Comparison

Tower Visit vs SatsymphQR

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

SatsymphQR

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SatsymphQR is your portal to intelligent, movement and location-responsive sonic experiences. Hear music that you can walk inside, and soundscapes that change as you move. Scan QR codes to unlock musical, poetical, cultural, historical, archaeological, artistic, community, folklore, oral histories, and much more! Audio will only play at specific locations. You can’t hear the sounds anywhere else, you have to go to these places to physically explore. On site, you won’t need a phone signal as the app pre-downloads everything it needs. SatsymphQR is a utility app for curated public events showcasing interactive immersive locational augmented aurality.

Screenshots

Tower Visit4 screens
SatsymphQR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tower Visit at every 5 months against SatsymphQR's every 16 months. Tower Visit also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tower Visit ships an update every 5 months, SatsymphQR every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Tower Visit versus SatsymphQR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTower VisitSatsymphQR
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 16 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeremy KnowlesSatsymph LLP

In-app purchases

None

Tower Visit

No in-app purchases

None

SatsymphQR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tower Visit free?
Tower Visit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SatsymphQR free?
SatsymphQR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tower Visit or SatsymphQR have ads?
Neither Tower Visit nor SatsymphQR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tower Visit or SatsymphQR?
Tower Visit ships an update every 5 months, and SatsymphQR every 16 months. Most recently, Tower Visit was updated on October 21, 2026 and SatsymphQR on October 9, 2026.

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