Comparison

HexPlore vs FlightDial

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

Head to head
About

HexPlore

This app visualizes your actual travel footprint by mapping the specific areas you've visited, not just countries. It automatically uses your photo geotags to build a detailed map of your explorations, revealing the true extent of your global experiences.

Highlights
  • Maps actual ground explored
  • Automatic map generation from photos
  • Visualizes percentage of countries explored
  • Highlights areas for future travel
  • Shareable map snapshots
  • No account or cloud storage required
Features
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You've been to 30 countries. But how much of the world have you actually seen? Most of us have ticked off a country and moved on — a few days in a city, an airport layover, a cruise port. HexPlore shows you the truth, and it's more interesting than any list of countries ever could be. Your travels are more unique than you think. That road trip through the Scottish Highlands. The back streets of Lisbon you got lost in. The stretch of New Zealand coast you drove at sunrise. HexPlore maps all of it — the actual ground you stood on, not just the countries you passed through. You might have been to Australia and seen 0.4% of it. You might have wandered a tiny country and covered 60%. That contrast is the whole point. DISCOVER YOUR REAL FOOTPRINT Find out what % of the world's land you've genuinely explored. See which countries you know deeply and which ones you've barely scratched. Spot the blank spaces on your map and feel the pull to fill them in. YOUR PHOTOS REMEMBER EVERYTHING Every trip you've ever taken is already sitting in your camera roll. HexPlore reads where your photos were taken and builds your map automatically. No logging. No manual entry. Just the honest record of a life lived. SOMETHING TO SHARE Generate a snapshot of your map and send it to friends. Compare honest coverage, not just country counts. Settle the debate about who's actually the more well-travelled one. Your photos stay on your phone. Always. No account, no sign-up, no cloud. Download HexPlore. Find out where you've really been.

About

FlightDial

Features
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FlightDial turns your wrist into a radar screen. Real aircraft, live from community ADS-B data, drawn on an analog dial at their true bearing and distance from you. The dial turns with your compass, so a plane at 10 o’clock on screen is at 10 o’clock in the sky. One crossing the centre is about to pass overhead, and FlightDial taps you when it will. • Live traffic on a clean analog dial, over a terrain map • Turn the Digital Crown to zoom from 2 to 50 km • Tap a plane for its registration, type, altitude, speed, distance and bearing • A complication showing how many aircraft are near you • A haptic when something is about to pass overhead • Watch Heathrow’s traffic any time, free FlightDial World unlocks any sky on earth: search a city or airport and keep it as its own dial. Live traffic: ADSB.lol community data (ODbL).

Screenshots

HexPlore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: FlightDial at every 2 days against HexPlore's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

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

HexPlore ships an update every 2 weeks, FlightDial every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and August 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
HexPlore versus FlightDial: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHexPloreFlightDial
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlastair McNeillMishigo OU

In-app purchases

None

HexPlore

No in-app purchases

None

FlightDial

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HexPlore free?
HexPlore is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FlightDial free?
FlightDial is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HexPlore or FlightDial have ads?
Neither HexPlore nor FlightDial shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HexPlore or FlightDial?
HexPlore ships an update every 2 weeks, and FlightDial every 2 days. Most recently, HexPlore was updated on September 7, 2026 and FlightDial on August 31, 2026.

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