Comparison

Clio vs Potty Plotter

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

Head to head
About

Clio

Discover historical landmarks and sites based on your current location. Explore past events with multimedia content and virtual time-travel features. This app is a collaborative project adding new historical entries and features regularly.

Highlights
  • Location-based historical site discovery
  • Virtual time machine with images and videos
  • Audio and text descriptions of historic events
  • Interactive walking/driving tours (coming soon)
  • Push notifications (coming soon)
  • Collaborative content creation
Features
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Named after the ancient Greek muse of history, Clio puts history at your fingertips. With your permission, Clio picks up your present location and guides you to landmarks, museums, and historic sites. It also acts as a virtual time machine, allowing a user to see images and videos and hear and read about historic events that happened around them. We are adding new features including interactive walking/driving tours and push notifications coming soon. Because Clio is free, it depends upon people like you who care about history and culture. If you would like to help, please send us an email at clio@theclio.com We are working to provide new features like push notifications and interactive walking tours thanks to donations and other forms of support. The Clio Foundation is recognized as a public charity under IRS code 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible. With several hundred new entries and improvements being added each month, Clio is not only a website and smartphone application, but also a collaborative research, interpretation, and map-building project. Museum professionals, scholars, and their students contribute most of Clio’s content. We also depend upon local history experts and museum volunteers who often know more about local history than anyone else. Each day, this partnership of local history experts and professional historians is building a comprehensive, dynamic, and interactive map of American history.

About

Potty Plotter

Find public restrooms, business bathrooms, and porta-potties using GPS. Users can add new locations, rate their cleanliness and quality, and upload photos to help the community. Essential for travelers and anyone needing a restroom in an unfamiliar area.

Highlights
  • GPS-powered bathroom finder
  • Locate public restrooms
  • Add new restroom locations
  • Rate restroom cleanliness
  • Upload restroom photos
  • Sort by distance
Features
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Potty Plotter is the GPS-powered bathroom finder built for travelers, festival goers, hikers, and anyone who has ever desperately needed a restroom in an unfamiliar place. Find the nearest public restrooms, business bathrooms, and porta-potties sorted by distance from your current location. Add new locations for others to find. Rate cleanliness and quality so the community knows what to expect. Add photos so there are no surprises. Simple. Useful. Necessary.

Screenshots

Clio4 screens
Potty Plotter2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Clio at 102 against Potty Plotter's 1. On price, rating, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Clio against 5.0 for Potty Plotter. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clio has 102 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Clio versus Potty Plotter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClioPotty Plotter
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (102 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings102 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size124 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClio FoundationMICHAEL J CHAVEZ

Bugs and requests

Clio

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Cannot expand beyond the first 10 on a list since update

Requested features

5 requests
  • Include historic sites and museums in Canada
  • Expand availability beyond the US
  • Improve UI snazziness
  • Add more sites
  • Improve proofreading and fact-checking

Potty Plotter

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Clio

No in-app purchases

None

Potty Plotter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clio free?
Clio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Potty Plotter free?
Potty Plotter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Clio or Potty Plotter?
Potty Plotter is rated higher. Clio averages 4.9 out of 5 from 102 ratings, while Potty Plotter averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Clio or Potty Plotter have ads?
Neither Clio nor Potty Plotter shows ads.

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