Comparison

MapGame! vs WhereWas

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

Head to head
About

MapGame!

A daily geography challenge where you guess a hidden country on a map. Features multiple game modes, helpful hints, and global leaderboards. Track your progress with detailed statistics and compete with friends worldwide.

Highlights
  • Daily hidden country challenge
  • Ranked global leaderboards
  • Unlimited practice mode
  • Country-specific hints
  • Detailed performance statistics
  • Compete with friends
Features
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Guess the hidden country on a map every day! Meet MapGame, a fun and challenging geography game with three exciting modes: Today's Game: Each day, there's a new country to guess for everyone around the world. Use the hints and move around the map to figure out the correct answer! Share your results and compete with friends. Ranked Mode: Think you're a geography expert? Put your skills to the test! Play three consecutive random challenges and compete for the top spot on our global leaderboard. Challenge players worldwide and climb the rankings! Practice Mode: Perfect your skills with unlimited games. Game Features: Helpful Hints: Who knew hints could be this interesting?! They range from "The country is west of Congo" to facts about the country's flag colors or its capital city. More Guesses, More Hints: Can't get the guess in the first go? No problem. Every wrong guess unlocks another hint to help you out. It's a New Day, It's a New Game: A new quiz appears every midnight. Test your knowledge with fresh challenges every day. Global Competition: • Compare daily scores with friends • Compete on the worldwide leaderboard in Ranked Mode • Track your position against players globally Comprehensive Stats: Keep track of your progress with detailed statistics: • Average completion time • Win percentage • Max streak • Global ranking • Personal best scores 100% Free to Play: MapGame is completely free, with all game modes available to everyone! Get ready to sharpen your geography skills with MapGame. Challenge yourself daily, compete globally, and become a geography master! Join millions of players exploring the world on their screens, one country at a time. Download today and let the adventure begin!

About

WhereWas

A daily game where you guess the location of photos from your camera roll. Earn lives and rounds by guessing correctly, and collect your wins on a personal globe. Offers optional in-app purchases for more gameplay.

Highlights
  • Guess photo locations from camera roll
  • Daily one-life gameplay
  • Three rounds per day
  • Map-based guessing
  • Collect wins on a personal globe
  • Optional in-app purchases for more gameplay
Features
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"GEO-GUESSER FOR YOUR CAMERA ROLL" Your greatest memories are trapped in your camera roll. So we made a daily game to show you a set of your own photos and you have to guess where in the world they were taken. You get one life per day and three rounds to play, each round with one photo. WHERE WAS THIS TAKEN? We show you a photo from your camera roll, you have to guess where it was taken. Forgot? You have one life or the game is over. Lives reset the next day. FIND IT ON THE MAP Zoom into the correct location on the map. Tap the map to place a pin. If your pin is close enough to the actual location, you win and can play more rounds. COLLECT YOUR WINS Every time you guess a photo correctly, it gets displayed on your globe for you to view when you're out of lives or rounds for the day. GET MORE LIVES AND ROUNDS If you want to play more, you can pay for 3x the lives and almost double the rounds (5 photos). You also can skip hard photos and you get a hint on the back of each photo. COMPLETELY PRIVATE AND SECURE - YOUR PHOTOS NEVER LEAVE YOUR IPHONE To play this game, you need give the app Photo Library Access. Your photos remain on your device and are only seen by you. We read the geographic data from your images without seeing the images themselves. NO ADS AND PLAY FOR FREE FOREVER WhereWas has no ads and is free to play forever. If you want to play more, you can buy WhereWas Plus for more lives and rounds.

Screenshots

MapGame!4 screens
WhereWas4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: WhereWas at none against MapGame!'s shown. WhereWas also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 78%) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). MapGame!'s advantage is ratings volume (418 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Both are free to download. MapGame! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and WhereWas sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WhereWas holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MapGame! has 418 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of MapGame!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of WhereWas's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MapGame! ships an update monthly, WhereWas weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and August 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
MapGame! versus WhereWas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMapGame!WhereWas
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (418 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings418 — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.6
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMinas GiannekasAppClub, LLC

Customer experience

MapGame!

All ratings418 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral2.4%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive78.3%
Neutral13.0%
Negative8.7%

WhereWas

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

MapGame!

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Tutorial screen gets stuck with no exit option
  • Scores not properly recorded on leaderboards

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add more languages (e.g., Portuguese, Russian)
  • Update country data and population information
  • Improve leaderboard functionality and tracking

WhereWas

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

MapGame!

One-time1
  • No Ads$4.99
2 purchases

WhereWas

Subscriptions2
  • Plus Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Plus Yearly$24.991 Year

Questions

Is MapGame! free?
MapGame! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WhereWas free?
WhereWas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MapGame! or WhereWas?
WhereWas is rated higher. MapGame! averages 4.8 out of 5 from 418 ratings, while WhereWas averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do MapGame! or WhereWas have ads?
MapGame! shows ads; WhereWas does not.
Which is updated more often, MapGame! or WhereWas?
MapGame! ships an update monthly, and WhereWas weekly. Most recently, MapGame! was updated on September 28, 2026 and WhereWas on August 22, 2026.

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