Apps Like Visit A City: 6 Alternatives Compared in 2026

Updated 10 November 2026. Disclosure: I built NomadSwipe, which is Android only.

Apps like Visit A City split into three kinds: GPSmyCity for self-guided walks, Wanderlog, Tripomatic and Stippl for itineraries, and NomadSwipe, which I built for Android, for picking real places by swiping. Visit A City's Google Play listing shows 1M+ downloads.

There are several apps and sites with similar names, so here is what I mean: the Android and iPhone app called Visit A City, a sightseeing planner that also sells tours and tickets. Visit A City alternatives matter when you want to choose the places yourself, pay for fewer tours, or keep a plan in one place. Everything below comes from the store listings and sites of each app, read on 10 November 2026. The prices shown are only the ones those pages state.

What Visit A City is

The Google Play listing calls it "the ultimate travel app for planning your city sightseeing trip". Its bullets say you can create a customized itinerary, book tours and activities in a few taps, browse landmarks, historical sites and lesser-known places, and read details and reviews. The listing shows 1M+ downloads, an In-app purchases label, a price range of $4.99 - $49.99 per item, and an update on 12 October 2026. The What's new text for the current Android version lists purchasing tours and tickets in the app, suggestions based on your location, opening hours and offline maps.

Its App Store listing uses the same wording, shows two in-app purchases named Visit A City Premium Content that match the ends of that Google Play price range, and lists the seller as Visitacity inc with the copyright to Visit A City Ltd. Google Play names the developer simply Visit A City. Those are different names in two listings, so I do not say which company runs it. I also tried its website, visitacity.com: it returned an error page when I read it, so I use no website facts for this app.

Visit A City alternatives at a glance

NomadSwipe

Best for: choosing real places in a city yourself

Disclosure again: I built NomadSwipe, an Android trip planner. You pick a city and swipe through real places one card at a time: right to save, left to skip. Each card shows the category, rating, distance and opening status. Saved places are pinned on a map for that trip, and the list sorts by rating, distance or A to Z. The Lisbon sample trip below has 16 places, all picked by swiping.

Where it fits next to Visit A City: both help you decide what to see in a city. Visit A City starts from an attraction guide and tours you can buy. NomadSwipe starts from a deck of places and leaves the choosing to you.

• Strength: you do not search first. The deck suggests places, and the shortlist you keep becomes the trip.

• Where it does not fit: it is not a booking app, so it does not sell tours or tickets, and it has no audio guide or walking routes.
• Android only today; iPhone coming soon.
• It has no editorial attraction guide. You judge a place from its card, not from a written guide.

Get NomadSwipe on Google Play

GPSmyCity

Best for: walking a prepared route

If what you liked about Visit A City was the sightseeing guide, GPSmyCity is the nearest in spirit. Its Google Play listing offers "thousands of self-guided walking tours, travel articles, and offline city maps in 1,800+ cities" and says all of it works without a data plan. The same listing says the app is free to download and a small payment is needed to open the walk route maps and turn-by-turn navigation. It shows 500K+ downloads and an update on 27 October 2026. Our GPSmyCity alternatives page goes deeper.

• Limit: the routes are set in advance. You follow a walk rather than assembling your own shortlist, and the listing does not describe booking tours.

Wanderlog

Best for: an itinerary with reservations

Wanderlog's Google Play listing describes creating a trip itinerary, organizing flight, hotel and car reservations, viewing places to visit on a map and collaborating with friends. It says you can import reservations by forwarding emails and marks "Access your trip plans offline (Pro)". It shows 1M+ downloads, In-app purchases and an update on 2 November 2026. It is closer to a full travel organizer than Visit A City is. See our Wanderlog alternatives and how to use Wanderlog pages.

• Limit: it is built for whole trips with flights and hotels, which is more than you need if you only want to pick sights.

Tripomatic

Best for: a realistic day-by-day plan

Tripomatic, formerly Sygic Travel according to its Google Play listing, describes a day-by-day itinerary planner with AI help, estimated travel times and walking distances between stops, and multiple map types. The listing says Premium is needed to use the app without an internet connection, including unlimited offline map downloads and walking navigation. It shows 1M+ downloads and an update on 5 November 2026. More in our Sygic Travel and Tripomatic comparison.

• Limit: offline use sits behind Premium, and I did not read the Premium price.

Stippl

Best for: multi-city routes and a travel budget

Stippl's Google Play listing describes an AI travel planner with a route planner across cities and countries, an hour-by-hour itinerary builder, expense tracking and a travel journal, and says the trip works offline. It shows 100K+ downloads, an In-app purchases label and an update on 7 November 2026. We cover it in Stippl alternatives.

• Limit: it is built around planning a whole journey and organizing bookings, not around selling tours, and the listing text I read does not say what its in-app purchases include.

Google Maps

Best for: lists inside the map app you already have

The Google Maps listing says you can create custom lists of favorite saved places and share them, use offline maps in an area with bad signal, and make reservations and book hotels. It shows 10B+ downloads and an update on 4 November 2026, with no In-app purchases label. See Google Maps lists alternatives.

• Limit: lists hold places you already found; the listing describes no deck of suggestions and no sold tours.

Which to choose

• You want a sightseeing guide with tours and tickets in one app: stay with Visit A City.
• You want to choose the places yourself, on Android: NomadSwipe.
• You want a prepared walking route: GPSmyCity.
• You want reservations and a map in one plan: Wanderlog.
• You want travel times between stops: Tripomatic.
• You plan several cities and a budget: Stippl.
• You only need saved lists: Google Maps.

For more ways to decide what to do in a city, see finding things to do in a new city, swipe travel apps and saving places for a trip.

Findings: six city-trip apps on Google Play, 10 November 2026

Method: I read the public Google Play listing of Visit A City, GPSmyCity, Wanderlog, Tripomatic, Stippl and Google Maps on 10 November 2026 and recorded only what each page states. Six listings is a snapshot, not a market study.

• Visit A City is the only one of the six whose listing text names buying tours and tickets inside the app. Google Maps mentions reservations and hotel booking, which is a different kind of booking.
• All six listings mention some form of offline use, on different terms: Tripomatic ties it to Premium, Wanderlog marks it Pro, GPSmyCity says its walks work without a data plan, Stippl says the trip works offline, and Visit A City lists offline maps in its What's new text.
• Listed install counts: 10B+ for Google Maps, 1M+ each for Visit A City, Wanderlog and Tripomatic, 500K+ for GPSmyCity and 100K+ for Stippl.
• All six were updated between 12 October and 7 November 2026, Visit A City earliest.

Bottom line

Apps like Visit A City depend on what you want from it. For buying tours inside a sightseeing guide, none of the five alternatives here describes the same thing on its listing. For choosing places yourself, NomadSwipe (which I built, Android only) is the swipe-and-map option, with no tours, tickets or audio guide. For a full itinerary, Wanderlog or Tripomatic fit better.

FAQ

What is Visit A City?

It is a sightseeing app. Its Google Play listing describes creating a customized itinerary, booking tours and activities, and browsing landmarks, historical sites and lesser-known places for a destination. The listing shows 1M+ downloads.

Does Visit A City cost money?

Its Google Play listing shows In-app purchases at $4.99 - $49.99 per item, and its App Store listing shows two in-app purchases named Visit A City Premium Content at $4.99 and $49.99. Tours and tickets bought through the app are sold separately, so check the listing for what each purchase includes.

Who publishes Visit A City?

Google Play names the developer Visit A City. The App Store lists the seller as Visitacity inc and the copyright as Visit A City Ltd. Those are two different names in two store listings, so I do not state which company stands behind it.

Which app is closest if I want to pick places myself instead of buying tours?

I built NomadSwipe for Android: you pick a city, swipe through real places, save the ones you like and see them on a map. Wanderlog and Tripomatic are the nearer match if you want a day-by-day itinerary with reservations or travel times.

Does NomadSwipe book tours or tickets?

No. NomadSwipe is not a booking or audio guide app. Its listed features are swipe, save, map and go. It is Android only today, and iPhone is coming soon.

See also: GPSmyCity alternatives · Wanderlog alternatives · Stippl alternatives · NomadSwipe home · All comparisons