect everyone's photos in one place. Browse photos by location and stay connected through comments and likes.
- Live photo updates
- Private trip albums
- Collect photos from multiple users
- Map-based photo browsing
- Location-based photo tagging
- Real-time comments and likes
- Private sharing away from social media
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* Featured as “New and Noteworthy” by Apple * Tripcast lets you share your travel photos with the people who want to see everything, not just the highlights. Start a trip, invite your friends and family to the album, and give them live photo updates from the road! The best way to share your trip: • Make updates instantly: Update your family and friends in real time • Stay in touch: Ask questions, leave comments, and like posts Build an album with everybody: • Vacationers assemble!: Collect everyone's trip photos in one place • Easy backup: Download them all when you get home Map it out: • Effortless tagging: Photos are automatically added to the trip map • Browse by location: View photos by where they happened, not when Everyone is using Tripcast to share their travels: • Keep it private: Share only with the people who care the most, away from social media • Apps for everyone: Access Tripcast through gorgeous apps for iPhone and the web • Bring everyone along: Notifications keep friends and family updated whenever there's activity How it works: 1. Create: Make an album for your trip 2. Invite: Pick friends and family to follow along 3. Update: Post photos and videos as you travel Built by the team that created Cluster, featured as a Best New App in the App Store! Tripcast Club is a monthly or annual subscription to give admins more control over their groups. Check it out by visiting the Settings → Subscription Settings section of the app. By purchasing a subscription you agree to Tripcast's Terms of Use: https://tripcast.co/terms/ and Privacy Policy: https://tripcast.co/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Tripcast at none against Geospike's shown. Tripcast also leads on ratings volume (7.2K vs 1). Geospike's advantage is review sentiment (65% vs 50%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Geospike sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Tripcast sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Geospike holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tripcast has 7.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Geospike's written reviews are positive against 50% of Tripcast's.
Geospike ships an update every 3 months, Tripcast every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Geospike | Tripcast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (7.2K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.3% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Geospike Pty Ltd | Cluster Labs, Inc. |
Customer experience
Geospike
Tripcast
User reviews
Geospike
From 1 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🗺️ Great for tracking journeys
- 📸 Records location with photos
- 🌐 Works offline, uploads later
- 👨👩👧👦 Good for sharing with friends/family
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashing frequently
- 🐛 App not opening
- 🐛 Syncing issues
- 🐛 Incompatible with newer iOS
- 🐛 Syndication broken
Tripcast
From 7.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Efficient photo sharing
- 🌍 Geo-location tagging
- 🤝 Good for group trips
- 📚 Useful for creating travel journals
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🔍 Difficult to upload and organize photos
- 🔒 Login and account issues
- 📝 Inability to edit posts
- 🗺️ Unreliable map functionality
Bugs and requests
Geospike
Reported bugs
37 issues- Trips function doesn't work
- Syndication activations are broken (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr)
- App crashes when opening/in the field
- App not recognized login details after reinstall
- Support page goes nowhere
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- Cannot open app for months
- App won't recognize login details
- App not compatible with iOS 11
- App crashes upon startup
- Internet connection not available message when on WiFi
- Sharing locations/journeys with public by default
- App doesn't format well with iPads
- Application outside view on iPads
- Does not respond to text changes in some areas on iPads
- Does not load on iOS 8.4
- Cannot receive photographs or details of spikes
- Website is useless
- Cannot log past travels easily
- Cannot copy text from app
- Cannot see route within city
- GPS is off a bit
- Does not capture photos without internet
- No spike with that number error
- Unable to leave comments due to errors
- Trip function did not connect dots of spikes
- Total trip was 1 mile long
- Some places recorded no position despite working without data
- Account creation required for first spike without network
- Camera opens automatically when wanting to record location
- Map not at the top of description page
- Saving point defaults to public feed
- Creating private spike takes too many taps
- App places Australian user in South Africa
- Map cannot find results for Australia
- App hangs when saving picture
- App took user's info without permission
- Consumes battery heavily
Requested features
11 requests- Update app for iOS 11 compatibility
- Fix syndication features (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr)
- Allow entering past trips/states visited
- Improve offline functionality
- Add ability to create geo tags from existing photo library
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- Allow tagging people from Facebook on spikes
- Improve friend adding user-friendliness
- Make interface simpler, minimal, and quicker
- Allow dragging location to exact spot on map
- Improve Twitter syndication
- Clearer interface or guidelines regarding GPS Log relationship
Tripcast
Reported bugs
5 issues- Invites not being sent to users
- Uploaded photos not displaying properly
- Frequent app crashes and freezes
- Account login and access issues
- Inconsistent app behavior across devices
Requested features
5 requests- Allow editing of posts and comments
- Improve photo upload and organization
- Add support for multiple photos per post
- Implement password reset functionality
- Enhance map integration and location tracking
In-app purchases
Geospike
- Flag Customization$0.99
- Special Promotion$4.99
- Geospike PRO$5.99
Tripcast
- Tripcast Friend$4.991 Month
- Tripcast Pro$9.991 Month
- Tripcast Friend$49.991 Year
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- Tripcast Pro$99.991 Year









