The 10 best free GeoGuessr alternatives in 2026

1. WorldQuizr — that's us, and here's the honest case

WorldQuizr is a free flag, map-click and capital quiz — not a street-view guessing game. We're putting ourselves at #1 on our own list, which only makes sense if we're upfront that it's a different product from GeoGuessr, not a nicer copy of it: there is no photo mode where you drop a pin on a Google Street View-style panorama. If that specific mechanic is what you want, skip to #2. What earns WorldQuizr the top spot for a different kind of visitor is that all three games, linked from the homepage, need zero account, zero payment and zero ads to play, unlimited rounds, forever — a combination several street-view alternatives below only partly match. Prefer to start with just one game? The standalone Flag Quiz is the fastest way in.

• Price: Free, no ads, no donation requests
• Account: Not required for any mode
• Mechanic: Flag ID, click-the-country map quiz, capital-city quiz (no street-view photos)

2. WorldGuessr — the closest free match to GeoGuessr itself

WorldGuessr is a free, open-source Street View guessing game built to feel like GeoGuessr's core mode with no subscription anywhere in the loop. Rounds are unlimited, play works straight in the browser, and an account is only needed if you want extras like saved stats — the base game never asks for one. Community-built maps and multiplayer add replay value GeoGuessr itself charges for.

• Price: Free, unlimited rounds
• Account: Optional (only for extras/saved stats)
• Mechanic: Google Street View photo guessing, same as GeoGuessr's core mode

3. OpenGuessr — the ad-supported, zero-login option

OpenGuessr takes the opposite trade-off from WorldGuessr to reach a similar place: completely free, no login at any point, unlimited Street View rounds, paid for by on-page display ads instead of a subscription or donations. If you'd rather never see a play limit and don't mind ads, this is a straightforward pick.

• Price: Free (ad-supported)
• Account: Not required
• Mechanic: Google Street View photo guessing

4. GeoHub — open source and the only fully ad-free option here with multiplayer

GeoHub is a free, open-source Street View guesser with single-player, challenges, country streaks, a daily challenge and custom maps — including the well-known community-built "A Diverse World" map. It carries no ads at all, which is unusual among the multiplayer-capable options on this list. The honest caveat: it runs on a shared, donation-funded Google Maps API quota, so it can occasionally hit limits and go temporarily unavailable — worth knowing before you count on it for a specific moment.

• Price: Free, no ads (donation-funded)
• Account: Not required to play
• Mechanic: Google Street View photo guessing
• Caveat: Shared API quota can run out and cause temporary downtime

5. Geotastic — multiplayer duels and community-made modes

Geotastic is a free, donationware Street View guesser built around multiplayer: duels, hosted lobbies, tournaments, daily-challenge leaderboards, plus community-made modes that go well beyond geography (national parks, F1 tracks, and more), alongside a flag-guessing mode. Only the player who creates an online lobby needs an account — everyone else can join without one. As donationware, the project explicitly asks players to chip in to keep it running.

• Price: Free (donationware — the project asks for voluntary support)
• Account: Required only to host a lobby, not to join one
• Mechanic: Street View photo guessing, plus community-made and flag modes

6. Seterra — GeoGuessr's own free map-quiz product

Seterra is worth including precisely because it isn't really a third-party alternative: GeoGuessr acquired it in 2022, and it now lives at geoguessr.com/quiz/seterra. All of its quizzes are free to play with no account required — the closest mechanical relative to WorldQuizr on this list, since it's a map/flag drill quiz rather than a street-view game. An optional paid Pro membership removes ads and unlocks building custom challenges, but the core quizzes stay free either way.

• Price: Free (optional paid Pro tier for ad-free browsing + custom challenges)
• Account: Not required for standard quizzes
• Mechanic: Map-click and flag drill quizzes (closest to WorldQuizr's own format)

7. City Guesser — real video clips instead of still photos

City Guesser (part of the Virtual Vacation project) swaps GeoGuessr's static Street View images for short first-person video clips: walking down a street, driving through a city. You read the same kind of clues (language on signs, architecture, license plates) but from moving footage, across categories like coastal cities, capital cities or snowy landscapes, with challenge modes like "No Moving" and country/radius streaks. It's free and playable straight in the browser with no account.

• Price: Free
• Account: Not required
• Mechanic: First-person video clips (not static photos) + map guess, multiplayer supported

8. TimeGuessr — guess the place AND the decade

TimeGuessr takes a genuinely different angle: you're shown a historic photograph and have to guess both where it was taken and when, scoring on both axes. The web game is free to play with no forced paywall; logging in is optional and only needed to save scores, add friends or create your own games. The separate iOS app does carry in-app purchases, so play it on the web if you want to stay fully free.

• Price: Free on the web (iOS app has in-app purchases)
• Account: Optional, only for saving progress/leaderboards
• Mechanic: Guess the location AND the year/decade of a historic photo — a history/geography hybrid, not pure geography

9. Hide & Seek World — multiplayer hide-and-seek, not solo scoring

Hide & Seek World turns the Street View guessing format into a party game: one player hides by picking a real-world location, and everyone else hunts for them using visual clues, across modes like Classic Match, a mascot-chase mode called Find Wolly, and a 100-player King of the World mode. It's free to play in the browser with unlimited public matches and no download. If what you actually want is solo, ranked scoring against a clock, this is a different kind of fun rather than a direct swap.

• Price: Free, unlimited public matches
• Account: Not required to join public matches
• Mechanic: Multiplayer hide-and-seek using Street View, not solo distance-scored rounds

10. EarthGuessr — satellite view instead of ground level

EarthGuessr flips the perspective entirely: instead of standing at street level, you're looking down from a satellite view, zooming and panning across five random spots per round before placing your guess, scored on proximity. It's the most visually different entry on this list — better suited to spotting terrain, coastlines and land patterns than street signs or architecture. Play works without an account; logging in is optional.

• Price: Free to play
• Account: Optional
• Mechanic: Satellite imagery, zoom-and-pan (not ground-level Street View)

How this list was checked, and why we're not affiliated with GeoGuessr

Every entry above was checked against that product's own current website, not copied from another "best alternatives" list — product details change, so if something here looks out of date, we'd rather hear about it and fix it than leave it wrong (see the contact details in the footer). WorldQuizr is an independent project with no partnership, licensing agreement, or endorsement relationship with GeoGuessr AB, WorldGuessr, OpenGuessr, or any other product named on this page. Naming and ranking them here is for an honest, useful comparison — the kind we'd want to read ourselves before choosing between similar tools — not an implied association, and WorldQuizr's own #1 placement doesn't change that every fact about the other nine is checked the same way a third-party product's would be. See WorldQuizr's own privacy policy for exactly what "no account, no ads" means in practice on our side.