Comparison

GhostLoop vs Territor.io

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

Head to head
About

GhostLoop

Race against your past self with recorded runs that become ghosts. Track outdoor GPS, treadmill, or import rides and swims. Compete with friends through step challenges and race their ghosts.

Highlights
  • Race your past self with recorded ghosts
  • Live gap indicator and audio cues
  • GPS tracking with map-matched routes
  • Treadmill mode and Apple Health import
  • Create step challenges with friends
  • Export activities as GPX
Features
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Every run you record becomes a ghost — a replay of the exact runner you were. Lace up, pick one, and race it. GhostLoop isn't about competing with strangers on a leaderboard. The only person you're chasing is the one you were last Tuesday. And you'll know exactly where they are the whole way. RACE YOUR PAST SELF • Every recorded run is saved as a ghost you can race any time • A live gap shows whether you're ahead or behind, meter by meter • Hear it happen: spoken splits, pace, and the moment your ghost passes you • Save your favorite routes as loops and build a library of rivals TRACK IT ANYWHERE • Outdoor GPS with map-matched routes and elevation • Treadmill mode: race indoors with no GPS, using your own calibrated stride • Rides and swims import from Apple Health — pace in min/100m for the pool • Apple Watch app: start a run, walk, or pool swim and see your ghost gap on your wrist • Auto-pause when you stop, auto-resume when you go SEE YOURSELF GET FASTER • Weekly and monthly trends, training load, best weeks, longest runs • Run streaks with rest days that don't break the chain • Elevation profiles and 3D route views • Personal records that only compare like with like — a bike ride never fakes a running PR RUN WITH YOUR CREW • Add friends and see their step counts on a live club leaderboard • Create step challenges — daily, weekly, monthly • Send a ghost to a friend so they can race your loop on their own feet • Ghost runners fill out the board so it stays competitive from day one YOUR DATA, YOUR CALL • Export any activity as GPX; import your history from other apps • Shared route images hide the start and end of your run • Detailed Health records stay on your device; only daily step totals and challenge progress sync to people you accept Outmove yesterday. Apple Health is used to read your step counts and import your own workouts. Location is used to track your route while you run. GhostLoop never sells your data.

About

Territor.io

Turn your runs into a competitive game where you capture territory by closing loops. Compete with friends or globally to claim land, earn points, and earn trophies. Customize game rules and track your progress with detailed score breakdowns.

Highlights
  • Capture territory by closing GPS loops
  • Compete with friends or globally
  • Customizable game rules and seasons
  • Earn points and trophies
  • Detailed score breakdowns
  • Apple Fitness sync
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Territor.io turns a run into a land grab. Close a loop on your route and the ground inside it becomes yours: painted in your color on a live map and worth points on the board. Run a bigger, smarter loop than your friends and you take theirs. Lost ground? Run it again and take it back. HOW IT WORKS • Start a run. Territor.io tracks it with GPS and keeps tracking with the screen off. (Continued use of GPS in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.) • Close a loop: circle back to where you started, or cross your own path. Any shape that encloses ground counts. • Finish to watch your captured area light up. • Already running with your Apple Watch? Turn on Apple Fitness sync in Settings (iOS) to bring those runs in automatically. They show up in your history and can be published to claim territory, just like runs you record in the app. • Publish when you're ready. Nothing is shared until you do. IT'S A TURF WAR The newest loop to enclose a patch owns it. Your territory is always up for grabs, and so is everyone else's — the map never stops moving. BRING YOUR RIVALS Create a private group, invite friends with a link, and share a map and leaderboard that belong only to you. Or publish to the Global game and take your place on the world board. RULES THAT CHANGE THE GAME Each group's season picks which rules it plays by: • Conditions: a hard run is worth more. Cold, heat, rain, snow, darkness and climbing all raise your multiplier, measured on our servers from where and when you actually ran. • Milestones: points for distance covered, a bonus for every week of your streak, and permanent trophies for your first 5K, 10K, half and full marathon. • Territory Decay: ground you don't re-run slowly fades and releases. Consistency beats one heroic land grab. • Landmarks: bonus points for looping around parks, monuments, museums and capitols. Either everyone can claim each place once, or only the first runner there gets paid. SEASONS AND TROPHIES A group sets its own season length — monthly, quarterly, yearly, or open-ended. When a season closes, the top three take home permanent trophies, and the map opens as unclaimed ground. Every past season keeps its own frozen board and map. SEE EXACTLY WHY YOU SCORED Tap any score for a full breakdown: the ground you're holding, what each active rule added, and the total. BUILT TO BE FAIR Scoring rules are set by Territor.io, never by group owners, so nobody can tune the game in their own favor. Weather, elevation and daylight are looked up server-side, so nothing your phone reports can inflate a score. Runs at impossible speeds are rejected. YOUR PRIVACY A run stays private to you until you choose to publish it. Other players see your username, your color and the shape of the loops you've published but never your real name, email or photo. We don't store the raw point-by-point GPS trail of your run on our servers, only the boundary of the loop you claimed. Lace up. The neighborhood is up for grabs.

Screenshots

GhostLoop4 screens
Territor.io4 screens

Verdict

The call

GhostLoop and Territor.io are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for GhostLoop against 5.0 for Territor.io. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GhostLoop ships an update every 5 days, Territor.io every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
GhostLoop versus Territor.io: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGhostLoopTerritor.io
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB25 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperIan CastilloJoshua Abbott

Customer experience

GhostLoop

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Territor.io

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

GhostLoop

No in-app purchases

None

Territor.io

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GhostLoop free?
GhostLoop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Territor.io free?
Territor.io is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GhostLoop or Territor.io?
GhostLoop and Territor.io are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do GhostLoop or Territor.io have ads?
Neither GhostLoop nor Territor.io shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GhostLoop or Territor.io?
GhostLoop ships an update every 5 days, and Territor.io every 3 days. Most recently, GhostLoop was updated on September 21, 2026 and Territor.io on September 10, 2026.

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