Comparison

Tower Visit vs Kilncare Gateway

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β€” 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

Kilncare Gateway

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The Kilncare Gateway allows you to access your kiln controller remotely. Controller status: View the real-time status of the controller, including temperatures, firing progress and energy consumption. Manage programs/firing schedules: Manage your firing programs in a library, create new programs and view them graphically, and then download them to your controller. Firing logs: View logs of past firings, including temperature curves, energy consumption and firing costs. Requirements: To use the Kilncare Gateway app you will need a temperature controller of model number KCR32CWIFi or KCR32ZWIFi. After installing the app you will be asked to create a user account. If you already use the Kinlcare Gateway website, then you can sign into the app with the same credentials.

Screenshots

Tower Visit4 screens
Kilncare Gateway4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tower Visit at every 5 months against Kilncare Gateway's every 16 months. Tower Visit also leads on device support and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· 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, Kilncare Gateway every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 5 level
Tower Visit versus Kilncare Gateway: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTower VisitKilncare Gateway
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews75.0% of reviewsβ€”
Update frequencyEvery 5 months β€” betterEvery 16 months
AdsNoβ€”
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeβ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betterβ€”
Requires iOS13.0 β€” better15.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size8 MB181 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeremy KnowlesKilncare Limited

In-app purchases

None

Tower Visit

No in-app purchases

None

Kilncare Gateway

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tower Visit free?
Tower Visit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kilncare Gateway free?
Kilncare Gateway is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which is updated more often, Tower Visit or Kilncare Gateway?
Tower Visit ships an update every 5 months, and Kilncare Gateway every 16 months. Most recently, Tower Visit was updated on October 5, 2026 and Kilncare Gateway on September 28, 2026.

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