Rhode Tour vs Visit Harvard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rhode Tour
Explore Rhode Island's rich heritage and culture through an interactive GPS-enabled map. Discover historical locations with detailed information, archival images, and media. Access content online or via the mobile app.
- Interactive GPS-enabled map
- Historical location information
- Archival images and media
- Heritage and culture exploration
- Coastal to coast coverage
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Rhode Tour places the heritage and culture of Rhode Island at your fingertips with this free Smartphone app. Known as the “Ocean State,” Rhode Island is filled with interesting stories, captivating places, and intriguing people from coast to coast. With a growing list of interpretive stories, each point on the interactive GPS-enabled map includes historical information about the location, along with historic images and media from archival collections and historical publications. The information on the app may also be accessed by visiting the project website at rhodetour.org. Rhode Tour is brought to you by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.
Visit Harvard
Explore Harvard University's historic campus with a self-guided walking tour. Discover iconic locations, learn their stories through facts, images, and videos, and gain insight into the university's rich legacy.
- Self-guided walking tour
- Iconic campus locations
- Historical facts
- Immersive videos
- Never-before-seen images
- University legacy insights
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You’ve heard of Harvard University, but do you know its nearly 400-year history? On this self-guided walking tour, you'll be taken to some of the most iconic places across Harvard's campus and learn the stories behind them. Tour stops features facts, some never-before-seen images, and immersive videos! Follow along for an inside look into the University's historical and modern legacy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rhode Tour at 5.0 against Visit Harvard's 4.1. Rhode Tour also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%). Visit Harvard's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 2). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Rhode Tour holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visit Harvard has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Rhode Tour's written reviews are positive against 60% of Visit Harvard's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and August 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rhode Tour | Visit Harvard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.1 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 133 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cleveland State University Research Corporation | Harvard University |
Customer experience
Rhode Tour
Visit Harvard
In-app purchases
Rhode Tour
No in-app purchases
Visit Harvard
No in-app purchases
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