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Conflictly: Live Conflict Map · Marek Slavata

Turning dashboard screen recordings into a daily "war briefing" episode: Conflictly sells intel subscriptions via TikTok

What it is A web app plus iOS real-time conflict map: a 3D Earth view of conflict zones, military aircraft and warships, and breaking news. Paid tiers add an AI analyst and daily briefings, at €4.90 or €9.90 a month.

Why it took off The developer posted screen recordings of their dashboard as a daily "war room" serial on TikTok. The account was only three weeks old when the Iran war broke out at the end of February 2026, one video hit 1.32M views, the account gained 230k followers, and viewers were then sent to the web subscription.

CHow you could follow it Don't build another conflict map. Apply the same playbook to other data that is live, visually striking, and that people check every day, such as typhoons, wildfires, or rocket launches: the web version is free, screen recordings become numbered daily short videos, and a cheap subscription named with a sense of identity makes the money.

Grade C: The conflict map category is already covered by the free open-source World Monitor, the store is full of copycats, and the traffic came from a war that has since cooled, so following it isn't worth it. The daily screen-recording serial playbook is worth learning, but revenue is not public, and no one has yet shown it works outside this topic. Word in small circles
Data (updated daily) · launched 2026-08-20 · US store rating 34 · charted in 11-08 of 44 stores
iOS · best category chart rank · by store
10020010-2810-3111-0311-0611-08108 Canada133 UK137 US
US storeCanadaUK
Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 11 observations). Lower rank is higher; gaps mean it wasn't charted that day
iOS · rating count · US store
2830323410-3111-0211-0311-0411-0834
Data 2026-10-31 → 2026-11-08 (9 days, 7 observations). Apple doesn't publish download counts; rating growth is a proxy for downloads.

A solo developer in the Czech Republic built a real-time conflict map using only public data. Its free open-source competitor has 90k stars. It took off because the developer recorded a screen capture of their dashboard every day, added music and a "commander" voice, and posted it to TikTok, timed to coincide with the 2026 Iran war. The App Store app Conflictly is only the last link in that chain. The category is already crowded; what's worth learning is the content approach.

"Why it's shot like a Call of Duty mission"

On March 4 2026, five days after the US and Israel began airstrikes on Iran, the TikTok account @conflictly posted episode 25 of "Operations room." The video shows a dark 3D Earth with military aircraft and warship icons moving across it, alerts popping up one after another, and low, ominous music in the background. It has reached 1.32M views (TikHub, 11-06), the account's highest to date.

The most-liked comment: "Why they presented it like a cod mission? 😭" with 17k likes. The second most-liked: "What this means for oil prices." Another read: "Never thought I'd see a real, MW2-style mission briefing in my lifetime."

Under episode 60 a month later (04-9.66M views), one comment said "these videos are better than the news," and another said "this should be its own YouTube series." The official account asked in the comments, "Should we keep doing these longer briefings? 👀", which got 7,000 likes.

Viewers watch it like a game cutscene while genuinely wanting to know how the situation is developing. Conflictly grew by making both feelings work at once.

What it is

The developer, Marek Slavata, is Czech and works alone. His LinkedIn title is "CEO Conflictly.app." The product launched on the web first (conflictly.app, around January 2026), and the iOS app came out in 2026-08-20 in the News category, English only.

Opening it shows a 3D Earth with conflict zones and severity levels marked, plus military aircraft tracking, warship tracking, a scrolling OSINT news feed (Pulse), and country markets and profiles. All of this is free with no sign-up. There are two paid tiers, named after classified-document levels:

TierPricingWhat you get
Free€0Earth view, conflict zones, aircraft and warships, 24-hour news
Signal Clearance€4.90/monthDaily briefings, 24-hour live view, flight paths, "tension index" breakdown, prediction polls, 30-day news history
Strategic Clearance€9.90/monthAI analyst "Operator" (you can ask things like "what changed in the last 24 hours"), unlimited history, export to PDF/CSV/Markdown

(conflictly.app/pricing, 11-06) Web payments run through Stripe, and in-app prices are the same.

The data itself isn't special: aircraft come from public ADS-B, warships from AIS, news from OSINT channels, with an AI summary layer on top.

People come from TikTok, not from the store

@conflictly was started in Jan 2026 26. On Feb 7 it posted "Welcome to the war room, commander... intel at conflictly.app", and since then it has posted an episode almost daily under "📡 Operations room (ep.N)", reaching episode 227 by Nov 4. The account now has 232k followers and 3.12M likes, and the 238 videos captured total about 33.9M views (TikHub, 11-06).

View counts follow the news:

TimelineWhat happenedPer video views
02-20Episode 13, the standoff before the war950k
02-28US and Israel begin airstrikes on Iran, same-day post "🛑CODE RED"446k
03-04, 03-05Episodes 25 and 261.32M, 857k
All of March30 reviews6.66M total, averaging 220k
4–June—Averaging 80k to 120k
07-22Episode 164668k
9–October—Averaging about 97k

The March–2 peak, roughly 9.6M views across those two months, was the account's high point. After that each video dropped to around 100k, but the daily posting never stopped.

Beyond TikTok there were two small endorsements. On March 5, the cybersecurity intelligence firm SOCRadar published a guide to OSINT tools for the Iran war, with a dedicated section on "Conflict maps: Conflictly," recommending it alongside World Monitor: "World Monitor gives you the feed, Conflictly puts it on the map." The same week, MiniMax's official X account posted a "Conflictly Clone" demo recreating Conflictly with their agent, which got 67.8k views.

The iOS version came late and had little reach. The August 21 post "we're on the App Store" got only 28.5k views. Two and a half months after launch, the app had 77 ratings across all storefronts combined, and about 10 more in the last 7 days (App Store, 11-06). It shows up on News category charts in 50 storefronts, because the News category has a very low bar in small countries: in October 31 it ranked #14 on the Czech Top Free chart and #25 in Slovakia (both the developer's home markets), and #15 and #16 on the Top Grossing charts in Bulgaria and Pakistan, a few sales is enough. It has never entered the overall chart of any storefront. The app's role is to give TikTok viewers a place to get push notifications, not to bring in new users.

Plenty of the same thing already exists

The Iran war boosted the whole category of "real-time conflict dashboards."

ProductScaleCompared with Conflictly
World Monitor (open source, 2026-01)GitHub 90k stars, the website claims 2M+ usersCompletely free, more data sources; the interface leans toward a tool
Osiris (open source, 2026-05)11.5k GitHub starsA "poor man's Palantir" for developers
Liveuamap (since 2015)700 ratings on the iOS global storeVeteran news map with human verification; no military aircraft/warships, no AI
ARGOS Atlas (web)Not verifiedFocuses on public cameras and ships; publishes "World Monitor alternative"-style comparison posts for SEO
Several iOS apps riding the "World Monitor" name117 to 216 ratings, some hitting #2 in the News categoryRide the name for store search, and spread multilingual clone listings

(GitHub, App Store, 11-06)

On the App Store alone, Conflictly is smaller than several of the name-borrowing apps. Its audience sits on the web and TikTok. Scroll r/osinttools and r/SideProject on Reddit and you'll find several "I built a conflict dashboard" posts, some also selling a $4.99 Pro tier. On TikTok, copycat accounts have even reposted its opening video almost frame for frame.

The difference from these products isn't the data, it's the packaging: a dark tactical UI, an identity narrative built on "commander," "war room," and "Clearance," a tension index and prediction polls, plus a daily short-video episode that no other competitor keeps up. MiniMax could "clone" the front end with one demo. What can't be copied is 230k followers and 227 days of uninterrupted updates.

How much money it makes isn't visible from outside. It has never disclosed revenue, and the money behind a few News chart placements in small countries should be small (inference). Web subscriptions are the bulk, but there's no data.

If it were you

One-line verdict: Don't build another conflict map. The category is pinned down by the free, open-source World Monitor, the store is full of name-borrowers, and the traffic depends on a single war whose heat has already dropped below half of March's. What you can take is its playbook: turn the product interface itself into a numbered, daily serial, with an identity hook, so every episode is both content and ad.

Who it suits: Anyone with a "live, visually striking, people want to glance at it daily" data product, such as storm and typhoon tracks, wildfires, rocket launches, satellite passes, flight anomalies, large crypto transfers, or election counts. You also need to be willing to cut a 30-second video every day, for months in a row.

Who it doesn't suit: Anyone trying to go head-to-head with World Monitor on conflict intelligence features; anyone counting on organic App Store search (charting in the News category in small countries is easy, but it doesn't bring much money); anyone who can't sustain daily posts and just wants a tool sitting there.

How to build it: Start with the web. The free tier requires no sign-up, so the moving visuals show up the moment someone opens it. Put "daily briefing," "AI analyst," and "history and export" in the paid tier, two plans at €5 and €10, with names that carry identity. Use Stripe to get payments working first, then add an app for push notifications and retention once you have a stable following.

How to acquire users: Post daily on TikTok and Shorts, with a fixed title format plus episode number (like "Operations room ep.N"), screen recordings of the product, a fixed original soundtrack, and "link in bio" at the end. Post the same day any major news event breaks. The comment line "feels like Call of Duty" is the selling point of this content format, so push it hard.

When to get in: This playbook runs on news events. Events you can schedule on a calendar, such as typhoon season, elections, or rocket launches, are the best fit. Bank 30 episodes before the next event arrives, so the algorithm and viewers learn to recognize you.

Signs you've misread it: ① Conflictly discloses revenue, or someone finds its web subscriptions bring in more than a few thousand euros a month, which would show that "selling conflict intelligence to the public" is itself a business, and the category grade should go up; ② @conflictly's per-video views fall below 20k and the daily posts stop, which would show this serial depends on war heat and is hard to replicate in other topics; ③ someone has already built a screen-recording serial on a non-war topic like weather or launches and reached 100k+ followers, which would show the playbook transfers, so move fast.

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Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report
Competitors
NameWhereLaunchedScaleHow it differs from this one
World Monitor(koala73/worldmonitor)Open source2026-01-08GitHub 90,205 stars, +7 in the last 443 days; official site claims 2M+ usersFree and open source with more data sources; Conflictly charges, but its packaging and content are more consumer-grade
OsirisOpen source2026-05-12GitHub 11,534 starsA "Palantir alternative" for developers
LiveuamapWeb2015iOS global 700 rating, charted in 78 storesVeteran human-verified news map, no military aircraft/warships or AI analyst
ARGOS AtlasWeb2026Not verifiedLeads with 200k public cameras plus SEO comparison posts; Conflictly leads with TikTok content
World Monitor App(Hypecent)iOS2026-03-16190 ratings globally, best News rank #11Rides the World Monitor name for store search, bigger than it on iOS
World Monitor: Real-Time OSINT(Oscar Manas)iOS2026-02-25117 ratings plus multilingual clone listings, best News rank #2Name-borrowing plus multilingual volume; Conflictly is English-only
Pollar NewsiOS2026-07-14174 ratings, best News rank #8News aggregator, no military tracking
SITREP(Artorias)iOS2025-04-03159 ratingA war-report app from a year earlier
Flightradar24 / ADS-B ExchangeBig-company features2010 / 2026-08(Tailvision)Top playersTracks only planes, and is the upstream source for Conflictly's military aircraft data
Where users come from
  • Verified TikTok official account daily serial: @conflictly, starting 02-07, posts a "Operations room (ep.N)" dashboard screen recording almost every day; as of 11-04 it has reached ep.227. 232k followers, 33.9M total views, top single video 1.32M (03-04)
  • Verified Platform event: 2026 Iran war: On 02-28 the US and Israel struck Iran, and that day it posted "CODE RED" with 446k views; from 2 to March 38, the posts totaled 9.6M views, the account's peak
  • Verified Industry media recommendation: SOCRadar's 2026-03-05 OSINT tracking guide lists "Conflict Mapping: Conflictly" as its own entry; its bio carries "Featured by SocRadar & Freedom News"
  • Verified AI company demo riding the name: MiniMax's official X account ran "Conflictly Clone, built with MaxClaw" 2026-03-04, with 67.8k views
  • Verified Small-country News category charts (store): Czech free #14, Slovakia #25, Bulgaria grossing #15, Pakistan #16; Czech and Slovakia are the developer's home market
  • Inference Influencer DM funnel (DM me "news"): Mentioned in the recall rationale; not found in the first 60 TikHub search results

Why Conflictly: Live Conflict Map (iOS 6794010515) took off

  • Developer: Marek Slavata (Czech individual; LinkedIn title "CEO Conflictly.app"; the App Store developer page lists only this one app)
  • Form: Web first (conflictly.app, launched 2026-01 before/after), iOS version listed only in 2026-08-20; News category, English only; current version 2.0.4 (2026-10-13)
  • Pricing: Free / Signal Clearance €4.90/mo / Strategic Clearance €9.90/mo; web payments via Stripe, in-app purchases at the same price (conflictly.app/pricing, 2026-11-03 page)
  • Storefronts checked: all 57 charted storefronts in the appstore library, with focus on us, cz, sk, de, gb, pl, ca, at, ch, fr

Bottom line

It is not an app that runs on the App Store, but a web product carried by a TikTok content account. It opened @conflictly in 2026-01, and from 02-07 on it posted a "📡 Operations room (ep.N)" almost every day, consisting of screen recordings of its own dashboard. It happened to catch 2026-02-28, when the US and Israel struck Iran; in the two weeks around the war, single-video views climbed from 950k to 1.32M, the account gained 230k followers, and web subscriptions started coming in around then. The iOS version was added in August as a "conversion outlet" and is small (77 ratings globally). It appears on the News charts in 57 storefronts because the News category has a very low bar in small countries, plus the home market of Czech and Slovakia.

1. Data: how big it is now

  • iOS: Ratings across all storefronts add up to 77 (appstore library app_profile, 2026-11-06). The US store has 33, Germany 13, Czech 10, UK 4. Roughly 7 new in the last 10 days, 0–3 per day (app_day). The daily total_ratings on the card bounce between 17 and 78 because the storefronts sampled differ each day; it's not an actual drop.
  • Charts: Only the News category chart. Best free-chart runs: Czech #14 (10-31), Slovakia #25 (10-31), UK #38 (10-31), US #76 (10-31); by 11-06 the US had slipped to around grossing #194. Grossing chart: Bulgaria #15, Pakistan #16, Canada #37, Poland #43 (10-31). These are News grossing charts, where a few sales are enough in small countries. It has never entered the overall chart (appstore library, 10-28–11-06).
  • The number of charted regions went from 39 10-28 to 54 10-31 and 67. On 10-31 several regions jumped at once (Czechia from #123 to #14, the UK from #140 to #38, Austria, Switzerland), matching ep.224, which got 197k views on 10-29. This is inference.
  • TikTok @conflictly: 232k followers, 3.12M likes, 259 works in total; of these 238 were captured, with about 33.9M cumulative views (TikHub, 2026-11-06).
  • Other platforms: YouTube @conflictly 1.18K subscribers, 141 videos (24/7 live streams); Threads 3.6K followers; Instagram @conflictly.app (follower count not retrieved).

2. Competitors: the same thing is already crowded

The 2026 Iran war pushed the "open-source intelligence dashboard / live conflict map" category into the spotlight:

ProductWhereLaunchedScaleHow it differs from Conflictly
World Monitor(koala73/worldmonitor)Open source + web2026-01-08GitHub 90,205 stars, +7 in the last 443 days (github library); official site claims 2M+ usersCompletely free, AGPL open source, with more data sources (470 feeds); Conflictly charges, but its packaging is more "consumer-grade" and its content is better
Osiris(simplifaisoul/osiris)Open source2026-05-1211,534 stars (github library)A "Palantir alternative" aimed at developers; its bio carries a pump-token wallet address
LiveuamapWeb + iOS/Android2015iOS global 700 ratings, charted in 78 stores (appstore DB)An established news map with human editors who verify sources; no 3D globe, military aircraft or warships, no AI analyst
ARGOS AtlasWeb2026Unverified; claims 200k road cameras and 14k aircraftDoes camera and ship tracking, with aggressive SEO (writes 'World Monitor alternatives' comparison articles)
World Monitor App(Hypecent)iOS2026-03-16190 global ratings, best News rank #11 (appstore DB)Rides World Monitor's name; bigger than it on iOS
World Monitor - Real-Time News(Sermin Demirbas)iOS2026-03-04126 ratings + Portuguese/Russian/Spanish sock-puppet listings (appstore DB)Multilingual sock-puppet listings to pad numbers
World Monitor: Real-Time OSINT(Oscar Manas)iOS2026-02-25117 ratings, best News rank #2 (appstore DB)Borrowed name + multilingual
World Monitor: GlobeAlertiOS2026-06-24US store 216 ratings (iTunes lookup)A Turkish company borrowing the name
SITREP(Artorias)iOS2025-04-03159 ratings (appstore DB)An earlier war-report app, released a year ahead
Pollar NewsiOS2026-07-14174 ratings, best News rank #8 (appstore DB)News aggregator, no military tracking
Atlas: War & Conflict MonitoriOS2026-03-31US store rating 16A similar small player, showing up in Conflictly's 'customers also bought'
Flightradar24 / ADS-B Exchange(Tailvision)iOS + web2010 / 2026-08Big-company tierOnly tracks aircraft; military aircraft tracking is their native data

Takeaway: on iOS, Conflictly has fewer ratings than several apps that borrow the 'World Monitor' name. Its audience is on the web and TikTok, not in the app store.

3. Growth tactics: where users come from

  1. Daily TikTok series (confirmed, main channel): @conflictly posted the first video on 2026-01-26 ("Oopss😄", 708k views), then on 02-07 "Welcome to the operations room, Commander…Get your intel at conflictly.app" (365k), and since then one episode a day, "Operations room (ep.N)", reaching ep.227 by 11-04. Each episode is a screen recording of the dashboard: 3D globe, aircraft, alerts, with original music (they even posted "Conflictly // Official Soundtrack" on YouTube).
    • By month (TikHub): February 8 videos, averaging 368k views each; March 30 videos totaling 6.66M, averaging 222k; 4–June averaging 80k to 120k; July 148k; 9–October roughly 96k to 98k.
    • The hits all line up with news moments: 02-20 ep.13 950k (standoff before the war), 02-26 ep.19 855k, 02-28 "🛑CODE RED" 446k (the day the US and Israel began airstrikes on Iran, per Wikipedia's "2026 Iran war"), 03-04 ep.25 1.32M, 03-05 ep.26 857k, 04-09 ep.60 657k, 07-22 ep.164 668k.
    • 08-21 "WE JUST LAUNCHED CONFLICTLY ON THE APP STORE" got only 28.5k views. The launch announcement itself didn't drive volume; downloads came from the "link in bio" at the end of each later episode.
  2. Platform event / timing (confirmed): 2026-02-28 The US and Israel went to war with Iran, the Strait of Hormuz crisis dragged on, and public demand for "watching the war yourself" surged. World Monitor's 90k stars came from the same wave of demand.
  3. Industry media recommendation (confirmed): SOCRadar (a cybersecurity intelligence firm, claiming 30k readers in its weekly) 2026-03-05 published "Tracking the U.S.-Israel-Iran War with OSINT Tools", with a separate "Conflict Mapping: Conflictly" section, and suggested using it alongside World Monitor. The TikTok bio reads "Featured by SocRadar & Freedom News". I couldn't find the original Freedom News coverage.
  4. Hype demo from an AI company (confirmed): MiniMax's official X account 2026-03-04 posted "Conflictly Clone, built with @MiniMaxAgent MaxClaw", with 67.8k views. That effectively put its name in front of the AI crowd.
  5. Organic word of mouth (weak, confirmed): A Reddit r/NoStupidQuestions thread asked "is conflictly (the website) trustworthy", and a reply said it was "worth its price"; several smaller accounts also repost its videos (@idknsd323 "App:@Conflictly", @ajprepperuk collab).
  6. Small-country News chart (confirmed, but minor contribution): The News category has a very low bar in storefronts like the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria, where a handful of downloads can reach the top 30. The Czech Republic and Slovakia are the developer's home market.
  7. Influencer DM funnel (unverified): The recall rationale says "on TikTok I DM influencers asking for news to be funneled to Conflictly". In the top 60 results for "conflictly / conflictly app" on TikHub, I found no such videos, only the official account and sporadic reposts. Not accepted for now.
  8. Paid acquisition: No sign of ad spend found. The official videos were posted organically; the library doesn't track this app, and not showing up in ad libraries doesn't mean no spend.

4. Why it took off

  • The content is the product demo: Each episode's screen recording is both news and ad. The "Commander / Operations room / Clearance" roleplay turns a cold OSINT dashboard into a serialized show you can follow. Across 227 numbered episodes with a consistent soundtrack, both the algorithm and viewers build a habit.
  • Caught the war attention peak: The account started at the end of January and, three weeks later, the Iran war hit. From 2 to March it piled up roughly 9.6M views, the peak of the account's history. Since then, daily posting has held a baseline of 80k to 150k per video (TikHub).
  • Free entry plus subscription tiers: The website shows the globe, military aircraft and warships without signup; the Daily Briefing, the AI "Operator" analyst and exports are paid. Pricing is €4.90/€9.90, more expensive than World Monitor's free tier, but low enough for mass TikTok audiences.
  • iOS fills a gap, it isn't a growth source: After 2.5 months on the App Store it has 77 global ratings. The app serves as a push and long-term retention entry point for TikTok users, and gets it some visibility on small-country News top-grossing charts.

5. What's the differentiation, and is it why it broke out?

  • No difference in the data: ADS-B military aircraft, AIS warships, OSINT Telegram channels and AI summaries are all available in World Monitor, free and open source; ARGOS and Liveuamap are stronger on verification and coverage. Reddit is full of similar "I built a conflict dashboard" posts; ConflictOSINT also sells a Pro tier at $4.99.
  • The real difference is brand + content + consumer packaging: a tactical dark UI, war-room storytelling, intelligence-style subscription names (Signal / Strategic Clearance), prediction polls, a tension index, plus a daily TikTok series. Most similar products are tools developers build for themselves; nobody else sticks to posting a video every day.
  • Did it run because of this? Yes. Its visibility comes entirely from content distribution; the product difference just makes the recordings look good. But that difference is easy to copy: MiniMax can "clone" it from one demo, which shows the front end is easy for anyone to build. The moat is account and daily execution.

6. Visibility and copycats

  • Visibility: circulating in small circles. The TikTok account has 230k followers, which is not small for a niche intelligence product; it has also been featured by SOCRadar and in MiniMax's X post. But there's no public revenue, no mainstream media or big X account writing about the business, and none of this shows up in the local x-radar corpus.
  • Copycats: MiniMax's "Conflictly Clone" demo (2026-03); the TikTok account @conflictly5388 reposting its opening video word for word (2026-10-18, likely a knockoff account); and a wave of vibe-coded conflict dashboards (Reddit r/osinttools, r/SideProject). The whole category is borrowing the "World Monitor" name rather than the product.

7. What others can borrow

  • Use the live product interface directly as short-video material, making a numbered daily serial (ep.N). Every episode is a demo plus a CTA, and content cost is close to zero.
  • Time the window of a major news event and package public data (ADS-B, AIS, Telegram OSINT) as a consumer experience with roleplay, naming subscription tiers with identity cues like "Clearance".
  • Web first, get Stripe subscriptions working, then ship the app for retention six months later. On the App Store, pick a category like News that has a low bar in small countries, plus a home-language market.

8. Still unclear

  • Real subscription revenue and web traffic aren't public. The only visible signal is iOS ranking #15 to #50 on News top-grossing charts in a few small countries, so the amounts are likely tiny.
  • The conversion rate from the TikTok 230k followers to web signups and payments is unknown. Views fell by more than half after the March peak, and whether it can keep users once the war cools down is an open question.
  • The "DM me news" influencer funnel, the Freedom News coverage, and the developer's other app "Push or Shame" have not been verified.
  • Unclear whether the developer works on it full-time or has a co-founder (LinkedIn says co-founder).

Sources

This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.