Been To App Alternatives: 5 Fog Maps for Android and iOS

Been To does something most of this category never bothers with. Plenty of apps will hide the world under fog and clear it where you go. Been To also tells you, in a number, what percentage of a city or a district you have actually uncovered, and then invites you to go and finish it.

That is a genuinely good idea, and the app is well liked for it. So the interesting thing about people searching for alternatives is that the reasons are unusually concrete. They are not really about the app being bad. They are about two lines on the store listing.

The question that decides everything

What phone are you holding?

Most comparisons in this category come down to taste. This one has a hard edge. Been To is iPhone and iPad only, and it needs iOS 18, so an older iPhone will not run it either. There is no Android version. If you are on a Pixel or a Galaxy, the search that brought you here has a one-word answer, and it is not Been To.

The second line is language. The App Store lists Been To in English only. It is sold in the German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Brazilian stores, so you can download it anywhere, but the app itself will talk to you in English wherever you are.

If neither of those applies to you, and you are on a recent iPhone reading this in English, then be honest with yourself: Been To may simply be the right answer, and the rest of this page is a comparison you do not need.

What Been To actually gives you

Credit where it is due, because alternatives lists rarely bother.

It is built by Treefox AB, a Swedish developer, and it has been on the App Store since August 2024. Version 1.4.9 landed on 7 September 2026, which is about as actively maintained as this category gets. It holds roughly 4.6 stars across about 517 ratings.

The core is the fog, cleared by going places, over cities, districts and whole countries. What sets it apart is the completion layer on top: precise percentages for how much of an area you have uncovered, at home as well as abroad, plus a nearby-discovery view for your own neighbourhood, travel goals, a visual record of the paths you have taken, and challenges to push you further.

It is free to install. Been To Premium is listed at $1.99 a week, $7.99 a month or $29.99 a year.

The honest downsides: iPhone only, English only, and iOS 18 or newer. Beyond that, the store listing does not spell out which features sit behind Premium and which do not, so if the completion percentages are the reason you want it, check that in the app before you subscribe rather than after.

The alternatives

One caveat first. This category has a long tail of small apps, several of them one-person projects, and their features and prices move around. Everything below is described at the level it can be described accurately. Check the store listing before you commit to anything.

1. Fogbreaker (ours)

Full disclosure: this one is ours, which is also why we can be precise about what it does.

We do the same completion idea, and we go a level finer with it. Every area you walk into gets its own percentage across five levels: country, region, district, city and neighbourhood. The number is real land area covered divided by the area's total size, not a street count and not an estimate, and the boundaries come from Overture Maps rather than from something we drew ourselves. It updates as you walk. None of it sits behind a paywall.

The two lines that started this page are the ones we answer differently. We are on iOS and Android, and the app speaks eight languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Korean.

On top of the map there are XP, levels, daily quests, streaks and a friend leaderboard, plus a city-guessing minigame for days without a walk. If you want the idea explained rather than compared, we wrote it up in fog of war for real life, and the completion side specifically in what percentage of your city have you walked.

Best for: clearing your own city on foot, on either phone, in your own language. The trade-off: three of them, and they are real. On the free tier the fog only clears at walking speed, so a drive across the country will not fill your map the way it would in Been To, and lifting that is a Pro feature. The app needs an internet connection to track, so a hike with no signal is not where it shines. And we are far newer and far smaller than Been To, with a handful of ratings against its several hundred. Free on iOS and Android, with optional in-app purchases that are never required.

On data, since it matters more in this category than most: Fogbreaker is built by Teratis Solutions GmbH, a German company. Your data sits on servers in the EU, it is GDPR compliant, we do not sell it or share it with third parties for advertising, and you can delete your account and everything in it yourself at any time.

2. Fog of World

The veteran, going since 2012, on both iOS and Android. The whole planet starts hidden, and your coverage is broken down by world, continent, country and territory. Its best design decision is that sync runs through your own iCloud, Dropbox or OneDrive rather than a company server, so your location history stays in an account you already control.

Best for: a lifetime travel map, especially if you fly a lot. The trade-off: it is a $30 one-time purchase with no trial on iOS, and it is tuned for the world rather than your street, so a walk round the block barely registers. We went through the decision properly in our Fog of World review, and lined up the whole shelf in Fog of World alternatives.

3. MysteryHike

The closest thing to Been To with a game bolted on, from MysteryTech s.r.o. and on both iOS and Android. The map clears where you have been, cities split into fragments you can complete to 100 percent, and on top sit curated places to aim for, missions, XP, badges and a leaderboard.

Best for: people who want the completion percentage plus a reason to walk to a specific spot today. The trade-off: it is English-only too, so it does not solve that half of the problem, and the full version is a subscription with a fairly aggressive in-app purchase list. Our MysteryHike review has the detail.

4. Superlocal

The biggest user base of anything on this page, at roughly 3,081 ratings. It is a place-discovery app first, closer to Foursquare than to a fog map, with recommendations, check-ins, badges and local leaderboards, and a fog mode running alongside all of it. Listed in English, Japanese and Russian.

Best for: people who want the fog as a layer on top of finding new restaurants, cafés and hidden corners. The trade-off: if what you liked about Been To was the quiet, private completion number, this is a much busier and more social app, and the fog is not the main event.

5. Google Maps Timeline

Not a fog app, and worth a mention anyway. If Location History has been on, Google has already been drawing a map of everywhere you have gone, and you can look at it today for free. One caveat if you are counting on it: Google moved Timeline onto the device in 2025 and deleted the cloud copies, and plenty of people lost years of history. We covered the fallout in Google Maps Timeline alternatives.

Best for: seeing where you have been immediately, at zero cost and zero setup. The trade-off: no fog, no percentage, no sense of what is still unexplored, which is the entire point of everything else here. It is a record, not a motivation, and we compared it properly in a map of everywhere you have walked.

World Uncovered, the one people find and then wonder about

Not numbered, because we cannot honestly recommend it. It comes up in this search often, it is free, it holds about 4.5 stars from 126 ratings, and it does track your travels and map them in four different display modes. The problem is the date: version 1.72 landed in May 2020 and nothing has shipped since. Six years without an update, on an app whose whole job is background location on a modern phone, is a real risk rather than a quirk.

Quick comparison

So which one

• You are on Android. Fogbreaker, Fog of World or MysteryHike. Been To is not an option and no amount of wanting will make it one.
• You want the app in your own language. Fogbreaker is the only one here that covers all eight of ours.
• You want a lifetime travel map and you fly a lot. Fog of World, still.
• You want your own neighbourhood to fill in, street by street, on foot. Fogbreaker.
• You want the percentage plus somewhere specific to walk to today. MysteryHike.
• You want to find new places as much as uncover old ones. Superlocal.
• You are on a recent iPhone, you read English, and you mostly want a clean travel tracker with completion numbers. Been To. It is good at that.

One last thing, because it is the most common regret in this category. A fog app is only as good as how consistently it runs in the background. An app that records everything and one you remember to open twice a week produce very different maps of the same life. Whichever you pick, check how it behaves on your phone for a week before you judge the app itself.