Comparison

been vs SoFar Travels

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

Head to head
About

been

Track visited countries, US states, and even cities. Visualize your travels on a world map and compare with friends. Unlock advanced features like regional tracking in 25+ countries and timeline videos with a premium subscription.

Highlights
  • Track visited countries and US states
  • Visualize travels on a world map
  • Compare maps with friends
  • Unlock regional tracking in 25+ countries
  • Track cities and airports
  • Share timeline as a video
Features
Currently charting
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Keep track of countries and US states that you have visited, and if you wish, also when you visited. The app visualizes the visited countries both as a list, along with a ratio for each continent, and as a world map. The map can be shared on social networks, such as Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, using the standard iOS sharing functionality. You can compare your map with friends that also have the app, by sharing your map with them. - If you miss the old look of the app, you can enable Classic Mode to get the old experience back. We hope you will like the new experience though, as we will continue to improve it. PREMIUM MODE There is a Premium Mode in the app that you can unlock if you wish. It unlocks all features in the app. Features unlocked with Premium Mode: - In addition to states and regions in the US, with Premium, you can select regions in 25+ countries. - Select cities and airports. - More 3D globe filters. - More visualizers, such as a chronologic map. - Add local profiles, to allow for multiple maps and country selections. - More detailed comparisons with more information. - Share your timeline as a video. CONTACT US Feel free to give us feedback - contact details are available in Contact section in the Profile tab in the app. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://bit.ly/been_pp

About

SoFar Travels

Share and discover travel recommendations from your network. Rate places, see where friends have been, and collaboratively plan trips with shared itineraries. Build personalized guides to your own city.

Highlights
  • Rate restaurants, hotels, bars, and more
  • See friends' travel recommendations
  • Collaborative trip planning
  • Personalized travel maps
  • Create city guides
  • Scan camera roll for past places (Pro)
Features
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Your travel recommendations deserve a home. The hotel you'd go back to tomorrow. The dinner you still bring up. The dive bar that surprised you. SoFar is where you share all of it — so when you're planning a trip, you know exactly where your people have been. Then take their suggestions and build the trip together. Itineraries that are inherited, not generated. RATE EVERYTHING Restaurants. Hotels. Bars. Beaches. Coffee shops. Museums. Neighborhoods. Whatever made the trip. Score it out of 100, say what you actually thought, add your photos. Ten seconds a place, and it's saved for good. SEE WHERE YOUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN Here's the good part. Search a city and see who you know has been there and everything they rated. Tap a hotel or a restaurant and get your friend's score, their notes, their photos, and the trip it came from. It doesn't matter if the place is famous or nobody's heard of it. What matters is that someone you know went, and they loved it. You'll find out a friend has dozens of places somewhere you're headed. You had no idea. Now you do. A MAP THAT FILLS ITSELF IN Every country you've set foot in, colored in. Every place you've rated, pinned. Flip to a friend's map and see the whole shape of where they've been. It's the screen you'll open for no reason. PLAN IT TOGETHER Start a trip and add the people coming. Everyone drops in the places they want to go, everyone sees everyone's picks, and the ones you all want float to the top. Flights, hotels, reservations, days laid out — the whole trip in one place, built by all of you. IT KNOWS WHEN YOU'RE TRAVELING So add places as you find them. Rate them that night while you still remember the wine. Land at home and the trip is already there — rated, photographed, done. Ready for the next person who asks. BE THE LOCAL Make a guide to your own city. Where you send people, where you actually eat, what's worth the wait. It becomes your answer every time someone visits. — SoFar is free. Rate everything, plan everything, follow everyone. The social part is the whole app, and it's not going behind a paywall. SoFar Pro handles the tedious stuff: it scans your camera roll to find the places you visited so you can rate them, pulls reservations out of your email, and builds itineraries around the places you and your friends already saved. The best trips have always come from the people you know. SoFar is where they live. Start with the last place you loved. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

been4 screens
SoFar Travels4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: been at 10K against SoFar Travels's 4. been also leads on chart position (#42 vs unranked). SoFar Travels's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). 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. been sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and SoFar Travels sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SoFar Travels holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: been has 10K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

been ships an update every 10 days, SoFar Travels every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
been versus SoFar Travels: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterbeenSoFar Travels
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (10K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings10K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#42 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size187 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVINCI APPSSOFAR TRAVELS LLC

Customer experience

been

All ratings10,290 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral2.6%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews670 reviews
Positive59.1%
Neutral14.5%
Negative26.4%

SoFar Travels

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

been

Subscriptions3
  • been premium weekly$4.997 Days
  • been premium yearly$19.991 Year
  • been premium yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Features$2.29
2 purchases

SoFar Travels

Subscriptions2
  • SoFar Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
  • SoFar Pro Yearly$49.991 Year

Questions

Is been free?
been is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SoFar Travels free?
SoFar Travels is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, been or SoFar Travels?
SoFar Travels is rated higher. been averages 4.7 out of 5 from 10K ratings, while SoFar Travels averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do been or SoFar Travels have ads?
Neither been nor SoFar Travels shows ads.
Which is updated more often, been or SoFar Travels?
been ships an update every 10 days, and SoFar Travels every 2 weeks. Most recently, been was updated on November 13, 2026 and SoFar Travels on November 13, 2026.

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