Games Like TimeGuessr: What to Play After Today's Daily

You've played today's TimeGuessr daily, compared scores, and you want more. The good news is that TimeGuessr is part of a whole genre. The better news is that the genre has split in a few directions, so you can pick a game that leans into the part you like best.

This guide sorts the alternatives by what you enjoy about TimeGuessr:

• Both questions at once: you like guessing where and when.
• The year: you like dating a scene to the right decade.
• The map: you like reading the landscape and dropping the pin.
• The daily ritual: you like one short puzzle a day with a shareable score.

Full disclosure: we make Where&When, which appears below. Details were checked in September 2026.

At a glance

If you like both questions at once

WhenTaken

WhenTaken is the closest thing to TimeGuessr's daily game. You get five photographs a day, each asking for a location and a year, and your total counts toward a maximum of 1,000 points. There's an archive, so you can catch up on days you missed, and a community section with user-made games.

Play it if you want the same format with a different set of photos.

Where&When

Where&When keeps the pin-and-year loop but changes what you're looking at. Each round is an AI-generated scene of a named historical event, shown with no caption. You have 60 seconds to pin the place and enter the year. Then the reveal tells you which event it was and why it mattered.

Because it isn't limited to photographs, the pool starts in the 1st century. That's the biggest difference from TimeGuessr. Your photo instincts, like film grain, color casts or car shapes, won't help with a scene from the Middle Ages, so you'll lean on weapons, dress, buildings and the landscape instead.

It has a Daily Challenge (the same five events for every player), themed Topics such as Disaster Log and Breakthroughs, and a Tournament you play against a friend: send a link, and you each play the same five events on your own iPhone. It's free, and iPhone-only.

Play it if you want history from before the camera, and the story behind each round.

EraGuessr

EraGuessr is a browser game built on AI-generated 360° panoramas. You look around the scene, pin the map and set a year. It has a daily puzzle, party rooms, ranked one-on-one matches and a studio for making your own rounds. The daily is free and needs no signup; a subscription called EraGuessr+ ($3.99 a month or $19.99 a year, checked September 2026) unlocks the full scene library, past dailies and the scene-generation tools.

Play it if you want to play against friends in a browser.

WenWare

WenWare was one of the breakout browser games of 2026: one AI-generated historical panorama a day, 60 seconds, a pin and a year slider, and an emoji grid to share. It takes about a minute.

Play it if you want a single, quick round to share with a group chat.

If you like guessing the year

Chronophoto

Chronophoto takes away the map. You see five photographs, drag a slider to the year each was taken, and score up to 1,000 points a photo. There are Classic, Daily and Party modes. It's the purest way to train your eye for the decade, and that training carries straight back into TimeGuessr.

Which Year

Which Year is another photo-dating game, with a timeline slider that runs from 1850 to 2025. Its range reaches back to the mid-19th century, so it's good practice with the earliest photographs.

Whendle

Whendle uses events instead of pictures. Each day it picks a year between 1900 and 2026 and reveals five things that happened that year, starting with the most obscure. You guess after each clue, and colored squares tell you when you're in the right decade or one year out.

If you like the map

MapTap

MapTap gives you five places a day connected to events that happened on that date in history, and you tap them on a 3D globe. Each one comes with a bit of historical context. It's the best fit if TimeGuessr's photos are mostly an excuse to look at a map.

WorldGuessr

WorldGuessr is a free Street View game with no paywall: you're dropped somewhere on Earth and score up to 5,000 points a round for pinning your location. There's no history here, but it's excellent training for the geography half of TimeGuessr, like road markings, vegetation, signage and architecture.

GeoGuessr

GeoGuessr is the game that started it all. It's free to download with some free gameplay, but full access to its maps and modes needs a subscription. Like WorldGuessr, it uses the present-day world.

If you like the daily ritual

Most of the games above have a daily mode, so a ten-minute routine is easy:

1. One place-and-year game: TimeGuessr, WhenTaken or Where&When's Daily Challenge.
2. One year-only game: Chronophoto Daily or Whendle.
3. One map game: MapTap.

For more, including Wordle-style history puzzles like Yeardle and Jaardle, see our daily history games roundup.

Getting better at TimeGuessr-style games

A few habits help in every game on this list:

• Bracket before you commit. Decide on the century, then the decade, then the year. A sensible guess in the middle of the right bracket beats a precise guess in the wrong one.
• Treat buildings as a minimum date. Old buildings survive for centuries. A medieval church tells you the photo is no earlier than the church, not that it's medieval.
• Look for the newest thing in the frame. The most modern object in a scene sets its earliest possible date. That might be a car, a streetlight, a TV aerial or a phone.
• Let the place narrow the year, and the other way around. Knowing a scene is in Tokyo changes what its clothing tells you.

We go through the full method, with dated anchors to memorize, in how to guess the year of a historical scene.

Frequently asked questions

What is the closest game to TimeGuessr?

WhenTaken has the most similar format: real photographs, a location and a year per round, and a daily set of five. If you want the same two questions with events from before photography, try Where&When on iPhone.

Are there games like TimeGuessr on iPhone?

Yes. TimeGuessr has its own iPhone app. Where&When, MapTap and Whendle are also native iPhone apps. See the best history guessing games for iPhone.

Is there a TimeGuessr for ancient history?

Photograph-based games can't go further back than the 19th century. For ancient and medieval history, you need a game built on illustrated or AI-generated scenes, like Where&When, EraGuessr or WenWare.