Comparison

Zonner vs Territor.io

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

Head to head
About

Zonner

Features
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Zonner turns your city into a battleground. When you run, the GPS route you trace claims real-world territory — every closed loop paints the enclosed streets in your color on a live map for everyone to see. CAPTURE THE MAP Lace up and run. The ground you circle becomes yours, measured in square kilometers and marked on a tactical city map. STEAL & DEFEND Territory is never safe. Run through a rival's zone and take it for yourself — but watch your back, because they can take it right back. CLIMB THE RANKS Compete on neighborhood, district, and city leaderboards across two axes: total area held and activity (XP). Become the ruler of your area. JOIN A CLAN Team up. Your clan's territory and effort combine into one force. Take on weekly clan challenges and rise up the team leaderboard together. BUILT FOR RUNNERS - Live GPS tracking with accurate distance, pace, and calories - Real-time territory map - Push alerts the moment your land is attacked - Friends, clans, and clan chat Run. Capture. Conquer. Your city is waiting.

About

Territor.io

Turn your runs into a competitive game where you capture territory by closing loops. Compete with friends or globally to claim land, earn points, and earn trophies. Customize game rules and track your progress with detailed score breakdowns.

Highlights
  • Capture territory by closing GPS loops
  • Compete with friends or globally
  • Customizable game rules and seasons
  • Earn points and trophies
  • Detailed score breakdowns
  • Apple Fitness sync
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Territor.io turns a run into a land grab. Close a loop on your route and the ground inside it becomes yours: painted in your color on a live map and worth points on the board. Run a bigger, smarter loop than your friends and you take theirs. Lost ground? Run it again and take it back. HOW IT WORKS • Start a run. Territor.io tracks it with GPS and keeps tracking with the screen off. (Continued use of GPS in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.) • Close a loop: circle back to where you started, or cross your own path. Any shape that encloses ground counts. • Finish to watch your captured area light up. • Already running with your Apple Watch? Turn on Apple Fitness sync in Settings (iOS) to bring those runs in automatically. They show up in your history and can be published to claim territory, just like runs you record in the app. • Publish when you're ready. Nothing is shared until you do. IT'S A TURF WAR The newest loop to enclose a patch owns it. Your territory is always up for grabs, and so is everyone else's — the map never stops moving. BRING YOUR RIVALS Create a private group, invite friends with a link, and share a map and leaderboard that belong only to you. Or publish to the Global game and take your place on the world board. RULES THAT CHANGE THE GAME Each group's season picks which rules it plays by: • Conditions: a hard run is worth more. Cold, heat, rain, snow, darkness and climbing all raise your multiplier, measured on our servers from where and when you actually ran. • Milestones: points for distance covered, a bonus for every week of your streak, and permanent trophies for your first 5K, 10K, half and full marathon. • Territory Decay: ground you don't re-run slowly fades and releases. Consistency beats one heroic land grab. • Landmarks: bonus points for looping around parks, monuments, museums and capitols. Either everyone can claim each place once, or only the first runner there gets paid. SEASONS AND TROPHIES A group sets its own season length — monthly, quarterly, yearly, or open-ended. When a season closes, the top three take home permanent trophies, and the map opens as unclaimed ground. Every past season keeps its own frozen board and map. SEE EXACTLY WHY YOU SCORED Tap any score for a full breakdown: the ground you're holding, what each active rule added, and the total. BUILT TO BE FAIR Scoring rules are set by Territor.io, never by group owners, so nobody can tune the game in their own favor. Weather, elevation and daylight are looked up server-side, so nothing your phone reports can inflate a score. Runs at impossible speeds are rejected. YOUR PRIVACY A run stays private to you until you choose to publish it. Other players see your username, your color and the shape of the loops you've published but never your real name, email or photo. We don't store the raw point-by-point GPS trail of your run on our servers, only the boundary of the loop you claimed. Lace up. The neighborhood is up for grabs.

Screenshots

Zonner4 screens
Territor.io4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Territor.io at every 3 days against Zonner's every 2 months. 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

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

Zonner ships an update every 2 months, Territor.io every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Zonner versus Territor.io: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZonnerTerritor.io
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB33 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperONE WORK MCHJJoshua Abbott

In-app purchases

None

Zonner

No in-app purchases

None

Territor.io

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Zonner free?
Zonner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Territor.io free?
Territor.io is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Zonner or Territor.io have ads?
Neither Zonner nor Territor.io shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zonner or Territor.io?
Zonner ships an update every 2 months, and Territor.io every 3 days. Most recently, Zonner was updated on October 9, 2026 and Territor.io on September 29, 2026.

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