Comparison

ColletteCompass vs Cast About Compass

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ColletteCompass

This digital travel companion enhances guided tours with comprehensive destination knowledge and itinerary details. Discover local attractions, find nearby points of interest, and navigate with an interactive map. It provides essential tour information, making exploration richer and more convenient.

Highlights
  • Tour details and itinerary
  • Destination information
  • Nearby search for attractions
  • Interactive map
  • Hotel and transfer information
Features
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Hold the entire world in your hands. The Collette Compass app provides our guests with a wealth of travel knowledge. Enhance your guided tour with this easy to use digital companion that never leaves your side. Discover the best of your destination. Tour Details See exactly what is included on tour. You’ll always have your personal hotel and transfer handy along with your daily itinerary. Destination information Enjoy a richer experience. Immerse yourself in local knowledge and learn more about the places you are visiting. Search Make the most of your free time on tour. Find the best nearby restaurants, historical sites, attractions and more. Map Enjoy peace of mind mixed with the freedom to explore with our interactive map. Now you can go anywhere and find your way back! We are ready to show you the world. Download Collette Compass today. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

About

Cast About Compass

Effortlessly organize complex trips by automatically parsing travel confirmations from your email. View your itinerary day-by-day, access important documents offline, and share your journey with companions. It also functions as a travel journal and allows you to send digital postcards.

Highlights
  • Automatic itinerary building from email
  • Offline access to travel documents
  • Integrated travel journal
  • Digital postcard sending
  • Trip sharing with companions
  • Detailed day-by-day trip breakdown
Features
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Paste in or forward your confirmations from your emails. Watch your trip build itself. Forward a cruise booking, a flight, a hotel, a rental car — from any line, any agent, any airline — and Compass reads it and lays your trip out day by day. Ports and sailing times. Check-in and check-out. Confirmation numbers, seat assignments, the lot. You don't type any of it. Most travel apps make you a data-entry clerk before they help you. This one doesn't. BUILT FOR THE COMPLICATED TRIPS Fourteen ports and a flight home. A tour with three hotels and a train between them. The trip that changed twice before you left. That's what Compass is for, not a weekend away. Every day sits in order, with what's happening and when. Where you're sleeping, how you're getting there, what you've already booked. One screen. No hunting through a folder of emails at the pier. EVERYTHING IN YOUR POCKET, EVEN OFFLINE Passports, visas, insurance, booking numbers — all in one place, and readable when the ship's Wi-Fi gives up on you. Which it will. A JOURNAL YOU'LL ACTUALLY KEEP Write a couple of lines. Add the photos you took that afternoon. It quietly turns into something worth reading years later, and you never had to set anything up. SEND A POSTCARD FROM THE ROAD Pick a photo from this morning, write a line under it, and it's in their inbox before dinner. No stamp, no three-week wait, no post office in a language you don't read. BRING WHOEVER'S COMING WITH YOU Your travelling companion sees the same trip and can add to it. Anyone else you invite can look without changing a thing. No more forwarding the same email six times. REMEMBER THE PEOPLE, NOT JUST THE PLACES The couple from dinner on night three. The guide who was worth every penny. Snap a photo, add a name, and they're still there next year when you're trying to remember it. WHAT IT COSTS Your first month is free and nothing is held back — every feature, the whole time. After that it's $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year. Cancel from Settings in two taps, whenever you like. Cast About Compass is made by Cast About Travel, for people who take real trips.

Screenshots

ColletteCompass4 screens
Cast About Compass4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ColletteCompass at none against Cast About Compass's 2. ColletteCompass also leads on ratings volume (436 vs 1). Cast About Compass's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cast About Compass sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. ColletteCompass asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cast About Compass holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ColletteCompass has 436 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ColletteCompass ships an update every 3 months, Cast About Compass every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
ColletteCompass versus Cast About Compass: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColletteCompassCast About Compass
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (436 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings436 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB40 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperCollette Travel Service, Inc.Robert Hoeffner

Customer experience

ColletteCompass

All ratings436 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral2.3%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews101 reviews
Positive92.1%
Neutral2.0%
Negative5.9%

Cast About Compass

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

ColletteCompass

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Login issues after device changes
  • Inconsistent flight information updates
  • Crashing when accessing certain screens

Requested features

4 requests
  • Landscape mode support for tablets
  • More detailed daily itinerary information
  • In-app messaging for tour groups
  • Ability to view all upcoming trips, not just upcoming

Cast About Compass

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

ColletteCompass

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Cast About Compass

Subscriptions2
  • Cast About Compass Premium1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • Compass Premium Annual1 Month trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is ColletteCompass free?
ColletteCompass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cast About Compass free?
Cast About Compass is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ColletteCompass or Cast About Compass?
Cast About Compass is rated higher. ColletteCompass averages 4.7 out of 5 from 436 ratings, while Cast About Compass averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do ColletteCompass or Cast About Compass have ads?
Neither ColletteCompass nor Cast About Compass shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ColletteCompass or Cast About Compass?
ColletteCompass ships an update every 3 months, and Cast About Compass every 2 weeks. Most recently, ColletteCompass was updated on November 2, 2026 and Cast About Compass on October 31, 2026.

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