ChronJour vs Mist Map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ChronJour
This travel journal app organizes your journeys on a map and timeline. Easily add places, capture routes, and archive content like notes and photos. Syncs across devices and offers optional icon packs.
- Map and timeline view
- Add places via search, location, or photo import
- Route capture and planning
- Attach notes, photos, and videos
- Guide-based organization
- iCloud sync
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ChronJour is a personal travel journal built around a map and timeline. Keep places, routes, and trip content in one view so it is easy to revisit past journeys and plan what comes next. • Map + timeline view: filter places and routes by month and jump back to any period. • Multiple ways to add places: map search, current location, or photo EXIF location import. • Route capture and planning: save planned routes or manually selected point-to-point routes with distance, estimated duration, and waypoints. • Trip content archive: attach notes, links, photos, and videos to places or routes. • Guide-based organization: group content by city, theme, or trip and filter the map by guide. • iCloud sync: keep data consistent across devices on the same Apple Account. An optional in-app purchase, “Map Marker Icon Pack,” unlocks additional marker icons.
Mist Map
This app creates a visual record of your travels by revealing explored areas on a map as you move. It tracks your routes, distances, and speeds, and allows you to import and export your journey data.
- Reveals explored areas as you move
- Records routes on iPhone and Apple Watch
- Displays route history with stats
- Imports GPX files
- Exports routes as GPX files
- Stores route data locally
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Mist Map is a personal exploration map that gradually reveals the places you have been. Walk, ride, commute, or travel, and your explored routes appear on the map as clean lines through the fog. Over time, Mist Map becomes a quiet record of your movement and your world. Key features: • Reveal explored areas as you move • Record routes on iPhone and Apple Watch • View route history with distance, duration, speed, and heart rate on supported workouts • Import GPX files into your own history • Export your routes as GPX files • Keep your route data stored locally on your device Mist Map is designed for people who want a simple, personal map of where they have been, while keeping control of their own data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mist Map at none against ChronJour's 1. Mist Map also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). ChronJour's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%). 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. ChronJour sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Mist Map asks for nothing beyond the download.
ChronJour ships an update every 3 months, Mist Map every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and September 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChronJour | Mist Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 华 曹 | 嘉奇 龙 |
Customer experience
ChronJour
Mist Map
In-app purchases
ChronJour
- Icon Expansion Pack$0.49
Mist Map
No in-app purchases









