Comparison

Universal Tour Guide vs ActionCitizen

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

Head to head
About

Universal Tour Guide

Discover the history and interesting facts about landmarks around you. This app uses Wikipedia to provide detailed information and images for nearby points of interest, encouraging you to explore your surroundings.

Highlights
  • Map mode showing nearby landmarks
  • Detailed Wikipedia information
  • Customizable search radius
  • Customizable number of landmarks
  • Quick launch buttons for relevant apps
Features
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Your own personal tour guide! Reach a deeper understanding of what's around you - whether you're walking through your local neighborhood, or adventuring on the other side of the world. If you often find yourself hunched over your phone in public, this app might encourage you to look up and realise how interesting and historically rich your surroundings really are. This app searches Wikipedia for articles about nearby landmarks and shows them on a map. You can view detailed information about many landmarks: history, interesting facts, statistics, and pictures. Guide Bot has access to over 200000 geo-located articles worldwide, so you should be able to find plenty of information in most cities or tourist spots. Features: - map mode, showing nearby landmarks - detail mode, showing the Wikipedia page for that landmark - to prevent information overload, the app only searches in your surrounding area. - customize the number of on-screen landmarks and the search radius - quick launch buttons for contextually relevant apps (can be disabled in settings)

About

ActionCitizen

Explore the connection between U.S. government and citizens through legislation using primary source documents and interactive elements. Develop critical analysis skills and civic awareness to understand how individuals can influence lawmaking.

Highlights
  • Theme-based learning modules
  • Primary source document gallery
  • Analysis of historical documents
  • Interactive mini-games
  • Civic awareness development
Features
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Action Citizen is a learning tool that uses primary source documents, photographs, maps, and other items to explore the relationships between the U.S. government and the American people through legislation. The game encourages players to evaluate those relationships and discover how one individual can influence legislative direction. Action Citizen aids in developing skills to critically analyze primary sources, accurately summarize key details and ideas, elevate sources presented in diverse formats, and develop civic awareness on how legislation is influenced by American citizens. Features: - Theme-based modules with individual intro videos - Primary Source Gallery - Primary Source Analysis - Mini-games The first module released is on the environment with additional modules on indigenous people and immigration coming soon.

Screenshots

Universal Tour Guide2 screens
ActionCitizen3 screens

Verdict

The call

Universal Tour Guide and ActionCitizen are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. 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 Universal Tour Guide against 5.0 for ActionCitizen. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Universal Tour Guide versus ActionCitizen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUniversal Tour GuideActionCitizen
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 10 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB129 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames HudsonIndiana University

Customer experience

Universal Tour Guide

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ActionCitizen

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Universal Tour Guide

No in-app purchases

None

ActionCitizen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Universal Tour Guide free?
Universal Tour Guide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ActionCitizen free?
ActionCitizen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Universal Tour Guide or ActionCitizen?
Universal Tour Guide and ActionCitizen are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Universal Tour Guide or ActionCitizen have ads?
Neither Universal Tour Guide nor ActionCitizen shows ads.

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