Universal Tour Guide vs Libelle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Map mode showing nearby landmarks
- Detailed Wikipedia information
- Customizable search radius
- Customizable number of landmarks
- Quick launch buttons for relevant apps
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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)
Libelle
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Libelle language academy for daily learning with focus on vocabulary training, listening, and understanding
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Libelle at every 2 weeks against Universal Tour Guide's every 10 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Universal Tour Guide ships an update every 10 months, Libelle every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Universal Tour Guide | Libelle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | James Hudson | Umut Karapinar |
In-app purchases
Universal Tour Guide
No in-app purchases
Libelle
No in-app purchases
Questions
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