Comparison

Path vs Cairn

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

Cairn

Features
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Your hiking life as one scratch-off map. Log a U.S. national park or state in seconds. The topo map fills with warm color. A stone joins your cairn. A home-screen widget keeps progress visible between trips. START WITH EVERYWHERE YOU HAVE BEEN No trip planned? Tap every park and state you have ever visited and turn years of travel into one map in about ninety seconds. Dates optional. THE MAP IS THE POINT Dark topo field. States fill as terrain. Parks appear as collectible stamps. Pinch into regions. A counter like 28 of 63 parks that means something. BUILT TO KEEP, NOT TO CHECK No streaks. No guilt. Milestone badges and region sets like Utah's Mighty 5. Year recap every December. SHARE THE PROOF Share cards with your map — rendered on device, sized for stories. YOURS, PRIVATELY No account. Logs on your device with optional iCloud sync. Export JSON anytime. Collections: all 63 U.S. National Parks and all 50 states.

Screenshots

Path4 screens
Cairn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Path at 15.0 against Cairn's 18.0. 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 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Path versus Cairn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPathCairn
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB9 MB
Age rating9+4+
Developer斯妤 范William Alston

In-app purchases

None

Path

No in-app purchases

None

Cairn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Path free?
Path is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cairn free?
Cairn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Path or Cairn have ads?
Neither Path nor Cairn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Path or Cairn?
Path ships an update every 3 weeks, and Cairn every 3 weeks. Most recently, Path was updated on October 28, 2026 and Cairn on October 24, 2026.

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