Comparison

Guide.AI vs Schengen Ledger

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

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About

Guide.AI

Discover landmarks with audio guides that play directly from your device's earpiece speaker. Explore attractions like museums and aquariums with detailed narration, no headphones required. More locations are being added regularly.

Highlights
  • Audio guides for landmarks
  • Plays audio from earpiece speaker
  • No headphones needed
  • Multiple attraction types
  • Regularly updated content
Features
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Guide.AI is the Landmark Audio Guide Platform. Audio guides currently available include Bristol Aquarium, Canterbury Roman Museum and the Sir Richard Burton Mausoleum, with more on their way! Don't worry, you don't need to have earphones with you to use this app. The audio can be easily set to play out of the earpiece speaker, just like a traditional audio guide.

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

Guide.AI4 screens
Schengen Ledger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Schengen Ledger at none against Guide.AI's 10. Schengen Ledger also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). Guide.AI's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price 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. Guide.AI sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Schengen Ledger asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Guide.AI ships an update every 3 weeks, Schengen Ledger every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Guide.AI versus Schengen Ledger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGuide.AISchengen Ledger
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGuide.AI LtdTHOMAS ALAN SAGE

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Guide.AI

One-time10
  • Band 1 Audio Guide$1.99
  • Band 2 Audio Guide$2.99
  • Band 8 Audio Guide$9.99
Show 7 more
  • Band 10 Audio Guide$9.99
  • Band 9 Audio Guide$9.99
  • Band 11 Audio Guide$11.99
  • Band 12 Audio Guide$12.99
  • Band 13 Audio Guide$14.99
  • Band 14 Audio Guide$14.99
  • Band 15 Audio Guide$14.99
None

Schengen Ledger

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Guide.AI free?
Guide.AI 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 Guide.AI or Schengen Ledger have ads?
Neither Guide.AI nor Schengen Ledger shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Guide.AI or Schengen Ledger?
Guide.AI ships an update every 3 weeks, and Schengen Ledger every 9 days. Most recently, Guide.AI was updated on October 12, 2026 and Schengen Ledger on September 30, 2026.

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