Wandrd vs Travel Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wandrd
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Your wanders, on one living globe. Wandrd is a travel tracker built around one idea: every country you've visited should live somewhere you can spin and fill in over time. Tap to add a visit, write a few lines about what made the trip, and watch your world light up. In the app • A globe that rotates, zooms, and lights up every country you've ticked off • Country detection that quietly notices when you cross a border • Stories: dates, a short note, and a year-by-year timeline • Travel stats: world completion, continents, streaks, favourite continent • Country detail: distance, flight time, climate by month, capital, currency • Wishlist and home base, so days abroad and distance from home just work No sign-up. Just start. Wandrd works without an account. Track your wanders straight away on the device you have. Add an account later if you want to sync across devices or back up. Your data stays yours.
Travel Buddy
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Travel Buddy is a digital scratch map for your phone. Track the countries you have visited on your own world map, keep every trip in a travel journal, and plan the next one. YOUR SCRATCH MAP OF THE WORLD Color in every country you have ever set foot in. It works like the scratch off world map on your wall, except it is always with you and you never need a coin. Your visited countries map fills up as you travel, and a country counter tracks your progress toward all 195. AUTO-IMPORT YOUR TRAVEL HISTORY Buddy reads the places in your camera roll and rebuilds years of travel history in minutes. Your travel map, photo memories and past trips are filled in for you. You just confirm. A TRAVEL JOURNAL THAT ALMOST WRITES ITSELF Log trips with photos, dates, notes and ratings. Every trip becomes a keepsake: the route, the journal and the camera roll, kept together in one place. SEE EVERY TRIP ON A MAP Your stops on a real city map, numbered in the order you will visit them, with the route drawn between them and the travel time for every leg. Tap a day to zoom into it, or tap a pin to open that stop in your maps app. TRAVEL STATS & MILESTONES Days abroad, countries visited, continents reached: your travel statistics, beautifully presented. Every year becomes its own yearbook cover, and you can share your stats as a video. PLAN YOUR NEXT TRIP Tell Buddy, your AI trip planner, what you are dreaming of and get a day-by-day itinerary in seconds that you can reorder and make your own. Keep a bucket list of dream destinations, and let Buddy suggest your next trip based on where you and your friends have been. TRAVEL WITH FRIENDS Follow friends, compare travel maps, and see the countries you both dream about. Invite with a link and plan trips together. WIDGETS Your world map, visited-country count and next-trip countdown, right on your home screen. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Travel Buddy works without signal and syncs when you are back online. Your travel diary is yours: private by default, no ads. Whether you are a country counter chasing all 195, a backpacker journaling the route, or a family mapping vacation memories, Travel Buddy is the scratch map you always have with you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wandrd at none against Travel Buddy's 3. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Travel Buddy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Wandrd asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Wandrd | Travel Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Lamars | Filip Frlic |
In-app purchases
Wandrd
No in-app purchases
Travel Buddy
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Travel Buddy Pro Lifetime$59.99








