Comparison

ZonzoFox vs ExploreIRL

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

Head to head
About

ZonzoFox

Plan personalized walking tours of Italy based on your available time. Discover local stories, attractions, dining, and book tickets. Offers extensive city and nature guides, with an optional upgrade for ad-free experience and extended features.

Highlights
  • Customizable walking itineraries
  • In-pocket audio guide
  • 42 city guides and day trip suggestions
  • Beach and nature spot finder
  • Tour and ticket booking
  • Personalized trip recommendations
  • Accommodation search
Features
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Your local friend in Italy. ZonzoFox plans walks around the time you have, tells you the stories behind every place and shows you what's worth seeing, eating and booking, wherever you are. WALKS MADE FOR YOUR TIME Two hours in Florence? A whole day in Rome? Tell ZonzoFox how long you have and it builds a walking itinerary through the must-sees, from the Colosseum to the Trevi Fountain, starting from where you are. Follow it on the map, stop by stop, with walking times and directions. Remove a stop and the route redraws itself. AN AUDIO GUIDE IN YOUR POCKET Tap "Listen" on the Pantheon, St Mark's Basilica or the Duomo of Milan and ZonzoFox reads its story aloud while you walk, sentence by sentence, at the speed you like. 42 CITY GUIDES, 53 DAY TRIPS Rome, Venice, Florence, Milan, Naples, Verona, Turin, Bologna, Palermo, Matera, Lecce, Siena, Pisa, Genoa and many more, each with: • What to see: monuments, museums, churches, hidden corners • Where to eat: trattorias, pizzerias, gelato, typical food • Nightlife and shopping • Day trips nearby: Cinque Terre, Amalfi Coast, Capri, Chianti, Lake Como, Pompeii, Val d'Orcia, Alberobello, San Gimignano, Murano & Burano… • Ideas from locals and local tourist guides • Weather for the week and useful info: emergency numbers, transport, opening hours 1,554 BEACHES AND 1,391 NATURE SPOTS From Sardinia and Sicily to Apulia, Calabria and the Tuscan coast: beaches with ratings and how to get there, parks, lakes and nature reserves, nearest first. TOURS AND TICKETS The most booked tours and tickets in every city, matched to the place you're looking at: Colosseum and Roman Forum, Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel, Uffizi Gallery, Leonardo's Last Supper, Doge's Palace, a gondola ride in Venice, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pompeii from Naples. YOUR OWN GUIDE Save the places you love, organize them into lists ("Day 1", "Food in Rome") and turn any list into a walk in one tap. NOT SURE WHERE TO GO? Tell us when you're traveling, for how long and what you love: art, sea, lakes and nature, food and wine, small towns. ZonzoFox suggests trips designed by our editors, from a first-timer's Rome, Florence and Venice to the trulli and the sea of Apulia. WHERE TO STAY Find hotels in every city, beach and nature spot, with real availability for tonight, this weekend or your dates. FREE, WITH ONE OPTIONAL UPGRADE All guides, maps, itineraries up to one hour, the audio guide and tours are free. One single purchase, yours forever, removes ads and unlocks your own lists and walks up to 6 hours, in every city. Purchases made in the previous version remain valid. Available in English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Czech, Hungarian and Swedish.

About

ExploreIRL

Turn your city into a deck of adventure cards with real-world challenges. Complete tasks, earn miles, and collect moments with photos. Play solo or with friends, with no account required.

Highlights
  • Real-world challenge cards
  • Trivia and multi-step adventures
  • Collect completed cards and photos
  • Earn miles and level up
  • Play solo or with a crew
  • No account required for basic play
Features
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ExploreIRL turns a city into a deck of cards. Open a pack for where you are — or for your own town — and it deals you a hand of real-world challenges. Go do them. Complete a card and it is yours to keep, filed in your collection with the Miles you earned and, if you want, a photo of the moment. WHAT'S IN A PACK CHALLENGES — go and do something specific in the real world. Some carry a bonus objective worth doing properly. TRIVIARUSH — test what you actually know about where you are, and find out what you didn't. Answer straight on the card. DUBDAREZ — the big ones. Bolder, multi-step adventures for Explorers who came to actually do something. HOW IT WORKS Finish a card and another is dealt, so the deck lasts as long as the trip does. Nothing expires. A pack you own is yours permanently, and closing out a trip never locks it — every card, Mile and Moment stays exactly where it is. Not going to happen? Some cards genuinely aren't — the place is closed, the weather turned, it isn't safe. Use an 86 to veto it and get a replacement dealt straight away. You get three free on every adventure. KEEP THE MOMENTS Attach a photo to any card you complete and it becomes a Moment, filed with that card and that destination. Your Passport tracks your Miles, your Level and everything you've collected. PLAY YOUR WAY — TOGETHER Solo, or with the people you're actually with. Add your Crew, split into two teams, name them and build a badge. Every card credits whoever earned it, the standings move as you play, and a lead change gets called the moment it happens. Call it when you're done and the winner gets the ceremony. Your Passport Miles are always your own — the team score never touches them. There is no timer, no streak to maintain, and nothing to lose by putting it down for a month. NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED Play the whole game without signing in. Your cards, Moments and progress stay on your device unless you choose to create an account, and the only reason to create one is so a lost phone doesn't mean a lost adventure. We use limited analytics to understand how ExploreIRL is being used and improve the experience. Analytics may include interactions such as destinations and cards played, and which challenges are started and completed, so we can provide a better UX, but we do not send names, emails, photos or precise location through our analytics. ExploreIRL does not use an advertising SDK, IDFA or cross-app tracking. PLAY SMART, STAY SAFE, FOLLOW LOCAL LAWS.

Screenshots

ZonzoFox4 screens
ExploreIRL4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: ExploreIRL at free against ZonzoFox's free with in-app purchases. ExploreIRL also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 89%). ZonzoFox's advantage is ratings volume (98 vs 2). 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. ZonzoFox sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and ExploreIRL sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ExploreIRL holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ZonzoFox has 98 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of ZonzoFox's written reviews are positive against 100% of ExploreIRL's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ZonzoFox ships an update every 4 days, ExploreIRL every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ZonzoFox versus ExploreIRL: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZonzoFoxExploreIRL
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (98 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings98 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB1.0 GB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperZF s.r.l.David Wieland

Customer experience

ZonzoFox

All ratings98 ratings
Positive98.0%
Neutral1.0%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

ExploreIRL

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

ZonzoFox

One-time10
  • Offline Guide & Map of Florence$3.99
  • Offline Guide & Map of Palermo$3.99
  • Offline Guide & Map of Rome$3.99
Show 7 more
  • Offline Guide & Map of Venice$3.99
  • Offline Guide & Map of Verona$3.99
  • Offline Guide & Map of Vicenza$3.99
  • Offline Guide & Map of Altamura$3.99
  • Offline Guide & Map of Gravina in Puglia$3.99
  • FOREVER$13.99
  • All Offline Cities$17.99
10 purchases

ExploreIRL

One-time10
  • BOSTON$4.99
  • DALLAS$4.99
  • ROME$4.99
Show 7 more
  • SEATTLE$4.99
  • PHILADELPHIA$4.99
  • ATHENS$4.99
  • PRAGUE$4.99
  • ATLANTA$4.99
  • CAIRO$4.99
  • ExploreIRL All Access$99.99

Questions

Is ZonzoFox free?
ZonzoFox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ExploreIRL free?
ExploreIRL is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ZonzoFox or ExploreIRL?
ExploreIRL is rated higher. ZonzoFox averages 4.8 out of 5 from 98 ratings, while ExploreIRL averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do ZonzoFox or ExploreIRL have ads?
Neither ZonzoFox nor ExploreIRL shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ZonzoFox or ExploreIRL?
ZonzoFox ships an update every 4 days, and ExploreIRL every 2 days. Most recently, ZonzoFox was updated on November 6, 2026 and ExploreIRL on November 6, 2026.

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