Yukitabi vs Maplora

Yukitabi (雪旅) — your pocket guide to Japan. Planning your first trip to Japan? Yukitabi is the calm, offline-first companion that helps you arrive, eat, speak, and behave with confidence — not as a tourist guessing your way through. IPHONE DUO SUPPORT Browse guides and related phrases side by side on the open inner display. Adaptive layouts keep your Japan essentials close as you open or fold your iPhone Duo. AIRPORT ARRIVAL Step-by-step guides for Narita and Haneda. From immigration to your first train, we walk you through customs, SIM activation, IC cards, luggage forwarding, and getting into the city. No more standing confused in the arrivals hall. FOOD GUIDE 30+ Japanese dishes explained — what they are, how to eat them, what to expect, and how to order. Ramen, sushi, regional specialties — each with allergen notes and ordering phrases in Japanese, romaji, and English. PHRASEBOOK Essential phrases for restaurants, transport, shopping, hotels, and emergencies. Every phrase includes the Japanese text, hiragana reading, romaji, and the situation it fits. A "show card" mode lets you hand your phone to a local when you can't pronounce it. No Japanese study required. CHERRY BLOSSOM GUIDE 16 handpicked sakura viewing spots from iconic Ueno Park to quiet gems in Kanazawa and Yoshino. Bloom timing, crowd levels, access notes, and local tips for the perfect hanami. CULTURAL TIPS The unwritten rules: bowing, chopstick etiquette, train manners, shoes-off customs, onsen protocol. Written by someone who grew up in Japan, not someone who visited once. CHECKLISTS Pre-trip packing, airport arrival, daily essentials, departure — interactive checklists that save your progress. Never forget Japan Rail Pass activation or pocket Wi-Fi return. 28 IN-DEPTH GUIDES From shinkansen to konbini, temple visits to budget planning. Practical, honest, and detailed. Topics include IC cards, JR Pass, money, connectivity, accommodation, photography etiquette, and luggage forwarding. WHY YUKITABI Most Japan travel apps are either too shallow (top-10 lists) or too complex (full itinerary planners). Yukitabi sits in the sweet spot: deep enough to be genuinely useful, simple enough to use while standing in Shinjuku Station wondering which exit to take. Built in Oxford by a Japanese developer who misses home and wants you to experience the Japan she knows — not just the one in the brochures. WHAT'S INCLUDED • Narita + Haneda arrival guides • 30+ Japanese dishes with photos and ordering phrases • 16 sakura viewing spots with bloom timing • Phrasebook covering 6 everyday categories • 28 deep-dive guides • Cultural tips and etiquette • Interactive checklists with saved progress • Favourites and offline access — all content bundled, no network required PRIVACY No account. No tracking. No analytics. No ads. Your favourites and progress stay on your device. No subscriptions and no in-app purchases.

Maplora is your personal travel atlas. Color in every country you have been to, then watch your world fill in on a living 3D globe or a clean flat map. One purchase. No subscription, no account, no cloud, no tracking. Everything you record stays on your iPhone. YOUR WORLD, IN COLOR - Mark any country Visited, Want to Go or Home - Spin a real 3D globe, or work quickly on a flat map - Seven views: status, visited, wishlist, favorites, memories, a single year, and a heat map of the places you keep going back to - All 197 countries and 7 continents, Antarctica included - Eight themes that repaint the whole world, from warm parchment to deep sea REMEMBER EVERY TRIP - Log as many trips per country as you like, with dates, cities and notes - Ten trip types: holiday, business, backpacking, road trip, adventure, family, couple, solo, cruise and other - Rate a country, mark it a favorite, keep a private note on it - Add photos to any country and keep them beside the pin SEE HOW FAR YOU HAVE COME - The number everyone asks you for: exactly what percentage of the world you have explored - Progress for each of the seven continents - Year recaps with countries, new countries, days away and trips - A full timeline of every trip, newest first - 22 milestones to unlock, from your first country to all 197 COLLECT YOUR PASSPORT - Every visited country earns its own stamp, marked with the year you first went - Watch your passport page fill up trip by trip SHARE IT PROPERLY - Build a share card from your map, globe, passport, statistics, year recap, stamps or bucket list - Four shapes for stories, feed posts, squares and wide screens - Export a full PDF travel report with your countries, trips, photos, stamps and milestones - Everything renders on your device at high resolution. Nothing is uploaded PLAN WHAT COMES NEXT - Put countries on your wishlist with a priority and a target year - Where next? draws real suggestions from your own map: places near the countries you loved, and continents you have barely touched GENUINELY YOURS - Works completely offline, including the very first time you open it - No account, ever - Export your whole atlas as one readable file whenever you want, and import it back - A safety snapshot is kept before anything destructive, so nothing is one tap from gone - No analytics, no tracking, no ads Maplora is for anyone who has traveled enough that they can no longer hold it all in their head. Passport stamps fade, camera rolls turn into a mess, and memory is not a filing system. This is the record that lasts. Privacy Policy: https://apps.husofttech.com/maplora/privacy Terms of Use: https://apps.husofttech.com/maplora/terms Support: https://apps.husofttech.com/support Buy Maplora once and start coloring in your world.