PastPuglia vs Rex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PastPuglia
Discover Puglia's rich historical, artistic, and cultural heritage with curated places, routes, and events. Explore interactive maps, access detailed information, and book guided tours digitally. Enhance your visits with audio guides and QR code content, all available in five languages.
- Interactive maps for exploring locations
- Detailed information on places and events
- Digital booking for guided tours
- Audio guides for historical sites
- QR code scanning for extra content
- Multilingual content (5 languages)
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PastPuglia helps you discover places, routes, and events from the historical, artistic, and cultural heritage of Puglia, curated by PAST. Whether you are passionate about art, history, archaeology, or local culture, PastPuglia offers a curated selection of places, experiences, and events to explore the region in an intuitive and engaging way. With interactive maps, you can explore nearby locations or browse by city, category, and accessibility options. Each place or experience includes detailed and up-to-date information such as photo galleries, descriptions, maps, visiting routes, opening hours, ticket prices, and contact details. You can save your favorite places and events to quickly access them later and organize your visit more easily. Booking guided tours is simple and fully digital: book directly from the app and keep your tickets on your smartphone—no printing required. For experiences with audio guides, PastPuglia becomes your personal guide: just plug in your headphones and start listening. Audio and text content help you better understand historical sites, cultural landmarks, and points of interest while you explore. During your visits, you can scan QR codes on site to instantly access extra content such as audio guides, videos, images, and in-depth texts related to specific locations or artifacts. All audio and textual content is available in five languages: Italian, English, Spanish, French, and German. PastPuglia is designed to be intuitive, accessible, and always with you—your digital companion to discover Puglia’s cultural heritage, wherever you are. Download PastPuglia and explore Puglia at your own pace.
Rex
Log and rank your favorite places, from restaurants to hikes, based on personal comparisons. See trusted recommendations from your friends and build shared lists for planning trips or saving spots.
- Log and rank places easily
- Personalized pairwise comparisons
- Friend-based recommendations
- Track restaurants, museums, hikes, and more
- Create and share custom lists
- Request recommendations from friends
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Taste, ranked by the people you trust. Rex is where you log the places you love, rank them against everything else you've tried, and see what your friends actually recommend. HOW IT WORKS • Been somewhere great? Add it in seconds. • Rex compares it head-to-head against your past experiences to find its true place on your list. • Your friends see it, save it, and ask you for more. WHAT YOU GET • Ranked, not rated. Pairwise comparisons build a personal ranking that actually means something. • Your circle, not the crowd. Recommendations come from friends, not anonymous reviewers. Rex is private by default: no public profiles, no follower counts. • Every experience, not just food. Restaurants, museums, hikes, hotels, bars, cafés — anything worth remembering has a place in Rex. • A feed worth checking. Every log, like, and rec request from your circle, in one place. • Lists worth keeping. Build and share lists solo or with friends — plan a trip, collect the classics, or save want-to-try spots for later. • Ask, don't guess. Craving ramen in a new city? Post a rec request and get answers from the people whose taste you actually trust. Your next favorite place is one friend away.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Rex at every 4 days against PastPuglia's every 3 weeks. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 — 5.0 for PastPuglia against 5.0 for Rex. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
PastPuglia ships an update every 3 weeks, Rex every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PastPuglia | Rex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Martinez | Anant Goyal |
Customer experience
PastPuglia
Rex
In-app purchases
PastPuglia
No in-app purchases
Rex
No in-app purchases









