Urban Archive Explore History

Name: Urban Archive Explore History
Rating: 4.7 (231 reviews)
Author: Urban Archive, Inc.

By: Urban Archive, Inc.

The City is Your Museum

Features & Capabilities

UNCOVER HISTORY WHERE IT HAPPENED. Urban Archive is the largest mobile archive of NYC historical images, mapping tens of thousands across the five boroughs and growing daily. Explore the city’s past as it happened.

RECREATE HISTORY by shooting instant then-and-now photos of buildings and city streetscapes. Our partners include over 30 cultural institutions in NYC, such as the Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Historical Society, the Museum of Chinese in America, and the New-York Historical Society. Learn more at www.urbanarchive.nyc.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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By:

Urban Archive, Inc.

Rating:

4.70

(231) 1 ratings

Version:

2023.2 Last updated: 2023-04-20

Version code:

856518605

Creation date:

2017-03-08

Compatible devices:

Size:

37.37MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-10

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 107,114 ▼ 105

Other rankings

#20 in explore keyword 13 ▼ 3

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Developed by:

Urban Archive, Inc.

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/urban-archive-explore-history/id1154228951

Website:

http://urbanarchive.nyc/

User Reviews

Urban Archive offers a rich, location-based history experience with a strong photo archive and map-driven exploration that makes city walks educational and immersive. Users praise its engaging content and the ability to submit corrections that are promptly updated. However, recurring issues include stability and performance problems (crashes, slow responses, timeouts) and inconsistent content loading (overlay data sometimes missing or delayed). There are also concerns about the quality of user-submitted images and the need for moderation. Overall, a powerful concept with ongoing bugs and content-control challenges.

Pros

Rich location-based historical content with a photo/text archive.
Map-driven exploration that plots historical content on real-world locations for easy on-the-ground learning.
Educational and immersive experience that makes walking around the city more engaging.
Responsive community/developer support; user-submitted corrections are welcomed and updated quickly.

Cons

Stability and performance issues (crashes, slow responses, and occasional 'oops' errors or timeouts).

Recent reviews

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by Ma*****, 2025-06-06

One of the best apps ever

by Sa*****, 2024-10-30

This kind of app is exactly up my alley. In fact, I looked it up after having had a similar app idea. “I wonder if anyone else has made this,” I thought. Wonderfully for my curiosity (and disappointingly for my lost app opportunity), I found Urban Archive. It does exactly what I wanted from an app like this. The location-based history tidbits are awesome. There’s tons of interesting information here, not just stuff I don’t know, but stuff I wouldn’t have even thought to inquire about. But there are also big frustrations in terms of usability. My biggest one is that history notifications only take me to page maybe half the time. The other half, the app opens to only a map with lots of purple dots, but no information or overlay. Occasionally the information comes up after a short delay, which brings me to another issue: the app is sluggish and buggy at times. Many times I’ve tried to open the day’s history only to be greeted with an “oops” and no additional info. I simply dealt with these issues for a while because I love all the stuff I’m learning, but I’m so irritated at this point that I’m just deleting the app. I really hope the developers of this app can go on a proper bug hunt and make this app a pleasure to use because it has so much potential.