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Arriving In High Heels

For frequent travelers and hobbyists looking to map their history, alongside niche users seeking specific financial or medical tracking utilities.

7apps2.3(13.1K) Multi-theme

Snapshot

Who is Arriving In High Heels?

Helping travelers document global experiences through AI-powered mapping while providing utility tools for personal health and financial management.

Target audience

Frequent travelersHobbyists looking to map their historyAlongside niche users seeking specific financial or medical tracking utilities

Active nemesis

VINCI APPS

Other rivals

Portfolio

Free 7
7
apps
Business1
Finance1
Games1
Health & Fitness1

Last updated

Visited: Travel Tracker & Map

v4.5.2

6mo ago

Active

Publisher DNA

What defines Arriving In High Heels?

Publisher DNA

Primary focus

Travel utility and multi-category personal tools

Scale

indie

Target audience

Frequent travelers and hobbyists looking to map their history, alongside niche users seeking specific financial or medical tracking utilities.

Origin

Founded by Alpha Andrianarivo in Madagascar to create a platform celebrating authentic exploration.

Signature Patterns

  • •Heavy reliance on utility-based tracking and calculators across diverse categories
  • •Focus on freemium and free monetization models with ad-free flagship experiences
  • •Long-term maintenance of core products, with the flagship title supported since 2014
  • •Integration of AI-powered features to differentiate standard tracking utilities
Active

Portfolio momentum

The publisher is actively developing, with 8 updates across 5 active apps in the last 6 months and a major release occurring within the last 7 days.

Last release 7d agoActive apps 5Abandoned 1

Company profile

medium confidence
Headquarters
Madagascar
Founded
2014

Portfolio

What does Arriving In High Heels ship?

Distributed across 20 markets, strongest in Europe.

Based on 1 of 7 apps with localized market data, more coverage rolling in as scans complete · last scanned .

Americas (4)

  • Brazil1 / 1
  • Canada1 / 1
  • Mexico1 / 1
  • United States1 / 1

Europe (9)

  • France1 / 1
  • Germany1 / 1
  • Italy1 / 1
  • Netherlands1 / 1
  • Portugal1 / 1
›+4 more europe markets
  • Spain1 / 1
  • Sweden1 / 1
  • Turkey1 / 1
  • United Kingdom1 / 1

Asia-Pacific (7)

  • Australia1 / 1
  • India1 / 1
  • Indonesia1 / 1
  • Japan1 / 1
  • Singapore1 / 1
›+2 more asia-pacific markets
  • South Korea1 / 1
  • Vietnam1 / 1

Core markets (1/1 apps)

AustraliaBrazilCanadaFranceGermanyIndiaIndonesiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPortugalSingaporeSouth KoreaSpainSwedenTurkeyUnited KingdomUnited StatesVietnam

Rivals

Who does Arriving In High Heels compete with?

The rivals identified

Nemeses(1)

VINCI APPS

known forbeen

1 app4.7Travel

Both applications target travel enthusiasts through interactive world maps for logging history, creating direct competition for users seeking to visualize their global travel footprint.

Contenders(9)

Applorium

known forPhoto Map - Travel Tracker

1 app4.7Travel

Both applications target travelers documenting their history, but Photo Map automates map population via photo metadata while Visited relies on manual tracking and bucket-list management.

Daniel Knoblauch

known forCountries Been

2 apps4.9Travel

Both applications target travelers seeking to log visited locations and visualize global travel history on a map interface.

Federico German Ramos

known forWorld Map: Visited Countries

1 app4.1Travel

Both applications target travelers seeking to document and visualize global journeys through interactive mapping, competing directly for users interested in tracking visited countries and bucket-list destinations.

Igor Kulyukhin

known forTravel Tracker & World Map

1 app4.7Travel

Both applications target travel enthusiasts through map-based logging and bucket-list tracking, creating direct competition for users seeking to visualize their global travel history.

Liam Baev

known forSetent: Travel Tracker

1 app5.0Travel

Both applications target travel enthusiasts documenting global experiences, with Setent competing for users who prefer automated geotagging over the manual logging required by Visited.

myarx apps

known forPlaces Been - Travel Tracker

1 app4.5Travel

Both applications target travel enthusiasts by providing map-based logging and bucket-list organization for global travel history.

Prostachki

known forbeen: track visited countries

1 app4.6Travel

Both applications target travelers by providing interactive world maps to log visited countries and manage bucket lists.

Sergei Shpygar

known forEveryPlace - Where I've been?

3 apps4.8Travel

Both applications target travelers seeking to visualize and document their history, creating direct competition for users who want to map visited countries and cities.

Treefox AB

known forBeen To - Track Your Places

1 app2.1Travel

Both applications target travel enthusiasts using a freemium model to capture and visualize geographic history, creating direct competition for users seeking to document their global movements.

Same space(18)

Andrey Solovyev

known forCountry Days Tracker

1 app4.0Travel

It provides a specialized utility for residency and visa compliance, distinct from general travel logging.

Dmitry Malov

known forBeenEverywhere: Travel Map

1 app4.9Travel

It provides a manual tracking tool for travelers who want to import data from their photo library.

Funliday

known forFunliday - Travel Planner

1 app4.3Travel

It provides itinerary planning and collaboration tools for travelers managing complex schedules.

Gianni De Gennaro

known forVoyageX | Been & Travel

1 app4.5Travel

It offers a map-based tracking experience with a focus on regional and site-specific logging.

Hulab

known forMapstr – Save & Follow Places

1 app4.0Travel

It focuses on location bookmarking and curated discovery rather than just tracking visited countries.

Nils Steffmann

known forCountries Visited Map: Been

1 app2.7Travel

It serves as a straightforward tool for logging and visualizing international travel history.

Ollix

known forFog of World

1 appTravel

It targets the same map-logging audience but prioritizes data ownership and gamified exploration.

Pin Traveler

known forPin Traveler: Track Travel Map

1 app4.7Travel

It serves as a direct alternative for users seeking manual travel curation and map-based journaling.

Polarsteps B.V.

known forPolarsteps

1 app4.7Travel

It expands the travel-logging category by integrating social sharing and physical photobook creation.

REBR AS

known forbeen — travel map & tracker

1 app3.1Travel

It offers a simple, visual way to track visited countries and continents on a world map.

Step Digital Holdings

known forStep: Your World

1 app4.5Travel

It transforms travel logging into a social discovery experience centered on community recommendations.

Stippl

known forStippl - Travel Planner

1 app3.7Travel

It offers a dynamic engine for itinerary organization that complements the tracking features of the source app.

Tobias Riedle

known forFindPenguins: Travel Tracker

1 app4.4Travel

It bridges digital travel logging with physical memory preservation through high-quality book creation.

Tulip Tech AB

known forLanda - Travel Tracker

1 app4.5Travel

It targets users who want a simple, aesthetic way to visualize their global travel progress.

Vacation and Travel Planner App

known forWanderlog - Travel Planner

1 app4.9Travel

It shifts the focus from simple tracking to active itinerary management and group coordination.

Visit A City

known forVisit A City

1 app4.8Travel

It focuses on the planning and booking phase of travel, serving as a companion to post-trip tracking.

Wasl Apps

known forCountry Days Tracker: Bounded

1 app4.2Travel

It addresses the compliance side of international travel, focusing on visa and tax residency tracking.

Zero Dawn

known forSkratch: Travel Map & eSIM

1 app4.0Travel

It combines travel tracking with connectivity services like eSIMs for international travelers.

New entrants(2)

Dennis Hodgson

known forTrāce: Countries Visited Map

1 app5.0Travel

It offers a privacy-focused, offline-only tracking experience for users who avoid accounts and subscriptions.

Raul Paris Murillo

known forScratch Atlas: Travel Map

1 appTravel

It focuses on the aesthetic, visual record of travel without the complexity of planning tools.

The Analyst's Read

The bottom line on Arriving In High Heels

Bottom line

Arriving In High Heels is a specialized indie publisher with a dominant position in the travel-tracking niche. Their ability to maintain high user sentiment over a decade suggests a sustainable product-led growth model, though their expansion into unrelated categories like finance and medical remains unproven at scale.

Frequently asked questions

How many apps does Arriving In High Heels publish?
Arriving In High Heels has 7 apps tracked by Marlvel, primarily in the Business category.
What kind of apps does Arriving In High Heels make?
Arriving In High Heels's portfolio is concentrated in Business and Finance, with an average rating of 2.3/5 across rated apps.
What is Arriving In High Heels's top app?
By review volume across the portfolio, Visited: Travel Tracker & Map is Arriving In High Heels's best-known app tracked by Marlvel.
In how many countries are Arriving In High Heels's apps available?
Marlvel has tracked Arriving In High Heels's apps across 20 countries.

What fed this analysis

Apps analyzed:
6
With full intel:
0
With overview:
6
Website scraped:
yes
Social presence:
yes

Disclosure: Independent intel to help mobile builders succeed.

AI-powered analysis with automated quality gates, built from publicly available sources. Marlvel.ai is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Arriving In High Heels, its developer, the app publisher, Apple, or Google Play. All trademarks, logos, and screenshots referenced remain the property of their respective owners.

Cite this report

Marlvel.ai. “Arriving In High Heels intelligence.” Updated 2026-04-24. https://marlvel.ai/publishers/arriving-in-high-heels

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