TopoTablet vs Planetaria
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Planetaria
Explore a dynamic 3D model of the Solar System, synchronizing with real-time data to show celestial bodies in orbit. Discover planets, dwarf planets, and moons with detailed surface models. Manipulate time to view past and future solar system configurations.
- Interactive 3D Solar System model
- Real-time celestial body positions
- Detailed 3D surface models
- Explore planets, dwarf planets, and moons
- Time manipulation (past/future)
- AR integration
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Explore the celestial worlds of the Solar System with Planetaria, an interactive 3D simulator experience for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro. This dynamic scale model of the Solar System synchronizes with real-time data to display the live positions of celestial bodies in their orbits, along with beautiful and detailed 3D models of their surfaces. On your journey through outer space, you can visit the Sun, the 8 planets, 5 dwarf planets, and over 20 major moons. Entire worlds await your discovery, each with their own individual features and environments. You can also fast-forward or rewind time, and see what the Solar System looks like at any time in the past or future. Photos and 3D models provided by NASA/JPL.
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Verdict
TopoTablet and Planetaria both sit at 4.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of TopoTablet's written reviews are positive against 50% of Planetaria's. TopoTablet also leads on price (Free vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.4). Planetaria's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On rating, update cadence, 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
TopoTablet is free to download; Planetaria costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Planetaria holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planetaria has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of TopoTablet's written reviews are positive against 50% of Planetaria's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
TopoTablet ships an update every 4 months, Planetaria every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TopoTablet | Planetaria |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.2 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 510 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Frans Kramer | Joseph Rupertus |
Customer experience
TopoTablet
Planetaria
In-app purchases
TopoTablet
No in-app purchases
Planetaria
No in-app purchases
