GuideTime vs Guide Pointer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GuideTime
Discover and book guided outdoor adventures directly with verified outfitters and guides. Explore a wide range of activities like fishing, rafting, and skiing. Businesses can manage reservations, payments, and marketing.
- Discover guided adventures
- Book with real-time availability
- Connect with outfitters and guides
- Manage reservations and payments
- Tools for tour operators
- 24/7 customer support
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GuideTime enables Outdoor Enthusiasts to explore thousands of guided adventures, book direct with real-time availability, and enjoy the company of world-class Outfitters, Guides, and Tour Operators. GuideTime is partnered with Premiere Outfitters, Guides, and Tour Operators at top destinations for guided fishing, fly fishing, whitewater rafting, hunting, biking, skiing, lodging, and scenic adventures. Outfitters, Guides, and Tour Operators can apply and get verified in minutes to network, manage, and scale their reservation business. Easy to use tools include guide scheduling, secure payments, messaging, notifications, logistics planning, dashboards, reporting, and marketing for customer acquisition. Contact GuideTime 24/7/365 to complete your reservation process with your desired adventure or to give feedback at (800) 708-6948
Guide Pointer
This app provides comprehensive tools for managing guiding services. It handles reservations, client information, guide scheduling, destination details, and multi-day package organization.
- Reservation management
- Client tracking
- Guide scheduling
- Destination management
- Multi-day package organization
- Resource management
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Guide Pointer gives your guiding service all the tools you need to manage reservations, clients, guides, hosted destinations, multi-day packages, and other resources.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Guide Pointer at 5.0 against GuideTime's 3.4. Guide Pointer also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). GuideTime's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Guide Pointer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GuideTime has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GuideTime | Guide Pointer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Guide Time Inc. | Romeo Bravo Software LLC |
Customer experience
GuideTime
Guide Pointer
In-app purchases
GuideTime
No in-app purchases
Guide Pointer
No in-app purchases
