iScout Locations vs Whereabout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iScout Locations
This social map app allows users to discover and save places by dropping pins, adding photos, and seeing what others share globally. Organize your favorite spots privately or publicly and explore trending locations nearby or worldwide.
- Drop pins on a map
- Discover public pins from other users
- Add photos and emojis to pins
- Organize private or public place collections
- Explore nearby and worldwide locations
- See trending areas
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Drop pins. Discover places. Explore your world. iScout is a social map for discovering and saving places that matter. Pin your favorite spots using emoji, add photos, and see what others are sharing nearby and around the world. Whether it’s a hidden café, a scenic overlook, or your go-to workspace, everything lives on one interactive map. Discover Browse public pins from other users, explore trending areas, and find new places worth checking out. Express Choose an emoji that fits the moment and add photos to bring your pins to life. Organize Keep your own collection of places — public or private — and see all your pins in one place. Explore Anywhere Switch between nearby discoveries and worldwide exploration to see what’s happening beyond your city. Your world, mapped.
Whereabout
This app automatically logs your daily movements, including places visited, duration, and travel routes. It operates privately on your device without accounts or cloud storage, offering a detailed history of your whereabouts.
- Automatic place detection
- Travel route tracing
- Reverse geocoding for place names
- Daily history browsing
- Distance and time tracking
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Whereabout is a private, automatic journal of your day — recording where you went, how long you stayed, and how you got there. Simply open the app and browse through your days. Whereabout runs quietly in the background, tracking your route and detecting the places you visit. No accounts. No cloud. No third parties. Everything stays on your device. What Whereabout does - Automatically detects when you arrive and leave places - Traces your travel routes on a map - Reverse geocodes visits so you see real place names and addresses - Lets you scroll back through months of daily history - Tracks distance traveled and time spent at each location
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: iScout Locations at 3 against Whereabout's 1. iScout Locations also leads on iOS requirement (16.2 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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
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 iScout Locations against 5.0 for Whereabout. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | iScout Locations | Whereabout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sean Duran | Charlie Liu |
Customer experience
iScout Locations
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In-app purchases
iScout Locations
No in-app purchases
Whereabout
No in-app purchases
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