Comparison

Where am I vs Equidistant

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

Head to head
About

Where am I

Discover your current location, nearby points of interest, and relevant Wikipedia information. Explore your surroundings with detailed place names, area, and country data, along with links and images from Wikipedia.

Highlights
  • Get nearest place name, area, and country
  • Lookup location details on Wikipedia
  • Links and thumbnails for nearby Wikipedia articles
  • Sort articles by rank or distance
  • Open map with current or selected location
  • Switch Wikipedia language
  • Metric and imperial units
Features
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Did you ever wonder where you are while you travel and what might be interesting nearby? With this app long distance travels don't have to be boring anymore. Features: - get name of the nearest place, its area and country - look up the location, area and country name on Wikipedia - links to nearby Wikipedia articles - thumbnail images of nearby Wikipedia articles - sort Wikipedia articles by rank or distance - open the map with your current location or the location of the selected Wikipedia article - switch the Wikipedia language - metric and imperial units

About

Equidistant

Find the most central meeting point for a group of people based on their addresses. Discover nearby attractions and businesses at the calculated equidistant point. Offers a privacy mode for secure location sharing.

Highlights
  • Calculate central meeting points
  • Discover nearby places
  • Privacy mode for location sharing
  • Ideal for online dating meetups
  • Facilitates e-commerce pickups
  • Arranges coworker hangouts
Features
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Equidistant takes a group of addresses and calculates the most central point to determine where it would be easiest for everyone to meet. At the "Equidistant Point," nearby places, attractions, and businesses are displayed to give suggestions for places to meet at. Equidistant has a Privacy Mode, where if your group isn't comfortable sharing locations with each other, you don't have to! Participants submit their addresses to our website and information is kept private and is not shared with any other users. This function makes it ideal for arranging meetups when online dating, local pickup on e-commerce, or even just hanging out with coworkers.

Screenshots

Where am I4 screens
Equidistant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Equidistant at Free against Where am I's $0.99. Equidistant also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 27 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). Where am I's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On rating, 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

Equidistant is free to download; Where am I costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Where am I against 5.0 for Equidistant. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Equidistant has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Where am I ships an update every 27 months, Equidistant every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Where am I versus Equidistant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhere am IEquidistant
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 27 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB41 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPiet JonasTyler Crews

Customer experience

Where am I

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Equidistant

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Where am I

No in-app purchases

None

Equidistant

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Where am I free?
Where am I costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Equidistant free?
Equidistant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Where am I or Equidistant?
Where am I and Equidistant are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Where am I or Equidistant have ads?
Neither Where am I nor Equidistant shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Where am I or Equidistant?
Where am I ships an update every 27 months, and Equidistant every 3 weeks. Most recently, Where am I was updated on October 7, 2026 and Equidistant on October 8, 2026.

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