Ato vs Dead Streets GPS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ato
Map your adventures by walking, running, or traveling. This app lets you fill in a shared world map with friends and a global community. Rediscover past journeys, record new ones, and see where others have explored.
- Cooperative world mapping
- Import past adventures (Strava, Apple Health, photos)
- Record new journeys automatically or manually
- Share weekly "Postcards" with photos and captions
- View global and friend exploration maps
- Personal and global heatmaps
- City-specific exploration tracking
- Leaderboards for discoveries
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Explore the world together. Ato is a cooperative mapping adventure where every walk, run, and trip fills in a shared world map. See where you've been, discover where friends have explored, and uncover places no one has visited yet. Join a global community of explorers building a collective picture of human adventure—one hexagon at a time. Your past adventures, rediscovered Already have years of walks and trips behind you? Import your entire history from Strava, sync from Apple Watch, or pull location data from your photo library. Watch your map light up with hexes from places you'd almost forgotten about. Record your future journeys Sync new workouts automatically, import photos as you take them, or tap to check in wherever you are. Each hex can only be checked into once per day, so every visit counts. Whether it's your morning commute or a trip across the world, your journey is being recorded. Share your week with Postcards Send a postcard with up to 4 photos from the past 7 days, add a caption, and tag where each was taken. Tap any photo's pin to jump straight to that hex on the map. Cheer on fellow explorers with hearts, leave comments, and browse postcards shared from any hex you find. See where others explore View where explorers around the globe have been on the shared world map. Filter by everyone or just your mutuals to see where friends have roamed. Follow other explorers, keep your profile private, or browse profiles to find inspiration for new places to visit. Meet your Hexmates See which explorers have covered the most hexes in common with you. Open a Hexmate to browse the countries and cities you share, then highlight the exact hexes you both explored on the map. Discover heatmaps See your exploration patterns come alive with personal heatmaps that highlight your most-visited areas in warm gradients. Switch to global heatmaps to discover the world's most popular spots. Find your missing hexes Tap any city to see which hexes you've explored and which remain undiscovered. City Explorer shows hexes others have found but you haven't—plan your routes to fill in the gaps and complete neighborhoods, cities, or entire countries. Compete on leaderboards Check global leaderboards to see how your discoveries stack up, or dive into city-specific rankings to find out who's explored your hometown the most. Stay connected Get notified when someone follows you or interacts with your postcards. Tap a like or comment alert to jump straight to the postcard. Tap any hex to see who discovered it first, who visited most recently, and browse the full list of explorers. Your data, your control Mark any hex, day, or city as incorrect data to remove it from your stats. Set any hex to incognito mode to appear anonymous while keeping your personal stats intact. Built for explorers • Import your entire Strava history • Syncs walks, runs, and cycling from Apple Health • Imports location data from your photos • Manual check-ins when you're not working out • Postcards — share up to 4 photos per postcard with hearts and comments • Per-photo location pins that deep-link to the hex on the map • Hexmates — find explorers with the most shared hexes and map the places you have in common • Global map showing where all explorers have been • Mutuals filter to see only where friends explore • Personal and global heatmaps • Follow explorers and manage your followers • Public or private profile options • City Explorer to find unexplored hexes • My Routes to view your actual workout paths • Leaderboards by city, country, or globally • Mark incorrect data or set hexes to incognito • Shareable cards for your adventures Your map. Your journey. 4.8 billion hexes to explore.
Dead Streets GPS
This GPS-based game transforms your neighborhood into a survival arena. Navigate real streets, evade zombie swarms, and manage resources to stay alive. Engage in arcade-style survival or strategic base building and defense.
- GPS-based gameplay
- Real-world street navigation
- Zombie evasion
- Resource management
- Base building and defense
- Story generation
- Customizable difficulty
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Dead Streets is a GPS based game that turns your neighborhood into a Pac-Man arena. Using real OpenStreetMap data and your device GPS, you move through actual streets while dodging zombie swarms that pathfind along real roads. The game doesn't feel like exercise because you're too busy surviving. Two game modes. Regular mode is pure arcade: dodge zombies, collect supplies, survive. Survival mode adds depth: food and water deplete daily, build structures at your base, recruit NPCs, turn your streets into a tower defense game that keeps you coming back. Every activity generates a story. You didn't just ride five miles. You fought twelve zombies on Oak Street, built a farm near the park, rescued an NPC downtown. Customize zombie speed to match your play style. Walk casually or go hard. The game scales with you. Pause whenever you want. No punishment for stopping. Just movement, strategy, and the constant push to explore one more block. The real magic: you're actually outside moving. In your own neighborhood. You're not thinking about how much longer you need to go. You're too distracted trying to avoid the zombies. Works anywhere with OpenStreetMap coverage, which is most places. Tested on modern iPhones. Designed for outdoor movement. No network required after maps download. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ato at none against Dead Streets GPS's 5. Dead Streets GPS's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Dead Streets GPS sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Ato asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ato against 5.0 for Dead Streets GPS. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dead Streets GPS has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Ato ships an update weekly, Dead Streets GPS every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ato | Dead Streets GPS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 248 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Allahverdi Suleymanov | Victoria Franke |
Customer experience
Ato
Dead Streets GPS
In-app purchases
Ato
No in-app purchases
Dead Streets GPS
- Monthly Plan$4.991 Month
- Yearly Plan$29.991 Year
- Restock Supplies$0.99
- Vacation Mode$0.99
- Add NPC$0.99









