Comparison

Path vs Tiny Cities

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

Head to head
About

Path

This app helps you log your travel history and plan future adventures. Mark visited cities, create trip maps, and discover new destinations with a spinning globe feature. It also scans your photos to suggest places you've been.

Highlights
  • Log visited cities and add visit dates
  • Create journey maps by grouping cities
  • Scan photos to suggest visited locations
  • Visualize visited countries and territories
  • Spin an interactive 3D globe for destination ideas
  • Receive daily travel inspiration from Yoyo
Features
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Path is your personal map journal of everywhere you’ve been and everywhere you want to go next. Path turns your travel history into a living map. Mark the cities you've visited, save the journeys that shaped your story in one elegant travel companion. No clue where to travel next? Path travel buddy Yoyo sends you daily new ideas. Feeling lucky? Just spin a fully interactive 3D globe to discover new places like in the old days. Whether you are remembering a weekend trip, planning your next adventure, or slowly filling in your travel journals, Path helps you keep your travels beautifully organized. TRACK EVERY PLACE YOU'VE BEEN Search any city in the world and add it to your map. Add visit dates to build a timeline of your travels. Pin your favorites and build a wishlist for everywhere you want to go next. BUILD JOURNEY MAPS Group cities into trips and see them plotted together. Whether it's a two-week Europe tour or a weekend road trip, Path turns your itinerary into a story worth keeping. SCAN YOUR PHOTOS Let Path scan your photo library and automatically suggest cities you've visited based on location metadata. Rediscover trips you forgot you took. YOUR WORLD AT A GLANCE A world map lights up every country and territory you've set foot in and collects their flags — a growing record of how far you've roamed. SPIN THE GLOBE Discover your next destination the old-fashioned way — spin a fully interactive 3D globe, let it land somewhere new, and add it to your wishlist. Explore the world from any angle, just like the real thing. DAILY PHOTOS FROM YOYO Every day, Yoyo — your travel companion — sends you a photo message introducing a new place in the world. A small moment of wanderlust, delivered daily to spark your next adventure.

About

Tiny Cities

This app lets you digitally collect and display the places you've visited, creating unique miniature dioramas for each city. It allows you to add photos and notes, and track future travel aspirations.

Highlights
  • 602 hand-made city miniatures
  • Interactive snow globe effect
  • Virtual passport with stamps
  • World map with glowing beacons
  • Digital fridge magnets
  • Someday cities list
  • Memory notes and photos
Features
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A tiny snow globe for every city you've been. Shake it — snow falls, and you're back there. 602 hand-made miniatures — a travel tracker that feels like a keepsake. Other apps count your countries. Tiny Cities keeps them. WHAT YOU GET • 602 HAND-MADE CITIES — a real clay diorama for each one, from Paris to Tashkent, with its own landmarks and its own light. Not clip art, not a map pin. • SHAKE THE SNOW — tilt your phone and the globe answers. Every city has its own weather and its own hour of the day. • A PASSPORT THAT FILLS ITSELF — every city stamps it in real ink, themed to your nationality. • YOUR WORLD, LIT UP — spin the Earth and watch a beacon glow for everywhere you've been. • THE FRIDGE — every city you keep also mints a magnet. Stick them where you like. • SOMEDAY CITIES — keep the places you haven't reached yet under cold glass. When you finally arrive, make them real. • MEMORY NOTES & PHOTOS — the night train, the tiny bar, the wrong turn that made the trip. Up to ten photos with every city. HOW IT WORKS 1. Search any city you've visited. 2. Say when you went — to the day, or just "spring 2019". 3. Watch its miniature develop, and set it on your shelf. WHY PEOPLE SWITCH • No sign-up form. No marketing email. No notifications begging you to come back. • Your memories sync privately to an anonymous account and stay browsable offline. • Nothing you make is ever taken away — once a city is developed, it stays developed. FREE TO START Track every city you have ever been to — there is no limit, and there never was meant to be. Your first three arrive as full clay dioramas with the whole ceremony. The rest are kept, stamped and counted while their miniature waits in the darkroom. First Class develops them, and every new city develops the moment you add it. It also opens every stand in the cabinet and prints your postcards without the address line. Where have you been? Start your shelf tonight. TERMS & PRIVACY Terms of Use: https://tinycities.vercel.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://tinycities.vercel.app/privacy

Screenshots

Path4 screens
Tiny Cities4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Path at none against Tiny Cities's 3. Tiny Cities's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Tiny Cities sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Path asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Path against 5.0 for Tiny Cities. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Path ships an update every 3 weeks, Tiny Cities every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Path versus Tiny Cities: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPathTiny Cities
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB96 MB
Age rating9+4+
Developer斯妤 范Ramin Afandiyev

Customer experience

Path

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tiny Cities

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Path

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Tiny Cities

Subscriptions2
  • First Class (Monthly)$5.991 Month
  • First Class (Annual)$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • First Class (Lifetime)$79.99

Questions

Is Path free?
Path is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tiny Cities free?
Tiny Cities is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Path or Tiny Cities?
Path and Tiny Cities are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Path or Tiny Cities have ads?
Neither Path nor Tiny Cities shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Path or Tiny Cities?
Path ships an update every 3 weeks, and Tiny Cities every 8 days. Most recently, Path was updated on September 10, 2026 and Tiny Cities on September 26, 2026.

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