4.9
2023-09-19
Major Update:
- You can now sign in with your school email address!
- This lets you compete with just your schoolmates on a private leaderboard
Minor Update:
- Made the Solomon Islands, Timor Leste, Vanuatu and Fiji much easier to tap
4.7
2023-06-12
- Just a few internal fixes to get ready to flag mode :)
4.5
2022-12-19
Two quick fixes based on your feedback:
- Reduced the size of the label for São Tomé
- Hiding labels now works for both challenge mode and practice mode
4.4
2022-12-11
I've made a shiny new page for when you complete a challenge, and even added a dash of confetti to make things a little brighter!
4.3
2022-11-27
I've made scrolling around the leaderboard buttery-smooth, and also added a button to quickly find your own record in the leaderboard.
4.2
2022-10-31
We've made a new 'historical scores' view, so you don't need to struggle to find your old scores, and made it easier to understand what happened to your scores at the end of each month.
Thanks Greg Rosselli, for the design =)
4.1
2022-05-02
Just fixed up some of the verbiage in the titles of the quiz pages.
4.0
2022-04-18
More backend fixes. We've got a bunch more of you playing so we've had to make this efficient to stay within our budget.
3.12
2022-04-11
I've just made things a little snappier by improving the way scores are fetched and calculated. Hopefully you guys won't get stuck waiting for a spinner so often anymore!
3.11
2022-03-21
Just updating some of the imagery. I'm working towards letting you 'sign in with Apple' so that your scores will persist across devices.
3.10
2022-03-19
Just an internal bug fix.
3.8
2022-03-13
We've:
- added a map of Ukraine's regions
- made the app a little smaller, to take up less space
- Fixed a few minor UI bugs that showed up in iOS 15
3.7
2021-07-27
I've added the ability to hide labels from the map in challenge mode.
3.6
2021-05-19
In response to your feedback, I've:
- Fixed up the borders of Down (Ireland), Western Sahara and Morocco
- Prevented the map from zooming in when accidentally double-tapped
3.5
2021-01-11
I've cleaned up the boundaries to make some countries more easily visible =)
3.4
2021-01-02
Major Changes:
- There's a whole-world mode!
- We've added quizzes for counties of the UK and Boroughs of London [We've just moved to England so this is mostly for us ;)]
- We've Improved scoring on Practice Mode so it's actually useful (Thanks @kateRogers!)
Minor Changes:
- Fixed a bug that prevented your latest scores from being recorded and viewed
- Made the scoring in Practice mode much more clear and useful
- Fixed the wording to read country/state/territory/county as appropriate
- By popular demand, added the following to the existing quizzes:
- Cape Verde (Africa)
- Vatican City (Europe)
- US VI, Guam, American Samoa, Mariana Islands (US States & Territories)
- We merged Somaliland with Somalia (Africa)
3.3
2020-03-16
We've improved the UI so you can more easily find your scores for each map once you've finished it.
3.2
2020-02-09
- New challenge! Learn all 52 states and territories of the USA!
- We've added support for iOS light & dark modes
- The score and leaderboard pages are now way simpler, and just show your single best time compared to everyone else's single best time.
3.1
2020-02-03
We fixed a bug that prevented your scores from showing up sometimes, and made the global leaderboard available to iOS12 users.
3.0
2020-01-26
What's new? Major changes!
• There's a global leaderboard now!
• We have a website! Visit mapquiz.co to see your name immortalised on the global leaderboard!
• Small islands are now highlighted to encourage more of you to learn Oceania and North America ;)
And a few little changes too!
• Swaziland is now Eswatini (Thanks for telling us @Thisismetheoneandonly!)
• Bahrain and the State of Palestine were added to the Asia map (TY for spotting that @romanskyy_)
• There's a settings page where you can turn off sound and vibration (Ta for the suggestion Rishabhm135!)
• Singapore's label now shows up in the right place
We've heard your feedback, and when we've next got a few days off we'll add a whole-world mode.
Thanks for playing!
2.2
2019-04-23
We've made it easier to locate small island-nations like the Seychelles.
2.1
2019-04-18
We:
- Added French Guiana
- Added a button to reveal all countries in practice mode
- Retained the outlines of countries you've guessed
2.0
2019-04-17
- Added Grenada and Singapore (they were missing before)
- Top scores now refresh every month
- Rewritten in Swift 5 so it shouldn't crash as much on newer OSs
1.1.3
2016-09-29
Updated the text
1.1.2
2016-09-25
Added a node server to rank you challenge times against other users.