ChronJour vs Passcord
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 revisit past trips, plan new ones, and archive content like notes, photos, and videos. It offers multiple ways to add locations and capture routes.
- Map and timeline view
- Add places via search, location, or photo EXIF
- Route capture and planning
- Attach notes, links, photos, 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.
Passcord
This app helps you document your travels and daily journeys by recording your locations. You can view your history on a map, organize moments on a timeline, and add details like photos and travel intervals. It also supports importing existing location data and managing flight information.
- Record location history on a map
- Browse daily timelines and calendars
- Add travel intervals (walking, car, flights)
- Attach photos and organize with tags
- Import and export location data (GPX/KML)
- Manage flight boarding passes and radar
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Passcord turns the places you visit into a personal record of your days and journeys. Explore location history on a map, browse the calendar, and bring meaningful moments together on a daily timeline. Look back at your day - Follow recorded routes on the map and revisit days from the calendar. - See map records, flights and travel intervals together on the timeline. - Add walking, cycling, car, bus, rail, ferry and other travel intervals. Choose stations and routes using downloaded rail and BRT data where coverage is available. - View weather alongside your day. With optional Apple Health access, Pro members can also see sleep and workouts, including step information for walking. Make the map your own - Create map records with a title, a small symbol, a color and a time or date range. - Attach photos, organize records with tags, and link related records. - Reuse record templates and browse all your records in one place. - Show record symbols in the calendar and adjust which records take priority. Record at your pace - Save your current location with a tap or start continuous recording. - Choose optional significant location change, background task or Location Push recording. Supported Shortcuts can also request a location. - Adjust accuracy and recording options to balance detail and battery use. Background scheduling and push delivery depend on iOS, network access and location conditions; exact intervals and complete routes are not guaranteed. - Use Watchcord on Apple Watch to record locations and sync them to your iPhone. Keep flights together - Create boarding passes manually or look up completed flights by number and date. - Group tickets into Journeys and view available historical radar tracks. - Flight lookup and radar depend on provider coverage and network access. Free lookup allowances require iCloud sign-in. Bring your existing records Import timed locations from GPX or KML, scan geotagged photos and videos, and export selected data as GPX. Back up and restore your Passcord database, including map record attachments. Location history is stored in a database on your device. Apple Health access is optional and read-only. Passcord Pro Choose a monthly, quarterly or yearly auto-renewable subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Each provides the same Pro features: higher Location Push limits, expanded flight and radar lookups, more map records and templates, more calendar symbols, Health data on the timeline, extended weather dates and shorter optional background task recording intervals. Features remain subject to permissions, system scheduling and service coverage. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Passcord at every 9 days against ChronJour's every 2 months. Passcord also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, 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. ChronJour sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Passcord sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ChronJour ships an update every 2 months, Passcord every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChronJour | Passcord |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 华 曹 | ZIZICICI LIMITED |
Customer experience
ChronJour
Passcord
In-app purchases
ChronJour
- Icon Expansion Pack$0.49
Passcord
- Passcord Pro (Lifetime)$19.99









