Hidden Beaches vs Captain Waypoint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hidden Beaches
Discover Britain's most beautiful secret beaches for swimming, walking, and exploring. This practical guide features inspirational photos, engaging writing, and detailed mapping for over 400 hidden coastal gems.
- Explore 400 secret beaches
- Inspirational photos and writing
- Detailed 1:25,000 mapping
- Directions and travel information
- Find nearby pubs and campsites
- Interactive map search
- Save favorite locations
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Wild Swimming Hidden Beaches: Explore Britain's Secret Coast In this spectacular and practical guide Daniel Start, author of Wild Swimming, charts Britain’s 400 most beautiful secret beaches, describing the best places to swim, walk and explore, containing all the content from the best-selling book ‘Hidden Beaches’ (Wild Things Publishing, 2014, £16.99). Britain has some of the most amazing coastline in the world, and it is more accessible than ever before, yet many of its beaches remain hidden. These little slices of peace and paradise welcome the intrepid adventurer and those in the know. So why not set out to discover our shell-white sands and blue lagoons, hidden smugglers’ coves and sea grottoes sparkling with coralline. Find a campsite on the beach and cook up supper on the sands, or seek out the best local seafood at welcoming inns. This app combines inspirational photos, engaging writing and practical information to make a truly original travel guide. NOTE: due to the large number of images and places the app is slow to load first time and may not work well (or crash) if many other apps are open in parallel. Please close other apps. You will find preloaded maps, photos, directions and travel writing to inspire and inform. Most locations comes with stunning photography and include detailed 1:25,000 mapping. There is contact information for nearby pubs, campsites and attractions. If you need inspiration you can browse the app by slideshow, list, photo gallery and on an interactive map. Ask the app to find places close to you, or search using postcode, address, star rating, walk-in time, keywords or other features. You can share places on email and Facebook and save favourites too.
Captain Waypoint
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A note on our name: in the Netherlands we are known as Buitenland Loket. Same team, same principles, built to work for people from any country, living in any country. Captain Waypoint is for anyone navigating life across borders, and anyone who is done with the bureaucratic runaround. When you live, move, or work abroad, you are often on your own. Official information is scattered across dozens of government pages. Expat forums and social media try to help, but the answers are unreliable or out of date. Captain Waypoint brings it all together in one place you can trust. One app for everything cross-border life throws at you: • Taxes and double-taxation • Passports, registration, and consular services • Healthcare, insurance, and benefits • Voting from abroad • Visas, residency, and work permits • Moving abroad, moving home • Banking, housing, and schools • And more WHY CAPTAIN WAYPOINT One clear answer We gather and clarify information from more than 700 verified sources, so you do not have to search endlessly or second-guess what you read online. The Captain, your AI guide Our voice and text assistant is available 24/7. It asks the right questions, knows your country and situation, remembers your case, and gives advice you can actually act on. Grounded in verified sources, built for high-stakes decisions. Dashlets, the tools you need in one tap Flight search, tax calendars, travel advisories, currency conversion, doctor finder, school finder, housing search, embassy mailbox, emergency lines, and more. Configure the dashboard that fits your life. MyAbroad, every government portal pre-verified Over 180 official government portals across 60+ countries, in a sandboxed in-app browser. Pre-verified URLs protect you from phishing, and your login details never leave your device. Personal when it matters When AI is not enough, we connect you to a verified partner: tax advisors, notaries, relocation specialists, and more. Emergency alerts and SOS Real-time consular alerts scoped to your country, region, or city. When things go wrong, signal your embassy's 24/7 line with one tap. Privacy first: your embassy sees that help is needed, not who you are. Community and events Watch parties, cultural holidays, language swaps, and practical workshops with verified hosts. Meet people living the same experience you are. Always up to date Rules change. Procedures change. Captain Waypoint tracks it for you, so you never fall behind. BUILT ON TRUST • 700+ verified sources • 60+ countries covered • 7 languages • No account needed to try the Captain • Minimal data collection, no ads, no data selling • Core app, the Captain, and most Dashlets are free Wherever life takes you, Captain Waypoint keeps you connected, informed, and supported.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Captain Waypoint at Free against Hidden Beaches's $3.99. Captain Waypoint also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 7 months). Hidden Beaches's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Captain Waypoint is free to download; Hidden Beaches costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hidden Beaches ships an update every 7 months, Captain Waypoint every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hidden Beaches | Captain Waypoint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 316 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wild Things Publishing Ltd | Carlo Schaay |
In-app purchases
Hidden Beaches
No in-app purchases
Captain Waypoint
No in-app purchases
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