Wander vs Shrinkray
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wander
This app transforms your geotagged photos into a navigable map of your journey. It automatically creates a walking route between photo locations, allowing you to replay your steps and view your photos at each point. Track your elevation and organize your walks with ease.
- Create routes from geotagged photos
- View photos at each map pin
- Replay walk with picture-in-picture
- Elevation chart synced to playback
- Automatic walk logging and organization
- Private iCloud sync
- Shareable walk summaries
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Wander turns the photos from any journey into the route you traveled. Pick the geotagged photos from a stroll, a hike, a bike ride, a road trip, even a flight, and Wander draws the route between every stop in capture order: locked to real streets and trails on land, a clean line across water or sky. Replay it, tap any pin for the photo you took there, and share the result. FEATURES • Photos to route: pick your geotagged photos and Wander builds the path, sorted by capture time and snapped to streets and trails. • Journeys you never saved: Wander can search your photo library for days that look like one and offer them back. It runs on your device and reads only each photo's date and location, never the photos themselves. • The route you actually took: if you recorded a walk, run, ride, or hike in Apple Health while you shot the photos, Wander draws the path it recorded instead of guessing between them. It never writes to Health. • Choose photos your way: filter your library by a day or a date range, jump to a place, or draw a circle on the map to grab everything you shot there. • Every kind of journey: mark any leg as running, cycling, hiking, driving, a train, a boat, or a flight. Wander reads the clues and suggests one. You decide. • Waypoints and Places: shape a route through somewhere you didn't photograph, or set one as your start or end so a train trip draws from the station. Save the spots you use often, like home or a trailhead, and drop one onto any Wander in a tap. • Notes and tags: write a note on a whole Wander, or on any stop, leg, or waypoint, and tag them however you think. Your Logbook searches both. • Weather: look up the conditions and temperature your journey happened in, stop by stop, from the moment each photo was taken. • People: add whoever shared the journey, from Contacts or on the spot. Attach them to a whole Wander or one leg, and browse every journey you've taken together. • Photo pins and replay: every photo becomes a pin you can tap, and pressing play walks a marker along the route with each stop's photo alongside. • Timeline: your journey stop by stop, where you can edit a leg's activity, its people, or a waypoint in place. • Elevation chart: see how high you climbed, read from your photos' GPS altitude and synced to playback. • Insights: lifetime totals across everything you've wandered, from distance and photos to your busiest month. • Logbook: every Wander saves automatically with a fun auto-generated name. Organize with folders, or Smart Folders that fill themselves from rules: runs with Ben but not Sam, anything tagged "coast". • Find it fast: your Wanders turn up in Spotlight search, and "Create a Wander" works from Siri, Shortcuts, or the Action Button. • Built for everyone: Reduce Motion and Transparency, Dynamic Type, higher-contrast pins, and full VoiceOver, including an audio graph of your elevation. • Never lose a Wander: your library backs up to your own iCloud Drive, daily if you like. Deleted ones wait 30 days in Recently Deleted. • On iPhone and iPad: universal, with your Logbook syncing privately across your devices through your own iCloud, not our servers. • Share: send any Wander as a card with the route, the stats, a featured photo, and an optional elevation chart. Frame it with a drag and a pinch; standard or satellite, light or dark, portrait, square or landscape. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up. • Your photos never leave your device. Wander reads the ones you choose right where they are and builds the route on device. • No tracking, no ads, no analytics. • What little leaves your device is a coordinate answering something you asked for: Apple Maps for directions and place names, Apple Weather if you look up weather, an elevation service if you look up a height. Never a photo. Wander uses your photos' capture time and location to draw your route. Photos without either are skipped. Go Wander.
Shrinkray
Reduce the size of photos and videos for effortless sharing without compromising visual quality. This tool allows you to select compression levels, preview results, and send files while preserving your original media.
- Adjust compression levels
- Preview file size and detail
- Preserve original files
- Batch processing (Pro)
- In-app message sharing (Pro)
- Custom file size limits (Pro)
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Make photos and videos smaller for easier sharing while keeping them looking great. Shrinkray helps you choose a file size that works for you, check the result, and send it on. Your originals stay untouched. CHOOSE HOW MUCH TO SHRINK Pick a preset to balance file size and detail. Compare the original and new file sizes before sharing, and zoom in to check the details in a photo. START WHERE YOUR PHOTOS ARE Open Shrinkray to choose photos and videos, or select them in Photos, Files, or any app that lets you share photos and videos. Then choose Shrinkray from the share sheet. With Pro, you can also shrink and attach them inside Messages. KEEP YOUR ORIGINALS Shrinkray processes photos and videos on your iPhone without uploading them to our servers. It creates copies for sharing and leaves the originals in your library alone. Location details are removed from the copies by default. GET MORE WITH PRO No subscription. A one-time purchase unlocks these Pro features for life: • Shrink several photos and videos together after your free allowance runs out • Shrink and attach photos and videos inside Messages • Set custom file size limits and fine-tune photo settings • Choose from more video quality settings and more efficient file formats • Preserve smoother motion in videos • Split long videos into smaller clips for sharing TRY IT FREE Shrink one photo or video at a time for free. The app and Photos share sheet also include a limited number of free uses for shrinking several items together. Made for iPhone. Requires iOS 18 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wander at none against Shrinkray's 1. Shrinkray's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). 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. Shrinkray sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Wander asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Wander against 5.0 for Shrinkray. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shrinkray has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Wander ships an update every 3 weeks, Shrinkray every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wander | Shrinkray |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | J Maher | Here Comes Supper |
Customer experience
Wander
Shrinkray
In-app purchases
Wander
No in-app purchases
Shrinkray
- Shrinkray Pro$4.99









