Comparison

Open Canal Map UK vs Schengen Ledger

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

Head to head
About

Open Canal Map UK

Navigate the UK's waterways with a comprehensive map of canals and rivers. Discover points of interest like locks, services, and commercial amenities. Contribute to the community by adding new locations and keeping the map up-to-date.

Highlights
  • UK canal and river mapping
  • Points of interest (locks, bridges, services)
  • User contributions and updates
  • Boater services (water, pumpouts)
  • Commercial services for cruisers
  • Automatic map updates
Features
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UK canal and river map created using both public data and user contributions. Points of interest are overlaid on maps of the UK's navigable canals and rivers, and include entries for navigation (locks, bridges, junctions, turning points), boater services (water points, toilet pumpouts, etc.), and commercial services especially relevant to continuous or long-term cruising (e.g. laundry services) The map is generated with help fellow boaters and we welcome your adding missing items to the map. Over 700 items have been added based on user submissions so far, including convenience stores, laundry services, as well as a list of high quality mooring spots, and some hidden gems like private marinas or mooring locations where public access is allowed to waste disposal other boater services. New user contributions are added periodically, and the map will auto update automatically when new points of interest are added Happy boating...

About

Schengen Ledger

Features
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Schengen Ledger counts the days you have spent inside the Schengen area, and shows you where that leaves you against the 90/180 rule. The rule is easy to state and genuinely hard to apply. On any given day, immigration looks back over the previous 180 days including that day and adds up every day you were inside the area. That total may not exceed 90. Arrival and departure days both count in full. The window moves daily, so the answer does too, and it depends on trips up to six months old. Passports are no longer stamped. Since the EU Entry/Exit System became fully operational across all 29 Schengen states in April 2026, crossings have been recorded biometrically and overstays detected automatically. The ink stamps people used to count by hand are gone, which makes the record you keep yourself the only copy you hold. Record trips outside the area too — Ireland, the UK, Morocco, anywhere. They are kept and their days are not counted, and the app knows which countries are which. Ireland and Cyprus are in the EU and outside Schengen; Monaco and the Canaries are inside it; Andorra and Greenland are not. Gibraltar is British and its days do count, which is the one nobody guesses — the app says so on the trip itself. WHAT IT SHOWS YOU • Your days, today. How many of the 90 are spent, how many are left, and, if you are inside right now, the last day of this stay. • The rolling window, drawn. Six months, one cell per day, so you can watch the days roll off the back instead of taking a number on trust. • The dates you plan around. The latest exit that stays within the limit, the first day a stay is available, when days start coming back, and when your record is clear enough for a full 90 again. • A planning calendar. Every day of the month carries the length of the stay available if you arrive on it — thirty answers at once. Tap a second day for "can I go from this date to that one?", or ask for a number of days and have the earliest departure found for you. Every answer accounts for trips already in your ledger, including the case people miss: a stay that is fine on its own but pushes a trip booked months later over the limit. • The months ahead, as a curve against the 90 line, so a problem in November is visible in August. • A widget in five sizes for the lock and home screens. • Where you have been: your record read as places rather than dates, by continent, country and territory. • A check on your own record: overlapping trips, a departure you never typed, a country spelled in a way nothing matched. It tells you and opens the trip. It never edits anything for you. • Reminders, if you want them. Four switches, all off until you turn them on, worked out on your phone and delivered by it. If nothing needs doing you hear nothing for months at a time. • Open-ended trips, so the count keeps itself up to date while you are away. • Import and export as plain, readable JSON. PRIVATE BECAUSE OF HOW IT IS BUILT No account. No analytics. No adverts, no subscription, nothing to buy. There is no networking code in this app at all — not disabled, not opt-out, absent. That is why every category of the privacy label reads Data Not Collected, why the reminders are scheduled by your own phone rather than sent to it, and why it works in aeroplane mode at a border exactly as it works at home. WHAT IT IS NOT This is a counter, not advice. It counts what you enter, which can differ from the official record — a forgotten day trip, a mistyped date — and where the two differ, the official one decides. It makes no representation about what any border officer will decide. A national long-stay visa or a residence permit takes you out of the 90/180 rule altogether; if you hold one, this app does not describe your position. Some member states still honour older bilateral visa-waiver agreements, and those are not modelled here. Made by ZenCoWork. Free, with no adverts and nothing to buy.

Screenshots

Open Canal Map UK4 screens
Schengen Ledger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Schengen Ledger at none against Open Canal Map UK's 1. Open Canal Map UK's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Open Canal Map UK sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Schengen Ledger asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Open Canal Map UK ships an update every 2 weeks, Schengen Ledger every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Open Canal Map UK versus Schengen Ledger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpen Canal Map UKSchengen Ledger
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews59.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTom SapeyTHOMAS ALAN SAGE

Bugs and requests

Open Canal Map UK

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • Location not found after update
  • Tow path closure location incorrect
  • Locks have disappeared from the Thames map
  • App icon changed, graphics horrid
  • Stopped working on iPad
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  • New update no longer works on phone
  • Maps do not load
  • Report option greyed out
  • Text unreadably small on iPhone
  • Blurry Google map overlay
  • Mapping difficult and unusable after update

Requested features

18 requests
  • Add ETA feature
  • Include widths, depths, and air height of canals
  • Option to change text size
  • Option to switch off blurry Google map overlay
  • Add map legends
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  • Facility to add personal notes
  • Incorporate a route planner
  • Add pubs and eateries as POI
  • Allow users to contribute pubs, shops etc.
  • Add a donation button
  • Show distance from point to point
  • Add photos for points of interest
  • Ability to report errors
  • Update Droitwich canals
  • Add mile markers instead of km
  • Include historical map year
  • Search function for locations
  • Allow users to comment on premises

Schengen Ledger

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Open Canal Map UK

One-time1
  • Remove Adverts Permently$4.99
None

Schengen Ledger

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Open Canal Map UK free?
Open Canal Map UK is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Schengen Ledger free?
Schengen Ledger is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Open Canal Map UK or Schengen Ledger have ads?
Neither Open Canal Map UK nor Schengen Ledger shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Open Canal Map UK or Schengen Ledger?
Open Canal Map UK ships an update every 2 weeks, and Schengen Ledger every 9 days. Most recently, Open Canal Map UK was updated on November 6, 2026 and Schengen Ledger on October 31, 2026.

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