Comparison

DeepStateMap vs WillaNews

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

Head to head
About

DeepStateMap

Follow the course of military operations in the Russian-Ukrainian war with an interactive map. Track unit locations, movements, and territorial control. Features include data caching, distance measurement, and artillery range calculation.

Highlights
  • Interactive hostilities map
  • Unit and movement tracking
  • Territorial control visualization
  • Data caching
  • Distance measurement
  • Artillery range calculator
  • Fire point display
Features
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DeepStateMap.Live is an interactive online map of the hostilities in Ukraine that allows you to follow the course of military operations in the Russian-Ukrainian war, the location of units and their movements. The application supports the possibility of caching downloaded data. The map has symbols: territory of Ukraine liberated from occupation in the last two weeks; liberated territory; territory that needs to be clarified; territory occupied by Russian troops; territory of the occupied Crimea and ORDLO; territory of Transnistria; unit; headquarters; airfields; fleet; directions of attacks. The territory is divided into zones, which are colored accordingly, and the locations of units and airfields are marked. The site also has a news feed and the ability to measure distances between points on the map. The site allows to enable the display of fire points based on data from the NASA Firms system and compare them with the front line. A special mode makes it possible to measure the range of various artillery systems: HIMARS, M777, CAESAR, etc. along the entire front line.

About

WillaNews

Features
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WillaNews gathers the news you follow from newspapers and broadcasters in more than 100 countries and turns it into a briefing you can read in minutes - summarized on your iPhone, never in the cloud. YOUR DAILY BRIEFING Once a day WillaNews reads every story you follow - hundreds on a busy day - and opens with a real summary: the key points and what they add up to. Top stories come next, ranked by how many outlets covered them, then key facts with their figures and dates, then every story grouped by topic. On supported iPhone models, Apple Intelligence writes the summary on your device; everywhere else WillaNews picks the key sentences from the articles themselves. Copy it, edit it, share it or listen to it - nothing plays until you tap Listen. BRIEFINGS ON YOUR SCHEDULE Make your own plans for a topic, a country or everything you follow: daily, weekly, on the days you pick, or every few hours. The newest briefing waits at the top of For You, and a Morning Briefing notification at the time you choose opens it. Country briefings research that country's own outlets first. FOR YOU, FROM YOUR COUNTRIES AND TOPICS Choose the countries and topics you care about - or combine them, like Sports in Germany - and For You shows exactly that, newest first. Follow an outlet you trust and its stories join in. What you read shapes the order, and unfollowing always asks first. SEE HOW THE WORLD COVERS IT Story clusters gather one event as reported by different outlets, with their countries, a timeline and the political lean of the coverage. "Also in" shows when outlets in other countries cover the same story, and one tap summarizes the whole story across them. SUMMARIES AND TRANSLATION ON YOUR DEVICE Tap a story and WillaNews reads the full article and summarizes it in the Summary Style you pick. Translate replaces the headline, text and summary right in the story, and Show Original switches back. When a language can't be translated, WillaNews tells you why. ONE TAP TO ANY COUNTRY The Country chip on Home switches to that country's own outlets and top stories. Topics - Business, Technology, Politics, Defence, Science, Health, Sports, Entertainment - work for every country, and every story names the outlet that wrote it, with a country flag. SAVED, ORGANIZED Save stories with tags, group them by country, topic or tag, and search them. Saved keeps an offline copy to read without a connection, summarizes any group, builds a 7-day digest and exports to Markdown or CSV. ALSO - Search that forgives typos and can search the web - Keyword alerts and notifications from what you follow - a tap opens the story - Add any RSS feed next to more than 350 built-in feeds - A clean reader, Local News, audio briefings and a home-screen widget - No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no third-party SDKs

Screenshots

DeepStateMap4 screens
WillaNews4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: WillaNews at weekly against DeepStateMap's every 5 months. DeepStateMap's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DeepStateMap ships an update every 5 months, WillaNews weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
DeepStateMap versus WillaNews: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeepStateMapWillaNews
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (37 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings37 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB7 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHeorhii KarpenkoMileta Avramovic

In-app purchases

None

DeepStateMap

No in-app purchases

None

WillaNews

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DeepStateMap free?
DeepStateMap is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WillaNews free?
WillaNews is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DeepStateMap or WillaNews have ads?
Neither DeepStateMap nor WillaNews shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DeepStateMap or WillaNews?
DeepStateMap ships an update every 5 months, and WillaNews weekly. Most recently, DeepStateMap was updated on October 27, 2026 and WillaNews on October 18, 2026.

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