Fog of World records everywhere. Unlocked records arrival.
Fog of World’s strength is completeness. It does not care whether you are crossing Tokyo or walking to your own corner shop — movement is movement, and fog clears the same way. Over years, that produces a genuinely personal artifact: the shape of your actual life on a map. It can also import GPX tracks, so history recorded elsewhere feeds the fog. Nothing about that is a small feature; it is the whole product, and it is well executed.
The trade-off is that coverage is undiscriminating. A cleared square kilometer looks identical whether it contains the Eiffel Tower or a ring road. The map cannot tell you which landmarks you stood in front of, when, or what that day was.
Unlocked inverts the priority. It maintains a curated catalog — 34 cities so far, seven Landmarks each — and your record grows only when you actually reach one. Each unlock is stamped with its date and counted toward that city’s progress in My World. The map is smaller by design, but every pin on it is a statement: I was here, on this date, and the app checked.
Where Fog of World is the better tool
If your travel identity is “how much of the world’s surface have I crossed,” Fog of World is the honest tool and the better one — Unlocked’s catalog covers 34 cities and has no opinion about your commute. People who love the fog map accept the battery cost of continuous tracking the way runners accept a sports watch, and the one-time price buys a polished, long-lived product.
Where Unlocked is the better tool
Fog of World produces coverage, not meaning: no landmark names, no arrival dates, no keepsakes. Unlocked’s unlocks become city progress, badges, and Experiences that can produce Memories — generated images of you at the place, built from your private reference photos and clearly labeled as generative. If the point of the record is the places that mattered, coverage cannot carry it.