TaviNote vs Tiny Cities
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TaviNote
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Trip planning should be fun, but it tends to get scattered: booking emails, packing notes, links to places you want to try. TaviNote gathers everything into one trip, and a tree grows each time you get a little more ready. ■ Everything for your trip in one place ・To-do list (add a deadline and get a reminder the day before) ・Packing list (categories such as valuables, clothes and toiletries; add items in bulk from templates) ・Day-by-day schedule (check each day's plans from the calendar) ・Tickets and reservations (flights, stays and events, sorted by type) ・Expense tracking (see who paid for what) ・Travel journal ■ Collect the places you want to visit on a map Search for a café or a sight and drop a pin. Sort places into food, sightseeing, stays and shopping, or create your own categories. While you travel, the Nearby Map lists your saved places by distance from where you are. ■ Your preparation becomes a tree Choose a tree for each trip: the classic oak, cherry blossom, ginkgo, snowy pine, palm, and special trees with a cat, dog, rabbit, capybara, guinea pig or koala by their side. The more you prepare, the bigger it grows, and you can look back on every stage. ■ Keep it in your Memory Forest After the trip, turn it into a postcard with photos and a few words, using frames such as airmail, washi paper and night sky. The countries and regions you visit are colored in on your map, and your forest grows livelier with every journey. ■ Travel Passport Entry stamps from the countries you've visited, your trip count, days traveled and more, gathered in a passport that looks like the real thing. Your avatar goes in the photo, and you can share it as an image. ■ Memory Globe and places to go Countries on the globe are colored by visited, planned and want to go. Keep a list of places you'd love to visit and start a trip there with one tap. ■ Tickets like boarding passes Keep train and flight tickets as boarding passes with a tear-off stub. On the day, today's tickets come first, and one tap shows the booking number or QR code full screen. You can add the route too. ■ Prep progress and next steps Bars show how far along your to-dos, packing and schedule are, and "Next steps" points out what you haven't started yet. ■ Memory Forest widget Display the trees from your finished trips on the home screen like a shelf. You choose which trees to show. ■ Plan together Share a Room ID to plan the same trip with family and friends. Everyone can edit the to-dos, packing list and expenses at the same time. ■ Home Screen widgets See how many days are left until you leave, how ready you are and today's weather at a glance, together with your growing tree. There are also Trip Calendar and Today widgets. ■ Pricing TaviNote is free to use, with up to 10 trip plans at a time. For unlimited trips and all features and special trees, choose one of these plans: ・1-Week Trial Pass (1 week, auto-renewable) ・Monthly Pass (1 month, auto-renewable) ・Annual Pass (1 year, auto-renewable) ・Forever Pass (one-time purchase, no renewal) Prices are shown in the app and on the App Store for your region. The 1-Week Trial Pass, Monthly Pass and Annual Pass are auto-renewable subscriptions. They renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and payment is charged to your Apple ID account. You can manage or cancel your subscription in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. After cancelling, you can keep using premium features until the end of the period, and your trip plans and Memory Forest are never deleted. ■ Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Terms of Use: https://tavinote.web.app/terms End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tavinote.web.app/privacy Get ready for your next trip, one step at a time. Your tree will be waiting for you when you come home.
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.
- 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
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A tiny digital snow globe for every city you've been. Tilt your phone, the snow falls, and you're back there. 1,000+ illustrated clay-style miniatures: a digital travel journal that feels like a keepsake. You add the places yourself — Tiny Cities never tracks your location. Other apps count your countries. Tiny Cities keeps them. WHAT YOU GET • 1,000+ ILLUSTRATED CITIES — a clay-style diorama under glass for each one, 1,018 cities from Paris to Tashkent, each with its own landmarks. Not clip art, not a map pin. • TILT THE GLOBE — move your phone and the globe answers. Every city has its own atmosphere: snow, petals, mist. • A KEEPSAKE PASSPORT — every city you add gets a digital stamp. It's a keepsake inside the app, not a travel document. Watch the cities and countries you've added count up, with 106 milestones to earn along the way. • YOUR WORLD, LIT UP — spin a 3D Earth and watch every country you've visited glow. Open a country to see your cities set on its clay map. • THE FRIDGE — every city you keep becomes a digital magnet on your in-app fridge. New fridges unlock as you travel. • SOMEDAY CITIES — keep your bucket list under glass, each with a sealed note to your future self. When you finally arrive, move them onto your shelf. • MEMORY NOTES & PHOTOS — the night train, the corner café, the wrong turn that made the trip. Up to ten photos with every city, dated to the day, the month, the season or just the year. • THE STUDIO — turn your travels into a route film, a year poster image, a world map or a digital postcard to share. • ON YOUR HOME SCREEN — add the widget and keep your shelf close. 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. QUIET BY DESIGN • No sign-up form. You start with a private, anonymous account. • Your shelf syncs privately. Link Apple or Google whenever you like. FREE TO START Add every city you have ever been to. There is no limit. Your first three arrive as full clay dioramas with the whole ceremony. The rest are kept, stamped and counted while their miniature waits to be developed. FIRST CLASS First Class develops every city on your shelf, and every new city the moment you add it. It also opens all 22 display stands in the cabinet and removes the web address from your shared postcards. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Everything in Tiny Cities is digital — nothing is printed or shipped. 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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TaviNote at every 4 days against Tiny Cities's every 11 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. TaviNote sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Tiny Cities sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
TaviNote ships an update every 4 days, Tiny Cities every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TaviNote | Tiny Cities |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 184 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shota Yamawaki | Ramin Afandiyev |
In-app purchases
TaviNote
- 1-Week Trial Pass$0.997 Days
- Monthly Pass$1.991 Month
- Annual Pass$17.991 Year
- Forever Pass (one-time)$34.99
Tiny Cities
- First Class (Monthly)$5.991 Month
- First Class (Annual)$29.991 Year
- First Class (Lifetime)$79.99









