Comparison

Taandi vs Driftlog

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

Head to head
About

Taandi

Features
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Taandi is a search engine that presents travel and food videos on an interactive map. Through intelligent analysis, Taandi accurately identifies the places featured in each video and displays their locations and corresponding clips on the map, making it easier to explore the interesting and fun destinations that creators introduce around the world.

About

Driftlog

This app automatically logs your travel destinations, including countries, cities, and dates, even when closed. It organizes your journey with photos and provides visual maps and timelines of your adventures. Enjoy a private, ad-free experience with a one-time purchase.

Highlights
  • Automatic country and city logging
  • Hands-free travel diary
  • Trip photos linked automatically
  • Visual map of visited locations
  • Year-by-year travel timeline
  • Private, on-device storage
Features
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Driftlog fills in your travel map by itself. YOUR OLD TRIPS ARE ALREADY IN YOUR PHOTOS You do not have to start from today. Tap import once and Driftlog reads the location that is already saved inside your photos, then puts those trips on the map with their dates. Years of travel can appear in a minute. It reads the location tag on a photo. It never looks at the picture itself. If the location history your phone used to keep is gone, this is the thing to try. Your photos usually still remember where you were. AND IT KEEPS GOING FROM TODAY Turn on location once and leave it. Driftlog records the countries, cities and regions you pass through while it sits closed in the background. No check-ins. No writing anything down. Open it after six months and the map has been filling itself in the whole time. WHAT YOU GET - A world map that colors itself in, country by country - A passport with a landmark stamp for every country you have visited - A timeline by year, down to the cities you stayed in and the dates - Memories: where you were on this day a year ago, and the year before that - A welcome back recap when you get home - Trip and year cards you can share WHAT IT COSTS Free to download. Free forever, for everyone: the world map, the passport stamps, your country count, the timeline. Free in full: your home country. Every region, city, stay date and linked photo, without paying anything. Free abroad: your first foreign country, in full. That is the oldest one in your history. From the second foreign country onward, the details (dates, cities, notes, photos) open with one purchase. The price is shown on this page. You pay once. No subscription, no ads, no account. WHAT LEAVES YOUR PHONE Your records stay on the device. There is no account and no server behind this app. No ads, no tracking, and the App Store privacy label says Data Not Collected. Place-name lookups do go out, and it is worth saying plainly. To turn coordinates into a name like "Lisbon, Portugal", the coordinates are sent to Apple's map service, and when you type a city name to add a trip by hand, that name is sent to find where it is. That is all that is sent. Not your history, not your photos. BEFORE YOU START Automatic recording needs Location set to Always, with Precise Location on. Nothing is recorded while your phone is off. Without a data connection (roaming off, for example), Driftlog still notes the country you arrive in, except near borders, and adds the city name once you are back online. The photo import only sees photos that carry a location. Photos taken with camera location switched off are invisible to it. You can add a location to them later in the Photos app: select them, tap the info button, then Add Location, and run the import again. The import also needs Photos access set to All Photos. On Selected Photos it only looks at the ones you picked. A place counts as a trip when it has 3 or more photos on one day, or photos spanning 2 or more days and at least 6 hours apart, so a late-night landing plus a photo after midnight is not counted as an overnight stay. Shorter stops are treated as layovers and left out. Your home area is excluded by default, inside a radius you can change in settings. iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later. Portrait only. Made by one person. Wander. It logs the rest.

Screenshots

Taandi4 screens
Driftlog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Taandi at 15.1 against Driftlog's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Taandi versus Driftlog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTaandiDriftlog
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—77.8% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWai Man HouAkira Takashima

In-app purchases

None

Taandi

No in-app purchases

None

Driftlog

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Taandi free?
Taandi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Driftlog free?
Driftlog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Taandi or Driftlog have ads?
Neither Taandi nor Driftlog shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Taandi or Driftlog?
Taandi ships an update every 3 days, and Driftlog every 3 days. Most recently, Taandi was updated on October 9, 2026 and Driftlog on October 5, 2026.

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