MapMinter vs Duckabout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MapMinter
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MapMinter turns your real-world travels into a global collecting adventure. Every city you visit becomes a unique digital coin you can mint, trade, and show off—building a living map of everywhere you've been. MINT CITY COINS Arrive in a city and mint its coin on the spot. Eligible places include cities with 125,000+ residents and capital cities. Each coin is a souvenir of a real journey. TRADE WITH TRAVELERS Send a coin to anyone with a simple QR code—and keep your own copy forever. Meet fellow travelers, swap coins from cities you haven't reached yet, and watch your collection grow. See the "Past Travelers" who once carried each coin around the world. EXPLORE FOR REAL-WORLD LOOT Materials and famous historical personalities appear on a live map around you. Walk within range to collect them—just like the cities themselves, your loot is tied to where you actually are. BUILD WORLD LANDMARKS TOGETHER Use collected materials to unlock an artwork with quirky facts about the city.Join a Construction Party of up to 100 travelers to build faster—bigger parties need fewer materials per person, so teamwork pays off. Completed artworks are saved forever in your City Archives. CITY HALL & AUCTION HOUSE Trade materials and personalities with other players for gold in the Auction House, where prices move with the market. Browse your Citizen Registry of historical figures and revisit every landmark you've helped build. CHASE ACHIEVEMENTS & CLIMB THE LEADERBOARDS Earn Bronze, Silver, and Gold medals, complete entire countries, and create your own custom community challenges for others to join. Compete on global Points and Coins leaderboards. DISCOVER LOCAL GEMS Add and browse attraction and restaurant recommendations on every city's coin—real tips from real travelers, filtered by price and cuisine. Whether you're a frequent flyer, a weekend explorer, or a collector at heart, MapMinter rewards your curiosity and turns every trip into something you can keep. Pack your bags. Mint the world. Note: MapMinter uses your location to mint city coins and find nearby materials, and requires an internet connection.
Duckabout
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There's a duck around the corner. Go and say hello. Duckabout puts ducks on a real map of wherever you are. Walk to one, tap it, and there it is, through your camera, waddling about on the path in front of you. Flick a slice of bread. If it likes you, it joins your Pond Book. If it doesn't, try a seed cake. Some of them are fussy. TWELVE DUCKS TO MEET Mallards and Tufted Ducks on every pond. Teal that leave the moment you blink. A Runner Duck that runs. A Mandarin with no modesty. An Eider down by the coast. A Rubber Duck that nobody can explain. And once in a very long while, the Golden Duck. Every one of them drawn by hand, every one with its own quack. REAL PONDS, REAL WALKS Parks, ponds, lakes, canals and fountains near you become places to feed the ducks. Visit one for bread, sometimes seed cake, sometimes an egg. Eggs hatch as you walk: two kilometres for a common duck, ten for something rare. Your buddy duck waddles beside you on the map and finds feathers along the way. SOMETHING EVERY DAY Three small quests each morning. A streak for every day you meet a duck. New ducks every fifteen minutes, so the walk to the shops is never quite the same twice. MADE TO BE GENTLE • Chunky, hand-drawn sticker art • Meet ducks in AR, or in a park scene if you'd rather not use the camera • Your podcast keeps playing underneath • One thumb: walk, tap, flick • No ads FREE, WITH DUCATS Duckabout is free to play. Ducats are the coins that buy bread, lures, incubators and more room in your bag; you earn them from quests every day or top up in the shop. The optional Duckabout Pass adds a daily gift box, faster hatching, a weekly lure and a hat for your buddy. Please look up from the map when you cross a road. The ducks will wait. Terms of use https://www.hoome.co.uk/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MapMinter at none against Duckabout's 7. Duckabout's advantage is update cadence (daily vs fortnightly). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Duckabout sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. MapMinter asks for nothing beyond the download.
MapMinter ships an update fortnightly, Duckabout daily. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MapMinter | Duckabout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jasper von Hammerstein | Hoome Hooldings Limited |
In-app purchases
MapMinter
No in-app purchases
Duckabout
- Duckabout Pass1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- 100 Ducats$0.99
- 550 Ducats$4.99
- 1200 Ducats$9.99
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- 2500 Ducats$19.99
- 5200 Ducats$39.99
- 14500 Ducats$99.99









