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24 alternatives to Vista

Don't just read history. Experience it.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    TimeMap▲325

    Interactive Map of History: millions of people, events, maps

    2024 · oldmapsonline.org · its alternatives →

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    Your Chrome Browsing history. Better.

    2014 · better-history.com · its alternatives →

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    histories▲226

    Explore history of places through audio stories & fun facts

    2024 · pardoesoudewater.nl · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I love imagining the past, so I made Time Portal, a game where you are dropped into a historical event and see AI video footage from that moment. You have to guess where you are in time and on the map. It’s like GeoGuessr (and heavily inspired by it!) but for historical events. The videos are all created with AI. It’s a pipeline of Flux (images), Kling (video), and mmaudio (audio). The videos aren’t always historically accurate to the last detail. They might incorporate elements of folklore or have details from popular beliefs about the way things looked rather than the latest…

    2025 · eggnog.ai · its alternatives →

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    Learn History Visually

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Rediscover all places you've been by exploring your timeline

    2017 · google.com · its alternatives →

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    OldSF▲142

    Google Street View map of San Francisco in the 1800s

    2015 · oldsf.org · its alternatives →

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    Walk the earth in VR

    2016 · arvr.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Discover where to travel

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Share a map marked with every place you've ever visited

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Train your brain! Discover beautiful places in switzerland

    2015 · tiny.cc · its alternatives →

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    Visualize Google location history data on a heatmap 🗺️

    2018 · locationhistoryvisualizer.com · its alternatives →

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    Discover significant historical events depicted in pics

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Maps for historical research

    2024 · pastmaps.com · its alternatives →

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    I love culture + travel, and one of my favorite pastimes is dropping into random streets on Google Street View. I just LOVE getting a tiny snippet into how people live, the architecture, and discovering hidden corners of places I'll probably never visit. I'm kinda weird like that. When AI came along, I started asking it to explain what I was looking at - and I learned a ton. I couldn't stop using this combo. So I built Streetwhip. It's kinda like reverse Geoguessr - instead of guessing where you are, you get educated about places as if you had a smart local guide with you. What used to be…

    2025 · streetwhip.com · its alternatives →

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    Explore over 200k historical markers, wherever you are!

    2025 · explorehere.app · its alternatives →

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    Visualizing your collected Google Location History data

    2014 · theopolis.me · its alternatives →

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    Load a gorgeous satellite image in every new Chrome tab

    2014 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    helps you to discover world history for over 4000 years

    2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Insights into your browsing history

    2014 · surfkoll.se · its alternatives →

  21. 21GI

    Visualize your collected Google Location History data using an interactive heatmap directly in your browser.

    2014 · theopolisme.github.io · its alternatives →

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    🕰️ Dive into history with #Photoguessr!

    2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Search the content of your browsing history

    2022 · andadinosaur.com · its alternatives →

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    I built Chronoscope, a project to explore the world through time. I've been wanting to do this for a while, after being inspired by Ollie Bye's "History of the World" video several years ago. I'm not the first person to have done this - resources like OpenHistoricalMaps are amazing. But, I noticed there were a few disparate datasets / academic databases online, so I combined them together as best as I could (I've linked all sources in the app). To make it more interesting, I also included: - Notable events from the time period (geolocated where possible), sourced from wikidata - Ancient…

    Mar 2026 · shiphappens.xyz · its alternatives →

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