Crooom vs VisaStay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crooom
This app helps groups decide on travel destinations by allowing everyone to independently swipe on curated options. Once a match is found, it facilitates collaborative trip planning, including itineraries, expense splitting, and document storage.
- Group destination decision-making via swiping
- Day-by-day itinerary planning
- Expense splitting and tracking
- Shared photo album
- Document storage for bookings
- 5-day weather forecasts
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Planning a trip with friends and nobody can agree on where to go? crooom settles it in three minutes of swiping • and the group decides together, not the loudest voice in the chat. HOW IT WORKS Create a trip project and share the link. Everyone swipes through 248 curated destinations independently, on their own phone. A place becomes a match only when every single person has liked it. No majority vote, nobody outvoted, nobody defending a choice in the group chat. FOUR WAYS TO DECIDE • Swipe matching: everyone swipes, matches appear automatically • Self-choice voting: one person shortlists, the group votes • Known destination: skip the decision and go straight to planning • Round trip: pick several stops for one journey PLAN THE REST TOGETHER Once the destination is set, the planning happens in the same app: • Day-by-day itinerary with times, places and estimated costs • Expense splitting: who paid what, who owes whom how much • Map for hotels, restaurants and highlights • Shared photo album for everyone on the trip • Document safe for tickets, bookings and passports • 5-day weather forecast for your destination FILTERS THAT MATTER FOR A GROUP Continent, budget and trip type: beach, city, mountains, culture, adventure, romance, party, islands and nature. Keep a wishlist, and mark the places you have already been on a world map. WHO IT IS FOR A weekend away with four friends. A family holiday where everyone wants something different. A ski trip, a bachelorette weekend, a round-the-world route. If your group cannot agree on a destination, that is the one problem this app solves. CROOOM PRO Crooom is free to download and free to use with all core features, for trip projects of up to 5 people. Crooom Pro raises that to 15 and removes the limits on photos, documents, places and activities. Available as a monthly or yearly subscription; the price that applies in your country is shown before you buy. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.crooom.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
VisaStay
Effortlessly track your visa days, Schengen limits, and potential tax residency triggers for every trip and passport. Avoid overstays and plan your travels with real-time countdowns and alerts.
- Live visa day countdowns
- Automatic Schengen 90/180 calculator
- Tax residency alerts (183-day rule)
- Passport expiry warnings
- ETIAS flagging
- Visa Calendar
- Offline-first functionality
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How many days do you actually have left? VisaStay answers that instantly — for every trip, every passport, every country. Built for frequent international travelers and digital nomads who are tired of doing visa math in their head. TRACK EVERY DAY • Live countdown for every trip, from your passport's real visa rules (157 countries, 33 passports) • Schengen 90/180, calculated live on every trip card — no spreadsheets • Planned trips are checked too — see a future Schengen or visa breach before you book • Tap "I've left" to log your real exit, so day counts match your passport stamps • Any visa type — tourist, eVisa, ETA, business, student, work, digital nomad — set an override and the countdown follows YOUR visa • Visa Calendar with every deadline in one view, plus a "+" marker when your visa allows more days than you've planned • Extension-aware — know when a stay is extendable in-country and by how many days • Pre-arrival requirements flagged — TDAC, arrival cards, registrations — before you land STAY COMPLIANT • Tax residency alerts with the correct per-country threshold — 183 in most countries, 180 in Thailand, 182 in Malaysia, 60 in Cyprus • Passport expiry warnings, months ahead, right on your home screen • Automatic ETIAS flagging for destinations that require it • Up to 12 reminder rules, push AND email, from 90 days out to departure day — and alert emails can go to someone else, like your accountant • Monthly compliance digest — days per country, Schengen window, and upcoming departures, emailed on the 1st. When your accountant asks, the answer is already in your inbox PLAN YOUR NEXT MOVE • "Where next?" — when your days run low, see every destination your passport enters visa-free or visa-on-arrival, longest stay first • Preview any passport — enter a different nationality on a new trip to see its rules instantly, without changing your profile SHARE + EXPORT • Shareable trip cards — country, flag, days, your own photo — without ever granting photo-library access • CSV + PDF export — your full history, formatted for your accountant or a visa application BUILT LIKE IT MATTERS • Offline-first — biometric unlock, cached countdowns and trips, edits sync when you're back • Biometric app lock — Face ID/Touch ID keeps your travel history private • One account, always in sync across every device you sign into DATA YOU CAN TRUST Visa rules are checked against official government immigration sources and reviewed for accuracy on a rolling basis, then updated as regulations change. Full source-by-destination breakdown: https://headfirstservices.com/visastay/sources/ PRIVACY FIRST No location tracking. No photo library access. Your travel history lives behind your fingerprint and exports whenever you want it — it's yours. Free to start: unlimited travel history, 5 active trips, no ads. VisaStay Pro adds unlimited trips, email alerts, "Where next?", the monthly digest, and CSV + PDF export. Hate subscriptions? The Founder Lifetime Pass is a single one-time purchase — every Pro feature, forever. VisaStay is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any government or immigration authority. It is not a substitute for legal advice. Confirm critical decisions with official immigration sources (linked above).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: VisaStay at every 2 days against Crooom's fortnightly. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Crooom sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and VisaStay sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Crooom against 5.0 for VisaStay. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Crooom ships an update fortnightly, VisaStay every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crooom | VisaStay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lukas Egli | Gregory Taylor |
Customer experience
Crooom
VisaStay
In-app purchases
Crooom
- Crooom Pro$2.991 Month
- Crooom Pro$24.991 Year
VisaStay
- Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
- Pro Annual$39.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro$89.99








