Tower Visit vs Honeybee.Watch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tower Visit
This app provides a comprehensive, searchable directory of church bell ringing towers from Dove's Guide. Users can log visits, attach contacts, and map tower locations with driving directions. It offers iCloud support and import functionality from older versions.
- Searchable tower directory
- Attach contacts to towers
- Log tower visits (weddings, peals)
- Map tower locations
- Driving directions to towers
- iCloud support
- Import from old Dove's Guide app
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Tower visit includes all the towers in the Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers (http://dove.cccbr.org.uk) in an easy-to-use app. Features include: Listing of all towers, searchable by country, town, county or practice night. Can attach contacts to towers. Logging of all tower visits for general ringing, weddings, peals and quarter peals. Mapping of towers, near user location or any other place, and you can get driving directions to a tower. iCloud support, with ability to import from the old Dove's Guide app.
Honeybee.Watch
This app helps beekeepers manage individual hive records and receive pesticide use alerts with eco-toxicity information. It also supports citizen science by allowing users to record environmental observations.
- Individual hive record keeping
- Pesticide use alerts
- Eco-toxicity information
- Environmental observation recording
- Citizen science participation
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Developed by uWatch, a software company with 12 years of experience of keeping bees. Record individual hive records and more with the Apiary management app; "Beekeeper", plus receive pesticide use alerts with eco-toxicity information from the Pesticide Management app; "Non-Beekeeper". Or record environmental observations with our app; "Bystander", suitable for citizen science.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Honeybee.Watch at weekly against Tower Visit's every 5 months. Honeybee.Watch also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). Tower Visit's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 50%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Tower Visit ships an update every 5 months, Honeybee.Watch weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tower Visit | Honeybee.Watch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeremy Knowles | uWatch Ltd |
Customer experience
Tower Visit
Honeybee.Watch
In-app purchases
Tower Visit
No in-app purchases
Honeybee.Watch
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Tower Visit free?
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Do Tower Visit or Honeybee.Watch have ads?
Which is updated more often, Tower Visit or Honeybee.Watch?
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