If you searched for “world monitor” and ended up confused, you have company. As of November 2026, at least eight different apps and websites use the name, made by different, unrelated teams. This page is by one of them, so let us start with the disclosure: this blog belongs to World Monitor by Apphesus, the live world map at worldmonitor.news/live with iPhone and Android apps.
Here is how to tell the main ones apart.
The quick version:
- World Monitor by Apphesus (this site): a consumer live world map on the web at worldmonitor.news, plus iPhone and Android apps. Apps are published under the developer name Apphesus.
- worldmonitor.app: a separate open-source OSINT dashboard project. Our product runs on a fork of its code; the products and teams are distinct.
- GlobeAlert: a different company whose apps have used “World Monitor” in their titles.
- Several more unrelated apps use the name on the App Store and Play Store.
World Monitor by Apphesus (this one)
Our World Monitor is a live world map for consumers: geolocated world news with short AI briefs, conflict zones, earthquakes and wildfires, webcams, internet radio, and US police, fire and EMS incidents with their dispatch-radio replays. The web app at worldmonitor.news/live is free in full, with no account. The iPhone and Android apps, found on our home page, are free to download with an optional premium subscription, and are published under the developer name Apphesus.
That developer name is the reliable way to identify ours in an app store, since several lookalike names surround it.
worldmonitor.app: the open-source dashboard
The strongest other claim to the name is worldmonitor.app, an open-source project whose code is public on GitHub. It is a dense desktop-style OSINT dashboard: many panels and layers covering geopolitics, markets, infrastructure and more, with several themed variants, and you can self-host it.
Full credit where it is due: our product is built on a fork of that project’s codebase, used under its open-source license, and has since grown its own apps, backend and features, such as the dispatch replays. The teams are separate and the products serve different users. If you want the dense, self-hostable analyst dashboard, worldmonitor.app is the project you are looking for. If you want a consumer live map in your browser or on your phone, that is us.
GlobeAlert’s “World Monitor” apps
GlobeAlert is a separate company with a live world map product of its own. Its mobile apps have carried titles such as “World Monitor: GlobeAlert”, which is a large part of why app store searches for “world monitor” feel so crowded. It is not affiliated with us or with the open-source project.
GlobeAlert is a direct competitor of ours, and a capable one. Rather than squeeze a judgment into this post, we keep a dated, sourced side-by-side on our GlobeAlert comparison page, including the areas where GlobeAlert offers more than we do.
The rest of the field
As of early November 2026, App Store and web searches also surface, among others: World Monitor - Real-Time News, World Monitor: Real-Time OSINT, World Monitor App (monitorworld.app), World Monitor: Live Insights, AI World Monitor: Live Map, and worldmonitorapp.com. These are unrelated products by different developers, and we make no claims about their quality. We list them only so you know the name collision is real and not your search skills.
Why so many? “World monitor” is a near-generic description of a product category that grew quickly in the mid-2020s: live maps that put world events on one screen. Several teams, including us, arrived at the same two words.
How to make sure you have the right one
- On the web: ours is
worldmonitor.news. The open-source dashboard isworldmonitor.app. GlobeAlert isglobealert.ai. - In an app store: check the developer name. Ours says Apphesus.
- By feature: if the map plays US dispatch-radio replays on incident pins, it is ours; as far as we can tell in November 2026, no other product under this name does that.
FAQ
Are World Monitor by Apphesus and worldmonitor.app the same?
No. They share a name and an open-source lineage, since our code began as a fork of that project, but they are separate products by separate teams. This blog and worldmonitor.news belong to Apphesus.
Is World Monitor free?
Ours is, on the web: worldmonitor.news/live is free in full with no account. The phone apps are free to download with an optional premium subscription. Other apps named World Monitor have their own pricing.
Is GlobeAlert the same as World Monitor?
No. GlobeAlert is a separate company whose apps have used “World Monitor” in their titles. Our comparison page covers how the products differ, with sources and dates.
The short version
One name, several unrelated products. Check the domain or the developer name: worldmonitor.news and the developer Apphesus are this one. And if you ended up here looking for one of the others, the links above will get you where you meant to go.