Map-Quiz

Such a well designed, helpful, smart app. Decided to brush up on where all the US states are located as an adult. Before long (a couple hours!!) I was a state location expert. By the next day I had introduced the app to kids in the family and they were hooked! Racing with each other to climb the leaderboard. Even kids who had not yet learned the states in school! It has spread like wildfire through my family and the kids' friends and now everyone is excited to move on to other world areas of the map. What a great way to pass time on trips and waiting rooms. Learning is fun again! (I swear I am not affiliated with the app creators in any way, I just honestly love it and so does my fam!) Thank you for the wonderful app!!! :)

I’ve been using this app for years, and it’s my favorite map quiz app! (Fellow fans should check out Worldle, too—it’s a daily challenge that got me back into geography recently) The only frustrating part is that you can’t turn off the banner at the top flashing a color when you tap on a country. The idea is that it flashes red when you guess incorrectly and it flashes green when you get it right. But when you’re looking at the map, it’s in your peripheral vision—where our eyes see primarily black and white. So, the flashing is actually really distracting, because I keep thinking it’s telling me I was wrong. It really throws me off. I’d be fine with it if it were a little light in the corner that I could cover up, but it’s the background to the name of the next country—I can’t cover that up! If it only flashes when you’re incorrect, that would be fine with me—it’s currently just aggravating. Not a big enough deal to use a different app instead, but still frustrating. For the Developers: One other suggestion—I would love it if it were a little customizable. Specifically, I’d like to be able to turn off seeing country borders that are bordering water, and all country borders on islands. That would make it a little harder, and then I could be better at identifying island nations without their borders included! The dotted lines surrounding them are really great while you’re learning, though. It would also be great to have an option where all countries are already colored in at the start of the quiz. That way, you can’t see what you’ve already found. It would also be nice if there were a suggestions/bugs form we could fill out—this is the only place for feedback that I can find. This game is excellent though—thank you so much for making it!

Map-Quiz is the best app for learning geography, for reasons written by earlier reviewers: it is free, completely uncluttered by ads, and has a clean user interface. Yes, for those who miss Geomaster, this is a solid replacement. In addition, the developer is responsive to both events (adding Ukrainian oblasts) and feedback (updating country names). With this app, in just a few minutes each day, you can learn useful geographical information. Since finding the app a couple of days ago, I have revived my knowledge of Europe, learned South America, and realized how little I know of US territories and Caribbean islands (which the app will help me with!). With Map-Quiz, anyone can reasonably work towards identifying the locations of all 200+ countries in the world. Map-Quiz is a generous gift, allowing everyone with access to the App Store a way to learn geography. If the developer is looking for ways to enhance the app, I would love to see (1) the option for a sturdier typeface, because this one is a little thin for my aging eyes; (2) physical features such as bodies of water, mountains, and deserts; (3) additional interior regions besides those already found in the app. I would also be delighted to see an option for countries to be labeled by their autonyms (e.g. España for Spain) -- this would be beautiful, although perhaps too unwieldy for countries that use different scripts or have multiple official languages.