Tour Blend vs wherethis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tour Blend
Discover Rochester through self-guided audio tours. Explore historic sites, local cuisine, and street art with location-triggered stories, photos, and videos. Enjoy ad-free and fee-free exploration of the Genesee River, Erie Canal, and downtown areas.
- Audio-guided walking, biking, and boating tours
- Location-triggered self-guided audios
- Historic photos and drone videos
- Links to online resources
- Over 25 tours available
- Explore Genesee River and Erie Canal
- Discover street art and local cuisine
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Explore the best of Rochester with our free audio-guided walking, biking, and boating tours. With no ads and no fees, the Tour Blend app brings locations to life using location-triggered, self-guided audios, historic photos, drone videos, and links to on-line resources. Select one of more than 25 tours, follow the map, and enjoy a short story at each location along the tour. You walk, we talk as the Tour Blend app guides you to hundreds of special locations along the Genesee River, the Erie Canal, and downtown Rochester. Enjoy a guided tour of Rochester’s High Falls, Rochester’s Public Market, or on-board the Riverie boat cruise, or explore community-based efforts to address climate change and connect diverse neighborhoods. You can even use Tour Blend to find the best street art, craft beverages, and “Rochester plates”, the local extreme cuisine.
wherethis
Create and share custom audio walking tours that dynamically adjust to your location. Record your own audio for landmarks and discover content from others.
- Dynamic audio tours
- Add custom audio to landmarks
- Listen to audio based on location
- Create and share walking tours
- User-generated content
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A dynamic audio tour that follows you where you go! - Add your own audio recordings to landmarks - Listen to audio associated with landmarks near where you are - Create dynamic walking tours and share them with friends Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: wherethis at 100% against Tour Blend's 60%. wherethis also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Tour Blend's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ads and device support 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. wherethis sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Tour Blend asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tour Blend ships an update every 3 months, wherethis fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tour Blend | wherethis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 140 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | aKAP Innovation, LLC | BorkBork.com |
Customer experience
Tour Blend
wherethis
In-app purchases
Tour Blend
No in-app purchases
wherethis
- Monthly Basic$0.491 Month
- Monthly Enhanced$3.991 Month
Questions
Is Tour Blend free?
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Do Tour Blend or wherethis have ads?
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