Comparison

Paris vs Athens Offline Map

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

Head to head
About

Paris

Explore Paris with a beautifully illustrated, interactive map. Discover landmarks, navigate the metro, and follow curated walking tours. Save your memories with a built-in travel journal and augmented reality features.

Highlights
  • Hand-painted illustrated maps
  • Interactive landmark information
  • Metro navigation with real-time updates
  • Eleven curated walking tours
  • Offline audio guide and stories
  • Augmented reality viewfinder
  • Personalized travel journal
Features
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Paris, painted by hand. Not a cold, flat map: a panorama in perspective where every landmark is drawn as you see it, from the Eiffel Tower to Sacré-Cœur, from Notre-Dame to the Louvre. One glance is enough to understand the city. FIND YOUR WAY Your position appears on the painting, not on an anonymous background. Tap a landmark: a short story, the nearest stations, and how long it takes to get there from where you are, on foot or by metro. THE METRO, AT LAST LEGIBLE Switch to Metro mode: the 2026 network sits on the painting, from line 1 to line 14 out to Orly, with the RER and the trams. Under each station name, the time from your position. Tap two stations: the route appears, with transfers and the direction to follow on the platform. Then start navigation: the app counts the stops, tells you where to change and where to get off, and reports disrupted lines. ELEVEN WALKING TOURS Paris in a day, the Seine and its bridges, the painters' Montmartre, Revolutionary Paris, department stores and covered arcades… Every route is drawn on the painting and guided stop by stop, with the distance to the next one, phone in your pocket. 400 PLACES WITH THEIR STORIES Monuments, museums, churches, gardens, bridges, neighbourhoods, department stores: each page tells you what to see and why to stop. The audio guide tells the story of the great landmarks chapter by chapter, to listen to or to read, offline. YOUR TRAVEL JOURNAL Walk past a place: it joins your journal, with the date. Your photos, taken in the app or added from your phone, are filed on the right day and at the right place. Back home, open the app again: your stay appears day by day on the painted map, to replay and to share as a video. SOUVENIRS Aim the camera at a landmark: the places around you appear in augmented reality. Take the photo, pick a frame (stamped postcard, enamel street sign, story…) and share it. FREE, NO SUBSCRIPTION The map, the metro, routes, pages, navigation, the viewfinder and the journal are free, with a discreet banner. A single purchase, forever, unlocks every walk, every chapter of the audio guide, the day-by-day travel diary with its Replay mode, and removes ads. Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Athens Offline Map

Navigate your trip with a detailed offline map of OpenStreetMap. Discover points of interest like restaurants and trails, with customizable layers and search filters. Save notes and favorites for easy access.

Highlights
  • Customizable offline maps
  • Detailed paths and trails
  • Grouped POIs by category
  • Searchable database for POIs and locations
  • POI information (opening hours, address)
  • Notes and favorites for POIs
  • Location tracking
Features
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Customisable offline map from Openstreetmap with contour lines in which even the smallest paths and trails are shown. POIs are grouped into categories and can be displayed as layers. For example, you can display all restaurants, public transport lines, banks, hiking trails, charging stations and doctors on the map. The size and overlap of the icons can be adjusted to improve clarity. An integrated database allows you to search for POIs as well as a large number of streets, towns, villages, districts, etc. The search can be filtered by category and/or distance. For many POIs there is further information such as opening hours, address, disabled access, ... Notes or favourites can be created for each POI, a history list shows the most recently used POIs, content can be shared. A location function shows the current position, the app is ad-free and there is no tracking.

Screenshots

Paris4 screens
Athens Offline Map4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Paris at 80% against Athens Offline Map's 0%. Paris also leads on price (Free vs $3.99). Athens Offline Map's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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

Paris is free to download; Athens Offline Map costs $3.99 up front. Paris sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Athens Offline Map asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Paris ships an update every 2 months, Athens Offline Map every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Paris versus Athens Offline Map: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterParisAthens Offline Map
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating—1.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB88 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJérôme GoursauJoerg Holz

Customer experience

Paris

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Athens Offline Map

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Paris

One-time3
  • Débloquer les descriptions (histoire)$0.99
  • Supprimer les publicités$0.99
  • Paris Premium$3.99
None

Athens Offline Map

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Paris free?
Paris is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Athens Offline Map free?
Athens Offline Map costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Paris or Athens Offline Map have ads?
Paris shows ads; Athens Offline Map does not.
Which is updated more often, Paris or Athens Offline Map?
Paris ships an update every 2 months, and Athens Offline Map every 4 months. Most recently, Paris was updated on November 12, 2026 and Athens Offline Map on November 11, 2026.

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