Anchor Basic vs Lock Status
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Anchor Basic
This app provides a reliable anchor alarm for boats, offering drift warnings and low battery alerts. Users can pause the alarm and resume monitoring later, or set the anchor by current location, bearing, and distance. It also allows remote monitoring of other users' Anchor Plus alarms.
- Drift warning alerts
- Low battery alarms
- Pause and resume alarm function
- Set anchor by location, bearing, or distance
- Remote monitoring of Anchor Plus alarms
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A fully functional anchor alarm designed for iPhone & iPad. - Simple and reliable with user selectable units, drift warning and low battery alarms. - Pause the alarm and take your device with you; simply continue drift monitoring when you return. - Set the anchor at the current location or a bearing & distance to the anchor. - Use Anchor Basic to remotely monitor Anchor Plus. Go ashore for dinner and monitor your friends Anchor Plus alarm using Anchor Basic. - If you like this version, try Anchor Plus with a host of additional features
Lock Status
Provides real-time information on U.S. river locks and dams. Get contact details and see upcoming locks for your waterway journey. Essential for boaters and canoeists navigating rivers.
- Up-to-date lock information
- Contact methods for locks
- Upcoming lock identification
- Supports waterway journeys
- River and dam status
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Canoeing down the Mississippi River? Taking your boat across the Okeechobee Waterway? Spending a year completing the Great Loop? When completing any of these tasks, you are bound to run in to locks along your journey! Use this app to get up to date information about locks, methods to contact the locks, and see which locks are coming up next!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Lock Status at Free against Anchor Basic's $0.99. Lock Status also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). Anchor Basic's advantage is ratings volume (17 vs 4). On update cadence, 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
Lock Status is free to download; Anchor Basic costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lock Status holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Anchor Basic's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lock Status's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Anchor Basic | Lock Status |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roy Cadman | Andrew Thom |
Customer experience
Anchor Basic
Lock Status
In-app purchases
Anchor Basic
No in-app purchases
Lock Status
No in-app purchases
