Thirteen alternatives you can open in a browser right now, with what each one actually costs, what you are asked to guess, and where its pictures come from. We wrote this because most lists of GeoGuessr alternatives are copied from each other and quote prices that stopped being true a year ago.
Why people started looking for GeoGuessr alternatives
GeoGuessr spent a decade as the thing you sent to a friend at eleven at night. Then the free tier narrowed to a single five-round daily challenge, and in January 2026 the subscription went up again — Pro Basic now starts at $4.99 a month, with Unlimited and Elite above it. That is a fair price for what is still the best-built game in the genre, and it is also the moment a lot of casual players went looking for something they could play twenty rounds of on a Sunday without a card on file.
The good news is that the genre split rather than shrank. Some games kept the exact Street View loop and made it free. Some replaced the imagery entirely — walking videos, satellite tiles, historical photographs, rendered scenes. And a whole family of one-a-day puzzles grew out of Wordle, where the point is a two-minute streak rather than a long session. The list below is sorted so you can find the shape you want, not just the closest clone.
All thirteen at a glance
Prices and modes checked July 2026. Free means free to play in a browser, not necessarily free of ads.
Comparison of GeoGuessr and twelve similar games: what you guess, the imagery source, price and whether there is a daily challenge.
The original: dropped into Street View, pin yourself on the world map.
You guess
Place
Pictures
Google Street View
Price
Freemium
Daily
Yes · 5 rounds
GeoGuessr is still the most polished version of this idea and the only one with real competitive infrastructure behind it — ranked duels, a world championship, apps on Steam, iOS and Android. It is also the reason this page exists: the free tier is now a single daily challenge, so anyone who wants to play a dozen rounds on a Sunday afternoon has to subscribe.
One free Daily Challenge of five rounds with an account. Everything else — the map library, duels and party games — sits behind Pro, which starts at $4.99/month (Pro Basic) after the January 2026 price change, with higher Unlimited and Elite tiers above it.
Best for:Players who want the definitive Street View experience and will pay for it.
Twelve free GeoGuessr alternatives, ranked by how close they are
The order runs from nearest to the original to furthest from it. Nothing here paid to be included and none of these links are affiliate links.
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TimeGuessr
Real historical photographs — guess the place and the year.
You guess
Place + year
Pictures
Real historical photographs
Price
Free
Daily
Yes · 5 rounds
TimeGuessr shows you a documentary photograph — a street, a crowd, a machine — and asks for two answers: where on the map it was taken, and what year. Both halves score, out of 50,000 for a full round of five, which makes it the closest thing to GeoGuessr's scoring rhythm outside GeoGuessr itself. There is a daily everyone plays, a random mode, and community-made sets.
Free in the browser, with iOS and Android apps linked from the site.
Best for:Anyone who finds twentieth-century photographs more interesting than road signs.
A free, unlimited Street View clone with multiplayer.
You guess
Place
Pictures
Google Street View
Price
Free
Daily
No daily advertised
WorldGuessr is the most direct answer to 'I just want to play GeoGuessr without paying' — the same drop-in, look-around, drop-a-pin loop, with a live player counter, multiplayer and a Discord community around it. It is also carried by portals like Coolmath Games, which is why it turns up first for people searching from a school laptop.
Free and unlimited, no subscription tier advertised.
Best for:Unlimited casual rounds when the GeoGuessr daily has already been used up.
Street View guessing that markets itself as unblocked and unlimited.
You guess
Place
Pictures
Google Street View
Price
Free
Daily
No daily advertised
OpenGuessr plays almost identically to GeoGuessr, movement arrows included, and leans hard on being free, unlimited and reachable from restricted networks. The multiplayer is free too, which is where most of its traffic seems to go.
Free with unlimited play; describes itself as partially open source.
Network access depends entirely on your school or office filter — no site can promise it.
Best for:Locked-down networks and players who want movement without a subscription.
Crowdfunded multiplayer geo quiz with hundreds of community maps.
You guess
Place
Pictures
Google Street View
Price
Free · ads
Daily
Yes · free account
Geotastic is the community-run answer to GeoGuessr: matchmaking, lobbies you can run for a group, seasonal events and a deep library of user-made maps. It asks for donations rather than a monthly fee, and says so plainly on the front page.
Free and donation-funded rather than subscription-funded; ads run for logged-out players, and the daily challenge needs a free account.
Best for:Groups and clubs that want lobbies and custom maps without paying per seat.
Globle gives you one mystery country per day. Every country you name is shaded on a spinning globe by how close it is — hotter means nearer — so the puzzle is a game of geographic triangulation rather than recognition. It takes two minutes and it is genuinely good at teaching you where things are.
Free in the browser; spin-offs include Capitals and a multiplayer Leagues mode.
Best for:A two-minute daily habit alongside a longer guessing game.
Wordle for country outlines — six guesses, distance and direction hints.
You guess
Country
Pictures
Country silhouettes
Price
Free · ads
Daily
Yes · 6 guesses
Worldle shows a country or territory in silhouette and gives you six tries; each miss reports the distance and direction to the answer, exactly like Wordle's letter feedback. It started the whole daily-geography genre and still runs it well. The same studio, Teuteuf, launched a newer street-view guessing game called Geozee in 2026, which is now promoted across their sites.
Free and ad-supported, with a paid ad-removal option on the site.
Best for:Shareable one-a-day play with a streak to protect.
Connect two countries by naming the ones in between.
You guess
Route
Pictures
World map
Price
Free
Daily
Yes · 1 route
Travle names a start and an end country and asks you to build the chain of neighbours that connects them inside a guess limit, with optional hints for outlines and initials. It is the only game on this list that rewards knowing borders rather than places, and it is much harder than it sounds once the route leaves your own continent.
Free, no account needed for the daily puzzle.
Best for:Border geography and anyone who liked drawing maps as a kid.
Chronophoto strips the genre down to one question: what year was this taken? You read the film grain, the cars, the clothes and the signage, then commit to a number. The party mode makes it a decent group game, and it pairs well with anything that asks for a location instead.
Free in the browser, with daily and party modes.
Best for:Practising the dating half of the skill on real photographs.
Walking videos instead of static panoramas — name the city.
You guess
Place
Pictures
Real walking-tour video
Price
Free
Daily
On-demand play
City Guesser plays real walking-tour footage — traffic noise, shop fronts, passers-by — and asks which city you are in. Motion and sound give away things a still panorama never could, and the region filters, streak modes and no-moving variants add difficulty once the easy cities stop working.
Free, with private rooms for playing with friends.
Best for:Players who want street-level atmosphere rather than a pin-drop puzzle.
The same idea from above — satellite views instead of street level.
You guess
Place
Pictures
Satellite and aerial imagery
Price
Free
Daily
No daily advertised
EarthGuessr swaps the street for the sky: you get an aerial view and have to read field patterns, road grids, coastlines and city plans instead of number plates and languages. It is a different skill and a useful corrective if you have started winning at Street View by reading bollards.
Free five-round games in the browser.
Best for:Map readers who prefer landforms to signage.
Short real-world clips, up to eight players, live scoring.
You guess
Place
Pictures
Short real-world video clips
Price
Free
Daily
On-demand play
GeoClip is built for a room rather than a solo session: everyone watches the same short clip, everyone guesses, the scoreboard updates live. Clips run short enough that a game fits into a lesson or a break.
Free multiplayer for up to eight players.
Best for:Classrooms, parties and anywhere eight people share one screen.
AI-rendered historical scenes — guess the place and the era.
You guess
Place + year
Pictures
AI-generated scenes
Price
Free
Daily
Yes
EraGuessr is the closest thing on this list to what we build: historical scenes you place on a map and date, spanning roughly the eighth century to the twentieth. The pictures are AI-generated rather than photographed, which is worth knowing before you treat any detail as evidence.
Free with a daily mode and a timeline-style map mode.
Best for:Players who want history rounds and do not mind rendered imagery.
Not a guessing game — 200,000+ typed geography quizzes against the clock.
You guess
Recall
Pictures
Maps and blank outlines
Price
Freemium
Daily
Site-wide dailies
Sporcle belongs in a different genre and we are listing it as one: these are typed, timed recall quizzes — name every country, fill in the US states — not spatial puzzles. If what you actually enjoy about GeoGuessr is knowing things rather than deducing them, this is the deepest well on the internet, with well over 200,000 geography quizzes.
Free to play with an ad-free paid tier.
Best for:Recall practice and pub-quiz training rather than deduction.
We make one of these games, so here is the disclosure up front: HistoryGuesser drops you inside a 360° scene of a historical moment with no caption, and asks the same two questions TimeGuessr asks — where on Earth, and what year. The scenes are rendered reconstructions, not photographs. That is a real trade-off. It means the Great Pyramid under construction in 2570 BC and Pompeii in AD 79 are playable at all, and it means no single brick is evidence of anything. Everything you are meant to date — the tools, the clothing, the construction methods, the vehicles — is researched, and each scene has a page explaining what is in it.
What it is: 50 authored scenes spanning about 4,500 years, country collections for 72 countries, one shared daily challenge with a streak, a timeline you can read chronologically, and challenge links that put a friend through your exact five rounds. It is free, and the first rounds need no account.
What it is not: a Street View game. If what you want is a real road in a real country with a number plate to squint at, play GeoGuessr, WorldGuessr or OpenGuessr — they do that better than we ever will, because they are looking at the actual road.
WorldGuessr or OpenGuessr. Same loop, unlimited rounds, no card.
You have friends in the room
GeoClip for up to eight on one screen, Geotastic for lobbies and custom maps, or a HistoryGuesser challenge link if you want everyone on identical rounds.
You like old photographs
TimeGuessr for place and year together, Chronophoto if you only want to argue about the year.
You want a two-minute daily streak
Globle, Worldle or Travle. Different puzzle each, all done before your coffee cools.
You are here for the history, not the geography
HistoryGuesser or EraGuessr — both reach past the photographic era, both with rendered scenes.
You are teaching a class
City Guesser and GeoClip for atmosphere, Sporcle for recall drills, and our country collections and moment pages when you need something with sources attached.
How this list was checked
Every game here was opened in July 2026 and confirmed to be online and playable. Prices come from each game's own pages rather than from other lists — which matters, because several widely-shared roundups still quote a GeoGuessr Pro price from before the January 2026 increase. Where a game does not advertise a daily mode, the table says so rather than guessing. Nothing on this page is sponsored, and there are no affiliate links; we included direct competitors, including one whose game is nearly identical to ours, because a list that quietly omits them is not worth reading.
Games move fast in this genre — new clones appear monthly and old ones go quiet. If something here has changed or you know a game that belongs on the list, the fastest way to reach us is through the map-submission form on any country page.
Questions people ask
Is GeoGuessr still free in 2026?+
Only partly. The free tier is one Daily Challenge of five rounds, and it needs an account. Unlimited maps, duels and party modes are behind GeoGuessr Pro, which starts at $4.99 a month on the Basic tier after the January 2026 price rise. Several older alternatives lists still quote around $3, which is out of date.
What is the closest free alternative to GeoGuessr?+
For the identical Street View loop, WorldGuessr and OpenGuessr are the nearest free equivalents, and Geotastic adds community maps and matchmaking on a donation model. For the same scoring rhythm applied to history, TimeGuessr asks for a place and a year on real photographs.
Which games like GeoGuessr have a daily challenge?+
TimeGuessr, Globle, Worldle, Travle, Chronophoto, Geotastic (with a free account) and HistoryGuesser all run one shared puzzle a day, so everyone plays the same rounds and the scores are comparable. GeoGuessr's own free tier is a daily too.
Are there GeoGuessr-style games about history?+
Yes, and they split by imagery. TimeGuessr and Chronophoto use real photographs, which limits them to roughly the last 180 years. HistoryGuesser and EraGuessr use rendered scenes, which lets them reach back to antiquity — HistoryGuesser's oldest round is the Great Pyramid under construction in 2570 BC.
Which of these work on a school or office network?+
All of them are browser games with nothing to install, and OpenGuessr in particular markets itself as unblocked. Whether any specific site loads depends on your network's filter, not on the game, so no list can promise access.
Can you play any of them with friends?+
Geotastic and WorldGuessr run free multiplayer lobbies, GeoClip is built for up to eight players on one screen, City Guesser supports private rooms, and HistoryGuesser lets you send a challenge link that puts a friend through the exact same five rounds.