# Barefoot World Atlas

> The world at your fingertips

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id489221652](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id489221652)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id489221652`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Barefoot Books Inc.
- **Category:** Reference
- **Rating:** 4.00 / 5 (146 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.0.5
- **Last updated:** 2020-10-30
- **First published:** 2012-03-15
- **Size:** 1011 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-22
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/barefoot-world-atlas/id489221652)
- **Website:** [https://www.barefootbooks.com/?utm\_source=Consumer&utm\_medium=App&utm\_campaign=WorldAtlasApp&utm\_term=2018&utm\_content=Homepage](https://www.barefootbooks.com/?utm_source=Consumer&utm_medium=App&utm_campaign=WorldAtlasApp&utm_term=2018&utm_content=Homepage)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.barefootbooks.com/privacy-policy](https://www.barefootbooks.com/privacy-policy)

## Description

Barefoot World Atlas invites children to fly around a vibrant, interactive 3D globe. Spin, zoom, and explore an ever-changing soundscape, animated icons, and quizzes while learning about regions, oceans, cities, and cultures.

This new edition deepens art and geography content with narration by Nick Crane and other storytellers, beautiful illustrations by David Dean, hundreds of mini-videos and photographs, and a fresh 'favorites' mode to save adventures. The app is multilingual, retina-friendly, and includes fun challenges to test knowledge with delightful quizzes and puzzles.

## Rankings

- #124,360 — Overall

## Review summary

Barefoot World Atlas is visually stunning and engaging, with an interactive globe, artful visuals, and educational quizzes that appeal to kids and adults. Reviewers praise the artwork, the learning experience, and responsive updates. However, recurring issues include bugs in quizzes/UI, outdated or inaccurate data, missing media for many regions, and occasional audio problems. Overall it’s a strong, family-friendly geography app that improves with updates, but data accuracy and stability remain notable concerns.

### Pros

- Beautiful, hand-painted artwork and visuals.
- Engaging interactive features like spinning globe, quizzes, and puzzles.
- Strong educational value about world geography and cultures for both kids and adults.
- Quizzes and activities are fun and varied, appealing to all ages.
- Developers are responsive and fix issues in updates.

### Cons

- Frequent bugs and glitches in quizzes and UI, including crashes and unresponsive controls (e.g., Switch Label).
- Outdated or inaccurate data (flags, currencies, geography) that some users notice.
- Missing media assets for many regions (insufficient images/videos across countries).
- Occasional audio problems (sound not working on some devices; read-aloud feature removed after updates).

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