Spaced repetition for GeoGuessr
Champions don’t guess. They recognise.
MetaSpotter burns GeoGuessr metas into your memory: bollards, poles, licence plates, road lines, the car that carried the camera. Every clue comes back right before you forget it. Ten minutes a day.
One round, one clue, one country
A bollard can tell you the country
Poles, road lines, licence plates, the car that carried the camera. Every region has its own version of these things, and they are few and concrete. They can be learned one at a time: that is a meta.
Every MetaSpotter card is a real Street View photo, a question, four choices or a typed answer, and a short explanation of why. No re-reading guides: the clue sticks and you pull it out mid-round without thinking.
All the clue families
© GoogleEvery review resets the drop, and the next drop is slower.
The problem
Watching a guide is not learning it
You read a guide, understand everything, and a week later almost nothing is left. It happens to everyone: memory drops what it doesn’t use again. The coral curve is what happens after a video; the lime one, with each review at the right moment.
The method
Review right before you forget
MetaSpotter uses FSRS, the most accurate spaced-repetition algorithm available today, the same one that schedules reviews in Anki. It predicts when you will forget each clue and shows it to you just before; every correct answer pushes the next review further away.
The method in depthYour progress
Keep the map lit
Nothing is earned by volume. MetaSpotter computes, clue by clue, the probability that you remember it today, and paints the world with it: a country lights up when you learn it and fades when you stop reviewing. What you see is, literally, what you will recognise in tonight’s game.
Clue families
Everything you can learn from a round
Each family groups similar metas from all over the world. Learn a whole family and that clue stops being a mystery in any country.

Bollards
The short posts at the edge of the road. Shape, colour and reflector change by country.

Poles
Wood, concrete or metal; holes, ladders and the top of the pole give away the region.

Road lines
Yellow or white centre, edge lines, doubles, dashes: one of the most reliable metas.

Licence plates
The blue European strip, colours and shapes stay readable even blurred.

Camera car
Camera generation, antennas, mirrors and the colour of the car that shot the coverage.

Signs and chevrons
Yellow or white backgrounds, red or black chevrons, the shape of stop signs.

Architecture
Roofs, fences, bricks, balconies and the colour of houses.

Landscape and vegetation
Red soil, palms, eucalyptus, mountains and the type of crop.

Street furniture
Bus stops, street lamps, mailboxes, hydrants and kerbs.
Decks
359 decks, from the first bollard to the last kanji
Start with what shows up in almost every round, then move on to continents, themes and regions. Every deck has its GeoGuessr map to practise what you learned.
Four decks out of 359. All free, all on spaced repetition.
Browse the full catalogueStart here
World · Basics
World · Beginner
World · Bollards
World · Poles (beginner)
World · Google cars (beginner)
Europe · Identify every country
World · Basics
World · Beginner
World · Bollards
World · Poles (beginner)
World · Google cars (beginner)
Europe · Identify every country
World · Basics
World · Beginner
World · Bollards
World · Poles (beginner)
World · Google cars (beginner)
Europe · Identify every country
Themes
World · Infrastructure
World · Landscape
World · Landscape (all)
World · Poles (all)
World · Architecture
World · Meta clues
World · Vegetation
Australia · Roads
Indonesia · Architecture
World · Architecture (all)
World · Car metas
Africa · Spotlights
World · Agriculture
World · Bollards (all)
World · Architecture (beginner)
World · Road lines
Regionguessing
Indonesia · Regencies (all)
Canada · Cities
Canada · Provinces
Europe · Cities
Indonesia · Sumatra regencies
Turkey · Regions
Patagonia · Advanced
Indonesia · Java regencies
DACH · Regions
Bangladesh · Regions
Germany · States
Italy · Regions
Africa · Regionguessing
Indonesia · Sulawesi
Indonesia · Sumatra
Indonesia · Sulawesi regencies
Ranks
From novice to MetaSpotter
Rank is not accumulated experience: it is what you can do in a game today. It is computed from the map, so it can drop if you let it fade.
NoviceYou begin.
ExplorerYou recognise the basics of a good handful of countries.
CartographerYou get the country in most rounds of Europe or Asia.
You tell bollards, poles and plates apart without thinking.
MasterYou play on par with people who have years of games.
MetaSpotterYou know the meta before the round finishes loading: country and region.
Where
In the browser today. In your pocket soon.
Same app, same progress. Export your memory to a file and import it anywhere.
iPhone and iPad
With daily reminder, haptics and bulk download for studying offline.
Soon on the App StoreAndroid
The same app, with notifications and decks stored on the device.
Soon on Google PlayTen minutes a day. A map that stays lit.
All content is free. Start in the browser, nothing to install.
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