Mist Map vs RateCat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
RateCat
Easily convert between over 176 currencies, including major cryptocurrencies. Track live rates, historical trends, and set custom rate alerts. Supports offline use and home screen widgets for convenient financial tracking.
- 176+ fiat and crypto currencies
- Live exchange rate tracking
- Historical trend analysis
- Customizable rate alerts
- Offline cache support
- Home screen widgets
- Dark mode
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RateCat is a clean and practical currency converter built for everyday exchange-rate checks. It supports 176+ fiat currencies and major cryptocurrencies, helping you convert amounts, compare live rates, and track historical trends between any two currency pairs. Customize your rate board, follow USD, CNY, EUR, JPY, GBP, BTC, ETH and more, or create rate alerts to get notified when a currency pair moves above or below your target value. RateCat also supports home screen widgets, dark mode, multiple languages and offline cache, making it useful for travel, investing, cross-border shopping and daily finance tracking. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mist Map at none against RateCat's 4. RateCat's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. RateCat sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Mist Map asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mist Map ships an update every 4 days, RateCat every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mist Map | RateCat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 嘉奇 龙 | Wuhan Yuhang Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Mist Map
RateCat
In-app purchases
Mist Map
No in-app purchases
RateCat
- RageCat PRO Monthly$2.991 Month
- RateCat Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- a cup of coffee$0.99
- PRO Lifetime$14.99
