Comparison

CNTripGuide vs OhMyCity

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

Head to head
About

CNTripGuide

Features
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Experience China with a local, not a guidebook. Learn mahjong at a neighborhood table. Fold dumplings in a Beijing family's kitchen. Sit down to a Hanfu palace banquet in Xi'an. Train a morning of kung fu with a working teacher. Eat your way through a Chengdu night market with someone who actually eats there. REAL HOSTS, NOT LISTINGS Every experience is run by a local host we have met in person. Small groups, English-friendly, free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead. You are booking a person's afternoon, not a coach tour. AN AI TRIP MANAGER THAT KNOWS CHINA China is easy to visit now - visa-free for many passports - and hard to get right. The Forbidden City is closed on Mondays. Half the good places need a reservation days ahead, through a Chinese app you cannot sign up for. Tell CNTripGuide where you are going and how long you have, in your own language. In seconds you get a day-by-day plan, and every stop is checked against a continuously maintained library of Chinese-language local sources: opening hours, closure days, advance-booking windows, realistic timings. IT CATCHES THE PITFALLS BEFORE THEY CATCH YOU Not vague advice. Specific, checkable warnings: - "The Forbidden City is closed Mondays; move it to Tuesday." - "Book Mogao Caves 7 days ahead." - "Day 3 has four sights across the city; you will not make it." Already have an itinerary? Paste it in. CNTripGuide diagnoses it, flags what will break, and rebuilds it into a schedule that actually works. EVERY DEADLINE BECOMES A TO-DO Reservations that must be made days in advance become a booking checklist, ordered by what sells out first. Tick them off as you go. THE WHOLE TRIP ON ONE MAP Every stop and every booked experience on a single map, so you can see at a glance when a day is spread too thin. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Planning is free and there is nothing to sign up for. Just ask. Available in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Malay and Vietnamese. Experiences are real-world services delivered in person by local hosts in China.

About

OhMyCity

Document your travels by saving cities you've visited, want to go to, or lived in. Record details of each visit, collect illustrated highlights, and create shareable travel posters. Explore your journey on a world map and timeline.

Highlights
  • Save cities by visit status (want to go, visited, lived)
  • Record details for repeat visits
  • Collect illustrated city highlights and local features
  • Create shareable travel posters and atlases
  • Visualize travels on a world map and timeline
  • Switch between sticker, stamp, and badge styles
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Your travels are more than a list of places. OhMyCity is an iPhone travel journal, visited-places map and illustrated collection. Save the cities you want to explore, the places you pass through, and the ones that become part of your life. FOUR WAYS TO REMEMBER A CITY Want to go. Passed through. Visited. Lived here. Keep each relationship separately: a city can be somewhere you have lived and somewhere you keep returning to. Build a wishlist for your next trip, then light up a city keepsake when you add a travel record. EVERY VISIT HAS ITS OWN STORY Record repeat visits instead of replacing the last one. Add dates, a stay period and an optional note. Only remember the month or year? Keep that level of detail. Revisit each city's history or follow your travels in one timeline. 293 DESTINATIONS. 1,154 ILLUSTRATED COLLECTIBLES. Discover city keepsakes and local highlights, from landmarks and food to nature and culture. Read a short introduction to each place and collectible. Collect at your own pace; recording a visit and collecting a highlight are separate actions. ONE ILLUSTRATION, THREE WAYS TO KEEP IT Switch between white-edged stickers, colorful perforated stamps and glossy round badges. Browse a tidy grid or a loosely scattered collection. Keep your favorites close without changing your travel records. SHARE YOUR OWN TRAVELS Make a city keepsake poster or a city atlas with an Apple Maps background. Include your travel statuses and dates alongside the highlights you have collected in that city. Share a single highlight in its original illustrated form, too. Private notes are not automatically included. SEE YOUR JOURNEY COME TOGETHER Explore your world map, countries and travel timeline. Pro adds year filters, monthly and daily travel patterns, continent and country views, repeat-visit insights, and additional themes with matching app icons. START FREE, GROW YOUR COLLECTION Choose up to 20 cities from 110 live Starter destinations for your travel records. Repeat visits to one city use one slot; wishlist entries use none. Choose two Starter cities for complete standard collectible access. Material switching and sharing collected items are free. Pro opens all 293 live destinations and 1,154 standard collectibles, with no city-record limit. New standard cities, highlights and Pro feature updates are included while Pro access is active. Existing records and collections remain yours when access ends. YOUR MEMORIES, ON YOUR DEVICE No app account required. Travel records are saved on your device first. Pro members can choose to enable automatic iCloud sync. After reinstalling, restore Pro and enable sync to recover records saved under the same iCloud account. Sync pauses when Pro expires without deleting saved records. Manual backup export and import remain available to everyone. The catalog and illustrations are included with the app; online maps and extended search need a connection. No advertising tracking. Support: https://ohmycity.7mlstudio.com/support/ Privacy: https://ohmycity.7mlstudio.com/privacy/ Terms: https://ohmycity.7mlstudio.com/terms/

Screenshots

CNTripGuide4 screens
OhMyCity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CNTripGuide at none against OhMyCity's 3. CNTripGuide also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. OhMyCity sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. CNTripGuide asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CNTripGuide ships an update daily, OhMyCity every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
CNTripGuide versus OhMyCity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCNTripGuideOhMyCity
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB143 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMinitrip Technology Inc.鑫 张

In-app purchases

None

CNTripGuide

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

OhMyCity

Subscriptions2
  • Oh My City Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Oh My City Pro Yearly$17.991 Year
One-time1
  • Oh My City Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is CNTripGuide free?
CNTripGuide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OhMyCity free?
OhMyCity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CNTripGuide or OhMyCity have ads?
Neither CNTripGuide nor OhMyCity shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CNTripGuide or OhMyCity?
CNTripGuide ships an update daily, and OhMyCity every 3 days. Most recently, CNTripGuide was updated on October 31, 2026 and OhMyCity on November 6, 2026.

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