Locotter vs Whereabout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Locotter
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Record Your Daily Movements and Stays This app automatically records your daily routes and places you stay. All data is stored only on your device. • Place Name Management Once you register a place name, it will automatically be displayed the next time you stay at the same location. Note: This app does not come with a preloaded place name database. Please register place names yourself as needed. • Calendar & Stay List Select a date from the calendar to view your travel history for that day. See a list of places you stayed—tap any location to focus the map on it. • Other Features ・Supports importing GPX files ・Syncs place names with “Monotter”
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 in-app purchases: Whereabout at none against Locotter's 3. Whereabout also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). Locotter's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. Locotter sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whereabout asks for nothing beyond the download.
Locotter ships an update every 5 weeks, Whereabout fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Locotter | Whereabout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Smallmake | Charlie Liu |
In-app purchases
Locotter
- Support A$1.99
- Support B$2.99
- Support C$4.99
Whereabout
No in-app purchases
