PowerboatGuy Lite vs Matrix Midwest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PowerboatGuy Lite
This app provides a highly accurate GPS-based speedometer and trip memory for boaters. It tracks your route, speed, and heading in real-time, with the ability to attach photos, videos, and notes to your journeys. Premium features allow for holeshot analysis and trip sharing.
- GPS-based speedometer
- Trip memory with waypoints
- Real-time speed and heading display
- Attach photos, videos, and notes to trips
- Readable in bright sunlight
- Holeshot recording and analysis (in-app purchase)
- Trip sharing and movie creation (in-app purchase)
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Highly accurate speedometer. Trip memory feature. Fishermen, waterskiers, wakesurfers, and wakeboarders will love this app! It tracks your route, and monitors your speed and heading, all in real time. Features: • Highly accurate speedometer (GPS-based) • Ability to remember your journeys - with your waypoints • Easily readable in bright sunlight • Displays heading in degrees and text. Ex: NNW • Media notes. The ability to attach photos, videos, voice notes and text notes to any trip! • Individual waypoints in trips may also have any number of media notes. • You can have a running trip and at the same time be recording holeshots or reviewing past holeshots or trips. • Beautiful new home screen design with all open trips having their own 'shortcut' appearing on the home page Features of In-app purchases: • Record and analyze your boat's holeshot • Share your trips with friends and family • Turn your trips into a movie and play on your device or beam it to an AppleTV! If you have any feedback, bug reports, feature requests or anything else, please don’t hesitate to contact us via http://www.lakewiz.com/support
Matrix Midwest
Stream live and on-demand sports news and shows from St. Louis' independent sports network. Catch daily broadcasts and replays of "The Fight with Karraker & Company," plus the latest updates on local teams.
- Live streaming of "The Fight with Karraker & Company"
- On-demand episode replays
- Latest sports news updates
- Coverage of local St. Louis teams
- Independent sports and entertainment network
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The Matrix Midwest app is home of THE FIGHT WITH KARRAKER COMPANY! Every weekday morning at 7 a.m., watch THE FIGHT WITH KARRAKER & COMPANY live on the Matrix Midwest app. If you miss an episode, you can watch a replay on the Matrix Midwest app. Matrix Midwest also has the latest news from the Cardinals, Blues, CITY SC, Chiefs, Battlehawks, Mizzou, Illini, high school and more! Matrix Midwest is St. Louis’ only free and independent sports and entertainment network. You can watch Matrix Midwest on over-the-air on channel 32 and channel 6 on Spectrum/Charter. Gray Media launched Matrix Midwest to operate alongside sister station First Alert 4 (KMOV-TV) out of St. Louis.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Matrix Midwest at 4.3 against PowerboatGuy Lite's 1.0. Matrix Midwest also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (17 vs 1). PowerboatGuy Lite's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Matrix Midwest holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Matrix Midwest has 17 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PowerboatGuy Lite ships an update every 15 months, Matrix Midwest every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PowerboatGuy Lite | Matrix Midwest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.3 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.1 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Thomas DAVIDSON SR | Gray Television Group, Inc. |
Customer experience
PowerboatGuy Lite
Matrix Midwest
In-app purchases
PowerboatGuy Lite
No in-app purchases
Matrix Midwest
No in-app purchases
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