Comparison

C Journey vs Mist Map

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

Head to head
About

C Journey

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CJourney began with years of living and traveling across countries and cities. As the trips added up, photos scattered across the camera roll. Map apps remembered searches and routes, not journeys. Most footprint apps only dropped a pin on a country or city. The dates, photos, sights, airports, museums, and city memories that actually make a trip never had a place to grow over time. So CJourney was built. CJourney is a photo-powered travel archive. After you grant Photos access, it reads capture time and location from your library and organizes the countries, cities, and places you have been—then builds your travel map, trip calendar, and long-term archive. You do not need to open the app constantly on the road, or type everything in when you get home. If a photo still has time and location, taking it is already a record. ■ Not just cities—specific places Many map and footprint tools only tell you which countries or cities you visited. CJourney goes further and matches photos to real places, so you can see: - Sights and city landmarks - Airports and transit hubs - Museums and concert venues - National parks and landscapes From “I have been to Paris” to “which museums I actually walked through.” From a city name to the temples, parks, and stages that held the trip. ■ Unlock achievements, fill your passport 30+ travel achievements unlock automatically from your photos: - Regions: Across Japan, Across China, EU Wanderer - Icons: Fuji Climber, At the Ends of the World - Seasons: Kyoto Through Four Seasons - Themes: Museum Feast, Island Maniac, Disney Superfan Your travel passport sums up the countries, continents, and share of the world you have covered. ■ Check-ins and manual entries On the road, check in with one tap. For places without photos, add a destination by hand—even a multi-day stay in one go. ■ A calendar that builds itself CJourney uses photo time and place to assemble your travel dates. On the trip calendar you can see where you were on a given day, month, or year, how many photos you took, and which destinations you reached. No itinerary to create first, and no manual cleanup later. The calendar grows as your photos do. ■ See the world you have walked Turn travel photos into a global footprint map of countries, cities, and destinations. CJourney is designed for worldwide travel, not a single country or a short list of famous cities. Weekend trips, repeated flights, long stays, and years of movement can live on the same map. ■ Read your journeys as data A trip is more than a map. It is a record that keeps changing. You can review: - Countries, regions, and destinations visited - Footprints by year or across all time - Travel days, distance, and photo counts - Country and destination rankings - Place types such as sights, airports, and museums - Distinct locations and trip records From one journey to many years on the road, you slowly build an archive that is yours. ■ Share the story Turn the map, calendar, stats, and place photos into images you can share. Send cities, numbers, and memories to friends—or keep a keepsake of the trip. ■ Built for many trips, over years CJourney is not a tool for a single itinerary. It is a travel journal that can stay with you. It is especially for people who: - Travel often across countries and cities - Take several trips a year and want to look back by year - Live abroad, study, work remotely, or stay long-term - Already shoot a lot and want those photos organized - Want more than a city check-in—they want the actual sights - Care about a lasting personal travel archive Every departure makes the archive more complete. ■ Your photos stay yours Original photos and videos are not uploaded to our servers. Previews and most media processing stay on device by default. You can manage Photos and Location access anytime in system Settings, and decide what CJourney can see. — Trips end. Your footprint can keep growing.

About

Mist Map

This app creates a visual record of your travels by revealing explored areas on a map as you move. It tracks your routes, distances, and speeds, and allows you to import and export your journey data.

Highlights
  • Reveals explored areas as you move
  • Records routes on iPhone and Apple Watch
  • Displays route history with stats
  • Imports GPX files
  • Exports routes as GPX files
  • Stores route data locally
Features
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Mist Map is a personal exploration map that gradually reveals the places you have been. Walk, ride, commute, or travel, and your explored routes appear on the map as clean lines through the fog. Over time, Mist Map becomes a quiet record of your movement and your world. Key features: • Reveal explored areas as you move • Record routes on iPhone and Apple Watch • View route history with distance, duration, speed, and heart rate on supported workouts • Import GPX files into your own history • Export your routes as GPX files • Keep your route data stored locally on your device Mist Map is designed for people who want a simple, personal map of where they have been, while keeping control of their own data.

Screenshots

C Journey4 screens
Mist Map3 screens

Verdict

The call

C Journey and Mist Map are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

C Journey ships an update weekly, Mist Map every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
C Journey versus Mist Map: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterC JourneyMist Map
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—75.0% of reviews
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRelative Path Co.,Ltd嘉奇 龙

In-app purchases

None

C Journey

No in-app purchases

None

Mist Map

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is C Journey free?
C Journey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mist Map free?
Mist Map is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do C Journey or Mist Map have ads?
Neither C Journey nor Mist Map shows ads.
Which is updated more often, C Journey or Mist Map?
C Journey ships an update weekly, and Mist Map every 4 days. Most recently, C Journey was updated on October 24, 2026 and Mist Map on October 6, 2026.

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