The Puzzle Map vs Unterra
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Puzzle Map
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Watch your travels take shape, one discovery at a time. Puzzle Map turns your journeys into visible progress on an interactive map. Enable location tracking to reveal the cities and areas you travel through, revisit your discoveries, and grow your explorer profile. YOUR PERSONAL MAP Trips, weekends away, and everyday journeys: see where you have been and what is still waiting to be explored. Distinguish areas unlocked by GPS, manual edits, Photo Import, or shared maps. REDISCOVER PAST TRIPS Photo Import uses GPS metadata from your photo library to find places you have already visited. Choose a date range, review the results, and add your discoveries to your map. FINE-TUNE YOUR PROGRESS Use Edit Mode to add or remove areas manually. Select multiple pieces with the lasso or line tool, check the preview, and confirm your changes. Larger selections include loading progress and automatic retries after temporary interruptions. KEEP EXPLORING Earn XP, level up, and unlock badges. View dedicated statistics for the cities, countries, and continents you have explored. CHOOSE YOUR TRACKING MODE Battery Saver, Balanced, and Intensive modes let you adapt location tracking to your needs. Automatic Intensive Mode can increase tracking precision when you are moving quickly. Check your stats in widgets and follow an intensive session with a Live Activity. CUSTOMIZE AND SHARE Use Xray Mode, detailed outlines, country view, and city search. Share your map with friends and family and explore their discoveries. PREMIUM Puzzle Map Premium is an in-app purchase that unlocks all continents, Photo Import, Edit Mode, Xray Mode, city search, and shared maps. Photo Import and map sharing require a signed-in account and synchronized Premium status. ACCOUNT AND PRIVACY You can start without an account and keep your progress locally. Sign in if you want to sync your progress across your devices. Cloud sync is optional. Map features and place identification may communicate with our services, including sending geographic coordinates. Photo Import reads the dates and GPS coordinates needed for analysis; images from your photo library are not uploaded. Every discovery adds another piece to your story.
Unterra
This app creates a personal map of your real-world travels, revealing fog as you explore new streets, cities, and countries. Track your progress, earn badges for milestones, and customize your exploration experience.
- Personalized exploration map
- Fog reveals as you travel
- Tracks roads, cities, states, and countries
- Earn badges for exploration milestones
- Customizable reveal radius
- Metric and imperial units
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Explore Your World Every road you've traveled. Every city you've wandered. Every country you've set foot in. Unterra turns your real-world adventures into a living map, covered in fog that only you can lift. As you move through the world, the cover clears. Watch your personal exploration map grow with every new street, neighborhood, and city you discover. Unterra runs quietly in the background so no adventure goes unrecorded. How It Works Open the app and your map is cloaked in fog. As you travel on foot, by bike, by car, the cover lifts around you, permanently revealing everywhere you've been. Over time, your map becomes a record of your entire life's movement. Track Everything - Roads, streets, and thoroughfares you've traveled - Cities and what percentage of each you've explored - Countries visited, with area explored in km² or mi² Earn Badges Hit milestones as you explore from your first 10 roads to 100 cities, from crossing 2 countries to covering 75% of a city. Badges celebrate how far you've come and motivate you to go further. Make It Yours Set your reveal radius a tighter beam for detailed urban exploration or a wider sweep for road trips. Switch between metric and imperial. Personalize your profile with a photo or emoji avatar. Unterra Pro - $14.99/year - Detailed stats: cities, countries, states, roads, and area explored - City coverage breakdowns with progress bars - Full badge collection - Profile with custom avatar - Trips, track and tag trips ex: Hike, Road Trip, Run For wherever life takes you Terms of use EULA https://policy.unterra.app/eula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Unterra at every 4 days against The Puzzle Map's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. The Puzzle Map sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Unterra sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
The Puzzle Map ships an update every 2 weeks, Unterra every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Puzzle Map | Unterra |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Vincent Pommaz | NPDesigned LLC |
In-app purchases
The Puzzle Map
- Puzzle Map Premium$5.99
Unterra
- Unterra Pro - Monthly$1.991 Month
- Unterra Pro$14.991 Year
- Unterra Pro - Lifetime$49.99









