Sidequest vs Unterra
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sidequest
Turn everyday outings into exciting real-world games with AI-powered quests and personalized destination suggestions. Explore new places, track your discoveries on a unique map, and share adventures with friends.
- AI-powered random quests
- Mood-based destination selection
- Turn-by-turn navigation
- Exploration map with fog clearing
- AI-driven place information
- Personalized discovery feed
- Friend activity and sharing
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Make every day feel like an adventure. Sidequest turns your city, and everywhere you travel, into a real-world game. Random destinations by mood. Fresh places every day. Watch the map fill in as you walk. ◆ EXPLORE ◆ • Tap the dice for a Random Quest. A real-world adventure • Pick your mood: Nature, Food, Adventure, or Hidden Gems • Set your distance: walking, biking, or driving • Get turn-by-turn directions to a destination you've never been • Don't like it? Re-roll for somewhere new ◆ DISCOVER ◆ • Fresh places near you every day, curated to your taste • Restaurants, cafes, parks, viewpoints, hidden gems • Swipe through your daily picks • Save the ones you love to your Want to Go list • Skip the ones you don't, and the algorithm learns ◆ MAP ◆ • Automatic tile-by-tile fog clears as you walk, drive, or bike • See exactly how much of your city, country, and world you've explored • Drill into any continent, country, state, city, or neighborhood • Widgets put your stats and maps right on your home screen ◆ SAVE ◆ • Three rating tiers: Must Go, Would Go, Meh • Add photos, notes, and tags • Auto-organize into Food, Nature, Adventure collections • Always know which spots were great ◆ SHARE ◆ • Add friends, see their saved spots and exploration stats • Share beautiful cards of your spots, city guides, and stats • Discover places through the people you trust ◆ FOR EXPLORERS WHO LOVE A REAL-WORLD ADVENTURE ◆ If you love treasure hunts, scavenger hunts, or geocaching, Sidequest scratches the same itch with a different twist: there are no hidden boxes to find. The destination IS the discovery. A hidden coffee shop. A viewpoint you've never seen. A trail nobody told you about. It's GPS-guided real-world exploration, minus the cache maintenance. Questions or ideas? Reach out at support@knowaspot.app Subscriptions are managed via your iTunes account and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Unused trial time is forfeited upon upgrade. Privacy Policy: https://knowaspot.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://knowaspot.app/terms EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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 monetization model: Sidequest at free against Unterra's freemium. Sidequest also leads on ratings volume (176 vs 3) and chart position (#194 vs unranked). Unterra's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Sidequest sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Unterra sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Sidequest against 4.3 for Unterra. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sidequest has 176 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 18% of Sidequest's written reviews are positive against 20% of Unterra's.
Sidequest ships an update every 2 weeks, Unterra every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sidequest | Unterra |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (176 ratings) — better | 4.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 17.9% of reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 176 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #194 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 167 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Riley Palattao | NPDesigned LLC |
Customer experience
Sidequest
Unterra
In-app purchases
Sidequest
- Sidequest Pro$4.997 Days
- Sidequest Pro$5.997 Days
- Sidequest Pro$6.997 Days
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- Sidequest Pro$7.997 Days
- Monthly$9.991 Month
- Sidequest Annual$17.991 Year
- Sidequest Pro$19.991 Year
- Annual$29.991 Year
- Sidequest Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Sidequest Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Unterra
- NewRoads Pro$6.991 Year








