Filoli vs Last Chinatown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Filoli
Discover a historic estate with this app. Explore the grounds using an interactive map, find out about daily events, and learn about seasonal blooms and the estate's history. Enhance your visit with curated content and family activities.
- Interactive map of House, Garden, and trails
- Daily events and interpretive talks
- Seasonal garden bloom information
- Historic staff stories
- Plant identification tools
- Family activity suggestions
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Welcome to Filoli! Our app is packed with useful features to help you discover this beautiful place. - Navigate with the map to explore and learn about the House, Garden, and trails. - Find out what's going on at Filoli today - free interpretive talks, events, and more. - See what's blooming in the Garden this season. - Uncover the stories of historic Filoli staff. - Listen to curated playlists, download digital tools to identify plants, and discover activities to do with your family during your visit.
Last Chinatown
Experience a site-specific augmented reality memorial that explores the history and erasure of Santa Cruz's last Chinatown. This interactive journey uses historical photos, interviews, and virtual recreations to bring the past to life at significant locations.
- Augmented reality experience
- Historical photos and interviews
- Virtual recreations
- Performative interpretation
- Site-specific locations
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“Watermarks of the Last Chinatown” is an interactive public memorial in the form of a site-specific augmented reality experience that speaks to the rich narrative landscape of Santa Cruz, California, through the lens of historical erasure with a focus on its last Chinatown. The work is a collaboration between Huy Truong, Susana Ruiz, and Karen Tei Yamashita. It includes interviews with community members, historical photographs, virtual recreations, and a performative interpretation of an original story by Yamashita. The work incorporates documentary, holographic film, and gameplay and is experienced on mobile devices at historically important sites in downtown Santa Cruz to render visible the lives, legacies, and labors of those who lived there.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Filoli at 344 against Last Chinatown's 2. Last Chinatown's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 5 weeks) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Filoli against 5.0 for Last Chinatown. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Filoli has 344 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Filoli ships an update every 5 weeks, Last Chinatown every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Filoli | Last Chinatown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (344 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 344 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 1.7 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Filoli | Susana Ruiz |
Customer experience
Filoli
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In-app purchases
Filoli
No in-app purchases
Last Chinatown
No in-app purchases
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