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I built an app for exploring every country and territory in detail

Over the past few months I built GeoSwipe, an iOS app for learning about countries in depth through a more interactive format.

The idea is simple: you discover countries one at a time, swipe left to see another, or swipe right to open a detailed guide when one catches your interest.

Each guide covers basic geography, landscapes, culture, history, language, cities, government, economy, everyday life, and common misconceptions. It also includes audio, flag explanations, regional maps, interactive statistics, and references to the original sources. The content is grounded in reputable sources such as Britannica, the World Bank, and National Geographic.

I also added country comparisons, quizzes, and short geography games, including ranking countries by population, locating countries on the map, and flag and capital quizzes.

I’ve just released it on iOS and included a very short demo here. I’d genuinely appreciate honest feedback from fellow geography nerds.

u/Rafaelkoll — 1 day ago
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I built a daily geography quiz app. People download it and never come back. Tell me what is wrong with it.

I am a designer living in Sydney and I build small iOS apps on the side.

A while back I shipped Atlas, a daily geography quiz. The idea was simple: 10 new questions every day, a streak to keep you honest, and a leaderboard so you can lose to your friends. Basically Wordle, but for geography.

Here is the honest part. The app works. It looks clean, the questions are solid, and the handful of people who play it every day seem to genuinely like it. But most people download it, do one quiz, and never open it again. Retention is my wall, not downloads.

So I am not really here to sell you anything. It is free, no ads, no subscription. I would honestly rather you tell me why you would stop using something like this. A few things I keep going back and forth on:

  • Is one quiz a day enough, or does it need more to feel sticky?
  • Do streaks actually motivate you, or do they just stress you out?
  • What would make you send it to a friend?

If you want to try it and be brutal, link is in the comments. If you would rather just give me your gut reaction to the concept, that is just as useful to me.

Thanks for reading. Happy to answer anything about the build too.

Link if you want to have at it: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/atlas-daily-geography-quiz/id6757671831

u/Born_Economy9297 — 2 days ago