JigsawGeo3.2 - App Store

JigsawGeo plays on a real, spinnable 3-D globe, and version 3.2 adds a passport to fill with stamps from every place you find.

No more flat Mercator map stretching Greenland to the size of Africa. Countries sit at their true size, true shape, and true distance apart, exactly as they do on the planet. Spin the globe, zoom in, and put the world back together.

Drag a puzzle piece to where you think it belongs, or just double-tap the spot. Beat the clock, earn a high score, and learn world geography without it ever feeling like studying.

NO ADS. NO ACCOUNTS. NO TRACKING.
Free to download with two complete maps included. Every other map is a one-time in-app purchase: never a subscription, never an advertisement. Safe to hand to a kid.

YOUR JIGSAWGEO PASSPORT
. Earn a stamp for every place you find, and win visas as your map pages fill up
. Tap a stamp to read a fun fact about the place
. Collect themed pages like Islands and Great Lakes, and keep a travel journal of every game you play
. Make the ID page yours with your name, your favorite place and an avatar you build yourself
. Print your passport as a little booklet to cut out, staple and color in

16 MISSIONS, ALL UNLOCKED
Choose what you are asked to find and how much help you get. Every mission is open from the start.
. Find each place by its shape, its capital city or its flag, or pinpoint the capital inside its own region
. Get as much help as you like: the globe glides toward the right spot, a sonar ping guides you, or you go it alone
. Or let a place light up on the globe and pick its name, its flag or its capital from four choices
. Earn six ranks on every map, from Traveler to Cartographer, and win ten more badges on other missions

SPIN, ZOOM, EXPLORE
. Drag one finger to rotate the globe; flick it to send it spinning
. Pinch to zoom, from the whole planet down to a single island
. Maps open with a spaceship fly-in: soar in from the far side of the world, skim low over the land, then pull back to see the whole map
. Choose a Terrain or Political globe style
. Built on a full geographic database, so the tiny islands, peninsulas and inlets that other map games quietly leave out are all here
. Oceans, seas, lakes and place names fill in around your puzzle as you play
. Optional latitude and longitude grid
. Portrait or landscape, iPhone or iPad, light mode or dark

MORE THAN 25 MAPS
. Continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania, Middle East
. The World: 207 countries on one globe
. Single countries in detail: United States (51 states), Japan (47 prefectures), India (35 states and union territories), Mexico (32 states), China (31 provinces), France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Canada, Australia
. Around the water: Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Caribbean Sea
. Through history: the British Empire, the Former Soviet Union
. Value packs bundle whole sets for less

COMPETE AND LEARN
. Game Center leaderboards for every map, so you can see where you land against players worldwide
. Your best time tracked for every map and every mission
. Two narrator voices read each region and capital aloud as you play
. Plays in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese
. Works completely offline, with no signal needed on the road

FOR CLASSROOMS AND KITCHEN TABLES
Teachers, homeschoolers and map lovers have used JigsawGeo for years to make continents, capitals and flags stick. The globe makes the lesson obvious: why Africa is far bigger than it looks, why Russia is not, and how close some countries really are to each other.

Bought maps on another device? Tap Restore Purchases on the Options screen.

Questions, or a map you would love to see? Tell us. We read every message.

Version History Version 3.2: collect the world, and play it your way.

YOUR PASSPORT
• Your JigsawGeo passport: earn a stamp for every place you find, jump to any map from the contents page, win visas as your map pages fill up, collect themed pages like Islands and Great Lakes, and keep a travel journal of every game you play
• Tap a stamp in your passport to read a fun fact about the place
• Build your own passport avatar: choose your skin tone, hair, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth and shirt, and watch it change as you go
• Print your passport as a little booklet to cut out, staple and color in, for any maps and collections you choose

16 MISSIONS, ALL UNLOCKED
• Every mission is unlocked from the start, so you can play any of them whenever you like
• The mission screen is now a table of 16 missions: choose what you are asked to find and how much help you get, and tap one to start it right away
• Three new ways to play: a place lights up on the globe and you pick its name, its flag, or its capital from four choices
• Flags and Find the Capital can now be played with any amount of help, not just the hardest ones
• Traveler, Surveyor, Explorer, Navigator, Discoverer and Cartographer are now ranks you earn. Collect all six on a map to post your Grand Total, and win ten more badges on other missions

A NEW LOOK FOR THE GLOBE
• Choose a Terrain or Political globe style in Options
• Maps now open with a spaceship fly-in: soar in from the far side of the world, skim low over the land, then pull back to see the whole map
• With Reduce Motion turned on in your device settings, maps open without the flying globe, the loading compass spins more slowly, and the camera moves more gently to help you find things

FIXES
• Options, the mission screen, the Game Menu, Help and your passport all fit the screen better when your iPhone is turned sideways
• A map a grown-up approves with Ask to Buy, or one shared by your family, now unlocks by itself, without tapping Restore Purchases

Thank you for playing. If something looks wrong, or you have an idea, please tell us. We read every message. 3.2 Oct 6 Minor polishing and small bug fixes. 3.001 Sep 19 Version 3.0 — our biggest update ever. Every map now plays on a fully interactive 3-D globe.
THE GLOBE
Spin it with one finger, flick it to set it turning, pinch to zoom from the whole planet down to a single island. Countries finally appear at their true size and true shape — no more Mercator distortion stretching Greenland out of all proportion. Opening a map now flies you in from space.
NEW ON THE MAP
• Regions you have placed now carry their name, so the map fills itself in as you solve it
• Oceans, seas, lakes and bays are drawn and labeled around your puzzle
• Optional latitude and longitude grid, under Options
• Far more coastline detail — tiny islands, peninsulas and inlets that earlier versions smoothed away
FINDING YOUR MAPS
• The Map Vault is now organized into categories: continents, countries, oceans and empires. Prefer the single long list? Switch back under Options > Map Vault Layout
• A new "Recent" sort puts the maps you have been playing at the top
• Buying a map now drops you straight into the game
• The vault fills the screen properly on iPad and in landscape
FIXED: GAME CENTER LEADERBOARDS
• Leaderboards could get tangled across maps sharing one combined score. Fixed — every map now has its own leaderboard, correctly grouped by category
• Your existing best times were carried over automatically — nothing to re-earn
• Level-completion progress and a grand total across all your maps now track correctly
SETTINGS AND HELP
• Options now take effect the moment you change them — no separate Apply step
• Help moved to the Options screen, so it is reachable from the Map Vault too
MAP DATA
Dozens of corrections across the world data: Swaziland renamed to Eswatini, San Marino and the Åland Islands added, enclave countries now cut properly out of the countries that surround them, border gaps closed where the source data never quite met, missing African lakes restored, and holes repaired in the United States and France maps.
FASTER
Maps load noticeably quicker than they did in 2.x.
Thank you for playing. If something looks wrong — a border, a label, a map you wish we had — please tell us. We read every message. 3.000 Aug 28 + Better game menu interface 2.005 Mar 21 + New map: British Empire
+ Fix bug with remembering level
+ Fix bug that allowed timer cheating
+ Upgrade to StoreKit2 2.004 Feb 24 Support for six more languages 2.003 Feb 21 + Adjust contrast on help view
+ French translation for oceans 2.002 Feb 17 + High scores display fixed for larger devices
+ Debug info added
+ Add French language support
+ Fixed bugs 2.001 Feb 1 + Support for iOS13
+ Support for Dark Mode
+ Fix NW edge of Somalia in Africa map
+ Move to SwiftUI to support more devices
+ High scores in GameCenter
+ Traveler level zooms more smoothly
+ Levels 4 and 6 now voice the region name after the capital city
+ Better flags on some maps (US, Italy, France)
+ Pop up region name briefly at same time as voiced 2.0 06/24/2020 Fix a bug with map purchase 1.116 03/31/2018 + Fix a bug with the Universal value pack 1.115 07/05/2017 + Fix a bug with missing capital. 1.114 07/03/2017 + Fix a bug with maps getting stuck while purchasing
+ Display percent complete while unpacking map 1.113 02/06/2017 + Fix a bug with maps getting stuck in Validating state 1.112 02/01/2017 + Faster, more reliable map download after purchase
+ Value packages of multiple maps 1.111 11/28/2016 + Improved error checking on map selection
+ Fix a bug with swipe to delete 1.110 07/18/2016 + Improved error checking on map purchases
+ Allow user to delete map by swiping 1.109 05/23/2016 + New Level! Cartographer asks you to put the capital in the right spot 1.108 04/30/2016 + Clarify why some maps are purchased
+ Provide additional free map
+ Minimum iOS is 7.0
+ Fix bug with sharing in Facebook
+ Fix bug related to iOS9 1.107 04/07/2016 + Fix Facebook posting of high scores 1.106 09/08/2015 + Display location of capitals in Navigator level 1.105 01/07/2015 + Add narration for capitals 1.104 12/08/2014 + Fix 2 bugs
+ Add parent gate to social network posting 1.103 11/05/2014 + Updates for iOS8
+ Include image of map when posting to Facebook or Twitter
+ Fix bug with puzzle piece disappearing 1.102 09/25/2014 + Fix bug that caused crash when changing levels in the options menu 1.101 06/18/2014