Comparison

Currency++ vs American Palette

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

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About

Currency++

This travel companion offers real-time currency conversion, AI-powered safety reports for any location, and weather forecasts. It also includes voice translation, smart travel notes with OCR, and health integration.

Highlights
  • AI-powered local safety reports
  • Real-time currency conversion for 77 currencies
  • 24-hour weather forecasts and alerts
  • Voice translation in 18 languages
  • Smart travel notes with OCR
  • Health integration with Apple Health
Features
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Stop paying monthly subscriptions for travel tools! Currency++ AI is your all-in-one travel Swiss Army Knife, one purchase, yours for life. Real-time FX rates, AI-powered local neighborhood safety reports, offline voice translation, and local weather—100% ad-free with zero data tracking. Stop juggling five different apps just to survive a trip abroad — a currency converter, a weather app, a translator, a safety guide. Currency++ AI folds all of it into one pocket-sized "Swiss Army knife" for travelers, built around real-time exchange rates and AI-powered local intelligence. No Subscriptions. No Ads. No Hidden Fees. One purchase. Lifetime access. AI-Powered Local Safety Reports Powered by Google Gemini, Currency++ reads your exact location and generates an instant AI safety analysis — a real-time read on neighborhood conditions, local risks, and essential traveler advice, anywhere in the world. Safety & Sights (NEW) The safety report now suggests up to 3 places to visit: one within walking distance, one a short taxi ride away, and the area's best-known landmark, each with travel time and distance from Apple Maps. Perfect for a cruise stop. Widgets (NEW) Nearby Safety on your Lock Screen and Home Screen: five colored dots show how safe your area is, and it updates by itself as you travel. Plus Safety & Sights, Currency, and Local & Home Time widgets. Know Everything About Where You Are Tap the map pin or search any city to instantly see: Your exact street address, city, and country Local emergency numbers & international dialing codes Traveler & Resident Safety Rankings for 150+ countries 24-hour weather forecasts — hourly temps, wind, humidity, sunrise/sunset Live UV Index (with peak time) & Air Quality (AQI), to protect your health Compass heading, altitude, speed, and exact DMS coordinates A floating home-timezone clock showing the distance and time difference from home Currency Conversion & Interactive Charts Real-time exchange rates for 77 currencies Swipe any currency to chart it: 1D, 5D, 1M, 3M, 6M, YTD, 1Y, 5Y, Max Keeps working offline on your last-synced rates Fast pull-to-refresh accuracy Travel Karma & Lunar Calendar Travel Karma: your daily travel alignment based on your Chinese zodiac and the lunar calendar — auspicious hours and day-officer guidance, at a glance Full Chinese lunar calendar, with every major holiday (Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn, Dragon Boat, and more) Moon phase tracker with Full Moon & Blue Moon alerts Talk to Anyone, Anywhere Translation Phrases, read aloud in a natural human voice (male or female) — cached on-device so it keeps working with zero signal Camera Text Scan: point your camera at a menu or sign and get instant translated text Prepare your go-to phrases before you land, and they're ready offline the moment you need them Built for the Modern Explorer Smart Travel Notes: save memories with automatic iCloud backup & restore Tip Calculator: split any bill, in any currency Health Integration: track your daily steps via Apple Health Postcard Mode: turn your own photos into postcards, saved to your library Daily motivational quotes to keep you moving Speaks Your Language Fully localized in English, Chinese (Traditional & Simplified), Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, and Dutch. Why Travelers Choose Currency++ Most travel apps hand you an exchange rate and then bill you every month for it. Currency++ hands you the whole trip — safety, weather, money, translation, timing — in one app you buy once and keep forever. Travel smarter. Travel safer. Download Currency++ AI today.

About

American Palette

Visualize your travels across the United States by coloring in each county you visit. Watch your personal map transform into a vibrant masterpiece as you explore different regions. Challenge yourself to color more of America.

Highlights
  • Color U.S. counties visited
  • Visualize travel routes
  • Personalized map masterpiece
  • Track explored areas
  • Explore America's counties
Features
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There are more than 3,143 discoverable counties in the United States. Most people see a few dozen in a lifetime and never notice. American Palette notices. Leave it running while you travel. The moment you cross a county line, that county fills in with its own color, numbered in the order you found it. No check-ins. No buttons to press. You just drive, fly, or scooter, and the map slowly becomes a picture of everywhere you've been. Every county now gets a color chosen so that back-to-back discoveries never look alike, the result is a map that reads as a color palette Flying somewhere and it missed a few counties? Retracing an old trip? Switch on manual mode and tap any county to add it with the visit number you choose. Everything after it renumbers itself. Long-press any county to see when you found it, or remove it if you marked one by mistake. - Progress for all 50 states, with completed states called out - The exact percentage of U.S. land area you've covered - Best day, longest streak, total travel days, and when you started - 30 achievements across four categories, each one telling you plainly what it takes to unlock and exactly how close you are One tap builds an image of your painted map with your numbers underneath and your color palette running along the bottom. Save it or post it. YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE Nothing is uploaded. There's no account, no sign-in, and no server. Your counties live on your phone. Export everything to a JSON file whenever you want, and import it back on a new device. We take privacy and security extremely seriously. County boundaries are bundled with the app, so tracking keeps working with no cellular/internet signal at all — through the Nevada basin, across west Texas, up the Alaska Highway. MADE FOR THE ROAD - Three map styles: satellite, satellite with labels, and a minimal basemap that lets the colors carry - County borders on or off - The discovery chime mixes with your music and follows the ring/silent switch — it will never interrupt navigation or a podcast - Battery-aware location tracking that tightens up near a county line and relaxes in the middle of one Whether you're a county collector working toward all 3,143, a road tripper who wants a record of the long way home, or someone who just wants to see how much of the country they've actually touched — the map is waiting. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Look for the blew navigation arrow on when the app is not in focus to confirm that the app is still tracking location in the background. Force quit when you no longer wish to use it to save battery life.

Screenshots

Currency++4 screens
American Palette4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Currency++ at $1.99 against American Palette's $19.99. Currency++ also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 months). On rating, ratings volume, 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

Currency++ costs $1.99 and American Palette $19.99 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 Currency++ against 5.0 for American Palette. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Currency++ ships an update every 5 days, American Palette every 6 months. Both last shipped on November 4, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Currency++ versus American Palette: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCurrency++American Palette
Price$1.99 — better$19.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames ChangChristopher Elliott

Customer experience

Currency++

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

American Palette

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Currency++

No in-app purchases

None

American Palette

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Currency++ free?
Currency++ costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is American Palette free?
American Palette costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Currency++ or American Palette?
Currency++ and American Palette are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Currency++ or American Palette have ads?
Neither Currency++ nor American Palette shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Currency++ or American Palette?
Currency++ ships an update every 5 days, and American Palette every 6 months. Most recently, Currency++ was updated on November 4, 2026 and American Palette on November 4, 2026.

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