Comparison

ancy vs Troupe

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

Head to head
About

ancy

This app offers a map-centric approach to planning and remembering travel experiences. Organize destinations, discover new places with curated recommendations, and create ranked lists of your favorite cities and trips. It also functions as an automatic travel journal and allows social sharing of your adventures.

Highlights
  • Map-based trip planning
  • Discover top-rated restaurants and cafes
  • Rank cities and trips
  • Automatic travel journal
  • Social sharing of trips and rankings
  • Organize multi-city itineraries
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ancy is the map-first travel app that stays with you before, during, and after every trip. RANK EVERY CITY YOU'VE BEEN Which was better, Tokyo or Rome? Sort your cities into tiers and build a travel leaderboard that's uniquely yours. Add photos, call out your must-try spots, and share the post with friends. PLAN ON A MAP, NOT A LIST Drop pins for every restaurant, museum, and hidden gem and see your whole trip laid out in front of you. Chain cities together: Rome, then Florence, then Positano. Every stop gets its own map, dates, pins, and notes, plus a bucket list for cities you want to visit next. See a spot on TikTok or Instagram? Share it straight into ancy and it drops a pin for you. Invite a friend and plan together. WEEKLY POSTCARDS TO RELIVE TRAVEL MEMORIES Every week, ancy asks a different travel question: best sunset, favorite bite, a place you'd go back to. Answer with one photo, browse your friends' postcards as they come in, and look back on your own anytime to relive where you've been. SEE HOW YOUR FRIENDS RANKED EACH CITY See exactly how your friends ranked the same city, side by side with yours. Tap in to see their must-try spots, their photos, and who they went with. DISCOVER THE CITY'S BEST SPOTS Don't know where to eat? Discover shows you the top-rated restaurants, bars, and cafes wherever you're headed. Swipe right to pin one to your map, swipe left for the next. A PROFILE THAT TELLS YOUR TRAVEL STORY Cities ranked, countries visited, and a world map that fills in with every place you've ever been. Your travel life, all in one place. ANCY PREMIUM ancy premium is an optional auto-renewable subscription: $4.99 per month, or $29.99 per year. It raises the photo limit on a city ranking from 5 to 40, lets you attach photos and PDFs to the places pinned on your trips, and turns any city you rank into a web page you can send to anyone, no app or account needed to open it. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://ancy.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://ancy.app/privacy

About

Troupe

Streamline group trip planning and expense splitting in one app. Share itineraries, track shared costs, and settle debts effortlessly without the chaos of multiple chat apps. Works offline and syncs via iCloud for seamless collaboration.

Highlights
  • Shared itinerary planning
  • Automatic expense splitting
  • Real-time balance tracking
  • Fewest transfers for settlement
  • Offline access to trip details
  • Shared packing lists
  • Booking confirmation storage
Features
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Plan the trip together. Split the costs automatically. No WhatsApp chaos. Every group trip runs across three apps: one for the itinerary, one for the money, and a group chat for the mess in between. Troupe is all of it in one shared space. ONE SHARED TRIP Invite your group straight from Messages or WhatsApp — they tap the link and see everything. No accounts, no signups: it works through iCloud, which everyone already has. The itinerary, the costs, the packing list — everyone sees every update, live. THE MONEY SORTS ITSELF • Whoever fronts the Airbnb adds it once — split across the group in two taps • Balances update instantly: who's ahead, who owes • "Who pays whom" works out the fewest possible transfers to settle up • Expenses attach to plans, so the dinner on Tuesday knows Jess paid the deposit • No daily expense limits. Ever. THE PLAN EVERYONE CAN SEE • Day-by-day itinerary: flights, stays, dinners, activities — with times, places, and confirmation refs • Shared packing list with check-off • Booking confirmations and tickets stored as photos, offline • Works with no signal — everything lives on your phone BUILT FOR THE ORGANIZER Planning a hen weekend, a stag do, a family holiday with eight opinions? You're the one holding it together. Troupe Pro is priced for exactly you: the organizer subscribes, and everyone you invite collaborates completely free — always. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Troupe has no servers. Your trips sync through your own iCloud and are shared with exactly the people you invite — Apple's infrastructure end to end. No analytics, no tracking, no ads. PRICING THAT MAKES SENSE Free: one active trip with up to 4 people — a full group trip, genuinely free. Troupe Pro: unlimited trips and any group size — $3.99/month, cancel anytime, or $29.99 once, yours forever. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://yuzool.com/apps/troupe/privacy.html

Screenshots

ancy4 screens
Troupe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ancy at none against Troupe's 2. ancy also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Troupe sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. ancy 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 ancy against 5.0 for Troupe. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ancy has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 10, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ancy versus Troupe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterancyTroupe
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB3 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperETHAN D TRAMELMichael Frankland

Customer experience

ancy

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Troupe

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ancy

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Troupe

Subscriptions1
  • Troupe Pro$3.991 Month
One-time1
  • Troupe Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is ancy free?
ancy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Troupe free?
Troupe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ancy or Troupe?
ancy and Troupe are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do ancy or Troupe have ads?
Neither ancy nor Troupe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ancy or Troupe?
ancy ships an update weekly, and Troupe weekly. Most recently, ancy was updated on October 10, 2026 and Troupe on October 10, 2026.

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