Comparison

Flags vs Let's Build My World

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Flags

Automatically create a visual map of countries visited using photo dates. Track your travel history, count visited locations, and generate a digital passport. Offers premium features for detailed insights and city-level mapping.

Highlights
  • Automatic country mapping from photos
  • Visited country and continent counter
  • Travel history timeline
  • Digital passport for sharing stats
  • Manual entry for missing data
  • City and region mapping (Premium)
  • Favorites map (Premium)
Features
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Your photos already know where you've been. Flags turns them into a private map of every country you've visited — automatically, in seconds. Open the app and your world map is already filled in. No typing, no checkboxes, no sign-in. Just your footprint, drawn from the dates and places already saved in your photos. WHAT YOU GET, FREE • Countries Visited Map — your whole footprint on one world map • Country & continent counter — how many you've reached, and what's left • Travel Timeline — your history, year by year, month by month • Digital Passport — a clean snapshot of your stats to share BUILT FROM YOUR PHOTOS, NOT LIVE TRACKING • Reads the date and place saved in each photo, on your iPhone — no live GPS tracking • Fill any gaps with a fast manual add • Results in seconds that feel like a time machine PRIVACY BY DESIGN • No GPS tracking • No account, no sign-up • Synced privately with iCloud — only you can ever see your data • Share if you want — as an image, never your data FLAGS PREMIUM — $19.99/year (Start with a 7-day free trial.) • Insights — the full story your camera roll has been keeping • What you actually love — the places your photos say you couldn't resist • Real counts, real streaks, and the year everything changed • What comes next — your pace, your next country, your next milestone Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Let's Build My World

Features
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Build the story of everywhere you’ve been — and everywhere you want to go. Let’s Build My World is a private travel map and memory journal for countries, regions, cities, airports and all 50 US states, with Washington, DC tracked separately. Add places in a tap, import your countries from a compatible Been export, then turn your travels into maps, routes, timelines and stories. BUILD YOUR WORLD • Tap to mark countries and US states instantly • Browse countries, regions, cities and airports • Track places you have visited, lived in or added to your Dream List • Record an exact date, a month, a year or leave a visit undated • Add notes, photos, companions and repeat visits • Import countries from a Been “My Countries” export SEE THE FULL STORY • Explore detailed maps and a real interactive globe • Build journeys and see World Miles, days away and travel rhythm • Browse your timeline, flag collections and milestones • Relive each year in a shareable Yearbook • Create cinematic timeline videos and PDF memory books • Discover possible journeys from your photo library, grouped for quick review BETTER TOGETHER • Keep separate profiles for people on this device • Add companions to trips • Compare two travel worlds privately • See shared countries, places, journeys and miles PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account is required. Your travel records stay on your device. Photo Discovery analyses photo dates and locations on-device and adds nothing until you approve it. Backups and normal data exports remain available without My World+. MY WORLD+ The free app covers the essentials for building and keeping your travel map. My World+ adds advanced insights, extra profiles, annual recaps, Photo Discovery, Together insights, cinematic replay and premium creations. Choose monthly, annual with a seven-day free trial for eligible new subscribers, or a lifetime unlock. Family Sharing is supported. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel in your Apple Account. If a subscription ends, your recorded places, visits, notes, photos, backups and normal exports remain available. Privacy Policy: https://letsbuildappshq.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Flags4 screens
Let's Build My World4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Flags at weekly against Let's Build My World's every 5 weeks. Let's Build My World's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Flags sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year and Let's Build My World sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flags ships an update weekly, Let's Build My World every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Flags versus Let's Build My World: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlagsLet's Build My World
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.117.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZEROCREW AI LTDBrian Leary

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Flags

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly Plan7 Days trial$19.991 Year
3 purchases

Let's Build My World

Subscriptions2
  • My World+ Monthly$3.991 Month
  • My World+ Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • My World+ Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Flags free?
Flags is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Let's Build My World free?
Let's Build My World is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Flags or Let's Build My World have ads?
Neither Flags nor Let's Build My World shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flags or Let's Build My World?
Flags ships an update weekly, and Let's Build My World every 5 weeks. Most recently, Flags was updated on October 30, 2026 and Let's Build My World on October 28, 2026.

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