Mercatle: Daily Geography Game

Mercatle is a daily geography game for iPhone, iPad and Android built on satellite imagery. Each round crops a tight view of a real place, such as a capital city, a stadium, an island, an airport, a lake or a natural wonder, with every label removed.

It is made by TiddlyTech, came to the App Store at the end of June 2026 and to Google Play later in the year, and has had regular updates since; version 1.1.2 added more cities, landmarks and football grounds to the daily, and makes every day mix well-known places with harder ones.

The Daily has six rounds. You study the picture, then tap once on a spinning globe to drop your guess; a line runs from your pin to the true spot, and points fall off with distance, up to 1,000 per round. Zooming the satellite view out gives a hint but lowers that round's maximum. A trivia question about the place follows, and a right answer doubles the round, so the best possible day is 12,000 points. Streaks, stats and badges track your progress, and the global leaderboard compares your total with other players.

Beside the daily, a free Game Lab holds small extra games: State Gauntlet, Hunt and Tap the Country. A Pro subscription ($1.99 a month or $14.99 a year in the US App Store) adds themed categories such as World Capitals, Airports, Racing Circuits, Bridges, Dams and Theme Parks with easy, medium and hard settings, a 30-day archive of past dailies, private groups, head-to-head duels with friends and regional leaderboards.

Where most satellite dailies ask you to name one city, Mercatle asks for a pin on the globe six times and adds a quiz question to each place. It suits map fans who like reading landscapes, coastlines and city layouts more than flags or outlines.